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Two new gecko species discovered in Vietnam
- Mar 31, 2026
The half leaf-fingered geckos (Hemiphyllodactylus) are a diverse group with more than 70 recognized species and a distribution range from southern Ind...
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Cow manure digesters really do cut methane—unless they leak
- Mar 31, 2026
A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But on the rare occasions th...
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Survival of the wittiest: Expert says linguistic cleverness aids human evolution
- Mar 31, 2026
Is wittiness a kind of fitness? Ljiljana Progovac explores the idea that quick-wittedness—using and combining words in a clever and funny way—has been...
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In civil war, trauma from intragroup can cause more pain than intergroup violence
- Mar 31, 2026
Violence perpetrated by members of one's own ethnic group produces up to five times more trauma than violence from opposing groups. Joan Barceló and K...
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Terraforming Mars: Modeling engineered aerosols to warm the planet
- Mar 31, 2026
Whenever humans arrive on Mars, they're going to find it a difficult place to exist. Mars is cold, with an average surface temperature of -55°C; tempe...
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A new way to eavesdrop on ocean temperature in the Arctic
- Mar 31, 2026
New research led by scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography finds that the travel time of underwater sounds moving across the...
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New index reveals global water resources' growing dependence on extreme rainfall
- Mar 31, 2026
As global temperatures climb, rainfall patterns are shifting in ways that could put water resources and agriculture under increasing strain, a new stu...
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Unlocking designer roots for future cereal crops
- Mar 31, 2026
A plant signaling gene has been identified as a promising target for breeding cereal crops to produce a steeper, narrower root system architecture, bu...
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AI creates quasi-atoms: A new approach to materials study
- Mar 31, 2026
Understanding how a crack grows in metal requires simultaneously calculating the behavior of hundreds of billions of atoms: At the crack tip, where at...
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Antibacterial soaps and wipes can fuel antimicrobial resistance, scientists warn
- Mar 31, 2026
An international team of scientists is warning that everyday antibacterial soaps, wipes, sprays, and other "germ-killing" products are quietly contrib...
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Ending birthright citizenship would impact Asians and Latinos most, study finds
- Mar 31, 2026
Established in 1868 with the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, birthright citizenship grants citizenship to all persons bor...
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Astronomers determine the fate of a double white dwarf binary
- Mar 31, 2026
Utilizing the stellar evolution code named Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA), Chinese astronomers have investigated the evolution...