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Mosquitos responsible for West Nile virus recorded at record numbers in metro area – Bring Me The News

Mosquitos responsible for West Nile virus recorded at record numbers in metro area  Bring Me The News West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes across Twin Cities metro  MPR News Increase in West Nile Virus in 7 Minnesota counties  5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Mosquitoes with West Nile virus in MN among the ‘highest numbers recorded’ this July  FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul West Nile virus surges in …

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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest | US immigration

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest | US immigration

On the morning of 2 May, teenager Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio was driving to his landscaping job in North Palm Beach with his mother and two male friends when they were pulled over by the Florida highway patrol. In one swift moment, a traffic stop turned into a violent arrest. A highway patrol officer asked everyone in the van to identify themselves, …

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Alarm as largest great white shark recorded in the Atlantic swims straight towards iconic tourist spot

Alarm as largest great white shark recorded in the Atlantic swims straight towards iconic tourist spot

The biggest ever shark tagged in the Atlantic has been tracked swimming dangerously close to one of America’s top summer vacation spots. The 14-foot, 1,653-pound apex predator – nicknamed ‘Contender’ after the research vessels used by the organization – was recently detected off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, about 30 miles from Cape Cod and 100 miles south of Boston. …

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Voyager 1 Recorded Mysterious Sound Waves as It Crossed Jupiter’s Magnetosphere

Voyager 1 Recorded Mysterious Sound Waves as It Crossed Jupiter’s Magnetosphere

When NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sailed past Jupiter in 1979, it recorded a stunning and unusual phenomenon—plasma waves as it crossed the planet’s bow shock. This haunting sound, captured 46 years ago, is a striking reminder of the vast and mysterious world that lies at the heart of our solar system. The recording, which is not quite Holst’s The Planets …

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This summer has seen the shortest days in Earth’s recorded history

This summer has seen the shortest days in Earth’s recorded history

When time lost to shortened days begins to add up, timekeepers add an extra second to the running clock, bringing astronomical time back in sync with the atomic time it had lagged behind. This is called a leap second, and it’s been implemented about every year and a half since 1972—most people don’t notice that either. Will a faster-spinning Earth affect …

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Most extreme “rogue wave” ever recorded was unbelievably huge

Most extreme “rogue wave” ever recorded was unbelievably huge

Imagine you’re standing on the deck of a ship in the middle of the ocean. The waves are rough, but it’s the ocean, so you’re used to that feeling. Suddenly, a monstrous wall of water, two or even three times taller than all the other waves, rises up and crashes down – that’s a rogue wave. These surreal behemoths are …

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Claim: Earth’s deepest recorded earthquake was not in Japan

Claim: Earth’s deepest recorded earthquake was not in Japan

For almost ten years, an aftershock linked to the May 30, 2015 magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake was touted as the deepest tremor ever measured, reported at 467 miles beneath the Pacific. That label has now been stripped away by a fresh look at the data that places the aftershock, and our understanding of deep seismicity, on firmer ground. …

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