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How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines Science

How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines

Oyster reefs are among the most valuable yet imperiled marine ecosystems on Earth. This explainer covers how oysters build living reefs, why these str...

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What Is Universal Grammar and Do All Languages Share It? Science

What Is Universal Grammar and Do All Languages Share It?

Linguists have debated for decades whether all human languages share a hidden blueprint. A landmark study of 1,700 languages offers new answers about...

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How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Charge Faster Science

How Quantum Batteries Work—and Why They Charge Faster

Quantum batteries use superposition and entanglement to store energy, and counterintuitively charge faster as they grow larger. Here's how the technol...

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Artemis II Crew Shatters Apollo 13 Distance Record Science

Artemis II Crew Shatters Apollo 13 Distance Record

NASA's Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft reached a record 252,756 miles from Earth on April 6, surpassing Apollo 13's 56-year-old record by...

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How Pharming Works—Drugs From Genetically Modified Animals Science

How Pharming Works—Drugs From Genetically Modified Animals

Pharming uses genetically engineered animals like goats and chickens to produce human therapeutic proteins in their milk or eggs, offering a cheaper a...

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How Voice Biomarkers Detect Disease From Speech Science

How Voice Biomarkers Detect Disease From Speech

AI-powered voice analysis can identify signs of Parkinson's, depression, diabetes, and heart disease from short speech samples — a growing field that...

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How Mu2e Hunts for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Science

How Mu2e Hunts for Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Fermilab's Mu2e experiment aims to catch a muon converting into an electron without emitting neutrinos—a process forbidden by the Standard Model that...

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How Iron Builds Up in Your Brain—and Why It Matters Science

How Iron Builds Up in Your Brain—and Why It Matters

Iron is essential for brain function, but as we age it accumulates in key brain regions, damaging neurons and driving cognitive decline. Scientists ar...

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How Gene Therapy for Deafness Works—One Injection Science

How Gene Therapy for Deafness Works—One Injection

Scientists can now restore hearing in people born deaf by injecting functional genes directly into the inner ear. Here's how the therapy works, which...

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How the Rubin Observatory Will Map the Entire Sky Science

How the Rubin Observatory Will Map the Entire Sky

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile uses the world's largest digital camera to photograph the entire visible sky every three nights, hunting astero...

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What Is Permafrost and Why Its Thaw Threatens Earth Science

What Is Permafrost and Why Its Thaw Threatens Earth

Permafrost stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. As the Arctic warms, this frozen ground is thawing—unleashing greenhouse gases, destabilizin...

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What Are Astrocytes and How They Shape Your Memory Science

What Are Astrocytes and How They Shape Your Memory

Astrocytes, the brain's star-shaped glial cells, were long dismissed as mere support staff. New research reveals they actively encode fear memories, r...

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