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Giving voice to older homeless women navigating streets and shelters
- May 4, 2026
For women in their 50s experiencing homelessness, daily life means far more than finding a place to sleep. It means navigating dangerous shelter envir...
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria turn up in six lakes, with urban waters hit hardest
- May 4, 2026
A team of scientists from Berlin analyzed water and sediment samples from six water bodies in Berlin and the adjacent federal states of Brandenburg an...
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Climate change increases spillover risk of rodent-borne arenaviruses, study warns
- May 4, 2026
Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, putting new communities...
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Hidden risk pushes 459 Northwest communities higher on wildfire danger scale
- May 4, 2026
A new wildfire risk assessment tool that takes social vulnerability into account indicates that more than 400 communities in the Pacific Northwest are...
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Is it wrong to pay incarcerated people in jail? This Pennsylvania county says no
- May 4, 2026
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, is experimenting with a policy that has drawn national attention and local skepticism: providing cash compensation to...
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New insight could change how we break down 'forever chemicals'
- May 4, 2026
PFAS, often called "forever chemicals," are notoriously difficult to remove from the environment. Their extreme chemical stability means they can pers...
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Invisible at the curb: New 3D model maps reveal hidden ultrafine traffic particle hotspots
- May 4, 2026
A National Taiwan University study shows that traffic particles can create sharply localized exposure hotspots near busy roads, intersections and elev...
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Synchrotron X-rays uncover hidden protein binding sites, enabling two new functions
- May 4, 2026
Using bright X-rays from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), res...
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Research finds under-24s illegally targeted by Dutch gambling ads
- May 4, 2026
The Netherlands prohibits gambling advertising from targeting young people under age 24. Using Meta's ad library, we found a minority of ads published...
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Plaster-making technique previously attributed to the Romans appears 8,000 years earlier in Motza
- May 4, 2026
Excavations from 2015 to 2021 on the ancient site of Motza, just west of Jerusalem, revealed a sprawling settlement with some surprisingly advanced te...
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DNA-reading AI reconstructs ancestry in minutes, matching top statistical methods
- May 4, 2026
Researchers at the University of Oregon have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can read genetic code the way large language models like C...
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Open-source, 3D-printed platform enables low-cost, standardized electrocatalytic research
- May 4, 2026
A problem for researchers has been a lack of an agreed-upon standard gas diffusion electrode reactor to enable robust comparison of catalytic reaction...