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Over millennia, marine animals have honed ears and sonar-like abilities to read their world in vibrations and echoes, turning the ocean into a place both alive with sound and fine-tuned to its subtleties.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025 -
But his spices aren’t the only things that have echoes of home.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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The design leans rustic (give or take a couple of Togo chairs), with moss green paneling, tartan upholstery, and wood beams running throughout.—
Elly Leavitt,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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When the spacecraft fly over radio-quiet antenna arrays, tuned to listen for the quietest radio waves coming from distant galaxies, the noise from the satellites' internal electronics obscures some of the precious observation frequencies even when Earth-facing internet beams are switched off.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In an era when artificial intelligence can read X-rays, detect tumors, and recommend treatments, that question is no longer hypothetical.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Starting from the questionable proposition that revolutionary movements require energy and that energy in its most basic form is derived from solar rays, Chizhevsky listed some historical developments that lined up with astronomical developments.—
Tim Brinkhof,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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In the Southern Hemisphere, auroras may light up the skies over Antarctica, with a slim chance of visibility from Tasmania and southern New Zealand, according to the Met Office.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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October is also a peak month for displays of the Northern Lights; if geomagnetic activity is high, some observers at northern latitudes may also see the comet amid auroras.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Dark matter does interact gravitationally, and this has allowed astronomers to discover that entire galaxies like the Milky Way are embedded in vast haloes of dark matter that extend far beyond the reaches of those galaxies' visible matter.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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According to the standard model of cosmology, galaxies like the Milky Way are located within massive dark matter halos, where the highest concentration of this mysterious substance is found at the galactic center.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Aug. 2025
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In this, Castro not only gestures at the social crisis that’s driving so many men toward radical ideas but also helps explain its causes and repercussions.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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New docuseries Who Killed Our Daughter dives into the case and its societal repercussions.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Mets, who have had three losing streaks of at least five games since June, remain two games ahead of the Giants in the National League wild-card race.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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This is the Alcaraz who is unbeatable, a man who cut out the vacillating streaks in his game that derailed him in Melbourne and Wimbledon.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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In fact, when safeguards fail or people use them without fully understanding the implications, very sensitive and potentially damaging information could be exposed.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The ban also had significant implications for education.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Afterglows.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/afterglows. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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