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When it comes to college hockey, there are few things which carry the prestige of making the Frozen Four. Every spring, the NCAA men's ice hockey tournament culminates with four teams battling for a national championship.

A menace to both the health and the environment, microplastics aren't just accumulating in the brain and crucial organs like heart, liver, and kidney, they may also be causing a lasting damage by promoting antibiotic resistance, which can prolong diseases and raise the risk of death.

Boston researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became resistant to multiple types of common antibiotics

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the atmosphere of a cosmic body that is either a "failed star" brown dwarf or a rogue planet.