Brown sargassum seaweed could hit record levels at US beaches
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Julian Chee, a design engineer at Airbus Americas Engineering, designed a paper airplane that in April was used in South Korea to set a record for the longest paper airplane flight in history. Chee’s design flew 252 feet, breaking the previous best by 26 feet and gaining entry into the Guinness Book of World Records. “I’ve always been interested in anything that flew as a kid,” Chee says in a press release from Wichita State University.
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Caught! Record-breaking 18-foot Burmese python pulled from Collier County wilderness
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Bear dies from heat after accidentally locking itself in car, Tennessee officials say
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National Hurricane Center monitoring tropical wave in Atlantic
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The 'Mount Everest' of bacteria discovered in Caribbean swamps
The largest-known bacterium - a vermicelli-shaped organism that was discovered in shallow mangrove swamps in the Caribbean and is big enough to be seen with the naked eye - is redefining what is possible for bacteria, Earth's most ancient life form. Scientists said on Thursday the bacterium, called Thiomargarita magnifica, is noteworthy not merely for its size - colossal for a single-celled organism at up to about eight-tenths of an inch (2 cm) long - but also because its internal architecture is unlike other bacteria. The DNA, an organism's blueprint, is not free-floating inside the cell like in most bacteria but contained within numerous small membrane-bound sacs.
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Former NASA official says a Russian designer famously inspired Elon Musk to launch SpaceX by spitting on his shoes
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Meet the ‘Dream Chaser,’ the Supersonic Space Craft Taking on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic
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Biologists catch record-breaking 215-pound Burmese python in Florida Everglades
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