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Barriers can reduce suicides at high-risk bridges

Suicide-prevention barriers can dramatically reduce suicides at the high-risk bridges where they are installed. They generally reduce jumping suicides in the surrounding region too, although people sometimes use other bridges instead.

Water from a sinking plate helps make magma

Where one part of Earth’s crust sinks beneath another, it carries water deep underground. That water makes the hot rock above it easier to melt. The magma that forms can then feed volcanoes at the surface.

A snapping shrimp can turn its smaller claw into a new weapon

Snapping shrimp have one oversized claw that closes fast enough to create a powerful underwater shock wave. If they lose it, the smaller claw can transform into a new snapping claw while the missing one regrows as the smaller type. The animal effectively switches which side carries its specialized weapon.

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suicide prevention barriers high-risk bridges regional jumping suicides

Barriers can reduce suicides at high-risk bridges

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