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Seal could drown if it slides into water before fully awake

Ms Cheon and Mr Chung spent weeks tagging Weddell seals on frozen sea around Thwaites Glacier

Seals can collect data in waters ships could never reach

Needle goes in six centimeters long shot through blowpipe or injected by hand

Antarctica's seals have no natural predators on ice so they are not inclined to fear ecologists

Tags will stay on seals' heads until they molt next summer

June saw lowest border crossings on record with 6072 migrants intercepted compared to 83532 in same month 2024

Second Harvest Heartland estimates it will have sent out 50000 boxes of food in January and February

Sanneh's food distributions increased by 123 percent from December to January

Less than 0.1 percent of fentanyl arriving in United States in 2023 came from Canada

Gallup's last presidential approval rating in December 2025 put Mr Trump's rating at 36 percent

Exoplanet is located four light-years away in Alpha Centauri triple-star system

Exoplanet is shrinking before X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra space telescope

Strange swirls around infant star may be watching planet come into existence in real time

5th planet orbiting nearby star may lie in habitable zone

Scientists report new results in two papers accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Team hopes further observations by JWST and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope might confirm the planet

Exoplanets found in this system would offer best opportunity to collect data on planetary systems other than our own Charles Beichman said

Planet candidate would be closest to its host star ever imaged at two astronomical units

Planet candidate is in Alpha Centauri A's habitable zone but is a gas giant