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By effectively using the entire Earth as a detector for a particular range of axion masses, the researchers placed new limits on how strongly axions could interact with light.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Yehuda Cohen Tzedek, a 29-year-old former Hilltop Youth, demonstrated how people at outposts use nail guns to call for help from others nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Triage then focuses on determining how likely a patient is to develop kidney failure, as well as evaluating cardiovascular risk.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
And for a series where the stakes are so high, no expense is spared in ensuring that the film team know exactly how each auditionee will come across on screen.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
That’s how she died —she had a car accident on her way to see yet another mystic.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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“The hows and the wherefores can wait, but it’s OK to say that I won that battle … by a story means that I wasn’t expecting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
"If the produce that I've been growing is contaminated in some way, hows it going to affect somebodies health. How is it going to affect my health?," she said.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
The hows are easier to explain than the whys when it comes to all this madness, so let’s start there.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2023
Physicists believe that there must have been some primordial imbalance that allowed matter to dominate the universe, yet the hows and whys remain open questions.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
The officer with four stars kept asking him about the whys, whens, and hows of his family’s escape plan.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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