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Recent Examples of crawlwayTo limit the amount of dust kicked up by the crawler—after all, dust is the enemy to any machine—a truck sprays water over the crawlway.—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
The mid-century offered more literal interpretations of cave living, from The Flintstones (1960) to the villainous Bond lair, often hidden within or carved into cliffs.
However, the successful samples have largely been collected from dark caves or other cold and stable environments where DNA is preserved particularly well.
The sulfur-rich stream, fed by natural springs and winds through the cavern, releases hydrogen sulfide that sustains this unexpected chain of life.
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Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
This cavern, known as Sulfur Cave, houses a chemoautotrophic ecosystem sustained not by sunlight but chemosynthesis – or the process of converting chemical energy into organic matter.
The video is enacting the viewpoint of the city itself on October 4th, the night that Ebba and Zema, dressed in dark, anonymizing colors, hoisted their small bodies onto the roof of a subway car, where they were later found, lifeless, at the Marcy Avenue station.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
The bathroom is finished with bright subway tile, a full-sized vanity, and a vessel sink with space for essentials on the counter.
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