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Plants & Animals Apr 4, 2025

How do diverse plants get sick in the wild? Researchers head outdoors to answer a blue-sky question

The life of a plant scientist involves long hours in the lab, thinking up, designing, and monitoring experiments that might tell us something new about how life works. But sometimes it helps to log off the computer, hang ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 4, 2025

Here's how we could quickly raise temperatures on Mars

Multiple plans exist to explore Mars in the coming decades using robotic and crewed missions. The ultimate goal of these missions is to determine whether human beings could actually live there someday. This requires access ...

Earth Sciences Apr 4, 2025

Scientists discover deep-sea microplastic hotspots driven by fast-moving underwater avalanches

Fast-moving underwater avalanches, known as turbidity currents, are responsible for transporting vast quantities of microplastics into the deep sea, according to new research published today.

Polymers Apr 4, 2025

Polymers with flawed fillers boost heat transfer in plastics, study reveals

In the quest to design the next generation of materials for modern devices—ones that are lightweight, flexible and excellent at dissipating heat—a team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst made ...

General Physics Apr 4, 2025

An exception to the laws of thermodynamics: Shape-recovering liquid defies textbooks

A team of researchers led by a physics graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst made the surprising discovery of what they call a "shape-recovering liquid," which defies some long-held expectations derived ...

Planetary Sciences Apr 4, 2025

Massive Jupiter storm churns ammonia deep into planet's atmosphere

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology, has discovered that a massive amount of ammonia is churned up and down in Jupiter's atmosphere ...

Space Exploration Apr 4, 2025

Honda to test renewable tech in space soon

Honda will partner with US companies to test in orbit a renewable energy technology it hopes to one day deploy on the moon's surface, the Japanese carmaker announced Friday.

Education Apr 4, 2025

Access to reliable internet and digital devices tied to college graduation rates during COVID-19

Digital inequality—challenges in accessing or maintaining an internet connection and functional digital devices—affected on-time graduation for U.S. college students over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 4, 2025

Combining polarized light methods reveals hidden molecular orientations with precision

Image quality often makes the difference between an amazing multimedia experience, like feeling immersed in a high-definition movie, and a visual letdown. When it comes to biomolecular imaging, the details matter even more. ...

Plants & Animals Apr 4, 2025

New guide seeks to advance DNA library of marine species

A team of scientists has created a new guide to advance standards for collecting and cataloging DNA from marine species, enhancing a revolutionary method for monitoring ocean biodiversity.

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