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The Big Bang of plant life: Discovery sheds light on how cells form walls
- May 4, 2026
Cell walls are a crucial structure of plant life, protecting cells from damage, giving plants shape, and containing energy-rich nutrients. And yet the...
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A cut, a color and the burden of care work
- May 4, 2026
Hair and beauty salons are spaces where we go to look and feel good. We have a bad day, a bad week, a bad breakup—we go to the salon. But ask any hair...
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Rising seas may unlock coastal carbon stores, with losses up to 90%
- May 4, 2026
Rising sea levels could do more than flood coastlines. Research from Missouri University of Science and Technology shows they may also trigger the rel...
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Glowing nanoparticles exposed hidden cancer-protein behavior that could reshape drug screening
- May 4, 2026
Using a powerful single-molecule imaging method they developed, a Broad Institute research team has unveiled a dynamic view of how some cancer-related...
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Necro-branding: Why are deceased celebrities like Michael Jackson still popular when dead?
- May 4, 2026
As "Michael," a major biographical film on Michael Jackson, hits cinemas more than a decade and a half after the singer's death, a new study shows tha...
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Clearing contamination from car interiors
- May 4, 2026
Under controlled conditions, Flinders University researchers are investigating third-hand contamination risk from methamphetamine use. Environmental h...
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Chromatin tracking reveals two motion modes that help control gene expression
- May 4, 2026
Gene expression is controlled, in part, by the interactions between genes and regulatory elements located along the genome. Those interactions depend...
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Close-in planets act as 'bouncers' to create rogue worlds
- May 4, 2026
Rogue planets sound like rare travelers among the stars, freed from the gravitational constraints of a host system, left to forever wander the interst...
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Live camel transportation improved by using food as an incentive in place of physical punishment
- May 4, 2026
Around the world, millions of camels are farmed for milk and meat while others are used in leisure activities like racing and riding. Yet the treatmen...
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Arctic winter sea-ice extent fails to expand and sets a new record low in 2026
- May 4, 2026
In 2026, the Arctic winter sea-ice extent (annual maximum extent) reached the lowest value since satellite observations began in 1979, following the p...
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Speed 'training' prepares bacteria for complex tasks, like munching plastics
- May 4, 2026
Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer microbes to break the plastic d...
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Babies may share adults' sense of beauty, and it appears to sharpen with age
- May 4, 2026
Humans tend to be captured by things around them that they perceive as pleasurable and aesthetically pleasing. This "sense of beauty" has been widely...