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Thousands of UK beekeepers submit honey to benefit environmental science
- May 20, 2026
Beekeepers and their honeybees can be invaluable participants in environmental surveys, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS...
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How climate change is destroying Arctic cultural heritage sites
- May 20, 2026
Climate change is rapidly destroying cultural heritage sites across the Arctic, as exemplified in a 17th century "whalers' graveyard" which provides i...
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Rising seawater heat may collapse coral oxygen flow before bleaching appears
- May 20, 2026
Tropical coral reefs support the highest levels of biodiversity in the ocean. This vital ecosystem depends on reef-building corals, which form colonie...
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Disability compounds employment woes for people with criminal records, and vice versa
- May 20, 2026
Justice-impacted individuals with disabilities (JIID) are nearly 11 percentage points less likely to be employed than people with disabilities who hav...
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Insects in the city: Flowers alone may not be enough to sustain them
- May 20, 2026
What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they pollinate plants in urban area...
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Astronomers uncover why some solar eruptions die
- May 20, 2026
A team of scientists has recorded one of the most detailed views ever of a failed solar eruption, a powerful blast from the sun that never broke free....
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Overturning a 200-year belief: New surface design enables two distinct wetting states on a single substrate
- May 20, 2026
NIMS discovered a phenomenon in which droplets on a single solid surface exhibit both a "sticky" and "repellent" state simultaneously. Namely, the wet...
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Why millions of Europeans vote one way nationally, and the opposite in Brussels
- May 20, 2026
Millions of voters deliberately back one party in national elections and another in European elections to better match their views, according to new r...
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New insights into how the human hand evolved from our ape-like ancestors
- May 20, 2026
The human hand is an evolutionary marvel. While other primates rely on their hands for locomotion and basic grasping, ours can shape tools, manipulate...
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NASA's Fermi glimpses power source of supercharged supernovae
- May 20, 2026
LSU researchers helped uncover what may be the first clear detection of gamma rays from a superluminous supernova, using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-...
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Company location, rather than growth, may lead to higher investment returns
- May 20, 2026
Investors looking for higher returns may want to focus on a company's location instead of its growth potential, according to a new study led by resear...
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New field evidence from Canada shows old wells can leave a hidden leakage footprint
- May 20, 2026
Old oil and gas wells may continue to affect the environment long after they have stopped producing, with new field evidence showing that their leakag...