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Michael Irving

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28
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Sep 17, 2026
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Jul 18, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Michael Irving

    Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean (opens the original)

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    Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break apart, forming a new ocean. That said, 'soon' is a relative term – it'll still take a few million years more, but that's a blink of an eye on a geological scale. "We found that rifting in this zone is more advanced, and the crust is thinner, than anyone had recognized," says Christian Rowan, a geoscientist at Columbia University. "Ea

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Michael Irving

    A Worrying New Trait Has Appeared in an Isolated Cat Species on a Japanese Island (opens the original)

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    On a small, isolated island of Japan, lives a tiny population of Tsushima leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus). With only around 100 individuals believed to exist, they're considered critically endangered there. Recently, scientists have noticed a new trait emerging in the island's leopard cats that could mark a worrying trend for conservation efforts. During field observations in 2024 and 2025, researchers spotted three leopard cats with much shorter tails, around half the usual a

  3. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Michael Irving

    Physicists Just Turned The Entire Planet Into a Dark Matter Detector – And Strange Signals Kept Turning Up (opens the original)

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    Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally – they turned Earth itself into a giant detector. Weirder still, the experiment picked up dozens of candidate signals that fit predictions for certain types of hypothetical particles that could make up dark matter. Those signals still need verification, and there's plenty of other things that they could be before they're dark matter particles. But it's a clever experiment with some tantalizing new clues to one of the most mind

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Michael Irving

    This Week in Science: Poop Concrete, Hot Ice, And More! (opens the original)

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    This Week in Science: The secrets of a sneaky snake, cholesterol gene therapy, nature plugs a methane leak, and more! First up: An arthritis drug regrows lost hair in a clinical trial, potentially providing a new treatment for alopecia. Read on below, and make sure you also check out our TWIS video! Around 2 percent of the world's population has to live with the severe hair loss and associated psychological toll that comes with alopecia areata, a condition caused by the immune system mistakenly

  5. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Michael Irving

    This Week in Science: Faux Fox Head, Strange Saturn Structure, And More! (opens the original)

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    This Week in Science: Enriching bread with spinach, a GPS glitch, a new Parkinson's test, and more! First up: Sneaking spinach into bread could be a good way to get more veggies in your diet, providing useful benefits for your insulin response too. Read on below, and make sure you also check out our TWIS video! Scientists have figured out how to secretly enrich white bread with spinach – and it could have an immediate and measurable impact on the body's insulin response. In a recent crossover tr

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