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  • Astronomers photograph a baby planet forming in real-time

    Astronomers photograph a baby planet forming in real-time

    A team of astronomers has captured a young world, WISPIT 2b, sitting inside a dark ring around its star. The object is a protoplanet, a planet still forming inside a broad disk of gas and dust.

    Instead of hiding in the central hole of the disk,…

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  • Plant scientist has life’s work honored

    Plant scientist has life’s work honored

    Li Chuanyou (second from right) works with his students in a greenhouse at Shandong Agricultural University in Tai”an, Shandong province. [Photo provided to China Daily]

    Growing up in the agricultural…

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  • Scientists Discover Red-Headed Ladybird Spider in Morocco

    Scientists Discover Red-Headed Ladybird Spider in Morocco

    A team of arachnologists has identified a new species of ladybird spider in northern Morocco. The species, named Eresus rubrocephalus, was found northeast of Sidi Allal El Bahraoui during field collection in a cork oak forest.

    The…

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  • AI maps 360,000 hidden DNA knots that control how genes switch on

    AI maps 360,000 hidden DNA knots that control how genes switch on

    DNA just revealed a hidden operating system—and it doesn’t look like a helix.

    Scientists have created the first comprehensive map of DNA quadruplexes, fleeting knot-like structures that play an outsized role in controlling how genes turn…

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  • NASA’s Satellites Captured A Terrifying Picture Of A Giant Tsunami

    NASA’s Satellites Captured A Terrifying Picture Of A Giant Tsunami

    In the summer of 2025, a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. While that is not one of the five largest earthquakes ever recorded, that is still impressively powerful. That earthquake triggered a…

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