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Fossil amber reveals the secret lives of Cretaceous ants
- Feb 27, 2026
Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how ma...
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Study of 40,000 cases links Somalia migration mainly to water scarcity
- Feb 27, 2026
A study published in Nature Food by researchers from the Politecnico di Milano and the University of California at Berkeley provides forward-thinking...
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Using high-energy sparks to degrade pollutants without generating waste
- Feb 27, 2026
A study published in the Chemical Engineering Journal proposes a new approach to environmental remediation of pharmaceutical pollutants in water flows...
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Green turtle nests may bury 'plastic rocks' and endanger the species
- Feb 27, 2026
Even the most remote regions of the globe are not free from plastic pollution. In a study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, researchers from São...
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Carbon-based catalyst can use sunlight to degrade PFAS
- Feb 27, 2026
An international team of scientists led by the University of Bath has developed a new catalyst—a substance that speeds up chemical reactions—that uses...
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New technique spots hidden defects to boost reliability of ultrathin electronics
- Feb 26, 2026
Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere atoms, even the tiniest flaw m...
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Mitochondria can reshape lipid storage in cells by repurposing a protein-insertion complex
- Feb 26, 2026
A recent study by the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn and the University of Freiburg shows that the mitochondria appear to be able to...
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Undergrads expand the chemical toolbox for cancer drugs
- Feb 26, 2026
Thanks to modern therapies, a cancer diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence. But many patients still suffer from unwanted side effects and...
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Neanderthal males, human females? How ancient attraction shaped the human genome
- Feb 26, 2026
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members...
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Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a nearby crystal
- Feb 26, 2026
The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum...
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Exceptionally preserved 551-million-year-old site suggests Avalon biota lasted longer
- Feb 26, 2026
Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-yea...
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Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds
- Feb 26, 2026
Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestoc...