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For decades, astronomers believed they understood the rules governing how moons and rings form around planets. But nature, as usual, does not follow our script. On June 25, during a routine stellar occultation observation, scientists accidentally detected an unknown object orbiting Quaoar – a distant dwarf planet lurking in the Kuiper…
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A united front at Beijing's massive military parade as Xi, Putin and Kim met for first time The watching world saw a significant display of diplomatic unity in Beijing on September 3rd, as China's Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin, and North Korea's Kim Jong Un met in public for the first time. Alongside a vast military parade…
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Imagine a material that inhales and exhales oxygen like human lungs, switching between states on command while staying perfectly stable. Sounds like science fiction? It’s not. A team of researchers from South Korea and Japan has recently unveiled a crystal that does exactly that – and it could transform the way we power our world.…
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A massive new French study has revealed a surge in sudden, permanent hearing loss linked to Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA covid-19 vaccines, uncovering a terrifying side effect that experts are now admitting was ignored during the global vaccine rollout. The groundbreaking research, titled Early Detection of Hearing Impairment Signals…
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High above the forest floor, where the air hums with the chorus of unseen creatures and the Sun filters through emerald leaves in shifting patterns of light, a mystery unfolds. The canopy of the Amazon rainforest has long been a frontier of the unknown – a place where scientists dangle from ropes and cranes, risking life and limb to…
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A newly published Canadian study has found that women who undergo abortions face more than double the risk of psychiatric, substance-related and suicide-related hospitalizations compared to women who carry their pregnancies to term. The study, published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, analysed health records from Quebec…
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Groundbreaking research using the world’s most advanced supercomputers has revealed that more than 100 faint, undiscovered dwarf galaxies may be lurking just beyond our detection, stripped of their material by the Milky Way’s relentless gravitational pull. Presented at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in…
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Researchers from Binghamton University (part of the State University of New York system) and the University of California, Merced are turning to an unlikely source – mushrooms – for inspiration. These humble fungi, long appreciated for their culinary uses, are now being studied for their potential to revolutionize material science.…
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For centuries, scientists have marvelled at Earth’s ability to sustain life while neighbouring planets remain barren wastelands. But a groundbreaking new NASA study suggests that the secret to Earth’s habitability might lie deeper than we ever imagined – not just in our atmosphere or oceans, but in the very molten core of our planet.…
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Lately, it has become increasingly evident that European citizens are growing weary of their political elites and the entrenched system of rotating figureheads who perpetuate the same policies year after year. The political establishment exhibits a rigid adherence to outdated approaches, and their arrogance – manifested in a belief that…
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