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Wisconsin's resurfacing of 2.2 miles of Highway 42 in Door County will keep every one of the road's 15 famous curves exactly where they are.

The final stretch of Wisconsin State Highway 42, where the pavement bends into a wooded ridge above Green Bay before dead-ending at Northport, carries drivers through 15 curves packed into a 2.2-mile ...
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Unsold and secondhand clothing piles up in dumps in Chile's Atacama desert, and a small factory nearby now shreds it and presses it into insulation panels. The boards going up ...

From a distance the mounds read as color first. Faded reds and blues and the pale grey of sun-bleached cotton, spread in low ridges across the driest desert on earth, near Alto Hospicio in northern ...
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A 91-year-old hiker known as Grey Beard has walked the entire Appalachian Trail end to end, reported as the oldest person to do it, PBS NewsHour reports — the full length ...

Appalachian Trail, Shenandoah National Park near Mile 21 trailhead (ShenandoahNPS / NPS, public domain via Wikimedia Commons). Dale Sanders is 91 years old, hikes under the trail name Grey Beard, and ...
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Virginia held three rounds of public input between March 2025 and January 2026 before publishing its South Van Dorn Street safety recommendations in July 2026.

South Van Dorn Street carries as many as 37,000 vehicles a day through a 2.5-mile Fairfax County corridor where the posted speed limit rises from 35 mph to 45 mph near the Capital Beltway, then drops ...
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Speeding accounts for roughly one in five severe crashes in Philadelphia, and 80% of the city's fatal or serious collisions happen on a set of corridors planners call the High ...

On a stretch of Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia, multiple lanes of traffic move past row homes and bus stops at speeds that routinely exceed the posted limit by 15 miles per hour or more ...
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Critical habitat for a cuckoo and a leopard frog

Gila Lower Box Canyon Wilderness Study Area, southwestern New Mexico — desert-stream riparian bosque habitat. Photo: Mike Howard, Bureau of Land Management. Public domain (U.S. government work).
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Laughter may be contagious before we even decide to join in — when researchers played laughter to people in brain scanners, regions that prepare facial movements activated ...

Somebody laughs in a crowded room and within seconds half the room is chuckling too. No joke required, no context, no setup. The response starts in the motor system, before politeness gets a say. It ...
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Psychology says people who always need the last word in an argument aren't stubborn or childish, they're often people who grew up in homes where silence meant losing and ...

My old business partner had a tell. Every argument we had would finish, properly finish, handshake and all. Then twenty minutes later my phone would buzz. One more paragraph. There was always one more ...
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How does a rodent felling saplings across a headwater stream raise a valley's water table by a metre or more and store measurably more carbon in the wet sediment behind its ...

A single beaver felling alder and willow across a first-order stream can lift the surrounding water table by more than a metre within a few seasons, and the wet sediment that piles up behind its dams ...
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The Strait of Malacca narrows to about 2.8 kilometres at its tightest point, and for the merchants who built the Melaka Sultanate into a trading power not long after 1400, that ...

Around 1400, a displaced Malay nobleman named Parameswara settled at a small fishing village on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula. Within a remarkably short time, the settlement he founded ...
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Saturn's moon Titan is the only place beyond Earth where a person could stand outside without a pressure suit — its atmosphere is 50 per cent thicker than ours and blocks ...

Titan's hazy disk passes in front of Saturn and its rings in this Cassini image. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. Titan offers a strange thought experiment. If a person could somehow ...
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Psychology says people who don't believe they genuinely deserve happiness aren't pessimists or broken — they're the ones who learned, very early, that their needs were often ...

A friend of mine has a trick at restaurants. Ask what she wants and she says whatever’s easiest. Ask again and she orders the second cheapest thing on the menu. She isn’t broke. Good job, decent flat, ...