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When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the fallout

By Ivano W. Aiello, Professor of Marine Geology, San José State University

The Moss Landing battery fire became an unintended experiment – showing how burning lithium-ion cells scattered nickel, cobalt and manganese over a protected marsh.

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~	Speaker Johnson’s choice to lead by following the president goes against 200 years of House speakers building up the office’s power

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~	Why do people get headaches and migraines? A child neurologist explains the science of head pain and how to treat it

~	Texas cities have some of the highest preterm birth rates in the US, highlighting maternal health crisis nationwide

~	Stalin’s postwar terror targeted Soviet Jews – in the name of ‘anti-cosmopolitanism’

~	Rural high school students are more likely than city kids to get their diplomas, but they remain less likely to go to college

~	Britain’s ponds are disappearing – here’s why restoring them is vital for wildlife and climate resilience

~	Why being single might feel empowering as a woman in your 20s, but not your 30s