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What Is a Megamaser? How Galaxies Create Space Lasers Science

What Is a Megamaser? How Galaxies Create Space Lasers

Megamasers are among the most powerful natural phenomena in the universe — radio beams billions of times brighter than ordinary cosmic masers, born fr...

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How Self-Healing Materials Work and Why They Matter Science

How Self-Healing Materials Work and Why They Matter

Self-healing materials can automatically repair cracks and damage—from concrete bridges to spacecraft composites. Here is the science behind this brea...

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How Aluminum Could Become a Zero-Carbon Fuel Science

How Aluminum Could Become a Zero-Carbon Fuel

Aluminum holds more energy per liter than diesel — and when reacted with water using a catalyst, it releases clean heat and hydrogen. A new wave of st...

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What Is a Gravity Hole? Antarctica's Weak Spot Explained Science

What Is a Gravity Hole? Antarctica's Weak Spot Explained

Antarctica sits above Earth's strongest 'gravity hole'—a region where gravitational pull is measurably weaker than the global average. Scientists have...

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Marine Fungus Found to Kill Toxic Red Tide Algae Science

Marine Fungus Found to Kill Toxic Red Tide Algae

Scientists have identified a new marine fungus, Algophthora mediterranea, that parasitizes and destroys toxic algae responsible for harmful coastal bl...

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Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History Science

Plague Found in 4,000-Year-Old Sheep, Reshaping History

Scientists have discovered Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Black Death — in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep from the Ural Mountains, th...

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How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Underestimated Science

How Sea Level Rise Is Measured—and Why It's Underestimated

Sea levels are rising faster than most models assumed—and a 2026 study found a systematic flaw in how scientists measure baseline coastal heights. Her...

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Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species Science

Why Scientists Think Orcas Might Be Several Species

Killer whales look alike, but resident fish-eaters and mammal-hunting Bigg's orcas are so genetically and culturally distinct that researchers now arg...

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What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health Science

What Is the Exposome and How It Shapes Your Health

The exposome captures every environmental exposure a person encounters from conception to death — and scientists now believe it explains far more abou...

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What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive? Science

What Are Lazarus Species and How Do They Survive?

Lazarus species are animals and plants once declared extinct that later turn up alive. Scientists explain why they vanish from the fossil record — and...

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What Are Cosmic Voids and How They Shape the Universe Science

What Are Cosmic Voids and How They Shape the Universe

Cosmic voids are the vast, near-empty bubbles that make up most of the universe's volume. Far from being irrelevant, these giant hollows are key to un...

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How Sea Level Rise Works and Why It's Accelerating Science

How Sea Level Rise Works and Why It's Accelerating

Global sea levels have risen roughly 9 inches since 1880 — and the rate is speeding up. Here is a clear explanation of the two main drivers, how scien...

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