Melting diamond could unlock triple fusion gain and the secrets of ice giant planets
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A new category of heat waves is melting western US snowpack faster: Heat waves are not all created equal. While some bring dry heat that rapidly dries out crops ...
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Thinking fast and slow: Wild fish reveal how cognition evolved in two closely related species
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Active supermassive black holes may help form massive planets: A popular myth about black holes is that they act like giant cosmic vacuum cleaners ...
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Complex suicidal somersault behavior in male redback spiders may be explained by surprisingly simple genetics
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Early hardship may shape how oxytocin influences altruism: While humans are inherently social beings, they can interact and connect with others in very different ...
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A dying star offers a rare glimpse of how the universe recycles its raw materials
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Nature's original bioplastic may have fed animals for hundreds of millions of years
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Rapid warming may tip Atlantic circulation at 2°C, while slower warming may avert collapse
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Microbes turn CO₂ into protein and vitamin B9 at commercially viable prices: Researchers are developing biotechnological processes that enable microbes to ...
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River shipping emits nearly one-quarter of global shipping CO₂, analysis finds: River and canal ships generate roughly a quarter of the world's shipping ...
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Uniaxial strain reveals new way to tune electron flow in altermagnet material: Altermagnetism is a new, third type of magnetism of great interest for ...
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Models of glacial collapse in Antarctica improve predictions of sea-level rise: With approximately one-third of the world's population living within a ...
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Three supermassive black holes discovered in a single galaxy for the first time: An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for ...
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African grasslands expanded 5 million year earlier than previously thought, molecular fossils suggest
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Teaching AI the biology of antibodies speeds drug discovery: Designing an effective antibody drug is like searching for the right key in a warehouse of locks ...
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Sugar swap simplifies production of promising targeted cancer therapies: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed a simpler way to ...
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Brain circuit keeps tabs on what just happened to aid judgment of what's happening now
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Want a happier marriage? Study suggests one simple habit: Research has long shown that exercise benefits both physical and mental health. Now ...
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Stellar stream beyond Milky Way offers new tool to map dark matter: In the image above, a faint trail of stars can be seen stretching across the galaxy ...
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Fossil leaf cells indicate that during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 56 million years ago, forest canopies opened and landscapes browned as warming and ... Show more
Satellite constellations could create spiraling space debris: To date, close to 30,000 satellites have been launched into Earth's orbit ...
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Europe's worst medieval flood highlights risk of successive extreme events: New research involving the University of Liverpool has provided comprehensive ...
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New hurricane graphic helps people identify watch areas, doesn't change risk perception
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Tech Xplore : Less than 60 seconds of physical access may be enough to let an attacker alter a Boeing 737’s flight instructions. In a proof-of-concept test bed built ... Show more
Unfamiliar with rattlesnakes, blackbirds still avoid striking them while defending nests
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Californians are twice as likely as Louisianans to be childfree—but demographics tell more of the story
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AI’s expanding footprint emerges as a striking tension here: systems meant to accelerate ... Show more
Single synthetic peptide forms electrically polarized, self-healing hydrogel: Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) and RIKEN ...
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Bumblebees can learn to associate new smells with their queen: Bumblebees are able to learn to associate new odors with their colony's queen ...
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Drug-carrying nanoparticles shrink venous malformations by 70% in mice: Venous malformations are abnormally shaped veins that develop when the cells lining blood ...
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New spike map shows how SARS-CoV-2 variants dodge key antibodies: Antibodies are an important defense against SARS-CoV-2, but the virus continues to evolve ways ...
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Silent Strep A infections may explain immunity gained by adulthood: Exposure to Streptococcus pyogenes (Strep A) that causes mild or no symptoms can trigger the ...
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20-year study finds pre-K impacts a child's academic future: Students who attended public school pre-K performed better academically through high school ...
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Spontaneous magnons synchronize with external signals at room temperature: Signals ride on waves of one kind or another: light, sound, radio. But new carriers ...
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How to design a space habitat that supports its residents' mental health: In extreme environments, habitats are built for survival. Submarines ...
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Recyclable glue bonds underwater in seconds and holds for years: Most glues need a dry surface to stick properly. Bonding materials underwater is challenging ...
