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Economics & Business May 5, 2026

Heightened ICE enforcement harms U.S.-born workers, shrinks workforce, research suggests

Heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration has not expanded job opportunities for U.S.-born workers and is associated with a reduction of employment for U.S.-born men with no more than a high ...

Planetary Sciences May 4, 2026

Close-in planets act as 'bouncers' to create rogue worlds

Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to forever wander the interstellar void. But modern models suggest these free floating planets (FFPs) ...

Molecular & Computational biology May 3, 2026

UK's national soil database released as open-access repository

Cranfield University has launched a new soil and environmental online database and mapping tool, opening up detailed information about land in England and Wales. In collaboration with Defra, Cranfield's Land Information System ...

Ecology Apr 30, 2026

Drivers help study road-trip mystery: what became of bug splats?

Long an emblem of the summer road trip, squashed bugs on the car have become less numerous over the years, many people say—causing concern about the health of the world's insect populations.

Optics & Photonics Apr 30, 2026

A longstanding quantum roadblock just fell, opening existing fiber networks to ultra-secure light signals

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have broken a longstanding barrier by managing to send single photons—that can't be copied or split and thus are secure—in the network of optical fibers we already have. This opens ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 30, 2026

XXP instrument back online, marking a key milestone in high-energy upgrade to SLAC's X-ray laser

XPP, the X-ray Pump Probe instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), is back online and welcoming researchers after a complete rebuild. The overhaul has readied XPP for the significant increase in X-ray output ...

Space Exploration Apr 30, 2026

ESA's Proba 3 is unlocking secrets of the solar wind

It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool in their arsenal: on-demand, total solar eclipses. Launched in 2024, The European Space Agency's ...

Environment Apr 30, 2026

One of America's oldest weather observatories shows people the science behind our climate

Perched in a tower atop a hill, Matthew Douglas climbs a staircase and emerges from a hatch on the roof, where a heavy glass ball in a metal cradle has burned a thin streak into a strip of paper, recording the previous day's ...

Economics & Business Apr 29, 2026

AI decides what we see online. It's time digital platforms tell us exactly how they do it

If you suffer from information overload, or are unsure what to trust online, you're not alone. Australians are increasingly disengaging from traditional news, turning instead to social media, influencers and—more recently—generative ...

Archaeology Apr 29, 2026

New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in Rome by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. The newly-discovered manuscript in the National Central ...

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