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            <news:title><![CDATA[Look Up At The Moon Tonight, You Won't See One Like It For Nearly Two Decades]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[As Of June 29, Switzerland's Glaciers Will Lose More Ice Than They Gained Last Winter — And That's A Troubling Sign]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[11-Year-Old Kid Died Of Rabies After A Bat Landed On His Face – But There Was No Sign Of A Bite Or Scratch]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Social Media's Golden Age May Have Ended, But What Comes Next?]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[The Oldest Human Remains In Antarctica Are Over 200 Years Old And Do Not Make Sense]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[The World's Largest Known Megalodon Vertebra Went Missing In A Museum Move – Now Scientists Have Found It Again]]></news:title>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-06-29T19:00:36+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[“We Have No Idea What The Hell They Were Using”: Lethal Mammoth-Hunting Weapon Probably Wasn’t Part Of The Clovis Arsenal]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[Atlatl]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Neanderthals And Modern Humans Reached The Same Funerary Milestone At The Same Time And Place – Why?]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[This Astonishing Medical Image Shows Why You Should Wear Sunscreen On Your Neck: Decades Of UV Damage]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[The Earth's Climate "Black Box" Is Coming - And We Finally Know When]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[First Dinosaur Fossil Ever Found In Antarctica Is From A Titanosaur, The Largest Dinosaurs To Walk On Earth]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[World's Largest Spider Web, Big Enough To Catch A Crocodile, Has Been Spun By 111,000 Arachnids In Sulfur Cave]]></news:title>
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        <lastmod>2026-06-29T13:11:17+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[People Are Asking Why NASA Can't "Just" Dump The International Space Station Into The Sun]]></news:title>
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