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What Is Dark Matter and Why Can't We See It? Science

What Is Dark Matter and Why Can't We See It?

Dark matter makes up 27% of the universe but emits no light and defies direct detection. Here is what scientists know about it, how they proved it exi...

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

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

Scientists use tide gauges and satellites to track rising oceans, but a landmark 2026 study found that 90% of coastal hazard assessments have been usi...

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Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Yet Science

Webb Telescope Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Yet

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at a distance of 8.5 billion light-years — the most distant "jellyfish galaxy...

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Amazon Insects at the Edge: Half Face Lethal Heat Science

Amazon Insects at the Edge: Half Face Lethal Heat

A landmark Nature study of over 2,000 insect species finds that rising temperatures could push half of Amazon lowland insects past their survival limi...

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Hidden DNA Enzymes Reveal a Mini-Metabolism in Cells Science

Hidden DNA Enzymes Reveal a Mini-Metabolism in Cells

A landmark study published in Nature Communications has discovered more than 200 metabolic enzymes sitting directly on human DNA, revealing a hidden '...

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Why Tropical Insects Can't Cope With a Warming World Science

Why Tropical Insects Can't Cope With a Warming World

Tropical insects already live dangerously close to their upper heat limits, and unlike their highland cousins, they cannot adapt fast enough. A landma...

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How the Northern Lights Form and Why They Glow Science

How the Northern Lights Form and Why They Glow

The aurora borealis is one of Earth's most spectacular natural phenomena — but the physics behind those shimmering curtains of color is equally remark...

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How Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Support Life Without Sun Science

How Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents Support Life Without Sun

Miles beneath the ocean surface, hydrothermal vents host thriving ecosystems powered not by sunlight but by chemicals — overturning everything scienti...

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What Are Zombie Fires and Why They Threaten the Climate Science

What Are Zombie Fires and Why They Threaten the Climate

Underground peat fires can smolder invisibly for months, re-igniting across entire seasons and releasing carbon stored for thousands of years — creati...

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Why Tropical Insects Are Nearing Their Heat Limit Science

Why Tropical Insects Are Nearing Their Heat Limit

A landmark study of more than 2,000 insect species reveals that tropical insects already live dangerously close to their thermal ceiling — and unlike...

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How Directed Evolution Engineers Better Proteins Science

How Directed Evolution Engineers Better Proteins

Directed evolution mimics Darwinian natural selection in the lab to create powerful new enzymes — tools that are already cleaning up plastics, making...

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How Brain-Computer Interfaces Work and Who They Help Science

How Brain-Computer Interfaces Work and Who They Help

Brain-computer interfaces translate raw neural signals into commands for machines — offering hope to people with paralysis, ALS, and other conditions....

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