When scientists kicked off the two-year Biosphere 2 experiment in 1991, they had high hopes for its success, but things quickly started to go awry.
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Even though pork is a major staple of the American diet, its production at an industrial scale is killing a lot more than just the pigs involved.
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Eggs are one of the best foods out there for protein, but why limit yourself to just chicken eggs? Ostrich eggs have more to offer than their size.
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Animals like dinosaurs might come to mind when it comes to ancient species, but scientists found that this surprising species is even older than they thought.
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One of the best things about apples is the seemingly endless varieties they come in, and the difference between cultivars is pretty easy to explain.
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The South American rainforests are full of beautiful and deadly animals, among which are the poison dart frogs which more than live up to their name.
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Deep in the Canadian wilds, far above the Arctic Circle, a scientist found fossilized bones that shouldn't be there and changed our understanding.
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TV and movies have made us think that quicksand is a deadly mixture of sand and water that will swallow you whole. That's not true — at least most of the time.
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The T. rex is usually thought of as a land-based monster, but the term can actually refer to an equally dangerous beast that stalked the oceans.
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When it comes to varieties of rice, most people tend to think of just white and brown, but what are the differences between these rice varieties?
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If you go to the beach you may comfort yourself with the thought that nothing dangerous is in the shallow waters, but you may need to reassess that.
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"Project Hail Mary" really pushes the limit when it comes to non-humanoid aliens. But researchers posit that real aliens could be even stranger than that.
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With climate change melting ice and altering Earth's oceans, these Antarctic species are losing their ways of life, and very soon, they might be gone forever.
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Going to the lake to cool off is an integral part of summer, but getting into the water with an algal bloom is more dangerous than you might think.
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For many countries, tourism is a vital industry propping up their prosperity, so when Portugal's tourism was under threat, they took drastic action.
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Many nature lovers dream of one day becoming a marine biologist, but the job is more than just sun, sand, and scuba diving, there's danger, too.
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Recent years have been rough, but this one year might have been worse, starting with a natural disaster that led to months of darkness and economic fallout.
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There are some things that all eggs have in common (they're high in protein), but not all have the same nutrition, and science can tell you why.
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Coal mining operations clearly cause heavy pollution, but they're far more disruptive than that, harming wildlife and ecosystems that they touch.
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For years it was believed that the ocean's top apex predator wasn't keen on traveling long distances, but recent research reveals the truth.
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Squirrel poop might not seem all that interesting, but to scientists, it can actually be an invaluable snapshot of another time and world from long ago.
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Our skies are filled with awesome predatory birds, from the enormous harpy eagle to the silent owls, but one raptor is faster than all of them.
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If you regularly include eggs as part of your diet, you may have come across an egg with two yolks in it at some point, so how does this happen?
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For the past decade a vital array of oceanic sensors have been monitoring global climate data, but the government is currently dismantling them.
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The natural world is replete with gruesome ways for us to die, but among the many, death by cigarette snail surely sits near the top of the list.
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Oil drilling is already controversial for the pollution it causes, but it's also an intrusive activity for other reasons, hugely affecting local marine life.
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While brown and white eggs are pretty common, blue ones seem quite novel. Natural pigments are to blame for the difference, but there may be more at play.
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