New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it.
Astrobiology
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Some cells, such as immune cells, are highly mobile—they constantly remodel their shape, migrate toward a wound that needs to be closed or chase down bacteria in the bloodstream. This mobility is provided by the cytoskeleton, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2025
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A new study has challenged the long-standing assumption that global warming will inevitably turn humid subtropical forests into carbon sources, revealing these ecosystems may instead continue accumulating soil carbon under ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2025
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While plastics help enable modern standards of living, their accumulation in landfills and the overall environment continues to grow as a global concern.
Polymers
Oct 13, 2025
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Asked to list stereotypes they had heard about themselves or other Native Americans, more than 200 middle school-age citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized nation located in rural North Carolina, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2025
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It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow their businesses.
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2025
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Critical minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, rare earth elements, and platinum group metals are essential for modern technologies. They are key to industries ranging from electronics and telecommunications to ...
Economics & Business
Oct 13, 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their study of quantum mechanics in a macroscopic electrical circuit.
Quantum Physics
Oct 13, 2025
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After centuries of near-extinction, Europe's wolves have made a remarkable comeback. Over the past decade, wolf populations have surged, increasing by nearly 60%. In 2022, more than 21,500 wolves were recorded across the ...
Ecology
Oct 13, 2025
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When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi—the "father of metal-organic frameworks," or MOFs—along with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson, it celebrated more than the creation of a new class of crystalline ...
Materials Science
Oct 13, 2025
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