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Plants & Animals
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How do coexisting animals find enough to eat? Biologists unlock insights into foraging habits in Yellowstone

Astronomy
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Astronomers' new technique measures temperature of a star with high precision

Plants & Animals
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Buzz-pollinating bees shake pollen loose with rapid vibrations and biting, study shows

Earth Sciences
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Lake ice quality degrading as planet warms—skaters, hockey players, ice truckers on thin ice

Condensed Matter
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Topological quantum computers a step closer with new method to 'split' electrons

Cell & Microbiology
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Researchers uncover why cells struggle to fully change identity in reprogramming efforts

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Analytical Chemistry
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Visible-light-antenna ligand enhances samarium-catalyzed reactions

Earth Sciences
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How humans are affecting the Northern Hemisphere's wind patterns

Analytical Chemistry
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Advances in hydrogen research: More efficient isotope separation in sight

Cell & Microbiology
2

First-of-its kind tool allows scientists to manipulate cells without touching them

Plants & Animals
29

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Cell & Microbiology
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Scientists discover an unexpected involvement of sodium transport in mitochondrial energy generation

Political science
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Study suggests political ideology is associated with differences in brain structure, but less so than previously thought

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Ecology
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Safe-Hub: A new single nexus point for data, information and toolkits on pollinator conservation

Molecular & Computational biology
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How plants keep viruses from passing to their progeny

Environment
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Assessing the environmental impacts of Brazil's biofuel sector

Evolution
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Convergent evolution study sheds light on how new genes arise

Space Exploration
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Artemis I mission data show astronauts sent to the moon aboard Orion will be protected from radiation

Evolution
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Love island: Bird's refusal to leave resort life leads to genetic change

Ecology
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Scientists seek a balance between crop production and protecting the environment

Molecular & Computational biology
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Plant pathogen battle: A tomato protein's dual role in defense and susceptibility

Molecular & Computational biology
1

Decoding 'Chachi' citrus: Unveiling the secrets of flavorful phytonutrients

Economics & Business
6

COVID-19 job losses impacted early withdrawal from retirement accounts: Study

Earth Sciences
15

Explaining dramatic planetwide changes after world's last 'Snowball Earth' event

Social Sciences
1

Aversion to inequality drives support for redistribution policies, study finds

Earth Sciences
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Study reveals that future climate change may reduce the Amazon rainforest's ability to act as a carbon sink

Analytical Chemistry
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New computational insights use Marcus theory to unlock the potential of photocatalysis

Plants & Animals
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Moderate levels of exotic species invasions may help maintain biodiversity, study suggests

Bio & Medicine
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Light-induced immunoassay can selectively detect coronavirus spike proteins in five minutes

Earth Sciences
1

Global assessment: How to make climate adaptation a success

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Astrobiology
9

Detailed model suggests organic matter on Mars was formed from atmospheric formaldehyde

Social Sciences
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The relationship between emotions and economic decision-making differs across countries, multi-national analysis finds

Earth Sciences
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Scientists can now predict catastrophic river shifts that threaten millions worldwide

Analytical Chemistry
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Photoacoustic sensor achieves high-sensitivity detection of multiple greenhouse gases

Planetary Sciences
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NASA watches a peanut-shaped asteroid drift past Earth

Optics & Photonics
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Researchers improve tunability in optical differentiation

Plants & Animals
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The memory in seeds: How plants carry environmental clues across generations

Molecular & Computational biology
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Researchers explore physiological and molecular processes underlying graft healing

Bio & Medicine
1

New testing system uses Janus particles to rapidly and accurately detect COVID-19

Earth Sciences
1

How the Tibetan Plateau is helping us to understand the current and future climate

Quantum Physics
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Were Bohr and von Neumann really in conflict over quantum measurements?

Earth Sciences
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Arctic warming may fuel ice formation in clouds, observations suggest

Astrobiology
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Could interstellar quantum communications involve Earth or solve the Fermi paradox?

