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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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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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