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A new study has revealed that improving the landscapes surrounding forest remnants can dramatically increase their ability to retain bird species—even...
The number of known proteins is infinitely small in comparison to the universe of possible proteins, which could in theory be realized. Yet these know...
How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's Luke Bouma is exploring a...
Earth and the moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant hypothesis says that the earl...
When you go out to run errands on the weekend, you're on a "tour" as defined by human mobility researchers. Same if you book a guided tour of a famous...
When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications, from scanners at the grocery store...
To date, the main role of AI in scientific research has been to assist with narrow tasks such as discovering chemical structures, analyzing data or pr...
Many aromatic compounds, such as phenols, cresols and styrenes, are toxic to organisms and harmful to the environment. They can accumulate as a result...
A new Northwestern study surveying federal judges across the U.S. on their use and outlook on artificial intelligence in and outside of the courtroom...
In quantum technologies, everything depends on the ability to detect the properties carried by a single photon. But in the real world, that photon of...
A new study has found that gambling harms can intensify domestic abuse and act as a form of escapism for female victims—putting women and children at...
Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider...
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