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NASA says organics on Mars are hard to explain without life
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February 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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How the harsh, icy world of Snowball Earth shaped life today | Aeon Essays
Our planet was once a harsh, alien, icy world. Yet this deep freeze may have shaped you, me and all life on Earth
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February 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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From coral reefs to songbirds, the natural world is losing its colour. Here’s why scientists are worried | Discover Wildlife
Colour is far more than beauty – it's a powerful indicator of ecosystem health. And the planet is losing it
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February 16, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Fungi discovered at Chernobyl could protect Mars astronauts from extreme radiation | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Radiation-eating fungus might form a living shield for future Mars settlers, protecting them from the extreme radiation on the Red Planet.
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February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Meet the Sea Walnut — A Cannibalistic Jelly Currently Invading Venice’s Lagoon
Learn how the comb jelly is taking over the Mediterranean, threatening local marine life and expected to only worsen with a changing climate.
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February 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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These Unsinkable Tubes Could Help Harvest Energy From the Ocean www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/s...
These Unsinkable Tubes Could Help Harvest Energy From the Ocean
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February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
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February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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My garden nemesis.
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These caterpillars hear through hair, scientists discover
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February 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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A lesson for humans www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/s...
These Birds Are of Different Feathers, but They Flock Together
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February 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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Time is real – if you view it through the lens of heat | Aeon Videos
Is time a property of the Universe? Yes, if you conceive of it as heat: a mind-boggling yet oddly comforting perspective
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February 9, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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www.sciencealert.com/quantum-tele...
Quantum Teleportation Was Performed Over The Internet For The First Time
In 2024, a quantum state of light was successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once con...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Is the whole universe just a simulation? Possibly!
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February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Runaway Black Holes Are Real After All. Here's What We Know.
Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar System from somewhere far beyond.
www.sciencealert.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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Glacier National Park Tourists Urged To Reconsider Visits As Scientists Alarmed By Disappearance Of Its Most Iconic Resident
Glacier National Park’s most iconic residents have experienced a 45% decline in just over a decade.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...
The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”
'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...
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February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way’s heart
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February 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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New Wearable Patch Detects Skin Cancer: How It Works
This wireless, battery-free wearable senses electrical differences between pigmented lesions and healthy skin, allowing for easier skin cancer screenings at home.
www.medscape.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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Incredible and wonderful.
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Amateur Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From Voyager 1 Spacecraft, 25 Billion Kilometers Away
Voyager is now over 170 astronomical units from Earth, but amateur astronomers still managed to detect it.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Physicists get a peek at how matter is born from "nothing"
Spin correlations in the heart of a particle collider may help crack one of the biggest mysteries known, said physicist Zhoudunming Tu.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Training four-legged robots as if they were dogs
Over the next decades, robots are expected to make their way into a growing number of households, public spaces, and professional environments. Many of the most advanced and promising robots designed ...
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February 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Pink Noise Could Be Wrecking Your Sleep
Dr F. Perry Wilson shares the latest evidence about the use of ‘pink noise’ as a remedy for poor sleep quality and duration.
www.medscape.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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www.popularmechanics.com/science/a701...
Something Strange Is Living—and Thriving—Below Fukushima’s Dead Reactors
Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are not the radiation-resistant types expected in an environment like this.
www.popularmechanics.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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www.discovermagazine.com/cougars-are-...
Cougars Are Learning to Coexist With Wolves in Yellowstone by Changing Their Diet
As cougar and wolf populations recover, clashes between these top predators are inevitable with cougars finding ways to coexist.
www.discovermagazine.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Scientists marvel at a Galapagos seabird that wandered 3,000 miles to California
Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.
phys.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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It’s 2 miles deep, close to a volcano, the size of 233 soccer fields and home to a whopping 20,000 creatures | Discover Wildlife
The world’s biggest octopus aggregation is made up of thousands of these usually solitary creatures
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January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM