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A New Crocodile Hypothesis Could Help People With Hearing Loss

Hearing loss can reduce your opportunities, cause social withdrawal, and result in emotional problems. A new hypothesis about crocodile ears. Over 1.2 billion individuals worldwide have hearing loss. Crocodiles, on…

21 August 2022 · 3 min read

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Mysterious Interstellar Plasma Revealed by Twinkling Pulsars

Artist’s illustration of a pulsar. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists predict that these short bursts…

20 August 2022 · 4 min read