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CRISPR safeguard changes how engineered microbes can be controlled
- May 9, 2026
Engineered microorganisms are widely used in industrial biotechnology and biopharmaceutical applications, including the production of biofuels, sustai...
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Scientific discoveries and research
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Heavy Atlantic rain can block African aerosols from fertilizing Amazon, study finds
- May 9, 2026
How are cold air masses advancing in the United States connected to fertilizers carried by "flying rivers" from Africa that nourish the soils of the B...
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Organic luminescent radicals enable bright circularly polarized light in the near-infrared region
- May 9, 2026
Circularly polarized light has properties that make it useful in a growing range of technologies, from next-generation 3D displays to bioimaging tools...
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Bee more specific: New radar tech could improve identification and tracking of key pollinators
- May 9, 2026
Scientists from Trinity and Technical University of Denmark have developed a new radar-based technique that could address a critical gap in global con...
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The ocean is fighting climate change: How people are trying to help it
- May 9, 2026
We replaced the stove with plywood, turning the kitchen of the dive boat into an impromptu research lab. Plugging in wires and connecting tubing, we a...
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Ganymede's unique magnetic field may be powered by ongoing core formation—not a cooling core
- May 9, 2026
Ganymede is not only Jupiter's largest moon, but also the largest in our solar system and one of the few that hosts a massive ice ocean. Adding to thi...
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Non-rotating early galaxy is a surprise to astronomers
- May 9, 2026
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away: It isn't rotating....
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AI cuts wildlife tracking time from months to days
- May 9, 2026
Artificial intelligence can dramatically speed up the painstaking work of tracking wildlife with remote cameras, cutting analysis time from months or...
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A snapshot of food insecurity among immigrants
- May 9, 2026
When you hear the term "food insecurity," what do you imagine? Do you equate it with poor dietary practices—in other words, eating badly? And do you b...
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Genetics link Angola's 'ghost elephants' to populations hundreds of miles away
- May 9, 2026
For more than a decade, conservation biologist Steve Boyes searched for "ghost elephants"—nocturnal giants rumored to roam a remote, high-altitude wet...
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A close brush with Mars will reshape NASA's Psyche journey in a way few missions attempt
- May 9, 2026
NASA's Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the planet's surface at some 1...
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Saturday Citations: Psychedelic therapeutics; interoception and well-being; a hidden linguistic bias
- May 9, 2026
This week, researchers reported that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state during general anes...