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Three paleontologists predicted exactly where they'd find a fossil bridging fish and land animals, searched for five years in the Arctic, and proved themselves right with one extraordinary discovery. The 2004 find remains one of evolution's most beautifully documented predictions coming true.
After a year of protests, a major energy company has scrapped plans for a facility that threatened some of Earth's most important telescopes in Chile's Atacama Desert. The rare victory shows what scientists can achieve when they band together for a common cause.
After a year of protests, astronomers successfully convinced an American energy company to scrap plans for a massive facility that would have flooded Chile's pristine Atacama Desert with light pollution. The rare victory protects some of Earth's most powerful telescopes and the world's clearest views of the cosmos.