Forest and land fires across Indonesia have spiked once again. News and social media in the country are flooded with images of thick plumes of smoke from Kalimantan (or Borneo)—the world's third-largest island—that are choking ...
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On Aug. 15, the CTAO LST Collaboration and the MAGIC Collaboration released findings from observations of OP 313, the most distant very-high-energy blazar ever recorded. The paper, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, presents ...
Astronomy
Aug 24, 2026
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Though they are pivotal to Homer's epic, luring Odysseus with the promise of eternal wisdom, the Greek poet barely described the mysterious Sirens. What might a better understanding of these formless, disembodied feminine ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2026
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For a long time, so-called satellite DNA was considered largely worthless. Now, ETH Zurich researchers have shown in fruit flies that these repetitive sections of genetic material act as a kind of barcode, enabling the correct ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 24, 2026
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Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used a theoretical framework to derive design rules for creating new thermoelectric materials. The efficiency of converting thermal energy to electricity is often determined ...
Materials Science
Aug 24, 2026
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New research from Cardiff University and the University of Melbourne has investigated whether GenAI could mimic human marking when evaluating written student work. The results have been published in the journal Assessment ...
Education
Aug 24, 2026
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There's a new lighthouse on Long Island. But instead of shining light to guide ships through waterways, this one transmits and receives particles of light that carry quantum information. Perched atop a seven-story building ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 24, 2026
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A 12-year study of rescued chimpanzees at the Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary (NICS) in Uganda has revealed persistent intestinal schistosomiasis infections, highlighting the need for long-term disease surveillance to ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2026
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Researchers at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley have found that certain landscapes surrounding California communities are associated with differing rates of Valley fever, a fungal respiratory infection caused by inhaling spores ...
Ecology
Aug 24, 2026
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Immigration can produce a small economic gain for the native-born population overall while causing larger shifts in wages between different groups of workers, according to new research co-authored by King's Business School.
Economics & Business
Aug 24, 2026
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