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Recent Examples of miceStained clothing, furniture, and rugs, anything that smells musty or mildewy, and items stored in spaces with termite, bedbug, or mice infestations should be thrown away rather than donated.—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Jan. 2026 In our marketing, the Get-Ready Yeti and the gifting mice Lenny, Berry, and Merry have become breakout stars.—Cara Sylvester, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025 This year, scientists in China fed mice diets prepared on boards made of different plastic types.—Matt Fuchs, Time, 24 Nov. 2025 Obese mice that were treated with the gene therapy, which Fractyl calls Rejuva, lost about 20% of their body weight within three weeks.—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025 Shows promise in mice models The brain is metabolically demanding, depending on a complex vascular system to supply energy and remove waste.—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Shouldered by sandstone cliffs, these caves in Bayfield, Wisconsin, form when water—and, notably, waves—that would normally flow through the sandstone freezes instead, birthing icicles, columns, and curtains.
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Kristine Hansen,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2026
Large Icicles Large icicles or ice buildup along your home’s eaves signal trapped, melting water that can run into your home and damage walls, ceilings, and insulation.
Over the course of his lifetime, the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier has retreated by about 40 kilometers (25 miles) said Karl Sandgreen, 46, the head of Ilulissat’s Icefjord Center which is dedicated to documenting the glacier and its icebergs.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2026
The approach was tested using real satellite observations of icebergs calved from Petermann Glacier and other locations in north-west Greenland.
Outside of the four sheep, there were no other animal or people injuries reported from the fire or to emergency response crews, according to a UConn spokesperson.
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Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
15 Feb. 2026
Haggis, which traditionally includes sheep’s heart, liver and lungs mixed with oats and spices, falls under the offal category.
The protagonist is a nine-year-old girl named Lamia (Baneen Ahmad Nayyef), who lives with her grandmother (Waheed Thabet Khreibat), in a mudhif, a house of twisted reeds, in Iraq’s southern marshlands.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
The hippos carve the winding channels of the Delta, breaking through blockages of reeds and water lilies and opening floodgates for the rain that flows down from Angola each year.