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            <news:title><![CDATA[For The First Time Ever We've Seen A Neutron Star Gobbling The Solar Wind From Its Companion]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[a large blue star is releasing a long stream of plasma and within it a small but bright dot with two jets represents a pulsar]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Revolutionary Roman Observatory Starts Testing Its Instruments – And Will Operate For Twice As Long Thanks To Incredible Fuel-Saving Maneuver]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Ancient Mars Had A Very Complex Water System With Lakes, Groundwater, And Hydrothermal Events]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Very Slow Running May Be Enough To Boost Your Mood And Enhance Your Focus]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[The Gen Z “Sex Recession” Is Real, Says New Survey. As Modern Life Inflates The Price Tag On Dating, Is Safety Falling By The Wayside?]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[There Are Pumas In North Wales And Nothing You Can Tell Me About Sustainable Big Cat Populations Will Convince Me Otherwise]]></news:title>
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        <loc>https://www.iflscience.com/the-record-breaking-super-el-nino-just-keeps-getting-gnarlier-with-warnings-of-over-451000-deaths-worldwide-84732</loc>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-23T14:04:15+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[The Record-Breaking "Super El Niño" Just Keeps Getting Gnarlier, With Warnings Of Over 451,000 Deaths Worldwide]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[Storm]]></image:title>
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        <lastmod>2026-09-23T16:09:20+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[For Over 5 Years, Animals Have Been Trapped On A Predator-Free Island In Kenya. It's Not The Paradise You're Picturing]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[wildebeest crescent island]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Ancient Plesiosaur Vomit Reveals The Marine Reptiles Came Into Shore To Barf Up Shellfish Remains]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[Vomit]]></image:title>
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        <loc>https://www.iflscience.com/this-is-an-amoeba-reproducing-at-63c-the-highest-temperature-ever-recorded-for-a-complex-cell-84723</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-09-23T15:02:22+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-22T16:07:02+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[This Is An Amoeba Reproducing At 63°C, The Highest Temperature Ever Recorded For A Complex Cell]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[amoeba undergoing mitosis at 63 degrees]]></image:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[geothermal activity in Lassen Volcanic National Park]]></image:title>
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        <lastmod>2026-09-23T15:02:11+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-22T16:09:52+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[First Exoplanet Caught Orbiting A Tiny Star Backwards – This Retrograde World Challenges What We Know About Planet Formation]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[a gas giant planet is illuminated by the red light of a red dwarf]]></image:title>
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        <lastmod>2026-09-23T15:01:57+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-22T16:33:08+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[A New Fragment Of The World’s Oldest Peace Treaty Has Been Found With A Message About War Refugees]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[cuneiform ]]></image:title>
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        <lastmod>2026-09-23T15:01:42+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-22T16:34:49+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[Want To Talk To Animals? Maybe It Starts With Listening To Sperm Whales Instead]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[Sperm whale]]></image:title>
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        <lastmod>2026-09-23T08:56:43+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-22T15:14:01+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[Casper The “Ghost” Lobster Is 1-In-100-Million, With A Shell So Fancy It Has To Be Seen To Be Believed]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[ghost lobster capser]]></image:title>
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        <loc>https://www.iflscience.com/scientists-tracked-the-earths-center-of-mass-using-satellites-and-its-shifting-around-down-there-84715</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-09-22T16:41:31+00:00</lastmod>
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            <news:publication_date>2026-09-22T16:41:30+00:00</news:publication_date>
            <news:title><![CDATA[Scientists Tracked The Earth's Center Of Mass Using Satellites, And It's Shifting Around Down There]]></news:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[A Secret US Spy Satellite Launched In 1988 Has Unexpectedly Shattered Into Pieces, Posing Danger To Other Satellites In Low Earth Orbit]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[farrah iii]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[Around 7,000 Years Ago, The Genetic Diversity Of Males Crashed: What The Hell Happened?]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[War]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[The Latest Planetary Health Check Shows We’ve Breached 7 Of Earth’s 9 Planetary Boundaries]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[Smoke earth]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[First Microblazar Discovered In The Milky Way – It Might Be The Source Of The Fastest Particles In The Galaxy]]></news:title>
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            <image:title><![CDATA[artist impression of the microblazar]]></image:title>
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            <news:title><![CDATA[How Clever Hans, The Horse People Thought Could Do Mathematics, Changed How We Do Science]]></news:title>
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