At half the size of Earth and one-tenth its mass, Mars is a featherweight as far as planets go. Yet new research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth's orbit and shaping the cycles that drive long-term ...
Planetary Sciences
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Newly published interdisciplinary research led by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and University of Maryland shows that viral infection of blue-green algae in the ocean stimulates productivity in the ecosystem and ...
Ecology
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An international team of researchers has uncovered hidden clues about life in the hills of ancient southwest Samos, Greece.
Archaeology
Jan 12, 2026
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Plastic is everywhere in modern society. While it has paved the way for enormous progress, the pollution it leaves behind is now creating major challenges.
Environment
Jan 12, 2026
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For decades, researchers have focused on the problem of overgrazing, in which expanding herds of cattle and other livestock degrade grasslands, steppes and desert plains. But a new global study reveals that in large regions ...
Ecology
Jan 12, 2026
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The fault beneath Istanbul doesn't behave the way scientists once thought.
Earth Sciences
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This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro ...
Astronomy
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A collaboration between Stuart Parkin's group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale) and Claudia Felser's group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden has realized ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 12, 2026
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Multiple monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis, and AI-generated images are complicating the effort to find them.
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2026
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A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are transported and buried by ...
Paleontology & Fossils
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