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Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers major coral bleaching
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major coral bleaching event, with the results consistent with patterns of heat stress that have built up over summer at the biologically diverse site, a government agency said on Friday. The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), the agency tasked with monitoring the reef's health, confirmed that "a widespread, often called mass, coral bleaching event is unfolding" across the reef. "While the area's aerial surveys are showing that th
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Widespread solar storm struck spacecraft near the sun, Earth and even Mars
Different spaceborne perspectives of a 2021 solar storm in 2021 reveal new insights on dangers in space posed by solar particles.
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How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out in April
When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Researchers will be standing by to observe how animals’ routines at the Fort Worth Zoo in Texas are disrupted when skies dim on April 8. “To our astonishment, most of the animals did surprising things,” said Adam Hartstone-Rose, a North Carolina State University researcher who led the observations published in the journal Animals.
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Icy asteroids help the James Webb Space Telescope uncover Neptune's history
By honing in on Mors-Somnus, a binary pair of icy asteroids that originated within the Kuiper Belt, the James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered secrets surrounding the evolution of Neptune and other icy bodies.
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Asian American women are getting lung cancer despite never smoking. It’s baffling scientists and leading to more research.
Lung cancer rates are dropping for every group except non-smoking Asian American women -- who have never smoked. Rates are actually increasing for this group. Researchers are baffled by it and it's led to a recent surge in research.
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NASA high-altitude balloon breaks agency flight record
NASA's GUSTO mission, which launched from Antarctica on Dec. 31, set a new agency record for a heavy-lift, long-duration scientific balloon flight.
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Hundreds of guillemots, exhausted by storms, dead on French beaches
BRETIGNOLLES-SUR-MER, France (Reuters) - Hundreds of guillemot seabirds have been found dead on French Atlantic beaches, exhausted by unusually heavy winter storms that prevent them from feeding, environmentalists said. Over 500 common guillemots - seabirds related to penguins and puffins - have been found dead along the French Atlantic coast since the year began, French League for Birds (LPO) has estimated.
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