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scientist

[sahy-uhn-tist] / ˈsaɪ ən tɪst /


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Local scientist Rajneel Singh said climate change was already impacting the waters that have long sustained Tuvalu's population of 10,600.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Mark Gold, an environmental scientist who has spent more than 30 years pushing for DDT cleanup, said that the bill’s passage would be monumental.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The novelist and scientist observed that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Some of the Margin Unit rocks also contain silica," said Eleni Ravanis, a planetary scientist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a coauthor of the study.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Not like a medical doctor, but an astrophysicist—a scientist who studies the planets, stars, and other objects in space and how they work.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

There, scientists say, a marine heatwave in 2024 wiped out an estimated 99.9 percent of the coral that built theP remote Tuvalu islands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The scientists presented their findings to Tuvalu's fisheries minister in December last year and were met with disbelief.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Combining those two sources of evidence could give scientists a much clearer picture of the first generations of stars.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

Magnetite particles have been found in eels, although scientists have not yet directly imaged those particles inside their cells and tissues.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

They refused, as good scientists should, to overstate what they knew.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone




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