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A family won half a million dollars in court—but the pipeline company still owns the right to tear through their land forever. The post In 2018, a gas pipeline company took an easement across a Virginia family’s 560-acre property on Bent Mountain. After years of fighting over compensation, the family won a $523,000 jury award—but the company kept its right to use the land. appeared first on Space Daily.

A radical gamble to fight dengue—releasing millions of sterile male mosquitoes—has upended everything scientists thought they knew about disease control. The post Dengue cases have fallen by about 70 percent in the parts of Singapore where the government releases mosquitoes on purpose. It breeds 5 million males a week, none of which bite, and the females they mate with lay eggs that never hatch. appeared first on Space Daily.

Tool use, once thought to be rare among fish, now appears far more widespread than scientists realized—and these wrasse are surprisingly particular about their choice of anvil. The post Five species of wrasse fish in the western Atlantic have been filmed selecting a specific rock or coral slab as an anvil, smashing shellfish against it, and switching anvils depending on the prey — the first video evidence of the behavior in the western Atlantic, extending a foraging technique already known among Indo-Pacific fish to a new ocean basin appeared first on Space Daily.

Billions of dollars sit unclaimed in state coffers, waiting for the people and organizations they actually belong to—and finding yours takes just a name search. The post American states are holding tens of billions of dollars in forgotten bank accounts, uncashed cheques and insurance payouts, and anyone can search their name for free to see whether some of that money belongs to them appeared first on Space Daily.

One driver's 60-mile rampage through New York's infrastructure exposed how easily oversize loads slip through without oversight—and how long it can take authorities to notice. The post A driver hauling an excavator struck more than a dozen overpasses along 60 miles of the New York State Thruway. The driver did not stop or report it, only realizing the damage when troopers flagged him down at a tandem lot. appeared first on Space Daily.