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What will the Amazon rainforest look like in 100 years?Life's Little Mysteries The health of the Amazon rainforest is key to the global climate, but many dangers threaten to make it unrecognizable in the future.
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A man was stabbed through the throat and the base of the skull — by a fishDiagnostic dilemma While on a fishing trip, a man sustained an unusual injury from a marlin.
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Why does it take our eyes so long to adjust to the dark?Life's Little Mysteries Here's why it's so hard to see when we enter a dark room.
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'River in the Sky': China's doomed plan to create a 'cloud seeding corridor' tells us how far the country will go to solve its climate crisisScience Spotlight China's willingness to invest billions in a quixotic, doomed plan to create a permanent river in the sky reveals the lengths it is willing to go to to engineer its way out of a climate crisis.
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Viral infection caused woman not to recognize her own fatherDiagnostic dilemma A woman could no longer recognize her father's face and had trouble holding the details of faces in her mind's eye.
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Indonesia's near-identical, 'Twin Peaks' volcanoes form striking mirror imageEarth from space A 2021 astronaut photo shows the surprising similarities between Mount Sundoro and Mount Sumbing, which lie at the heart of Java, Indonesia.
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Summer solstice 2026: When does summer start in the Northern Hemisphere?What is the summer solstice, and when does it happen? The longest day of the year falls on either June 20 or 21 every year in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's everything you need to know about the start of summer.
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'They are trying to tame nature': China is building the world's biggest dam in an earthquake-prone region of TibetScience Spotlight China is building a dam system that will generate more hydroelectric power than the U.S. generates yearly. But the project comes with huge risks for people downstream.
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Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: A 500-year-old mask of the Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead as they entered his realmAstonishing Artifacts This skull-shaped mask was made to be used in a ritual involving the Aztec god of death.
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