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        <title><![CDATA[France reports first human Shamonda virus case]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[For a mere $2 million, You could own three books that unlocked the universe]]></title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:34:04 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why so many people still are not screened for lung cancer]]></title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:25:18 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Do you have ‘Purpose Anxiety’?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ellen Hendriksen, a clinical psychologist in Boston, often speaks with clients who feel anxious about their path in life.Some went to medical school because their parents expected...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:23:39 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Scientists warn of another unseen risk from fire: Ozone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In July, as smoke drifted down from Canadian wildfires, New York City officials initiated an emergency response to what was expected to be historically poor air quality.Outreach wo...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:19:58 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He helped discover Ebola 50 years ago. He’s still worried]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the fall of 1976, a plastic blue flask holding two glass vials arrived at the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium.One vial had broken en route, spilling its blood...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:16:44 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Japan to launch historic round-trip mission to Mars moon]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars's moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth, in what aims to be the firs...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:54:28 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[My doctor says I have fibroids. What happens next?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I just learned that I have fibroids. What are they, and why are they a problem?A. By the time they turn 50, as many as 80% of women will develop fibroids, noncancerous tumors that...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:56:19 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[5 gastrointestinal symptoms you should never ignore]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sometimes a miserable bout of diarrhea is caused by nothing more than nerves or a 24-hour stomach bug. Lingering gas and bloating can be set off by a recent long-haul flight.But si...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:12:50 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nobel chemistry prize goes to pair who solved mystery of &#039;mirror image&#039; molecules]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM: Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric "mirror image" molecules, a discovery hugely...]]></description>
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            <media:title>Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, October 7, 2026.</media:title>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:51:38 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[American Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Washington, United States:  Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminati...]]></description>
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            <media:title>Karl Deisseroth, a co-winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, speaks at Stanford University&#039;s James H. Clark Center in Stanford, California, US, October 5, 2026. </media:title>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:45:58 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[10 fall fruits and vegetables nutrition experts love]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It’s officially autumn in the United States, which means a seemingly endless bounty of apples, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and other seasonal staples are primed to steal the culinary...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:54:39 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Cardiovascular disease remains the leading global burden: WHO ]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death and disease burden worldwide. In 2023, ischaemic heart disease alone caused approximately 9.5 million deaths and 210 milli...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:51:44 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He changed the world of organ transplants. Would he die waiting for his own?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1196776/scitech/science/he-changed-the-world-of-organ-transplants-would-he-die-waiting-for-his-own]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first time he went into cardiac arrest and died, briefly, Dr. Robert Montgomery was hiking up a mountain trail in Patagonia. Wind was blowing snow in his face and he felt his h...]]></description>
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            <media:title>SCI TRANSPLANT SURGEON 2</media:title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:21:21 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The urgent mystery of where viruses hide]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Everything comes from somewhere. Dangerous new viruses typically come from animals.Human influenza viruses? Those come from wild aquatic birds. Hantaviruses come from rodents. Mpox...]]></description>
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            <media:title>SCI DISEASE STATES</media:title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:16:14 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Air Pollution poses glaucoma, cataract risk: Study]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Air pollution could increase the risk of developing glaucoma and cataract, according to findings from a large systematic review and meta-analysis presented at the 44th Congress of...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:42:56 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The most promising worlds beyond our solar system]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As a kid in the 1990s, I chose Saturn as my favorite planet because of its rings. They’re so perfectly circular and solid-looking, like a disk you might see slicing through a spher...]]></description>
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            <media:title>SCI EXOPLANETS</media:title>
            <media:text>SCI EXOPLANETS</media:text>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:39:28 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I lost 3 brothers to cancer. I’m determined not to be next]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — I closed my eyes as the MRI scanner slowly encased me. I had reached a point that I had been dreading, yet one that had become inevitable after my younger brother died o...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 05:36:53 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[2025 was one of driest years for river discharge globally in 35 years: Report]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Rivers across the globe in 2025 had one of the driest years in more than three decades, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It shows a conti...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:55:32 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ozone hole in 2025 was one of the smallest in decades]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ozone hole in 2025 was one of the smallest in decadesEarth's ozone hole in 2025 was one of the smallest it has been in decades, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:46:17 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Governments worldwide are way behind on AI: Bill Gates]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[LONDON: No government in the world is ready for the changes artificial intelligence will bring to society, Bill Gates said in an interview with Reuters, as he warned of the risks a...