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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
85Science
El Niño's Predictable Fury: Why Rich Nations Still Aren't Ready
El Niño is not a surprise guest. It is a recurring pattern in Earth's climate system, and its consequences follow scripts so reliable that scientists can name them years in advance. The weather extremes it triggers...
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86Science
A Sequel That Trades Romance for Ruin
Discovery in a Familiar Story Audrey Niffenegger published The Time Traveler's Wife in 2003. 1] The novel follows Clare, who first meets Henry when she is six years old and he is thirty six. 1]. Henry does not meet her...
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87Science
Mars, a Swarm of Young Suns, and the Light Above Sweden
On October 10, 2026, an eruption off the Sun reached Earth and caused strong disturbances in the planet's magnetic field. 1] That solar outburst did not stay invisible. Energetic particles from the eruption collided...
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88Science
No Man's Sky Lands on iPhone and iPad
For years, the game's defining tension was between that promise and the hardware available to carry it. A console or a desktop PC could barely hold the thing. A phone was not part of the conversation. That conversation...
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89Science
When the Pacific Turns, the World's Dinner Table Shakes
For decades, climate scientists could describe what El Niño does in the abstract warm water piles up in the eastern Pacific, atmospheric circulation shifts, weather patterns warp across the globe but the precise chain...
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90Science
Dogs Match "Bouba" and "Kiki" to Shapes, Hinting at a Shared Sensory Logic
For a quarter century, researchers have used a simple game with nonsense words to map how the human mind ties sound to sight. Show someone a rounded blob and a jagged star, then ask which one is called "bouba" and which...
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91Science
The Fossil That Waited a Century to Become a Species
A skull fragment sat in a museum drawer for 102 years before anyone recognized what it was. 1] The Natural History Museum acquired it in 1924, and for decades its significance went unnoticed. That is not a story about...
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92Science
The Cells That Cross the Border and Never Leave
The mother's bloodstream and the fetus's bloodstream run right next to each other inside the placenta the large, tangled bundle of blood vessels that links mother and child through the umbilical cord but until the 1970s...
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93Science
A Shuttle Stands Again: Endeavour's Vertical Return
On Friday, November 13, the Space Shuttle Endeavour will open for public viewing at the California Science Center in Los Angeles after a nearly three year hiatus. This time, visitors will see it as generations of...
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94Science
A Daughter's Brain Knows the Difference Between a Voice and a Text
A single parameter whether a mother speaks or types changes what happens inside a stressed child's bloodstream. That is the finding at the center of a 2012 study conducted at the University of Wisconsin, and it is...
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95Science
The Desert Stairway That Measures the Sky
A staircase in Chile's Atacama Desert brings you only a little bit closer to heaven. 1] It stands in the foreground of the expansive Atacama Desert and stops. The photograph of it was captured in July 2025. The image...
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96Science
IonQ Bets $1.3 Billion That Quantum Security Needs a Human-Scale Front Door
There are two ways to protect a network from a code breaking quantum computer. The first is to change the locks before the thief arrives replace today's encryption with math that even a quantum machine cannot crack. The...
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