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Monkey see, monkey do: Study sheds light on cooperative decision-making
- May 27, 2026
The old "monkey see, monkey do" adage may rest on some neuroscientific evidence, finds a new Yale study. To examine how the primate brain facilitates...
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Scientists forecast milder Chesapeake Bay dead zone in 2026
- May 27, 2026
Scientists at William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS, FlowWest and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently announced that...
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DNA 'nicks' make for safer, more precise genetic analysis
- May 27, 2026
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently dev...
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Researchers push back fundamental limit on energy transfer between particles without 'spilling' radiation
- May 27, 2026
Researchers at TU/e have demonstrated that energy transfer without loss via light or heat can occur over much greater distances than previously though...
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Metamaterials enable control of heat transfer at nanoscale, potentially transforming energy and electronics
- May 27, 2026
Heat behaves in predictable ways: a hot cup of coffee cools, a laptop warms your hands, the sun heats Earth. But at scales thousands of times smaller...
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Where are all the intermediate mass black holes? Microlensing fast radio bursts might reveal them
- May 27, 2026
Astrophysicists think that black hole masses are hierarchical. The largest are supermassive black holes (SMBH) like the one at the center of the Milky...
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Are the chemicals around you safe? Researchers are using AI to find out
- May 27, 2026
People are exposed to thousands of chemicals every day—through the products they use, the food they eat and the environments they live in—but only a f...
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Analysis of more than 10,000 cities reveals hidden details governments can use to better support their people
- May 27, 2026
The world's urban population increased by 785 million people between 2000 and 2020, but that tells only part of the story. Now, a research team includ...
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Corn Belt groundwater and irrigation boost thunderstorm complexes by 24–35%, simulations show
- May 27, 2026
An international team of scientists has demonstrated how powerful thunderstorm complexes over the U.S. Corn Belt are fueled by moisture rising from th...
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AI ads are almost indistinguishable from human-made work—they just don't perform as well
- May 27, 2026
Ads generated by artificial intelligence are nearly indistinguishable from human-made ones, but new research shows they consistently underperform comp...
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Revised mushroom toxin pathway could improve poisoning detection
- May 27, 2026
The St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa) is a popular edible mushroom, usually picked in May. Unfortunately, however, it also carries a risk as it...
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DNA assembly insights could streamline design and manufacturing of nanostructures for medicine, materials and more
- May 27, 2026
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have uncovered key principles that govern how DNA "origami" structures fold, findings that could make...