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The Eiffel Tower is not always 330 metres tall: Why Paris’ iconic landmark gets slightly taller during hot summer days

Aj Mix Editor August 22, 2026

Why Paris’ Eiffel Tower Gets Taller When Temperatures Soar: The Simple Scientific Reason Behind Its Unexpected Seasonal...

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After helping turn a barren Dhanbad coal-belt hillock into forest, CISF is planting 1,000 trees and one lakh vetiver slips across six acres beside Delhi’s Yamuna to revive the degraded land

Aj Mix Editor August 22, 2026

Delhi’s Yamuna is all set for a much-awaited green makeover. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has...

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Meet Mythreya Dharani, the 18-year-old New Jersey student who built an AI model to predict how individual tumors will respond to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin

Aj Mix Editor August 22, 2026

Mythreya DharaniPhoto credit: Society for Science Mythreya Dharani’s achievements in the high school science research arena are...

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A new snake species discovered in the jungle has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash; here’s why scientists chose the rock star’s name

Aj Mix Editor August 22, 2026

A new snake species discovered in the jungle has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash...

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24 billion tonnes of groundwater are being lost every year across Asia’s high mountains; why the water crisis is far bigger than melting glaciers

Aj Mix Editor August 22, 2026

Groundwater reserves beneath High Mountain Asia (HMA) often called the ‘Asian water tower’ are depleting at an...

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Astronomers uncover evidence of a galaxy merger 12 billion years ago that helped shape the young Milky Way |

Aj Mix Editor August 21, 2026

PC: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)/Handout via REUTERS Nearly 12 billion years ago, the Milky Way was...

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Sophie Adenot becomes first French woman to walk in space as unfinished ISS antenna job requires second spacewalk |

Aj Mix Editor August 21, 2026

Sophie Adenot’s first spacewalk was supposed to be about replacing an antenna. Instead, the 18 August outing...

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Scientists are using thousands of hours of rainforest sound recordings to teach AI to recognise birds that were previously difficult to identify |

Aj Mix Editor August 21, 2026

PC: Dhruv Varun Cohen ’26/Cornell University Thousands of hours of rainforest recordings are helping scientists teach artificial...

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Scientists discover nearly 400 fossils in France revealing life near the South Pole 470 million years ago |

Aj Mix Editor August 21, 2026

Snow-covered mountain ranges of the Montagne Noire. Image Credit: Von Christian Ferrer/Wikipedia Nearly 400 fossils discovered in...

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Scientists found a new species hiding in a museum drawer for more than a century; the Ecuadorian frog had been mistaken for another species |

Aj Mix Editor August 21, 2026

PC: Long overdue: a new, widespread, species of Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) from the Chocó region and the...

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