Yasuo Ogawa has spent decades peering into the Earth's crust, but the Marmara Sea presented a particular puzzle.
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THE boy was twelve years old, holding a toy gun. But that's not what some news outlets called him when Cleveland police shot Tamir Rice in 2014. Instead, they described him as a "Black male with gun.
Jan 18, 2026
The bullfrog farms of Brazil looked innocuous enough, nothing but ponds and concrete tanks scattered across São Paulo state.
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Eight million tonnes of cigarette butts are tossed onto streets and into bins worldwide each year.
Jan 18, 2026
A torn membrane around the brain might not sound like a major surgical complication, but it is.
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Bruce Greyson sees patients flatline and come back different. Some return with stories that shouldn't exist: vivid memories from moments when their brains…
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People taking a little-known class of diabetes drugs are developing dementia at notably lower rates than those on older medications.
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It's a familiar scene across seven Chinese provinces. Family gatherings in private homes, the clinking of glasses, relatives pressing drinks into young hands – sometimes very young hands.
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An anxious person finishes a test question. They know the answer. Then they sit there, reconsidering.
Jan 15, 2026
A molecule first scraped from mouldy fungus in 1836 has turned out to control whether your immune system saves you or kills you.
Jan 15, 2026
Strip away enough forest and the mosquitoes don't leave. They just change what they eat.
Jan 15, 2026
The tissue lining your oesophagus looks healthy under a microscope. No tumours. No lesions.
Jan 15, 2026
Pancreatic cancer kills quietly. By the time symptoms appear, the disease has usually spread beyond surgical reach.
Jan 15, 2026
Picture finishing a big meal. Your blood sugar climbs, peaks, then settles back down.
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