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Microplastics in Texas Bays Are Being Swept Out to Sea

From tiny pellets to creepy wave-battered baby dolls, the Texas coast is a notable hot spot for plastic debris.

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Assessing the Global Climate in May 2025

Near-record warm May and March–May for the globe; below-average sea ice extent across both poles.

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Window-Sized Device Taps the Air for Safe Drinking Water

MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that produces fresh water anywhere — even Death Valley, California.

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Researchers Discover Likely Site of New Planet in Formation

An international team of astronomers led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter.

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First-Of-Its-Kind Technology Helps Man With Als ‘Speak’ in Real Time

New brain-computer interface system enables faster, more natural conversation.

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Storm Duo Churns Over the Pacific

Several weeks into the 2025 eastern Pacific hurricane season, a pair of tropical cyclones churned off the western coast of Mexico.

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UH Supercomputer Study Shows Coral Can’t Flee Warming, But Urgent Action Can Still Protect Them

In a breakthrough study published today in Science Advances, researchers at UH Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Marine Ecological Theory Lab reveal that coral reefs are creeping toward the poles in response to warming oceans, but the pace is too slow to beat the heat and escape impacts of climate change.

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Giant Planet Discovered Orbiting Tiny Star

Astronomers at UCL and the University of Warwick, as part of a global collaboration including partners in Chile, USA and Europe, have discovered the smallest known star to host a transiting giant planet, which should not exist under leading planet formation theories.

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Rings of Time: Unearthing Climate Secrets From Ancient Trees

Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). 

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A Tornado’s Mark on Kentucky

Amid a spate of severe weather across the U.S. Midwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions on May 16, 2025, a deadly tornado tore across three counties in Kentucky.

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