Plants & Animals
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Beetles cooperate on tricky dung moves

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Polymers
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Microplastics: Meant to last, just not forever and not in our bodies

Astronomy
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Observations provide crucial insights into the nature of a white dwarf–brown dwarf binary

Environment
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Evacuations as tail of Storm Boris floods northeast Italy

Environment
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Portugal tackles last of deadly northern forest fires

Agriculture
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Norway reports first cases of bluetongue disease in livestock since 2009

Education
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Study hints that debate skills may lessen negative impact of AI

Earth Sciences
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Tropical cyclone intensity exacerbated by increasing depth of ocean mixed layer, finds study

Education
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Enrollment of undocumented students at California universities dropped from 2016 to 2023, finds study

Earth Sciences
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NOAA debuts first imagery from GOES-19

Education
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Study reveals impact of homework on student achievement in math and science

General Physics
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Findings hint at a superfluid phase in ²⁹F and ²⁸O

Plants & Animals
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It's baby rattlesnake season in California: What to do and how to stay safe

Plants & Animals
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The invasive Joro spider has landed in Bucks County, Pa: What to know about the arachnid

Social Sciences
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Shedding light on how to make national park visitors feel safe at night

Environment
7

Historic rainfall inflicts chaotic floods across four continents

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Environment
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What we know about the fire 'pandemic' plaguing Brazil

Plants & Animals
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New mechanism uncovered for the reduction of emu wings

Ecology
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New technique zeros in on the genes that snakes use to produce venom

Molecular & Computational biology
5

Gene-based model predicts when Japan's cherry buds awake from dormancy

Earth Sciences
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New research re-envisions Earth's mantle as a relatively uniform reservoir

Environment
1

Vast France building project sunk by sea level rise fears

Ecology
1

Endangered sea corals moved from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration

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Earth Sciences
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Reducing floodplain development doesn't need to be complex, say researchers

Social Sciences
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How your Zoom background could influence how tired you feel after a video call

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Earth Sciences
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Rugged Falklands landscape was once a lush rainforest, researchers say

Analytical Chemistry
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Harnessing nature's rhythm: Piezocatalysis for organic pollutant degradation

Education
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Pupils with special educational needs and disabilities continue to fall behind their peers, study finds

Environment
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Poor indoor air quality isn't just making us sick. It's also polluting our cities

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Economics & Business
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Eviction filings can destabilize tenants' lives, even when they win their case

Biochemistry
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Bioengineers create new substrate to study wood-decomposing enzyme

Bio & Medicine
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Antioxidant carbon dot nanozymes alleviate depression in rats by restoring the gut microbiome

Social Sciences
47

Can toddlers help explain the origins of our bias for wealth?

Social Sciences
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New research reveals how 'home' affects psychological well-being in a mobile world

Astronomy
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New cosmic distance catalog could unlock the mysteries of universe formation

General Physics
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Neutron scientists wake a sleeping giant after nine-month nap and makeover

Astronomy
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Webb Telescope provides another look into galactic collisions

Bio & Medicine
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Nanoparticle technology shows promise for targeted diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis

Plants & Animals
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Study identifies possible novel species in fish genus endemic to Neotropics

Nanophysics
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Enhanced ion diffusion kinetics achieved through interpenetrated structures in electrochemical energy storage devices

Plants & Animals
1

Glue in the face: How frogs' sticky secretions defend them from attack

Planetary Sciences
50

Could you find what a lunar crater is made of by shooting it?

Space Exploration
18

There are plenty of uses for powerful lasers in space. But where should we put them?

Earth Sciences
15

What the jet stream and climate change had to do with the hottest summer on record

Biotechnology
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Ethanol: A viable alternative to sugar-based carbon sources for biomanufacturing

Environment
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Flushing rubbish down the toilet has impacts on nature

Earth Sciences
172

Geoscientists confirm 'dripping' of Earth's crust beneath Türkiye's Central Anatolian Plateau

Economics & Business
1

Young professionals are struggling to socially adapt in the workplace; how educators can help

Ecology
1

New analysis indicates UK hunting trophies law would cause more harm than good

Plants & Animals
1

Unraveling the conservation conundrum of China's native Jacktree

Biotechnology
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Greenhouse gains: Cucumbers get a genetic upgrade through innovative pollen tech

Plants & Animals
15

Study explores metabolic disruptions in Artemisia annua mutant strain

Environment
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South Africa's Gauteng province launches water data hub, so residents can now keep track of shortages and repair issues

Environment
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Groundwater cleanup boost: Tailoring 3D media for DNAPL contaminant removal

Plasma Physics
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Tracking plasma progression in a picosecond: Physicists develop ultra-fast laser method to study high-density plasmas

Environment
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Side effects of wide-scale forestation could reduce water availability by 15% in vulnerable regions

Education
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Is AI exacerbating disparities in education?

