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Human cells can exchange genomic DNA that alters cell behavior
- May 19, 2026
Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that large pieces of DNA can transfer directly bet...
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Who moves away when climate change hits? The hidden household politics of migration
- May 19, 2026
Many people are migrating within countries across South Asia to cope with extreme weather. In Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal, people often move f...
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New shell helps gold nanoparticles keep shape under laser heat longer
- May 19, 2026
Gold nanoparticles, which are about one-thousandth the width of a human hair, can convert light they receive from a laser into heat. This capacity, kn...
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New chip offers way to make use of quantum system 'imperfections'
- May 19, 2026
Quantum technologies promise powerful new kinds of computers, giving scientists new tools to mimic and explore nature at its tiniest scales. At those...
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Does emotional intelligence stop us from being rude? Here's what the science says
- May 19, 2026
We often assume that how we respond to a rude comment says something stable about us: our personality, our culture, even the language we are speaking....
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Imperfect polymer sequences still control protein function, revealing new design rules
- May 19, 2026
What happens when a scientific problem seems too complex to solve precisely, yet understanding it could reshape how researchers design new materials a...
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This German dialect leaves AI baffled, exposing a digital language blind spot
- May 19, 2026
How well do language models understand Meenzerisch, the dialect spoken in the German city of Mainz? A research team led by Johannes Gutenberg Universi...
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How a 4,000-year-old city defied history's 'rules' by becoming more equal as it became more successful
- May 19, 2026
For decades, historians have generally agreed that the progress of small villages as they evolved into cities came at the price of widening inequality...
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Molecular net boosts the power of natural biopesticides
- May 19, 2026
Scientists at VIB and Vrije Universiteit Brussel have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that helps a widely used biological pesticide become mo...
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Economists solve a mystery involving international trade and competition from China
- May 19, 2026
Economists have identified—and resolved—a seeming paradox regarding how competition from China affects the price and volume of products that are expor...
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AtLAST, a telescope that could reveal the missing half of the universe
- May 19, 2026
A new European-led telescope could map the dusty, hidden half of the universe, all without using fossil fuels. If you have ever seen the Milky Way in...
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How a shifting Nile landscape shaped the rise of the ancient empire of Kush in Sudan
- May 19, 2026
When I first became co-director of an archaeological project at Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan in 2018, I was amazed by the site's pyramids, temples a...