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[ September 24, 2025 ] The Thousand Man March in Jackson – Unity, Solidarity, Action – Breaking the chains in our Capital City and across Mississippi Local
[ September 24, 2025 ] Calls for transparency grow after death of Delta State Student Trey Reed ruled suicide Local
[ September 24, 2025 ] A History of Bias: Who Gets Deported in the United States? – The roots and realities of U.S. deportation policies. Deportation to achieve racial banishment National
[ September 17, 2025 ] Mississippi prison killing leaves mother with no answers after 5 years News
[ September 17, 2025 ] Commentary: Pain and contradictions reflections on Charlie Kirk and America – God loves us because He is good, not because we are good National

Commentary: Thompson appointed 13th president of Jackson State University

By Janice K. Neal-Vincent, Ph.D., Contributing Writer, The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning voted to name Dr. Marcus L. Thompson as president of Jackson State University during its meeting held Thursday, […]

Tougaloo celebrates the Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law Program 30th Anniversary – Excellence commemorated on the historic grounds of Tougaloo College

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By Christopher Young, Contributing Writer, On the evening of October 11, 2023, during Tougaloo’s 154th Founders Week, yet another milestone was observed at Woodworth Chapel – the 30th anniversary of the Reuben V. Anderson Pre-Law […]

Crackpot Theories? Scientists Find An Answer To Why Teapots Always Dribble

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Scientists say pouring at a precise angle solves the problem, otherwise tea will always spill, even if you pour it on the moon.
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The U.S. southwest is riddled with dead volcanoes, like Marcath volcano in Nevada, known as “monogentic” because they erupt only once. Researchers say that new volcanoes could emerge from the vast volcanic fields at any time. (Greg Valentine/Zenger)

Under Pressure: New Volcanoes Could Pop Up Anywhere In US Southwest, Study Says

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Volcanic fields pepper the southwestern U.S., posing a risk of new eruptions that could cause widespread devastation.
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Fish seen rubbing up against their shark predator in this screenshot from an underwater video. Researchers believe this behavior plays a greater ecological role than previously known. (University of Miami Shark Research and Conservation Program at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science/Zenger)

VIDEO: The White Stuff: How Brave Fish Use Great White Sharks As Giant Scrubbing Brushes

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Tiny fish use the predators’ rough skin to exfoliate. Just don’t rub them up the wrong way.
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A powerful solar flare that occurred on Oct. 28, 2021, produced aurora borealis, or northern lights, as far south as Iowa and Pennsylvania in the United States. (NOAA, NASA, CIRA, SUVI, CIRES, CIMSS/Zenger)

VIDEO: Sun-Canny: Powerful Solar Flare Produced Aurora As Far South As Iowa

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Experts say the flare triggered an astonishing Northern Lights display
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Deposits of dark silicate glass in Chile's Atacama Desert are found along a 47-mile corridor. A new study shows that those glasses were probably formed by the heat and shock caused by the explosion of a comet some 12,000 years ago. (P.H. Schultz/Brown University)

Apocalypse Wow: Exploding Comet So Hot It Turned A Desert Into Glass, Says Study

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The massive fireball airburst in South America 12,000 years ago spread for nearly 50 miles.
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Specimens of the pigeon snail Mitrella viennensis, named after Vienna, with a historical label and an outdated name. (Vienna Natural History Museum, Alice Schumacher/Zenger)

Vienna Museum Finds 33-Million-Year-Old Fossils, Lost In Storage 150 Years Ago

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Astonished experts found a dusty box abandoned for decades containing previously unknown mollusks from 15 million years ago.
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Jaguars in the northern Pantanal wetlands in Brazil were observed eating mainly fish and reptiles, which is unusual for the species. (Daniel Kantek/Zenger)

VIDEO: Sea-Type Jaguars: Isolated Big Cats Have Taken To Eating Fish

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Jaguars — typically solitary creatures — have been living in social packs in Brazil and turning up their noses at fresh meat.
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This illustration of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicates the location of its two microphones. (NASA, JPL-Caltech/Zenger)

VIDEO: NASA’s Mars Rover Captures Sounds Of The Red Planet

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Mars’ soundscape beamed back to Earth for space scientists to study.
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