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Global N2Onet aims to cut farm nitrous oxide emissions with shared data
- Apr 18, 2026
Nitrogen (N) fertilizer supports global agriculture, but its use and overuse drive emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent and long-lived trace gas...
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Rivers are driving a hidden permafrost meltdown, with thaw progressing 15% faster than expected
- Apr 18, 2026
Thawing permafrost buried underneath rivers may be accelerating permafrost degradation faster than previously estimated in these inundated regions, ac...
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Taiwan landslide's hidden motion comes into focus as fiber optics track deep slip
- Apr 18, 2026
Placed within a borehole drilled deep through the layers of a landslide, a fiber optic cable captured tiny, periodic stick-slip events that offer a un...
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Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours
- Apr 18, 2026
Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because...
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How nanomedicine gets inside your cells and treats you from the inside out
- Apr 18, 2026
Canadians swallow millions of pills every day to treat common health issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and Type II diabetes, but scien...
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Study finds park design affects cooling differently by day and night
- Apr 18, 2026
Urban parks are often seen as natural refuges from summer heat, but new Concordia research shows that, depending on the time of day, the way trees are...
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Examining the impact of sanctioned elites on authoritarian realignment
- Apr 17, 2026
In recent years, many observers have noted parallels between the current international environment and the 1930s, including rising geopolitical tensio...
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Warmer streams may be draining river food webs by sending more carbon into the air
- Apr 17, 2026
Rising stream temperatures may be weakening the foundation of river food webs by altering how carbon moves through these watery ecosystems. In a new s...
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Doomscrolling or connecting? Study reveals social media's complex effect on loneliness
- Apr 17, 2026
Whether social media connects us or leaves us feeling isolated depends on how we use it, according to new research from The University of Manchester....
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Machine learning detects more than 60,000 earthquakes during 2025 Santorini sequence
- Apr 17, 2026
The seismic crisis that gripped the Greek island of Santorini and its neighbors in 2025 contained more than 60,000 earthquakes, according to a unique...
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Nanobody repairs misfolded CFTR inside cells, boosting function in cystic fibrosis
- Apr 17, 2026
A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers have succeeded in developing...
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Antioxidant glutathione discovered to play a key role in proper protein folding
- Apr 17, 2026
In the past several years, Rockefeller University's Kivanç Birsoy and his team in the Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics have revealed re...