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The South Asian summer monsoon sustains billions of people today. For a long time, the prevailing scientific view has held that the formation and inte...
Researchers have developed a new methodology that uses artificial intelligence tools to identify and count target viruses more efficiently than previo...
Today's octopuses are intelligent, remarkably flexible animals that lurk in reefs, hide in crevices, or drift through the deep sea. But new research s...
How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the simplest building blocks of prot...
Short-chain perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds (PFAS) such as perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) are increasingly entering the environment...
A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn...
The most demanding calculations in quantum chemistry can now be solved with graphics processing unit (GPU) supercomputers. A recently published study...
Semiconductor spin qubits are a promising candidate for the building blocks of next-generation quantum computers due to their high potential for integ...
Central Mongolia's Hangay Mountains rise more than four kilometers above sea level, forming a dramatic dome that shapes the region's climate. But for...
Serious fungal infections are on the rise, and many hospital-acquired cases are becoming harder to treat as fungi become resistant to available medica...
Reed, an invasive alien plant that is abundant on the banks of many rivers, ponds and canals, can encourage the growth of common mosquito populations...
Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and ther...
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