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🧬 Biology & Health | ✍️ Articles
From section: 🧠 Brain, Mind & NeurologyWhat the Sleeping Mind Carries into Morning The Neural Symphony: Diverse Neurons, Unified Experience Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s Through Temporal Disruption Parkinson’s Beginning in the Gut (gut-brain axis) What Causes Déjà Vu: The Science Behind Familiar Moments
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🧠 Why a Smell Can Make the Past Feel Present
From section: Why the feeling can come back, tooEarly recipients include parts of the amygdala, which helps the brain learn what matters about an experience, and the entorhinal cortex, which connects with the hippocampal memory system.
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🐟 A Breathing Surface, a Salt Boundary: How Fish Gills Handle Freshwater and Seawater
… The extent of these responses varies among species, and many fishes cannot make both sets of adjustments. These physiological limits help explain how salinity shapes fish survival and distribution, alongside other features of the habitat. [1, 3]
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🛠️ Engineering & Technology | ✍️ Articles
From section: 🌫️ Sensing, Signals, and Invisible InformationHow Radar Listens to the Sky: The Quiet Science Behind the Sweep How SONAR Uses Sound to Map the Hidden Ocean Depths The Light That Sees Through You: How X-Rays Illuminate the Hidden World Within
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🦟 Before the Bite: How a Mosquito Finds You
In this species, finding a host involves combining different kinds of information, with the available cues changing as the insect moves. [1, 2] Carbon dioxide can provide an early signal.
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🌌 A Clue Is Not a Verdict: How Scientists Weigh Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Astronomers can examine how gases absorb particular wavelengths in light passing through an atmosphere.
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🌌 Cosmic Exploration | ✍️ Articles
From section: 🌌 Galaxies, Cosmology & Deep Time… Cosmic Microwave Background When Galaxies Feast: Cosmic Cannibalism The Universe’s Greatest Mystery: Why You Exist at All The Cosmic Journey: Our Galactic Year Why Space Looks Dark in a Universe Filled With Light Why Space Feels Cold Among So Many Suns: The Quiet Physics of Cosmic Warmth Why Starlight Does Not Mix
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🪐 K2-18 b: The Ocean World We Have Not Seen
K2-18 b lies roughly 120 light-years away in the constellation Leo and circles a cool red-dwarf star every 33 days. Current NASA catalog values place it at about 2.4 times Earth’s radius and nearly nine times Earth’s mass. …
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⚛️ What Keeps a Flame and a Reactor Going?
From section: Where the heat goesAt a coal-fired power plant, burning coal heats water in a boiler. In a light-water nuclear reactor, water carries heat away from the fuel. It may boil in the reactor itself or transfer its heat to a separate supply of water that becomes steam. …
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🐸 Frog or Toad? Where Common Names and Classification Part Ways
Frog and toad therefore remain useful common words, but they are not opposite scientific categories. One describes a familiar set of shapes and habits; taxonomy follows ancestry. The animal in front of us may look toad-like, while its family tree tells a more precise story.