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Mining companies may soon bypass UN rules and mine the deep sea
- Jun 8, 2026
A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that...
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Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well
- Jun 8, 2026
Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously...
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Study reveals north–south differences in water isotopes across North America during the last deglaciation
- Jun 8, 2026
The last deglaciation (between 11,000 and 20,000 years ago) was a period of dramatic natural warming on Earth. During this time, North America experie...
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'From STEM to earn': High school programs aimed at diversifying the field drive gains in college, salaries
- Jun 8, 2026
High school students participating in pipeline programs aimed at increasing diversity in STEM fields are more likely to enroll in—and graduate from—el...
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Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables
- Jun 8, 2026
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type o...
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Magnon momentum microscopy: A new window into nanoscale spin-wave physics
- Jun 8, 2026
An international team led by the Max Born Institute has developed a new type of momentum microscopy to image magnons—the quanta of collectively excite...
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Elusive Cozumel dwarf fox reappears in first confirmed photos after two decades
- Jun 8, 2026
A publication has revealed the first photographic evidence and confirmed sighting of the Cozumel dwarf fox in more than 20 years. Published in the jou...
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What happens to a star that captures a primordial black hole?
- Jun 8, 2026
We don't know whether theorized primordial black holes (PBH) are real. If they are, they formed in the very early universe, when physics was much diff...
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New cryogenic silicon carbide hardware addresses quantum computing bottleneck
- Jun 8, 2026
Researchers from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Cent...
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Toward standardized microplastics monitoring in rivers
- Jun 8, 2026
Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm, have become so pervasive that they are detectable in nearly every environment stu...
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How wax moth larvae can help reduce animal testing in research
- Jun 8, 2026
Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) have demonstrated that larvae of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella, are suitable...
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Q&A: Expert discusses 250 years of sports in the United States
- Jun 8, 2026
Sports in the United States look very different than they did when the nation was founded 250 years ago, according to Mark Dyreson, professor of kines...