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Meteor showers occur when Earth plows through trails of dust and rock left behind by comets. Here's the science behind these annual celestial displays, from comet debris streams to the radiant point illusion.
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Extracellular vesicles are tiny parcels released by nearly every cell in the body, carrying proteins, RNA, and lipids between cells. Scientists are no...
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The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab measures the magnetic wobble of muons with extreme precision, testing whether unknown particles exist beyond the S...
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Earth Day began as a campus teach-in in 1970 and grew into the largest secular civic event on the planet, directly spawning the EPA and landmark envir...
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Microplastics reach the human body through food, water, and air, accumulating in organs from the lungs to the brain. Here's what science knows about h...
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The Presidential Records Act of 1978 transformed White House documents from private presidential property into public records. Here's how it works, wh...
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TCAS is the onboard collision avoidance system that monitors airspace around aircraft and issues climb-or-descend commands to pilots within seconds, s...
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The Clean Air Act is one of the most consequential environmental laws ever written, preventing hundreds of thousands of premature deaths and cutting m...
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Economic sanctions have become the world's go-to tool for punishing rogue states and pressuring policy change, yet research shows they succeed only ab...
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