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Root microbes could help oak trees adapt to drought
- Feb 11, 2026
Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing in Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks growing in a natural woodland...
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7,000 years of change: How humans reshaped Caribbean coral reef food chains
- Feb 11, 2026
Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves through the food chains of thes...
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Can life begin on a moon without a sun?
- Feb 11, 2026
Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of t...
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Celebrating the women shaping the future of science and scholarly publishing
- Feb 11, 2026
To mark the United Nations' International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing celebrate women who are advan...
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New toolkit helps women report abuse in sport
- Feb 11, 2026
Australian women face significant risk when disclosing gender-based violence in sport and often receive inadequate or harmful responses, according to...
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Is your phone your comfort blanket?
- Feb 11, 2026
Constantly checking your phone during conversations with a partner—a behavior known as phubbing—may be less about bad manners and more about deeper ps...
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We need to plan for what we fear, not just what we expect
- Feb 11, 2026
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA)—the statutory agency responsible for planning the Basin's water resources—has just shared the starkest news...
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Captured on camera for the first time: How tiny marsupials crawl to their mother's pouch
- Feb 11, 2026
For the first time, scientists have recorded how baby dunnarts, tiny carnivorous marsupials from Australia, reach their mother's pouch not long after...
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What changes fast in nature? A fish study tracks selection strengthening since 2016
- Feb 11, 2026
A study reveals that sticklebacks with complete bony plates have survival rates several percentage points higher than those with reduced plates, indic...
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Electronic friction can be tuned and switched off
- Feb 11, 2026
Researchers in China have isolated the effects of electronic friction, showing for the first time how the subtle drag force it imparts at sliding inte...
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Study finds rediscovered music yields wildly different performances without shared traditions
- Feb 11, 2026
Rediscovering long forgotten music does not mean recovering how it was meant to be performed, and that is a major challenge for the arts, finds a new...
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New research shows God-believing 'nones' align closely with religious Americans
- Feb 11, 2026
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans now identify as religious "nones," and new research from University of Nebraska–Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel suggests t...