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The detection and study of isotopes, atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons, could expand the scope of physics research and enable n…
Ever since humans have embarked on sea voyages, they needed to ensure vessels were waterproof, resistant to salty seawater, and could withstand microorganisms…
The world is undergoing a fundamental change to how money works, and New Zealand should choose its response wisely, an Otago researcher cautions. New Universit…
In everyday life, our genetic material is constantly under attack from many factors. Environmental influences such as light, along with internal processes like…
In the vast plume of the Amazon River, microscopic algae adopt a surprisingly flexible survival strategy: They combine photosynthesis with the uptake of organi…
University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies has released a new white paper, "How Organizations Can Help Sandwich Moms Achieve Work-Life Balance, " author…
Chemistry involves the fundamental interplay between the structures and properties of molecules. Notably, subtle changes in molecular structure and crystal pac…
British Columbia's wildlife is in trouble, and governments aren't working hard enough to keep wild animals and plants alive. How do we know?
Fashion has always been a bit different to other industries. Consumers do not just buy because they need something. They buy because they are bored, influenced…
Coastal landscapes are constantly being reshaped by natural forces, and as climate change causes more frequent storms and sea level rise, that change will only…
Spatially distributed prediction of streamflow and nitrogen (N) export dynamics is essential for precision management of agricultural watersheds. While tempora…
Predicting material properties remains a major challenge in materials science, as it often requires complex and computationally intensive calculations. In part…
Microfiber pollution from large-scale laundry operations is emerging as a significant and largely unseen environmental issue. New research led by the Universit…
Researchers have found that a group of chemicals known as PFAS can be transferred from mother dolphins to their nursing calves, adding to the evidence that the…
Canadians swallow millions of pills every day to treat common health issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type II diabetes, but scientists are…
An emerging type of artificial intelligence, known as "agentic" AI, seems to do everything that biomedical scientists do— and often, does it faster. This next-…
In the era of precision cosmology, research often means big science: large observatories, highly complex instruments, international collaborations and substant…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have discovered a close pair of quasars, which is a result of a distant massive gala…
Research has shed important new light on the enemies-turned-allies that allow bacteria to exchange genes, including those linked to antimicrobial resistance (A…
Although the fundamental constitutive laws for steel and concrete were established more than a century ago, weak layers in snow remain a mystery. There are cur…
As school holidays continue around Australia, many parents are looking for educational ways to keep their children entertained.
When she was a kid in the 1970s, Karen Terio wasn't allowed to watch much television, but wildlife specials were permitted. That was how she learned about the…
The IBeA group of the EHU-University of the Basque Country is proposing new measures to safeguard the purity of extraterrestrial samples. Several contaminants,…
Materials that emit and manipulate light are at the heart of technologies ranging from solar energy to advanced imaging systems. But even in well-studied mater…
Gray whales migrate from Arctic waters full of food to the lagoons of Baja Mexico— but as the climate crisis gathers pace, they have been sighted foraging in u…
The relationship between science and pop culture often looks like a one-way street: scientific discoveries inspire films, television and novels, particularly i…
In the process of converting carbon dioxide into useful chemicals such as ethylene— a key precursor for plastics— a major challenge has been the flooding of el…
Research and innovation in Texas A&M University's biomedical engineering department often centers around clinical impact on patients. Beyond the lab, however,…
It has been said that Persian Gulf countries are both blessed and cursed by their vast oil and gas reserves. Geologic forces over millions of years have meant…
They choose their clients, set their own rates and manage their businesses like any other entrepreneur. They are independent sex workers— women who work withou…
NASA's Artemis II mission sent four astronauts— three Americans and one Canadian— on the first lunar flyby in more than 50 years.
Iron and oxygen bind together throughout the body. Most famously, iron binds dioxygen, or two oxygens paired with each other, in hemoglobin that transports oxy…
North America's bee populations are in trouble, but don't blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees— those rais…
March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, accord…
The absence of a signal could itself be a signal. This is the idea behind a new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, which ai…
When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city's first step is often to limit lawn watering and launch a campaign to encourage everyone to conserve. I…
A new paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution, finds that changes in animal development induced by climate shock persist generations after the initial event.…
Wildfires are becoming more frequent and are ravaging new parts of the world due to global warming. A study led by researchers from the University of Gothenbur…
The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the two-th…
Humans have always imagined the natural world. From Ice Age cave paintings to the modern day, we depict the animals and landscapes we value— and ignore those w…
Imagine a dump truck dropping 13 tons of dirt into the waters of Brush Creek, a waterway that feeds northwest Arkansas' primary drinking water source, Beaver L…
A new Rice University study offers one of the first national measures of a viewpoint called "racial realism" and considers how it fits into the broader spectru…
Although neighborhood cats may seem like a fun, charming presence, unowned cat populations have been criticized for causing harm to a community and its environ…
As winter comes to a close, many people look forward to warmer temperatures and spring blooms, but for land managers working to preserve or restore oak-dominat…
When leaders express negative emotions such as irritability and withdrawal, behavior is often judged differently for male and female leaders, according to new…
Four astronauts blasted off aboard a massive NASA rocket Wednesday on a long-anticipated journey around the moon, the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50…
In 2024, NASA's Perseverance rover found surprising levels of Nickel in the Martian bedrock of an ancient river channel, called Neretva Vallis, which flowed in…
Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program— a collaborative effort involving 865 researchers— have been published…
Women are missing out at work not just because of pay gaps or bias, but because they simply do not have the same time as men to compete. That is the conclusion…
The brain? It has a flexible social perception. In interactions with people from different ethnic groups, it tends to respond more inclusively when a shared na…
Researchers at Murdoch University have developed a forensic intelligence tool which could help police link the victims of serial offenders by analyzing their f…
Farmers have long debated which practices do the most to keep their soil healthy. Now, after pulling data from 21 long-term field trials scattered across the U…
A new study has found that gambling harms can intensify domestic abuse and act as a form of escapism for female victims— putting women and children at risk of…
California's Bay Area may be a culinary hot spot for people, but food options for fish in the San Francisco Estuary have been limited and declining in recent d…
Hair damaged by dyes, bleaching or harsh sunlight has just got special treatment. Green chemistry researchers at Flinders University are experimenting with pla…
Debates about generative AI in higher education have been informed by studies of completed student papers, or self-reported survey data. Research shows that ar…
Today's nearly $70 billion U. S. biofuels economy is powered by two technology toolboxes. Biochemical technologies— used to produce around 17 billion gallons o…
For many people, "protein" is the key element of a food order. However, beyond the preferred choice of meats or plant-based alternatives, proteins encompass a…
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of…
The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to unde…
New research by MIT Sloan School of Management finds that global leaders who participate in facilitated engagements using an interactive climate policy simulat…
It seems like every day a new study finds tiny plastic particles called microplastics where they should not be: in our bodies and our food, water and air.
