Squash leaves covered the ground, shading the soil and helping keep it moist.
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Shelley Mitchell,
The Conversation,
24 Oct. 2025
Finally, a lawn cut at the upper end of the mowing range is more likely to survive drought, thanks to the abundant leaf tissue shading the soil and limiting soil moisture evaporation.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Oct. 2025
Giving fighters a radar-cloaking edge Potential civilian applications include electromagnetic shielding for high-temperature electronics and adaptive stealth systems for space missions.
This Stephen King adaptation stars Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden and Andre Braugher and tells the story of a small group of people in Bridgton, Maine who meet in a supermarket to find supplies after a thunderstorm and start to notice an eerie mist cloaking the presence of monsters among them.
While reflecting on the gossip fueled by her and Powell's chemistry both on and offscreen with Variety, Sweeney refuted the idea that the rom-com's stars leaned into the mystery shrouding their relationship.
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Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Oct. 2025
Teeming with tennis courts, specimen trees and stone mansions raised from the dirt by 19th-century railroad barons, the suburb makes wealth feel like weather, an ozone layer shrouding everything — ambient, constant and vital.
But in 2007, a detailed analysis demonstrated that Earth’s magnetic field actually, despite these limitations, does a remarkable job of shielding the Moon from the solar wind.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Nov. 2025
This surgical mask is my disguise and my means of shielding myself from covid spittle.
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