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      <news:title><![CDATA[The Hubble Space Telescope is tracking the four icy fragments of Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) as they travel through space, while a puzzling 48-hour delay in the increase in brightness is forcing theorists at Auburn University to rethink all their hypotheses about the timeline of its disintegration]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[The thousands of tons of banana pseudostems left rotting after each harvest are now being transformed into tissue paper and packaging materials, while a simple process using sodium hydroxide at 230°F is achieving pulp yields of up to 44 percent in April 2026 trials]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Archaeologists were exploring ordinary farmland in Central Europe, and what they found underground forces us to rethink 5,000 years of funerary history]]></news:title>
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