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One of history's most audacious engineering feats—raising an entire American city to escape the sea—succeeded so completely ...

The eastern grey squirrel's absent-mindedness is reshaping forests across North America, one forgotten acorn at a time.

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The second life of a car battery may be more valuable than its first, powering the grid when the sun sets and solving one of clean energy's thorniest problems.

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