Tropical army ants are known to form devastating armadas that march through forests eating other insects and small creatures. As they march, they deposit chemical trails of pheromones that others behind them sense and follow. ...
Plants & Animals
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Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes throughout its history, but new research suggests those changes may not have been as random as previously thought. A study led by an international team of researchers, including ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2026
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another milestone for an observatory that continues to transform our understanding of the universe.
Astronomy
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When ocean waves reach shallow water, their complex interactions can produce lower-frequency infragravity waves. These waves strongly affect—and are affected by—the shape of coastlines, linking them to erosion, sediment deposition ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2026
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 10 million people contract tuberculosis (TB) each year. It is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. Treatment is lengthy and typically involves a combination ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 23, 2026
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Southeastern Europe and the Balkans are a key region for understanding the European Neolithic. Many ways of life and economic systems that continue to shape our lives today first emerged there in Europe and later spread across ...
Archaeology
Sep 23, 2026
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When Fan Yang's children came home complaining about a crafting class, they had a particularly strong advocate.
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2026
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Microorganisms regulate key processes in soils and aquifers, including nutrient cycling, carbon turnover and contaminant degradation. Many bacteria use chemotaxis, the ability to sense and swim toward chemical signals, to ...
Ecology
Sep 23, 2026
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Workers in the U.S. are feeling the strain of stress and economic uncertainty, and nearly two in five U.S. workers (37%) believe their work environment has a negative impact on their mental health—up from 32% last year, according ...
Economics & Business
Sep 23, 2026
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The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, preceded by decades of breakthroughs in genetics. It eventually gave us a sequence of the human genome. Yet, while the physical rules behind the genome's organization remain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 23, 2026
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