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Bee bandits: How a yeast influences nectar-robbing behavior in bumble bees
- Feb 9, 2026
From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit f...
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Supercomputer simulations test turbulence theories at record 35 trillion grid points
- Feb 9, 2026
Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology hav...
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Mitochondrial superoxide signal helps preserve the nuclear envelope and delay aging, study finds
- Feb 9, 2026
The nuclear envelope (NE) is a dynamic and selective barrier that organizes genome function and nucleocytoplasmic communication, and its structural de...
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Turtle fossil narrows timeline of Cretaceous species migration
- Feb 9, 2026
Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting...
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Bioengineers build branched, perfusable kidney collecting ducts using 3D bioprinting
- Feb 9, 2026
The human kidney filters about a cup of blood every minute, removing waste, excess fluid, and toxins from it, while also regulating blood pressure, ba...
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Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster
- Feb 9, 2026
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with...
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Discovering new connections between Great Lakes' winter storms and global climate patterns
- Feb 9, 2026
About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in th...
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DeepChopper model improves RNA sequencing research by mitigating chimera artifacts
- Feb 9, 2026
Scientists in the laboratory of Rendong Yang, Ph.D., associate professor of Urology, have developed a new large language model that can interpret tran...
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From fins to fingers: How nature 'redeployed' ancient genes to shape limbs
- Feb 9, 2026
How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Ta...
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A piece of Africa in Europe? New insights into plate tectonics of the Balkans
- Feb 9, 2026
Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million...
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A quick stretch switches this polymer's capacity to transport heat
- Feb 9, 2026
Most materials have an inherent capacity to handle heat. Plastic, for instance, is typically a poor thermal conductor, whereas materials like marble m...
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Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
- Feb 9, 2026
New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Res...