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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 CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...

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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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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Treat

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 90% of patients within five years of diagnosis. Here is why this disease is so uniquely difficult to detect, fight,...

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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 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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