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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 Zoonotic Spillover Works—and Why It Sparks Pandemics Science

How Zoonotic Spillover Works—and Why It Sparks Pandemics

Most emerging infectious diseases originate in animals. Here's how pathogens jump the species barrier, why certain animals are prime reservoirs, and w...

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How Emperor Penguins Survive Antarctica—and Why They're at Risk Science

How Emperor Penguins Survive Antarctica—and Why They're at Risk

Emperor penguins endure the harshest conditions on Earth through an extraordinary breeding cycle that depends entirely on stable sea ice—a foundation...

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How Sungrazing Comets Work—and Why Most Don't Survive Science

How Sungrazing Comets Work—and Why Most Don't Survive

Sungrazing comets plunge within thousands of kilometers of the Sun's surface, enduring extreme heat and tidal forces. Most disintegrate, but their des...

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How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars Science

How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars

Artificial light at night creates skyglow, disrupts wildlife, suppresses melatonin, and has brightened Earth's nights by 16% since 2014. Here's how it...

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What Is the Cambrian Explosion and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Cambrian Explosion and Why It Matters

Around 538 million years ago, nearly every major animal group appeared in the fossil record within a geological instant. Here is how the Cambrian Expl...

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How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines Science

How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines

Oyster reefs are among the most valuable yet imperiled marine ecosystems on Earth. This explainer covers how oysters build living reefs, why these str...

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What Is Permafrost and Why Its Thaw Threatens Earth Science

What Is Permafrost and Why Its Thaw Threatens Earth

Permafrost stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. As the Arctic warms, this frozen ground is thawing—unleashing greenhouse gases, destabilizin...

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How Rip Currents Work—and How to Survive Them Science

How Rip Currents Work—and How to Survive Them

Rip currents kill more beachgoers than sharks, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined. Here is how these invisible rivers form, why they catch swimmers of...

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What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill? Science

What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill?

Supervolcano calderas are massive craters formed when colossal eruptions drain underground magma chambers, causing the surface to collapse. Scientists...

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Polish Scientist Discovers 24 Species in the Depths of the Pacific Science

Polish Scientist Discovers 24 Species in the Depths of the Pacific

Dr. Anna Jażdżewska from the University of Łódź led an international team that described 24 new species of deep-sea crustaceans in the Clarion-Clipper...

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