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Webb reveals a sample of galaxies with unusual features, nicknamed 'Platypus'

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After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a samp...
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How well-meaning allies increase stress for marginalized people

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Someone in the office makes a racially insensitive comment, and a white co-worker asks a Black colleague to help correct the offender.
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Cracking sleep's evolutionary code: Neuron protection traced back to jellyfish and sea anemones

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A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures with nervous s...
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Ticking time bomb: Some northeastern US farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period

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Finding one tick on your body is scary enough—tick-borne diseases are serious—but what if you found more than 10 on yourself in just one month? That's the plight of some farmers as the threat of ti...
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