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More shearwaters are washing up dead on Australian beaches. It's not due to 'natural' causes

You might know the short-tailed shearwater and sable shearwater by the common name "muttonbirds." These two species of seabird breed on islands off southeastern Australia. Both undertake a breathtakin...

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Venice is sinking. We analyzed every plan to save it, and none would preserve the city as we know it

Venice has coexisted with the sea throughout its 1,500-year history, perhaps better than any other city on Earth. Yet over the past century it has flooded increasingly often, as the sea rises and the ...

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When the rain comes, some NYC subway riders stay home. Scientists are now mapping exactly who, and where

On a sweltering August afternoon or in the teeth of a winter storm, New York City subway riders make a quiet calculation: Is the trip worth it? A new study published in npj Sustainable Mobility and Tr...

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Catalysis App: Structured research data for developing sustainable catalysts

Catalysis—the reduction of activation energy in a chemical reaction by a catalyst—plays a key role in the chemical industry, as well as in the development of sustainable technologies essential for ach...

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Before dinosaurs vanished, a hamster-sized mammal was already shaping what survived next on the Pacific Coast

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet. Despite the devastation, some animals survived, including rodent-like mammals...

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Contribution to Artemis II Moon mission sees successful test of a space camera under cosmic ray conditions

The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator facility FAIR have made an important contribution to the success of the Artemis II moon mission. A camera specially ...

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More activity means less response in active materials

For some time, researchers have assumed that solid materials could gain more useful properties by making their microscopic components more active. Now, a team led by Jack Binysh at the University of A...

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Progress MS-34 to launch from Baikonur for ISS cargo delivery

Two weeks after the CRS NG-24 mission launched cargo to the International Space Station (ISS),…The postProgress MS-34 to launch from Baikonur for ISS cargo deliveryappeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com...

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Legacy preference bans may not increase college diversity, researchers say

At some highly selective colleges and universities, cohorts of mostly white, wealthy applicants have three to eight times greater odds of admission than other similarly qualified applicants. These ben...

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Scientists just discovered Africa is closer to breaking apart than we thought

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent is gradually breaking apart. This “necking” process marks an advanced stag...

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This life‑threatening bacterium's hidden motor just gave medicine an unexpected opening to fight back

Scientists have mapped in unprecedented detail the structure of Vibrio bacteria, which can cause life-threatening infections linked to antibiotic resistance. The King's College London team behind the ...

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Harvard scientists link gut bacteria to depression through hidden inflammation trigger

A gut bacterium may be quietly fueling depression through an unexpected chemical twist. Researchers found that when Morganella morganii interacts with a common pollutant, it produces a molecule that t...

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Don't just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those pl...

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New “optical tornado” technology could transform quantum communication

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a surprisingly simple setup based on liquid crystals. Instead of relying on comp...

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Studying the emergence of leaders in moving crowds of pedestrians

When humans are moving as a crowd, their movements tend to be highly coordinated, similarly to the collective motions of bird flocks or other groups of animals. These group behaviors can limit collisi...

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Best space prison movies

Lock up our hearts and throw away the key, because we have found love in space. Space prison movies, that is.

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This exotic particle could finally explain why matter has mass

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped inside a nucleus. This exotic state may reveal how mass is generated, suggest...

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Century of data shows global decline in fish growth

A new analysis has revealed a global decline in fish growth over the last century, with scientists warning that overfishing and environmental change are eroding the biological foundations of many fish...

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Gravitational waves may have created dark matter in the early universe

In the chaotic first moments after the Big Bang, ripples in spacetime may have done more than just echo through the cosmos—they could have helped create dark matter itself. New research suggests that ...

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Magnet with near-zero external field could reshape future electronics

An international research team led by DTU has developed a new magnetic material that features a stable internal magnetic structure, almost no external magnetic field, and retains these properties abov...

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