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Team develops microscope to image microbes in soil and plants at micrometer scale

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Look who's talking now: The fishes

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DNA strong bonding—a long-term commitment or many brief relationships?

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What wintering squirrels can teach astronauts

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Revealing a mathematical secret of lizard camouflage

Cell & Microbiology
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When fossils come to life: SARS-CoV-2 spike, syncytin-1, and other curious fusion proteins

Optics & Photonics
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Creating frequency combs in microresonators

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Brain size found to have decreased in domesticated cats

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Boosted mitochondrial capacity safeguards cells under stress

Plants & Animals
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Rise of termite clone queendoms offers clue to curb invasions

Evolution
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Gene mutation that makes dogs small existed in ancient wolves

Astronomy
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Condensed Matter
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Ultrathin materials may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices

Biotechnology
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Research team finds nine new coronavirus species

Environment
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Living near or downwind of unconventional oil and gas development linked with increased risk of early death

Plants & Animals
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Wild monkeys shown to give birth during optimal body and environmental temperatures

Earth Sciences
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Radiocarbon dating from prehistoric cemetery reveals human stress caused by global cooling event 8,200 years ago

Materials Science
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New, highly efficient catalyst for propylene production

Mathematics
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Schools and the pandemic: Simulation model allows for safe operation

Plants & Animals
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Scientists use GPS to track baboon troop's movement in urban spaces for the first time

General Physics
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Researchers develop improved quantum gate testing method

Optics & Photonics
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Scientists make a new type of optical device using alumina

Molecular & Computational biology
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New genome analysis method and model address blind spot towards uncommon species in mixed samples

Biochemistry
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Potential of structural proteomics in treating neurodegenerative diseases

Plants & Animals
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Why king baboon spider venom is so painful

Molecular & Computational biology
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Plausible steps toward the evolution of a key protein fold of RNA polymerases

Earth Sciences
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Using machine learning to find space rocks in Antarctica

Cell & Microbiology
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Induced pluripotent bovine stem cells overcome decades-long challenges for cultivated meat

Environment
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Clouds in the southern hemisphere more precisely understood

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What plants need to withstand drought

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Bacteria build communities using chemical signals comparable to radio waves

Materials Science
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Earth Sciences
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Glaciers are squishy, holding slightly more ice than thought

Optics & Photonics
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New compact terahertz laser with 120 frequencies

Biotechnology
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Using a 'virtual slime mold' to design a subway network less prone to disruption

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Environment
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Decreasing development on forest and agricultural land partly driven by gas prices, study finds

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AI breakthrough could revolutionize how we research dinosaur fossils

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Earliest known report of ball lightning phenomenon in England discovered

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Getting in gear: Researchers create a slow light device with high optical quality