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4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs
- Apr 15, 2026
For over 100 years, the National Museum has housed a large collection of inscribed tablets from the earliest civilizations of the Middle East—many ove...
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Music and traffic noise make our imagination more vivid
- Apr 15, 2026
Have you ever been stuck in a traffic jam with music blasting through the radio, and found your mind drifting off in a daydream? There might be a reas...
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Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis
- Apr 15, 2026
A new study led by Dr. Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester has found that a grammar-based approach to language analysis can match or outperfor...
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A backyard bug repellent is derailing bumblebees' ability to navigate
- Apr 15, 2026
In the summer, many people turn to mosquito repellents to reduce the insects' buzzing and bites. One solution that has become increasingly popular in...
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English still dominates science, but its share fell from 94% to 85%
- Apr 15, 2026
In 2023, about 85% of the roughly five million articles indexed in major global databases covering the natural, medical and social sciences were writt...
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How HR can help public companies succeed long after the IPO
- Apr 15, 2026
A new study from a University of Iowa researcher, published in Personnel Psychology, provides management lessons that can help newly public businesses...
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Sperm whale clicks follow similar rules to human speech
- Apr 15, 2026
Sperm whales produce powerful clicks to communicate. To our ears, they sound nothing more than a series of repetitive, mechanical taps. But we could b...
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CO₂ emissions from cultivated peat soils may be lower than assumed
- Apr 15, 2026
Organic soils cover less than 9% of Norway's land area, and about 65,000 hectares are currently used as agricultural land. Emissions from these areas...
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Researchers create Olympic gels, a long-theorized class of DNA-based soft materials
- Apr 15, 2026
An interdisciplinary research team led by Dr. Elisha Krieg at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF) has successfully synthesized and...
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A monster black hole appeared first, then its galaxy began to grow around it
- Apr 15, 2026
Using observations gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers have revealed that one supermassive black h...
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First physical evidence of Peruvian Hairless Dogs at Wari site uncovered in Peru
- Apr 15, 2026
A study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology combined zooarchaeology with multi-isotopic analysis to reveal the diverse life histor...
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'Safe' fertilizer linked to extreme water quality loss in Canadian Prairies
- Apr 15, 2026
Research published in Nature Water found that widespread application of the common farm fertilizer, urea, severely degrades water quality in the Canad...