Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./R. Romani et al. (Chandra); NASA/MSFC (IXPE); Infared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DECaPS; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt) In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in…
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Fake fog, ‘re-skinning’ and ‘sea-weeding’ could help coral reefs survive
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