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Flexible force fields can protect our return to the moon
- Feb 20, 2026
Lunar dust remains one of the biggest challenges for a long-term human presence on the moon. Its jagged, clingy nature makes it naturally stick to eve...
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How massive lava fields formed in the Pacific Northwest
- Feb 20, 2026
Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral role in marine geology a...
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A new way to judge how the economy performs in booms and busts
- Feb 20, 2026
When the economy grows or shrinks, we often focus on how long the phase lasts or how deep it goes. A new paper asks a sharper question: How does actua...
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Robot clean-up crews tackle litter on Europe's seabed
- Feb 20, 2026
EU researchers are developing AI-guided robot fleets to take over the dangerous, dirty work of finding and removing marine litter from the sea floor....
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Can a chatbot be a co-author? AI helps crack a long-stalled gluon amplitude proof
- Feb 20, 2026
Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answer...
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How early farming unintentionally bred highly competitive 'warrior' wheat
- Feb 20, 2026
An evolutionary "arms race" for light and space led to the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could offer fresh insights int...
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Americium, curium and californium—crystallizing the rarest elements
- Feb 20, 2026
Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how...
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Quantum trembling: Why there are no truly flat molecules
- Feb 20, 2026
Traditional chemistry textbooks present a tidy picture: Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. A molecule such as formic...
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Why hikers need a backup for the maps on their phones
- Feb 20, 2026
Four of five Norwegians use digital maps when they are in the outdoors. In just a few years, our mobile phones have gone from being a practical naviga...
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Pregnancy complications may have helped wipe out Neanderthals
- Feb 20, 2026
Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and th...
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New book explores links between disasters and development
- Feb 20, 2026
Disasters arise from the convergence of natural and social forces. Earthquakes, cyclones, floods, droughts, and other catastrophic events disproportio...
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Atom-thin electronics withstand space radiation, potentially surviving for centuries in orbit
- Feb 20, 2026
Atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide are ideally suited for radiation-resistant spacecraft electronics, researchers in China have confirmed. In a...