Some of the signs of aging in human cells originate in the cell nucleus, because the packaged form of DNA changes with age. This has now been demonstrated by P…
Highly successful women and racial minorities help to challenge stereotypes and serve as role models for members of their social groups, but seeing them in pro…
Biological membranes of cells and their subunits (organelles) are organized into tiny regions (nanodomains) made up of fats (lipids) and proteins. Those specia…
Visible to the naked eye in the constellation Cassiopeia, the star γ Cas has puzzled astrophysicists for half a century. It emits X-rays of an intensity and te…
University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies scholars Patricia Akojie, Ph. D. , Marlene Blake, Ph. D. , and Louise Underdahl, Ph. D. have published new re…
"Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation, " wrote Oscar Wilde.
Many people have felt the subtle pressure to be "man enough" or "woman enough" in the eyes of others. And research has shown this pressure can have personal an…
Is it any wonder ancient people thought lightning came from the gods? Even today, a close lightning strike feels like a terrifying brush with the supernatural.
Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron motion is e…
A burst of unusual March heat is hitting the United States this week and into next, busting previous monthly heat records by wide margins. While heat is most a…
"Project Hail Mary, " the Ryan Gosling-led adaptation of the best-selling sci-fi novel from Andy Weir, is being praised for putting the science in science fict…
Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6, 350 kilograms) space rock that cras…
The Earth is under assault. Space rocks are constantly hurtling toward us, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight an…
Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest. Hundreds of plastic-eating microbe…
Scientists at Caltech have figured out how to precisely engineer tiny three-dimensional (3D) metallic pieces with nanoscale dimensions. The process can work wi…
Turning waste into wealth may no longer be just a marketing slogan, as a team of researchers in China has found an eco-friendly way to do exactly that. The abu…
Coyotes may be building dens and having litters of pups near you, according to new research from the University of Georgia. But chances are you won't see them—…
It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice sheets and floating sea ice could accurately measure a disturbance in Earth's magnetic field…
Analysis and reconstruction of a warp-weighted loom from the second millennium BC site of Cabezo Redondo, Spain, provides an unprecedented glimpse into the dev…
Pesticides used in pet flea treatments occur widely in Welsh rivers and were detected in over three quarters of river water samples, finds new research by Card…
We're starting to see just how exceptional our own solar system and its history is, as more exoplanets are discovered. A fourth exoplanet discovery in the LHS…
Since the 1970s, the U. S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren't just growing— they are accelerating in places with intensive human…
More than 3 million years ago, when our ancient ancestors embodied by the iconic Lucy were roaming the African landscape, they would have feared a big, bad cro…
In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question: "What is it like to be a bat?" His point wasn't really about bats. He was offering a pro…
Going vegan is a life-changing decision. Successfully committing to eating only ethically sourced, non-exploitative products— no dairy, no honey, no eggs, no a…
For millions of commuters, the workday doesn't just begin with a train ride. It also begins with a blast of heat. In one of the largest studies ever conducted…
There is growing interest in the scientific community and private sector in biological approaches to marine carbon dioxide removal— strategies designed to enha…
At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday, March 8, 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way scientists discover and design new materials. In a specially invited review published in Angewandte Chemie…
Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far— which in turn m…
Solar water splitting is one of the most direct ways to produce green hydrogen using sunlight. However, most photocatalysts and photoelectrodes absorb only a l…
After decades of intense research, surprises in the realm of semiconductors— materials used in microchips to control electrical currents— are few and far betwe…
Woodpeckers are well known for striking tree trunks with remarkable force and precision. These birds deliver thousands of high-speed impacts per day, generatin…
The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one parent holding fast to the hard bottom…
With desert cities like Phoenix and Tucson bracing for their allotments of Colorado River water to be slashed dramatically, San Diego County's water agency cou…
Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.
Quantum computers work by applying quantum operations, such as quantum gates, to delicate quantum states. Ideally, quantum computers can solve complex equation…
Crystals have repeatedly been found at archaeological sites alongside Homo remains. Evidence shows that hominins have been collecting these stones for as long…
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