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New study reveals people judge lines by what's ahead—not how long they wait
- Feb 5, 2026
Conventional wisdom is that waiting in a queue online or in a physical line involves a certain cost for people and organizations. Rational analysis ha...
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CRISPR screen maps 250 genes essential for human muscle fiber formation
- Feb 5, 2026
Muscles make up nearly 40% of the human body and power every move we make, from a child's first steps to recovery after injury. For some, however, mus...
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Deadly storm sparks floods in Spain, raises calls to postpone Portugal vote
- Feb 5, 2026
A deadly storm that triggered floods and thousands of evacuations in the Iberian Peninsula sparked calls on Thursday for Portugal's presidential run-o...
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A 'crazy' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics
- Feb 5, 2026
Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as...
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2018 Kīlauea earthquake may have stalled fault's slow slip for decades
- Feb 5, 2026
The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that took place in 2018 on the south flank of Kīlauea on the Island of Hawaiʻi may have stalled episodes of periodic slow...
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Ancient bird routes mapped via plant diversity
- Feb 5, 2026
It's not what they intended to do or expected to find. They're not even all that interested in birds. When Andre Naranjo and his colleagues began work...
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AI-powered compressed imaging system developed for high-speed scenes
- Feb 5, 2026
A research team from the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from t...
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How intertidal sediment stratification regulates coastal nutrient fluxes
- Feb 5, 2026
A research team led by Prof. Xiao Kai from the Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically elucida...
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High-entropy garnet crystal enables enhanced 2.8 μm mid-infrared laser performance
- Feb 5, 2026
Recently, a research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully grew a high-entropy garnet-str...
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Seeds 'listen' to mom: Study finds mother plants send ABA hormone signals that set seed dormancy
- Feb 5, 2026
Whatever challenges life throws, mothers often know best as they guide offspring through the risky stages of early development. This scenario, familia...
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When Earth's magnetic field took its time flipping
- Feb 5, 2026
Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature. Every so often, the magnetic...
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Range-resident logistic model connects animal movement and population dynamics
- Feb 5, 2026
Despite decades of independent progress in population ecology and movement ecology, researchers have lacked a theoretical bridge between these two dis...