December 20, 2025
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U.S. Plan to Drop Some Childhood Vaccines to Align with Denmark Will Endanger Children, Experts Say
The U.S. reportedly plans to overhaul the country’s childhood vaccine schedule. The move…
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Strange Energy Burst Coincides With 3I/ATLAS At Earth’s Closest Point
Schumann resonance spectrogram showing a rare, isolated 25 Hz spike at 02:40 UTC, highlighted in red, appearing just hours before 3I/ATLAS’s closest approach to Earth.
A rare…
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Life in all of its complexity
Editor in Chief Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.
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Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by black holes shredding stars, scientists say. ‘It’s definitely not just an exploding star.’
The brightest cosmic object of its kind ever detected may have helped astronomers solve the mystery of powerful, bright blue cosmic explosions.
At the heart of the discovery is a signal from a so-called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient…
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Mysterious Structure Identified Beneath Bermuda Could Explain Its Weird Geology : ScienceAlert
The islands of Bermuda are a scientific mystery. Not because of the notorious Bermuda Triangle nearby, but because they’re perched atop a swollen mass of the Earth’s crust that technically shouldn’t be there, at least not according to…
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The evolution of expendability: Why some ants traded armor for numbers
“Ants reduce per-worker investment in one of the most nutritionally expensive tissues for the good of the collective,” Matte explains. “They’re shifting from self-investment toward a distributed workforce.”
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‘It just feels good when you solve the hard problems’ — Harvard Gazette
At crunch time at the end of fall semester, Easton Singer ’26 had many things piled on his plate: an orchestra performance, final exams and projects, a senior thesis, and applications for graduate school. Yet he put all that aside to spend a…
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Scientists used specialized equipment to dive into the ocean’s ‘twilight zone.’ They found creatures never seen before
Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast of Guam. It’s like twilight to the human eye, even in the middle of the day.
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Rocket Report: Russia pledges quick fix for Soyuz launch pad; Ariane 6 aims high
Stack ’em high… “DiskSat is a lightweight, compact, flat disc-shaped satellite designed for optimizing future rideshare launches,” the Aerospace Corporation said in a statement. The DiskSats are 39 inches (1 meter)…
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Offshore Wind Farm in China Becomes a Haven for Oysters, Barnacles, and More, Study Finds
December 19, 2025
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Offshore Wind Farm in China Becomes a Haven for Oysters, Barnacles, and More, Study Finds
A wind farm off the coast of China appeared to boost fish numbers and supported colonies of oysters and…
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