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Not Cool, The World’s Getting So Hot, Scientists Needed a New Colour
On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather. The color-coded system added magenta, a fifth-tier of heat severity, beyond red, to communicate extreme heat “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little…
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Remembering the Goofy Floating Mansion That Escaped Property Tax and Authorities by Sea
What appears to be a floating home in Miami’s Biscayne Bay isn’t actually a house.
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Researchers May Have Pinpointed Origin of Hope and Koh-i-Noor Diamonds
The Hope and Koh-i-Noor diamonds—two of the most famous Golconda diamonds—may have come from southern India’s Wajrakarur Kimberlite Field, according to a team of researchers that reviewed the possible origin points of the gems. The Golconda diamonds were mined form the banks of southern India’s Krishna River, though their source rocks—the geological deposits where the…
