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Nov. 7, 2024 — Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final ...

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Meet Melita panda, a newly discovered black-and-white crustacean with panda-like coloring, revealing Japan's coastal biodiversity.

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Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that v ...

Satellites have long been used to track plastic in the ocean but have struggled to accurately spot pollution against a sandy background. Now a newly published algorithm might change all that, and ...

For the first time, physicists have observed a “black hole triple” in space ... thanks to this discovery.” Laura is a science news writer, covering a wide variety of subjects, but she ...

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