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Ultrasound waves rupture COVID-19 and flu viruses without damaging cells
- May 7, 2026
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have discovered that high-frequency ultrasound waves similar to those used in medical exams...
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A targeted 'off switch' in a plant's egg cell speeds up the breeding process
- May 7, 2026
An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has succeeded in generating haploids in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana very effi...
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Ancient soil temperatures may have steered millet farming across Neolithic East Asia
- May 7, 2026
Millet has been an important crop in East Asia for much of the Holocene, a period beginning about 11,700 years ago. To better understand how environme...
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Ultrahigh-energy cosmic messengers may carry ultraheavy secrets
- May 7, 2026
There may be an ultraheavy explanation for the mystery surrounding the origins of the highest-energy particles ever observed. Ultrahigh-energy cosmic...
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Next-gen Mars helicopter rotor blades exceed Mach 1
- May 7, 2026
The rotor blades that will carry NASA's next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during March tests at NASA's Jet Pr...
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Climate-driven extreme fire danger cannot be prevented by carbon neutrality alone, study warns
- May 7, 2026
A new study warns that unless atmospheric carbon is reduced immediately, future summers will become even hotter and future wildfires even more destruc...
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Gaming monkeys' curiosity: Japanese macaques actively explore moderately uncertain stimuli
- May 7, 2026
The intrinsic information-seeking impulse we call curiosity is independent of extrinsic rewards, such as food or mating opportunities. Curiosity is pu...
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Q&A: The political calculus—and actual math—of gerrymandering
- May 7, 2026
On April 29, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's voting map on the basis that the state had illegally used race as a consideration when it...
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More than one in three Norwegian dogs shows signs of tick-borne disease
- May 7, 2026
Ph.D. student Hanne Kloster at the University of Agder (UiA) is behind the first Norwegian study to look at three tick-borne diseases in dogs simultan...
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Quantum metallurgy: Electron crystals deform and melt
- May 7, 2026
In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns that can deform and melt, op...
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Theoretical framework can predict how complex networks behave
- May 7, 2026
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has spearheaded an international research collaboration to develop a pioneering theoretical framework that deciphers...
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How missing information can misinform
- May 7, 2026
Readers don't need false information to get the wrong idea. In the online attention economy, UC San Diego research finds that making science more clic...