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Why Great White Sharks Are Vanishing From the Mediterranean Science

Why Great White Sharks Are Vanishing From the Mediterranean

The Mediterranean's great white sharks are critically endangered — fewer than 250 likely remain. Scientists are racing to understand a population that...

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What Is Coral Bleaching and Why It Threatens Reefs Science

What Is Coral Bleaching and Why It Threatens Reefs

Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures sever the vital partnership between corals and their food-producing algae, turning reefs white a...

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What Are Bony Fish and Why All Land Animals Descend From Them Science

What Are Bony Fish and Why All Land Animals Descend From Them

Every amphibian, reptile, bird, and mammal alive today — including humans — can trace its ancestry back to an ancient group of fish with mineralized s...

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What Are Interstellar Comets and How Do They Work? Science

What Are Interstellar Comets and How Do They Work?

Interstellar comets are icy visitors from other star systems that pass through our solar system on hyperbolic trajectories. Only three have ever been...

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What Is a Kilonova and How It Forges Gold in Space Science

What Is a Kilonova and How It Forges Gold in Space

When two neutron stars collide, they unleash one of the universe's most violent events — a kilonova that forges gold, platinum, and other heavy elemen...

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What Is Gaganyaan: India's First Human Spaceflight Science

What Is Gaganyaan: India's First Human Spaceflight

Gaganyaan is India's ambitious crewed space mission, designed to carry three astronauts to low Earth orbit and return them safely — making India only...

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Czech Scientists Uncover Whooping Cough Secret in Science Science

Czech Scientists Uncover Whooping Cough Secret in Science

Scientists from the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from California, have described how the whooping cough bacterium uses...

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Hidden Solar Fingerprints May Transform Space Weather Science

Hidden Solar Fingerprints May Transform Space Weather

Scientists have discovered that the Sun's interior leaves measurable structural "fingerprints" between solar cycles — a breakthrough that could dramat...

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WHO: Iran 'Black Rain' Threatens Health After Oil Strikes Science

WHO: Iran 'Black Rain' Threatens Health After Oil Strikes

The World Health Organization has warned of toxic 'black rain' falling across Iran after US-Israeli strikes set oil depots ablaze, releasing hydrocarb...

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What Is Rubisco and Why Scientists Want to Fix It Science

What Is Rubisco and Why Scientists Want to Fix It

Rubisco is the most abundant protein on Earth and the engine of all plant life—yet it is surprisingly inefficient. Understanding why scientists are ra...

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What Are JWST's Little Red Dots? Science

What Are JWST's Little Red Dots?

Since 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope has detected hundreds of mysterious compact red objects in the early universe. Scientists are debating whet...

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What Is a Nuclear Metabolic Fingerprint? Science

What Is a Nuclear Metabolic Fingerprint?

Scientists have discovered that hundreds of metabolic enzymes reside directly on human DNA inside the cell nucleus, creating unique "nuclear metabolic...

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