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:59:17 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[China, US share AI-control concerns ⁠but favour different safeguards]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Warnings from researchers at leading U.S. AI developer Anthropic that increasingly powerful models could escape human control have drawn attention in China, where policymakers have...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Earth just had the hottest August on record, according to monthly reports from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Service, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrati...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Elizabeth’s two sons, ages 8 and 10, have both been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. So have Elizabeth, 37, and her husband, 41.To manage it all, Elizabeth...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When do women really need a bone scan?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the last few years, there’s been a cultural push for women in midlife to build strong bones.Menopause influencers and medical organizations alike have focused on the message tha...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 06:39:34 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration’s approval last month of a new drug for pancreatic cancer marked the end of a long quest to develop a medicine that can hit one of cancer’s most el...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fatigue? dark circles? How to tell if it’s iron deficiency]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[“Ferritin face” is what social media influencers call the tired, sallow, dark-circles-around-the-eyes look they claim is a signal that your body isn’t getting enough iron. Iron def...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[The scenario often unfolds like this: Medical researchers investigate a frequently used drug and report that it’s not as effective for older patients as previously thought, or that...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[El Niño to become very strong, raising risks of extreme weather into 2027]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Geneva: El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks o...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:14:08 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[World in extreme weather &#039;danger zone&#039;: UN chief]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The "supersized" El Nino phenomenon, which is set to peak later this year, is plunging the planet into an extreme weather "danger zone", UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Thursday....]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:31:37 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[SINGAPORE: Global temperature ⁠rises are set to exceed the key threshold ​of 1.5 degrees ​Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) "within a few years", the UN's environmental body said on...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:46:17 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[El Niño: How it differs from global warming]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Muscat: El Niño and global warming are often mentioned together, particularly when global temperatures reach record levels, but they are fundamentally different phenomena.While glo...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:25:32 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is intrinsic capacity - a healthy aging initiative]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What if there were a single metric that could capture every aspect of your health — how strong you are, how clear your vision is, how sharply you think?That’s the goal of intrinsic...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:10:08 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[It’s been two months since Ericka Ratliff, 55, fell ill with cyclospora, yet she is still dealing with sharp abdominal pains and sudden urges to go to the bathroom. “It’s very unpr...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:00:22 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Scientists have uncovered a wealth of clues about how genetic mutations lead to severe forms of autism, offering opportunities for testing drugs that could treat the condition, acc...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:50:12 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[An invasive, malaria-carrying, insecticide-resistant mosquito that thrives in cities, where malaria has not been a major threat, has moved farther and faster across Africa than eve...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:47:32 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[ I often feel carsick while traveling. What are the best ways to prevent or treat motion sickness?A. Historically associated with sailors reacting to the pitch, roll and yaw of shi...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:37:10 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of a naturally occurring climate pattern known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), involving fluctuating ocean temperatures in the c...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1194669/scitech/science/the-milky-way-devoured-a-smaller-galaxy-about-118-billion-years-ago]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON: The ​Milky Way, a large and spiral-shaped galaxy that ​is home to hundreds of billions of stars including our sun, has taken a long and complicated path to achieve its...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:32:58 +0400</pubDate>
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        <link><![CDATA[https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1194660/scitech/science/is-the-brat-diet-really-the-best-way-to-treat-a-stomach-bug]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[ I’ve always heard that the BRAT diet, with its bland foods, helps ease diarrhea and nausea from a stomach bug. Do doctors still recommend that?A: Doctors once swore by a diet of b...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:47:45 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[In many cases, aches and pains can be a reflection of your daily routines.Habits like sitting at a desk all day, looking down at your phone or even straining to pick your socks up...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:29:23 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Beets owe their vibrancy — ruby red, deep purple, bright gold — to powerful antioxidants.But what really sets these root vegetables apart is that they are a standout source of nitr...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:04:20 +0400</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[In 2018, Beth’s mother died of Alzheimer’s disease at 75. “It was terrible,” she said. And once you’ve gone through that, she added, “you start to become concerned about your own f...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[On an August morning two years ago, Meredith Melville was crossing Piedmont Avenue in Oakland, California, to meet a friend at a cafe. While in the crosswalk, she noticed a car som...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:45:59 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Butterflies take flight in the face of climate change and extreme weather]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[More than 1,700 butterfly species across 105 countries are not living where they once did, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. That...]]></description>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:23:34 +0400</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can this new enzyme turn back the clock in the human body?]]></title>
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