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Artemis astronauts more than halfway to Moon, putting Earth in rearview
- Apr 4, 2026
The Artemis 2 astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday as they sped toward a planned lunar flyby, with NASA rel...
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Tiny African fish caught climbing to the top of a 50-foot waterfall
- Apr 3, 2026
For over half a century, people in Central Africa have told tales of the fish seen climbing waterfalls, but these claims have never been officially co...
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Exposing secret night operations between hawkmoths and Japan's black-nectar flowers
- Apr 3, 2026
Researchers Soma Chiyoda, Ko Mochizuki, and Atsushi Kawakita from the University of Tokyo have discovered that nocturnal hawkmoths are the main pollin...
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Can unpaved roads and watersheds co-exist? Researchers wade into the question
- Apr 3, 2026
Imagine a dump truck dropping 13 tons of dirt into the waters of Brush Creek, a waterway that feeds northwest Arkansas' primary drinking water source,...
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A tiny detector for microwave photons could advance quantum tech
- Apr 3, 2026
Detecting a single particle of light is hard; detecting a single microwave photon is even harder. Microwave photons, the tiny packets of electromagnet...
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High-throughput platform helps engineer fast-acting covalent protein drugs
- Apr 3, 2026
A team led by principal investigators Bobo Dang and Ting Zhou at Westlake University/Westlake Laboratory have developed a high-throughput platform for...
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Assembling more than 1,000 human genomes affordably: New method could power genetic screening's future
- Apr 3, 2026
A research team led by Zhen-Xing Endowed Professor Jian Yang at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, has developed a pangenome-informed g...
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Study examines diversity of Black perspectives on race relations
- Apr 3, 2026
A new Rice University study offers one of the first national measures of a viewpoint called "racial realism" and considers how it fits into the broade...
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The depths of Neptune and Uranus may be 'superionic'
- Apr 3, 2026
The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according to new computational simul...
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Engineering the bite of ancient marine predators
- Apr 3, 2026
An international team of researchers, led by paleontologists of the University of Liège, has investigated the biting capabilities of extinct predatory...
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The Habitable Worlds Observatory will need astrometry to find life
- Apr 3, 2026
We're getting closer and closer to finding a real Earth-like exoplanet. But finding one is only half the battle. To truly know if we're looking at an...
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3D root model captures mangroves' capacity to protect coastal communities from storm waves
- Apr 3, 2026
Mangrove forests are natural wonders that protect coastal areas, particularly in tropical and subtropical regions. They are able to dissipate wave ene...