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A single galaxy hosting three supermassive black holes sharpens the sense that some of the ... Show more
When phones become an escape: Nomophobia tied to heavier social media use during downtime
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Personalized immune therapy erasing a repeatedly relapsing metastatic kidney tumor ... Show more
Self-repairing coating promises to make gas turbines more reliable and longer lasting
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Quantum advantage reassessed: More realistic benchmarks for quantum algorithms: Quantum advantage refers to the point at which a quantum computer solves a ...
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A 236-million-year-old cynodont may have given live birth much earlier than expected in the mammalian lineage. Its newborn mass was estimated at 1 ... Show more
Long-sought Zhang-Rice singlet visualized directly in cuprate superconductor: Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with zero electrical ...
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Chinese label once tied to Boston Tea Party reveals 19th-century Pacific trade: When MIT historian Tristan Brown first examined a Chinese tea chest label ...
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Many US public parks sit surprisingly close to hazardous waste sites and facilities that release toxic chemicals
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Rivers are moving sediment in intense bursts, a worrisome new pattern uncovered by AI
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Tech Xplore : A wafer-integrated platform could mass-produce 6G beam-steering antennas by fabricating antennas and RF switches together on one wafer ... Show more
Major genetic weakness threatens future corn breeding, study reveals: A new study led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists reveals critically ...
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Can better civics education restore voter dissatisfaction over political corruption?
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Mitochondrial proteins may trigger inflammation by mimicking bacterial distress signals
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New CERN measurement challenges conventional models of how gluons behave inside atomic nuclei
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New contactless method reveals how mirror-image materials respond differently to light
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Butterfly-inspired ceramic microscrolls unroll with magnets to power tiny robots: Researchers at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for ...
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New model bridges ferroelectric physics and circuit modeling: A new physics-based analytical model can accurately predict ferroelectric behavior under real-world ...
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Three energy-loss routes may explain Tarantula Nebula's X-ray shortfall: Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image ...
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Star cluster discovery could change how scientists measure the universe: University of Missouri researchers have uncovered evidence that challenges one of ...
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Extreme space weather could disrupt flights and expose passengers to high radiation, study warns
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Leucovorin prescriptions for children rise 46% after federal officials' autism claims
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Decoding smell: Study reveals how wind transforms odor signals: Humans trust dogs to help find missing people, and bees to pollinate their crops ...
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Extreme weather is now a key predictor of where more than 500 North American bird species occur. When heat, cold, and drought extremes are excluded ... Show more
Beyond color: Fluorescence lifetime imaging distinguishes multiple proteins in living plant cells
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Historical DNA reveals largetooth sawfish have lost much of their genetic diversity
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Ancient Colombians built huge water system without centralized rule, archaeologists say
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Oral nanomedicine improves cancer immunotherapy by harnessing gut bacterial metabolite
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Machine learning approach could bring greater certainty to prenatal genetic testing
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Fungal chitin offers new route to tougher hydrogels for medical devices and soft robots
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For the tiniest patients, new tech brings clearer MRI images: Some of medicine's smallest patients can present its biggest imaging challenges ...
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Toxoplasma parasite reveals an unusual strategy for surviving crowded environments in infected cells
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Extending AI architectures to address continuous scientific problems: Artificial intelligence is proving to be transformative in its ability to work with ...
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Electrochemical method could make seawater a low-cost source of magnesium salts: Magnesium supplements are gaining popularity to treat conditions such as ...
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First evidence of Neanderthal bone tool use in Romania discovered: Deep in the Vârghiș Gorges, tucked away in the dark recesses of a cave, researchers have found ...
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AI-assisted grant proposals may win more often—while narrowing research ideas: A new study from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management found that ...
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More than 7°C of sea-surface warming during an ice age 304 million years ago hints that a modest temperature rise crossed a climatic tipping point ... Show more
New optical method reveals internal dynamics of elusive Wigner crystals: Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have ...
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DESI releases biggest 2D map of the universe: Hold on to your telescopes: The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the ...
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Medical Xpress - Medical and Health News : After mating, female fruit fly and mouse intestines didn't just change in their lining. Their gut muscles lengthened and became less contractile ... Show more
Illegal fishing captures up to 15% of global marine wild catch, analysis finds: Industrial-scale illegal fishing continues to undermine ocean sustainability ...
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Why AI may boost carbon emissions instead of cutting them: AI data centers get a bad rap, not least because of concerns that they drive climate change by ...
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Distant time crystals oscillate in unison, paving the way for spin networks: In January 2024, physicists at TU Dortmund University demonstrated a continuous time ...
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