Ecology
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If you build it, will they come? Wildlife corridors need smarter design

Earth Sciences
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An innovative system for seeing into the bowels of a volcano

Materials Science
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Materials scientist describes new world order for glasses, liquids

Nanophysics
49

Why petting your cat leads to static electricity

Social Sciences
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Moving as one: Discovering how synchronous movements strengthen social bonds

Plants & Animals
69

Another new wasp species discovered by researchers

Environment
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India coal expansion risks massive methane growth: Report

General Physics
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LHC experiments observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet

Social Sciences
16

The harder I work, the luckier I get? What coaches, athletes and fans need to understand about luck in sport

Bio & Medicine
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Upcycling e-waste into heterogeneous CuₓO nano skeletons for high-performance glucose sensing

Nanomaterials
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2D silk protein layers on graphene pave the way for advanced microelectronics and computing

Economics & Business
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Opinion: 'Right to disconnect' laws are a step toward healthier, more productive and more inclusive workplaces

Polymers
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Nature-inspired patterns boost polymer toughness

Quantum Physics
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Researchers simplify design of optical atomic clocks without compromising performance

Ecology
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Propagated corals reveal increased resistance to bleaching across the Caribbean during the fatal heat wave of 2023

Archaeology
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South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species, suggests research

Plants & Animals
22

Study finds marine animals in untouched habitats are at greater risk from human impacts than previously thought

Social Sciences
1

Champions League 2024: Data suggests the new format could end up being fairer and more competitive

Ecology
3

Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus

Planetary Sciences
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Scientists have found evidence of past extreme solar storms—they could be disastrous for technology-based society

Environment
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How to prepare for a stormy 'supercharged' September

Ecology
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Walking the trees: Researchers trace how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees

Economics & Business
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How job-hopping managers undermine corporate culture

Earth Sciences
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Projections show future droughts could be longer than expected

Plants & Animals
17

Which plant species will survive the global change challenge?

Analytical Chemistry
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First liquid-liquid extraction trial finds porous liquids can separate harmful or unwanted alcohols from mixtures

Agriculture
17

Farming soybeans after soybeans, a rarity in Iowa, gets a closer look

Ecology
1

Ocean sediment is a 'mudtropolis'—meet the carbon-cycling creatures thriving beneath the seabed

Astronomy
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Magnifying deep space through the 'Carousel Lens'—rare alignment offers unique opportunity to study cosmology

Cell & Microbiology
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Scientists identify 18 bacterial strains to treat antibiotic-resistant gut infections

Political science
8

Racial and gender bias in US crime victim compensation programs highlighted in report

Social Sciences
1

More governments are promising a 'right to disconnect'—but psychology affects how well we can unplug from work

Social Sciences
12

Will customers accept less meat in their cafeteria meals?

Ecology
1

Pathologists identify plague in blind Idaho deer

General Physics
62

Ocean waves grow way beyond known limits, new research finds

Astronomy
35

Work is underway on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter

Cell & Microbiology
32

Science backs traditional knowledge of Kakadu plum health benefits

Space Exploration
1

Measuring moon dust to fight air pollution

Environment
30

So where does the oceans' plastic waste come from?

Analytical Chemistry
9

Researchers discover highest second-harmonic generation response in deep-ultraviolet phosphate

General Physics
7

Physicists reveal evolution of shell structure using machine learning

Cell & Microbiology
1

Harmless strain of E. coli bacteria may be able to prevent urinary tract infections

Molecular & Computational biology
7

Scientists find new epigenetic switch, revealing how genes are regulated in early development

Nanophysics
10

Single-step lifecycle monitoring made fast and easy with single-walled carbon nanotubes

Analytical Chemistry
1

Template synthesis creates multilayered perovskites with unique ferroelectric behavior

Ecology
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'Emergency' declared over falling UK butterfly numbers

Space Exploration
2

Reinventing the clock: NASA's new tech for space timekeeping

Astronomy
36

Second-gen Starlink satellites leak 30 times more radio interference, threatening astronomical observations

Bio & Medicine
1

DNA origami and fluorescent probes can precisely release molecular cargo

Cell & Microbiology
28

Silencing in action: How cells 'repress' genomic remnants of ancient viruses

Earth Sciences
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Scientists develop AI models able to predict future drought conditions with high accuracy

Quantum Physics
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Different qubit architecture could enable easier manufacturing of quantum computer building blocks