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This artist’s impression shows the Milky Way galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of the mysterious dark matter, which was first introduced by astronomers to explain the rotation properties of the galaxy and is now also an essential ingredient in current theories of the formation and evolution of galaxies. New measurements show that the amount of dark matter in a large region around the Sun is far smaller than predicted and have indicated that there is no significant dark matter at all in our neighbourhood.
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Dark matter influences the size of galaxies

Posted on August 24, 2026August 13, 2026 by Ben Pauley

Researchers simulated the effects of dark matter halos on galaxies and found that denser halos produced smaller galaxies.

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    Arctic Grayling
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    Thawing permafrost is affecting fish health

    Posted on August 19, 2026August 12, 2026 by Sciworthy

    Researchers showed that thawing permafrost reduces the quantity and quality of fish species in Arctic streams by raising water temperatures…

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      Wildfires and forest harvesting worsen severe weather impacts

      Posted on August 17, 2026August 12, 2026 by Sciworthy

      Scientists found that forest harvesting and wildfires in British Columbia are causing severe weather events to create more geohazards, like…

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        Atlantic horseshoe crab
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        Are horseshoe crabs truly “living fossils”?

        Posted on August 13, 2026August 12, 2026 by Sciworthy

        Scientists discovered a 445-million-year-old horseshoe crab fossil showing that these animals have maintained the same reproductive system…

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          A red giant sets over a waterlogged planet
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          The long-term fate of Earth’s biosphere

          Posted on August 10, 2026August 19, 2026 by Ben Pauley

          Scientists modeled how Earth’s temperature and atmosphere will change over billions of years and predicted that plants and the life they…

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            The Great Himalayas
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            Can melting ice increase glacial hazards?

            Posted on August 6, 2026August 12, 2026 by Sciworthy

            Scientists determined the driving forces behind catastrophic events linked to glaciers in the Eastern Himalayas.

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              Young green plants growing in soil with water droplets
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              Testing local weather knowledge in the Bolivian Altiplano

              Posted on August 3, 2026July 22, 2026 by Sciworthy

              Researchers compared traditional Aymara weather signs with decades of meteorological data and found that some local indicators are strongly…

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                Mesozoic mammal fossil
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                What colors were prehistoric mammals?

                Posted on July 30, 2026July 6, 2026 by Sciworthy

                Paleontologists used fossilized pigment cells to reconstruct the fur colors of Mesozoic mammals, shedding light on their nocturnal…

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                  "Staphylococcus Bacteria" from Scientific Animations is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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                  Predicting microbial antibiotic resistance with AI

                  Posted on July 27, 2026July 6, 2026 by Madeline Taylor

                  Scientists used machine learning models to predict the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soil under future climate…

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                    The Solar System, by NASA/JPL
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                    The Sun’s twin star may have tilted the planets’ orbits

                    Posted on July 23, 2026July 9, 2026 by Ben Pauley

                    A scientist simulated the early solar system to determine how interactions between the Sun and other stars affected its planetary orbits.

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