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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:54:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <title>How do scientists know how old a fossil is?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fossils are almost never dated directly. Geologists date the rock around them instead, and the method depends entirely on what happens to be nearby.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:42:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tobias Lange</dc:creator>
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      <title>How JWST&apos;s deep fields scrambled the early-galaxy timeline</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Priya Vaithilingam</dc:creator>
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      <title>What satellites actually see when Antarctic ice shelves thin</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <title>What the next gravity-wave detectors will hear that LIGO cannot</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[LISA, adopted by ESA in 2024 for launch near 2035, plus the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will hear gravity-wave bands LIGO cannot reach.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why lunar missions keep aiming for the south pole</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Vera Rubin Observatory's LSST will re-image the whole southern sky every few nights for ten years. How the survey works and what it may find.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Tobias Lange</dc:creator>
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      <title>Why NASA is sending a spacecraft to a metal asteroid</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What the telomere-to-telomere genome added to &apos;complete&apos; human DNA</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 2022 T2T genome added some 200 million base pairs of centromeres and repeats to the human sequence. What the extra DNA contains, and what it changes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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      <title>What ESA&apos;s Ariel mission will actually do to exoplanet air</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ESA's Ariel mission will survey exoplanet atmospheres for about a thousand worlds after its planned 2029 launch. How transit spectroscopy reads alien air.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Samuel Achebe</dc:creator>
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