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Exoplanets Without Lots of Water Can't Maintain Their Carbon Cycles
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Exoplanets Without Lots of Water Can't Maintain Their Carbon Cycles

Water is critical to life because cells need liquid to function. That's why scientists focus on finding and studying exoplanets in habitable zones. But even if they're in habitable zones, exoplanets need lots of water to support their carbon cycles. So without water, exoplanets become inhospitable greenhouse planets, regardless if they're in habitable zones or not.

Tinnitus May Be Linked to a Crucial Brain Chemical
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Tinnitus May Be Linked to a Crucial Brain Chemical

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Earth's Deep Tectonic “Pump” Moves Billions Of Microbes To The Surface In An Evolutionary Cycle
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Earth's Deep Tectonic “Pump” Moves Billions Of Microbes To The Surface In An Evolutionary Cycle

The tectonic pump could transport 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 microbial cells every million years.

AMOC’s Fragile Western Boundary Appears To Be Failing, Putting Western Europe's Climate Under Threat
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AMOC’s Fragile Western Boundary Appears To Be Failing, Putting Western Europe's Climate Under Threat

If this really is happening, the consequences could be worse than we thought.

Forget Cocaine Bear, Researchers Are Using Cocaine Salmon To See How Drugs Affect Animal Behaviour
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Forget Cocaine Bear, Researchers Are Using Cocaine Salmon To See How Drugs Affect Animal Behaviour

It’s not at horror film levels, but the illicit drugs we excrete probably affect fish and the ecosystem at large.