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Light-activated material offers new approach to carbon dioxide conversion
- Mar 17, 2026
Scientists have developed a new material that can use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) into carbon monoxide (CO)—a key building bloc...
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Using cow dung for sustainable carbon dioxide capture
- Mar 17, 2026
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges in the present times. Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in the atmosphere ar...
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Decline in Japanese chum salmon linked to climate change
- Mar 17, 2026
Today, most of the salmon consumed in Japan is imported from countries like Chile and Norway, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and F...
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Scientists create a new state of matter at room temperature using light and nanostructures
- Mar 17, 2026
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by engineering how light an...
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The cactus on your desk is an evolution speed machine
- Mar 17, 2026
The cactus on your windowsill may grow slowly, but new research shows that cacti are surprisingly fast at creating new species. Biologists have long t...
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AI model predicts chemical effects on gene expression, speeding drug discovery
- Mar 17, 2026
Inside a diseased cell, the genes are in chaos. Some are receiving signals to overproduce a protein. Others are reducing activity to abnormal levels....
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Why models and longitudinal data on adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions must come together
- Mar 17, 2026
An interdisciplinary team of authors from Canada, Austria, the U.S. and Germany has outlined how immuno-epidemiology and individual decision-making on...
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Nest-building birds help disperse cotton further than wind, study suggests
- Mar 17, 2026
Birds play a larger role in the dispersal of wild cotton than previously assumed. This is shown by a study in the journal Oikos, carried out in southe...
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Bell-bottoms today, miniskirts tomorrow: Math reveals fashion's 20-year cycle
- Mar 17, 2026
Fashion insiders and beauty magazines have long cited the "20-year-rule"—the idea that clothing trends often resurface every two decades. According to...
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Ultrathin BiFeO₃ breaks the 30 nm limit, delivering fourfold stronger piezoelectricity
- Mar 17, 2026
Piezoelectric materials, which convert mechanical stress into electricity and vice versa, are essential components in sensors, actuators, and energy-h...
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Some Canadians are willing to eat insect-based food, but conditions apply
- Mar 17, 2026
Going to the grocery store these days can be a painful experience, with record-high price hikes biting into Canadian food budgets. However, as many so...
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Past intensive whaling threatens the future of bowhead whales
- Mar 17, 2026
A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the relative impacts of humans...