phenomena

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But what are consistently intriguing are the methods of detection—ever-evolving and ever-revealing—focused on historical phenomena.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

By accounting for both processes together, the team demonstrated that the two forms of breathing are not separate phenomena but instead arise from related underlying physics.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Hardly anything is overdone here and, in one essential way, Enyedi is also making the case for movies themselves as phenomena to protect and treasure: ecosystems of light, texture, wonder and nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Among the decades-worth of reports released in the files are dozens of individual claims of sightings of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

As far as Aristotle was concerned, phenomena included everything which was generally accepted to be the case.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton