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Watching junk food videos may help dieters resist snacks, experiments show
- Apr 15, 2026
New research published in Computers in Human Behavior has revealed people trying to resist their food cravings use social media content featuring indu...
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Ancient seabird guano reveals how climate change may shape future populations
- Apr 15, 2026
By analyzing peat cores, researchers have shown how populations of nesting seabirds have fluctuated on a sub-Antarctic island over 8,000 years. They f...
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Why this single-chip LED advance could shrink AR glasses and boost quantum links
- Apr 15, 2026
Researchers at The University of Osaka, in collaboration with ULVAC, Inc. and Ritsumeikan University, have developed a new LED structure that generate...
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Hawai'i's songbirds are raiding neighbors' nests, and the losses could deepen a growing survival crisis
- Apr 15, 2026
High in the forests of Hawai'i, songbirds are stealing twigs and moss from one another's nests. UC Riverside researchers found this quiet canopy crime...
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Scientists solve 100-year-old mystery behind rubber that powers modern life
- Apr 15, 2026
Every time you drive, board a plane or water your lawn, you're relying on a material that has quietly powered modern life for nearly a century—reinfor...
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Exploring the moon's shadowy craters with nuclear-powered rovers
- Apr 15, 2026
NASA and other space agencies are intent on sending astronauts back to the moon, and this time, to stay! A vital part of these plans for reducing cost...
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Alien life may hide in plain sight: Statistical patterns across exoplanets move beyond traditional biosignatures
- Apr 15, 2026
A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific biological markers. Instead, th...
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Self-propulsion or slow diffusion: How bacteria, cells, and colloids respond to stimuli
- Apr 15, 2026
What physical processes govern the movement of microscopic structures capable of interacting with their environment? The answer lies in two mechanisms...
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Museum drawer fossil reveals 200-million-year-old crocodile relative with a powerful bite
- Apr 15, 2026
The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek personification of the morning star—the...
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The Zhamanshin impact event was likely much more destructive than thought
- Apr 15, 2026
Earth and the course of life on Earth have been shaped by impacts. Scientists have uncovered links between massive impacts and changes in climate that...
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Internet use stays high after 50, but skills and education shape the gap
- Apr 15, 2026
Differences in how often older people use the internet are less driven by a person's age and more by cognitive ability and socioeconomic factors such...
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Ancient Maya droughts may have been fueled by Earth's own climate swings
- Apr 15, 2026
Dramatic droughts linked to the decline of the Classic Maya civilization approximately 800 to 1000 CE may not have required any external trigger, acco...