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Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is seen in 2022. A 60-year-old woman sustained severe burns to her leg after walking off the trail near the geyser this week.
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Moo Deng, a 2-month-old female pygmy hippo who has recently become a viral internet sensation, stands next to her mother Jona, 25, at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, on Sunday.
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True crabs are crustaceans belonging to the suborder Brachyura. The fiddler crab faced towards the camera, here, is one of those true crabs.
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This artist rendering shows NASA Europa mission spacecraft, which is being developed for a launch sometime in the 2020s.
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Light enters the compound eye of the fly, causing hexagonally arranged photoreceptors to send electrical signals through a complex neural network, enabling the fly to detect motion.
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Patrick Anderson of Team Canada shoots during a wheelchair basketball match against Team Germany at the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games. This is Anderson's sixth Paralympic Games.
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Hurricane Francine hit Louisiana last week, dumping rain across the South. Forecasters are expecting a lot of hurricanes and tropical storms in the next few weeks.
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Food being prepared and presented during vegan chef Chloe Coscarelli hosted H&M Home Breakfast in 2017 in New York.
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Garbage is unloaded into the Pine Tree Acres Landfill in Lenox Township, Mich., on July 28, 2022. State bans on commercial food waste have been largely ineffective, researchers found.
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In this image posted by SpaceX following the first-ever commercial spacewalk by the Polaris Dawn crew, shows (L-to-R) mission specialist Sarah Gillis, commander Jared Isaacman, pilot Scott Poteet and mission specialist Anna Menon aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
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Thousands of Vaux’s Swifts gather overhead as they prepare to roost for the night at Chapaman Elementary in Portland, Oregon. During the month of September, migrating swifts often use chimneys as roosts and are likely to return to the same roost year after year.
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Master of Ceremonies Marc Abrahams addresses the audience during a pre-pandemic Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
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Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. is photographed by Astronaut Neil Armstrong during man's first landing on the Moon more than fifty years ago. NASA is preparing to send the first crewed mission to the moon, since the end of the Apollo program.
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Images taken from Dickson fjord show before (August 2023) and after (September 2023) photos of the mountain peak and glacier where a large landslide triggered a tsunami.
Søren Rysgaard
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This image made from a NASA live stream shows NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station on Friday.
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The blue flames of a natural gas stove emit harmful pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide. Consumer and environmental watchdog groups want health warning labels on new gas stoves to let buyers know of the risks.
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Jared Isaacman, a wealthy entrepreneur who paid for the mission, was the first out of the hatch. He spent about 10 minutes looking down at the Earth below.
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Gobert, of Driftwood Farm, harvests white bush scallop squash. Gobert practices farming with the climate in mind. He rotates crops, and he grows rice by putting water directly on the roots rather than flooding fields, which generates methane — a potent planet-warming gas.
Leslie Gamboni
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ChoViva, a cocoa-free chocolate alternative, is tested and processed by an employee at the testing lab of Planet A Foods.
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Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a presidential debate with Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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