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Hidden toxin risks during nutrient-starved algal blooms uncovered
- Jan 29, 2026
Harmful algal blooms continue to threaten coastal ecosystems and seafood safety worldwide. Among the organisms involved, the benthic dinoflagellate Pr...
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Biodegradable bark–plastic composite lets engineers predict product lifetime from tensile tests
- Jan 29, 2026
Old trees are learning new tricks with the advent of composite materials. A "green composite" made from biodegradable polymers and the waste bark of t...
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Male or female? How one frog gene 'hijacked' sex determination about 20 million years ago
- Jan 29, 2026
Early in development, many animals pick a team—male or female—based on their genetics, and, with time, acquire the characteristics to match. New resea...
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How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair
- Jan 29, 2026
For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many residents, the dust that is...
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Welcome to the 'Homogenocene': How humans are making the world's wildlife dangerously samey
- Jan 29, 2026
The age of humans is increasingly an age of sameness. Across the planet, distinctive plants and animals are disappearing, replaced by species that are...
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EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a license to ignore public health
- Jan 29, 2026
When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulatio...
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Gravitational wave signal tests Einstein's theory of general relativity
- Jan 29, 2026
For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational wave signal from a binary bl...
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Weakening the soy moratorium in Brazil: A political choice that ignores the science
- Jan 29, 2026
In the first days of 2026, the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (ABIOVE), which represents the largest soybean traders in Brazil, ann...
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Pubs are far more valuable to society than the tax they pay
- Jan 29, 2026
English pubs will receive a 15% discount on their business rates from April this year. The government deal, which also applies to music venues, follow...
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King's Trough: How a shifting plate boundary and hot mantle material shaped an Atlantic mega-canyon
- Jan 29, 2026
The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor. Its formation was long t...
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Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds
- Jan 29, 2026
Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs. Their findings, published...
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2D discrete time crystals realized on a quantum computer for the first time
- Jan 29, 2026
Physical systems become inherently more complicated and difficult to produce in a lab as the number of dimensions they exist in increases—even more so...