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School cell phone bans deliver benefits—but not right away
- May 6, 2026
New research reveals that while bans aren't an instant panacea for problems in U.S. classrooms, schools can achieve positive outcomes with persistence...
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Diaspora distress: When geopolitical conflict follows immigrant workers into the office
- May 6, 2026
Rostam does not sleep through the night anymore. At 2 a.m., when his phone buzzes, he's awake before the sound finishes. It might be his parents calli...
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Webb and Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster
- May 6, 2026
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of you...
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What can singing mice say about human speech?
- May 6, 2026
Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving t...
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Deforestation may push Amazon degradation threshold below 2°C warming
- May 6, 2026
Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation...
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Dark proteome yields 1,785 new microproteins that could reshape disease research
- May 6, 2026
Scientists have uncovered more than 1,700 new proteins that could have implications for human diseases, including cancer. Mostly very small, these pro...
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A new kind of CRISPR could treat viral infection and cancer by shredding sick cells' DNA
- May 6, 2026
A new kind of CRISPR that destroys cells rather than gene editing them has shown potential for killing sick cells while leaving healthy cells untouche...
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How to build cities for wildlife, not just people
- May 6, 2026
In central Seoul, South Korea, a motorway once covered a buried urban stream. Today, that same stretch has been uncovered—a process known as daylighti...
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Hunters' appreciation of a targeted deer-management program transcends harvest
- May 6, 2026
Too many white-tailed deer are damaging forests in the U.S. by eating young plants before they can grow, limiting forest regeneration and damaging bio...
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The lost koala: New fossil species was hiding in plain sight for 100 years
- May 6, 2026
In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret River by Lindsay Hatcher, an...
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What working‑class boys need to succeed at school: Respect and open conversations
- May 6, 2026
Across the UK, working-class boys are navigating an unprecedented convergence of pressures. There are entrenched gaps between working-class boys and t...
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Landsat 9 captures Russia's restless Shiveluch volcano mid-eruption
- May 6, 2026
Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia. Shivelyuch (also called Shiveluch), the most northerly active volcano on the Kamchatka Peni...