{
  "id": 11533987,
  "title": "Marine biologists discover new plankton off Oregon coast",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/marine-biologists-discover-new-plankton-off-oregon-coast",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-02T21:20:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-marine-biologists-plankton-oregon-coast.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Nearly every morning when she was a doctoral student in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Nicole Nakata, Ph.D. '23 (biology), would cross the street from the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, Ore., to the high-tide line of the Pacific Ocean. Her job was to catch microscopic brittle star plankton larvae from the incoming tidal current and bring them back to OIMB's labs…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}