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How Ice Melt Slows Earth's Spin—and Warps Time Science

How Ice Melt Slows Earth's Spin—and Warps Time

Melting polar ice redistributes mass from the poles to the equator, slowing Earth's rotation and lengthening days by milliseconds per century—with rea...

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How the WHO Works—and What Happens When Countries Leave Science

How the WHO Works—and What Happens When Countries Leave

The World Health Organization coordinates global health efforts for 194 member states. Here is how it is structured, funded, and what happens when a c...

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What Is Earth's Albedo and Why It Keeps Dropping Science

What Is Earth's Albedo and Why It Keeps Dropping

Earth's albedo — the fraction of sunlight our planet reflects back to space — is declining to record lows, accelerating global warming through powerfu...

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How Water-in-Diesel Emulsion Works—and Why It Matters Science

How Water-in-Diesel Emulsion Works—and Why It Matters

Adding tiny water droplets to diesel fuel triggers micro-explosions that slash nitrogen oxide and soot emissions by up to 60–67%, all without redesign...

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How Nuclear Propulsion Works in Space Science

How Nuclear Propulsion Works in Space

Nuclear propulsion promises to cut Mars travel time in half by using fission reactors to power spacecraft, offering far greater efficiency than chemic...

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Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific Science

Scientists Find New Branch of Life in Deep Pacific

An international team of 16 experts has described 24 new amphipod species in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Zone, including an entirely new superfam...

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How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It Science

How Alcohol Hides in Flower Nectar—and Why Animals Drink It

Flower nectar routinely contains ethanol produced by fermenting yeasts. A new UC Berkeley survey found alcohol in 26 of 29 plant species, revealing th...

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How Lunar Bases Work—and What It Takes to Build One Science

How Lunar Bases Work—and What It Takes to Build One

Building a permanent outpost on the Moon requires solving extreme challenges from radiation and temperature swings to construction with local soil. He...

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How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain Science

How Social Media Rewires the Teenage Brain

Social media exploits a window of extreme neurological vulnerability in adolescents, hijacking dopamine pathways and reshaping brain structures involv...

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What Is NAD+ and Why Your Cells Need It to Age Well Science

What Is NAD+ and Why Your Cells Need It to Age Well

NAD+ is a molecule essential for energy production, DNA repair, and over 300 enzymatic reactions. Its sharp decline with age is linked to disease and...

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What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form? Science

What Are Red Giant Stars and How Do They Form?

Red giants are enormous, cool stars in a late stage of stellar evolution. When a star exhausts its hydrogen fuel, its core contracts while its outer l...

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Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are Science

Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are

Over 150 million people worldwide inject insulin daily. Scientists have spent a century trying to put it in a pill, but the human gut destroys the hor...

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