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The Spicy Paradox: Unpacking the Complex Relationship Between Chili Peppers and Cancer Risk
For billions of people across the globe, the inclusion of chili peppers in a daily diet is more than a...
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Echoes of the Stone City: Ancient DNA Rewrites the Social Fabric of Shimao
In the rugged landscape of northern Shaanxi Province, China, lies the sprawling stone metropolis of Shimao—a monumental Neolithic settlement that...
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The Celestial Shield: How Earth’s Magnetosphere Sculpted the Moon’s Far Side
For billions of years, the Moon has served as a silent, scarred witness to the chaotic energy of our solar...
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The Vanishing Eyes: New Research Reveals K’gari’s Lakes Are More Fragile Than They Seem
K’gari, the world’s largest sand island, is a geological anomaly—a sprawling landscape of ancient dunes, rainforests, and crystalline freshwater lakes....
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The Cretaceous Crime Scene: Rare Fossilized Tooth Unlocks Secrets of T. rex Predation
In the annals of paleontology, few discoveries capture the imagination quite like the raw, violent intersection of predator and prey....
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The Evolutionary Puzzle of Parenting: How Citizen Scientists Unlocked the Secrets of Harvestmen
In the quiet corners of the natural world, a hidden drama of parental devotion has been playing out for millions...
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The Invisible Crisis: Why Scientists Are Calling for a New Planetary Boundary to Address Global Aquatic Deoxygenation
In a sobering assessment of the planet’s life-support systems, a team of researchers led by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
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Giants on Two Legs: New Engineering Analysis Reveals Surprising Agility in South American Sauropods
For decades, the image of the sauropod—the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur—has been one of slow, lumbering stability. We have long...
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The Metabolism of Extinction: Why Ancient Lessons from the ‘Great Dying’ Forewarn Our Modern Seas
Two hundred and fifty-two million years ago, the Earth experienced an apocalyptic transformation. Known to geologists as the Permian-Triassic extinction...
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The Lunar Paradox: How Our Quest to Explore the Moon May Be Erasing Its History
As the world stands on the precipice of a new "Lunar Gold Rush," with national space agencies and private enterprises...
