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Chernobyl’s Radioactive Debris Is Defying Scientists’ Expectations 40 Years Later

Some of Chernobyl’s radioactive debris is more resilient than scientists expected, offering clues to when the material trapped inside could escape into the environment. Radioactive dust still contamin...

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Ancient Nubian temple faience workshop reveals links between craft production and royal power

Archaeologists have discovered a faience workshop at a major temple complex in the ancient Nubian capital of Napata, showing how the rulers of ancient Kush used specialized craft production to reinfor...

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Falcon 9 set to launch Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Florida

Following on from the successful Transporter 18 mission at the beginning of the month, SpaceX’s…The postFalcon 9 set to launch Bandwagon-5 rideshare mission from Floridaappeared first onNASASpaceFligh...

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Returning samples from a Mars moon: Inside the science of Japan's bold MMX mission

Japan's mission to Mars' moons could answer a decades old question dividing the origins of Phobos and Deimos between two conflicting theories, and make history as the first spacecraft to return to Ear...

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Nature Study Finds Microplastics Generate Harmful Radicals in Water: Could They Be Damaging Human Health?

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The World May Be Much Closer to a Major Conservation Goal Than Scientists Thought

The world may be closer to its 30% land conservation goal, but gaps in grassland and shrubland protection show why acreage alone cannot safeguard wildlife. Some areas that support wildlife appear in n...

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Early humans in America endured climate chaos—new research

Some 23,000 years ago, during the coldest part of the last ice age, people walked across the muddy margins of an ancient lake in what is now White Sands National Park, New Mexico.

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SpaceX working through Starship Flight 15 and 16 milestones

SpaceX is advancing toward its next two Starship missions as the company looks to close…The postSpaceX working through Starship Flight 15 and 16 milestonesappeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com.

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Trump 2.0: When Loyalty Becomes More Important Than Competence, the Wheels Come Off

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A 1,000-Year-Old DNA Mystery Links Hawaii and Easter Island and Reveals Hidden Genetic Dangers

The DNA that traces Hawaii’s settlement also points to overlooked disease risks, with some globally rare variants common enough among Eastern Polynesians to warrant screening. Hawaii and Easter Island...

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Earth's oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it's at risk of disappearing

Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by a much ...

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Japan to launch historic round-trip mission to Mars moon

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, in what aims to be the first round trip to the M...

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Spatial genomics tool maps long-range DNA interactions while preserving cells' locations within tissues

DNA is not randomly distributed within the nucleus but is packaged with proteins into chromatin, which is precisely folded into complex three-dimensional structures. However, scientists have not fully...

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Something Unexpected Is Happening to Antarctica’s Collapsing Ice Cliffs

Satellite observations show Antarctic ice cliffs stabilizing after unexpectedly rapid collapse, challenging assumptions about runaway ice loss and its contribution to rising seas. Antarctica’s ice she...

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Dozens of orangutans saved from Indonesia blazes as region grapples with haze

Dozens of critically endangered orangutans have been rescued in recent weeks from rampant wildfires burning across Indonesia that have cloaked the region in toxic haze, conservation groups said.

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Climate change affects the quality of one of the world's most important staple foods

Depending on the cultivar, higher concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere can significantly alter the protein composition of wheat. This affects not only baking quality but potentiall...

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New monolithic ion trap opens quantum simulations to more researchers

Some quantum systems are so complex that even the most powerful supercomputers struggle to simulate their behavior. One solution is quantum simulation: building a controllable quantum system in the la...

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A new way to detect stabilizing properties of optical devices

In optical fibers, chips and other light-guiding devices, minor defects can scatter photons and disrupt their path. A new study demonstrates a way to reveal properties which, in certain systems, help ...

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Physicists prove a long-suspected quantum speed limit for thermalization

Whether we are waiting for a car windshield to defrost in winter or a warm drink to cool down, how long it takes for an object to settle into a stable, even temperature within its environment (thermal...

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Genome detectives: Researchers sequence the genome of a harmful plant pathogen

Graduate students in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences contributed to the first complete genome sequence of a harmful plant pathogen from an ornamental Prunus host through an active-learni...

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