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      <news:title><![CDATA[Glyphosate may be grooming superbugs outside hospitals, turning farm fields into antibiotic-resistance gyms]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Hundreds of sea-level papers had math bugs – so coastal-risk maps just got a lot scarier]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[A cave sealed in Gibraltar for 40,000 years is home to what could be the last place of residence of the Neanderthals]]></news:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-06-24T17:07:41+00:00</lastmod>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[Horsetail plants pull “space water” isotopes into their stems, baffling chemists who thought they’d seen it all]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[A herd of cows was abandoned on a deserted island 130 years ago, and a genetic study has now left researchers with a result they did not expect]]></news:title>
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