Flotillas of them often come ashore along the Pacific Coast in the spring when offshore winds shift, but recent aggregations along beaches and just offshore have been especially dense along the California coast.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
Even lead author Steve Hoge noted that while larger aggregations might exist, this is one of the biggest ever recorded.
Humanity produces roughly 4 billion tons of it every year, mixing the fine powder with water, sand, and aggregates like gravel to create concrete and mortar used in buildings, bridges, roads, tunnels, dams, and countless other forms of infrastructure.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 May 2026
The company is currently running its first clinical trial — testing a pill designed to enhance the body’s ability to better clear out protein aggregates in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
But many critics — including transit, affordable housing, environmental justice and clean water groups — said this amounts to a dismantling of the program.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
The Kansas Coalition for Common Sense, which has supported the petition effort alongside the groups Prairie Progress Civic Action and Leading Kansas, slammed the response.
The company has benefited from the buildout of AI infrastructure as data centers demand greater networking capacity to move information between increasingly powerful computing clusters.
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Yun Li,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
The numerous bright red dots strewn around M88’s spiral arms are old stars, while the pink and blue represent star clusters and dust clouds.
Depending on direct or indirect exposure by private creditors and special purpose vehicles to public banks, this may wipe out investors and trigger a broader recession.
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Rakesh Kumar,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
Iran is demanding the immediate unfreezing of billions of dollars in assets held in banks overseas.
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