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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
385Science
Cow Pregnancy Monitoring Cuts Waste and Emissions
A dairy cow's pregnancy is a long investment. Farmers spend months on feed, water, land, and care before a calf is even born. When that pregnancy fails, every one of those resources is wasted. The cow produces no milk...
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386Science
Phosphorus Reserves Facing Depletion While Waste Holds Solution
For decades, the assumption was simple: phosphorus, the essential nutrient that drives plant growth, would always be there when needed. Farmers spread it on fields, food producers relied on it silently, and no one...
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387Science
Light Might Reveal Hidden Threat in Premature Babies
The journey toward this potential breakthrough began not with a grand plan to invent a new medical device, but with a simple observation about the nature of premature infants. Their skin, unlike that of full term...
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388Science
The First Battlefield of the AI Age
Every archive tells a story. Ours has been telling the same one for months — and we almost missed it. A lighthouse is not built to shine outward. It is built so that those at sea can find their way home. In the same...
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389Science
Undocumented Migration Does Not Drive Crime Study Finds
Across more than 100 American cities, neighborhoods that saw their undocumented populations grow also saw property crime and violent crime fall. The analysis covered 11,500 neighborhoods and 46 million people, making it...
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390Science
A 120-Year Wait for the Sun's Hidden Crown
For centuries, astronomers treated the Sun's ghostly outer atmosphere as a frustrating obstacle. Every time they tried to study the brilliant solar surface, this faint halo ruined their observations. The wispy glow,...
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391Science
Women founders receive 2 percent of venture capital
For years, the gap between male and female founders in science and technology was measured only through outcomes who got funded, who did not. The Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD) has now...
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392Science
Estrogen therapy linked to fewer Alzheimer's brain markers
The MRI machine was never meant to see Alzheimer's. It was born from nuclear magnetic resonance, a tool chemists used to decode molecular structures in the 1940s. By the 1980s, doctors realized it could peer inside the...
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393Science
Giant Galaxy IC 1101 Reveals True Size After Deep Imaging
That is the challenge astronomers faced with IC 1101, a galaxy so enormous that 17 Milky Ways lined up end to end would barely match its width. The galaxy's vast scale has made it a subject of intense study for decades....
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394Science
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to Unlock Dark Energy Mysteries
Nancy Grace Roman was NASA's first chief astronomer and a tireless advocate for space based observatories. She championed the Hubble Space Telescope from its earliest funding battles to the fine details of its...
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395Science
Scientists count heat deaths using excess mortality models
For decades, public health officials faced a troubling puzzle. Heatwaves were clearly killing people, yet death certificates rarely recorded heat as the cause. A heart attack during a hot spell might be listed as...
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396Science
The Brittle Metal That Learned to Bend
For decades, materials scientists have accepted a frustrating trade off. The strongest metals tend to be the most brittle. The most flexible ones tend to be weak. This has been a foundational assumption in metallurgy,...
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