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The sun has gone through a rotation, and the active region that triggered a huge amount of aurora activity is once again pointing toward Earth — but not directly at it.
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Woodpeckers are known for banging on wood, but some individuals living in urban environments also bang on metal.
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Alok Shukla walks across the Paturiyadand forest of Korba district in India's state of Chhattisgarh. Shukla has led a decade-long grassroots campaign against some of companies seeking to develop coal mines in forested areas.
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Girls at a primary school in Sheno, Ethiopia. In partnership with UNICEF, the Sheno Primary School developed a program to educate both girls and boys about menstruation — and provide sanitary pads. A new UNICEF report says that only 39% of the world's schools offer such instruction.
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Synchronous fireflies, known as Photuris frontalis, blink in the woods near the Congaree River on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. Congaree National Park holds an annual event for visitors to view the fireflies, which blink for a few weeks every May and June.
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A member of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) hold a sign with the word We Want a Vaccine as they march to the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) offices in Pretoria, on June 25, 2021. They are demanding that vaccines from Russia and China be supplied to South Africans. - Hundreds of protesters rallied in South Africa's capital Pretoria on June 25, 2021 calling for the country's medicines regulatory body to give the greenlight to China's Sinovac and Russia's Sputnik vaccines, amid a third coronavirus wave. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP) (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopment disorders among children.
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The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated image from NASA. Areas of the glacier may be undergoing "vigorous melting" from warm ocean water caused by climate change, researchers say.
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