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How Deep-Sea Mining Works—and Why Scientists Worry Science

How Deep-Sea Mining Works—and Why Scientists Worry

Deep-sea mining targets potato-sized mineral nodules on the ocean floor rich in cobalt, nickel, and manganese. As regulators debate whether to allow c...

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How NASA's Artemis Program Works—Moon to Mars Science

How NASA's Artemis Program Works—Moon to Mars

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon and eventually reach Mars, using the powerful SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft. Here's how the...

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How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Glacier Protection Laws Work—and Why They Matter

Glaciers store about 75% of Earth's freshwater and supply water to nearly two billion people. A small but growing number of countries have passed laws...

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How Global Temperature Records Are Measured and Verified Science

How Global Temperature Records Are Measured and Verified

From weather stations and ocean buoys to satellites and statistical algorithms, tracking Earth's temperature is a complex, multi-layered process invol...

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How Carbon Sinks Work—and Why They're Weakening Science

How Carbon Sinks Work—and Why They're Weakening

Earth's forests, oceans, and soils absorb roughly half of humanity's carbon emissions each year, but climate change and deforestation are steadily und...

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How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail Science

How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail

Fishing quotas are meant to prevent overfishing, but the process that turns scientific advice into catch limits is riddled with political compromise....

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How Urban Evolution Works—Animals Adapting to Cities Science

How Urban Evolution Works—Animals Adapting to Cities

Cities are driving rapid genetic and behavioral changes in wildlife. From lizards with bigger toe pads to mice that digest junk food, urban evolution...

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How Supermassive Black Holes Wake Up After Millions of Years Science

How Supermassive Black Holes Wake Up After Millions of Years

Most supermassive black holes sit quietly at the centers of galaxies, but some reignite after millions of years of dormancy, launching jets that stret...

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How Gray Whale Migration Works—the Longest on Earth Science

How Gray Whale Migration Works—the Longest on Earth

Gray whales travel up to 14,000 miles each year between Arctic feeding grounds and Mexican breeding lagoons, navigating by Earth's magnetic field and...

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How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal About Climate Science

How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal About Climate

Ice cores drilled from glaciers and ice sheets preserve up to 1.2 million years of climate history in layers of frozen snow, trapped gas bubbles, and...

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How RNAi Drugs Work—Silencing Genes to Treat Disease Science

How RNAi Drugs Work—Silencing Genes to Treat Disease

RNA interference drugs use tiny molecules to silence disease-causing genes before they can produce harmful proteins, offering long-lasting treatments...

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How Crowd Crushes Work—and Why They Kill Science

How Crowd Crushes Work—and Why They Kill

Crowd crushes kill thousands worldwide through compressive asphyxia, not trampling. Understanding the physics of crowd density, pressure waves, and cr...

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