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Smoke caused by seasonal fires shrouds northern Thailand
- Apr 24, 2026
Chiang Mai, Thailand's second-largest city, lies within a network of narrow valleys in the country's northern highlands. Though the historic city is k...
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Extreme rain on snow is testing aging dams across Michigan and Wisconsin—this is the future in a warming world
- Apr 24, 2026
Michigan and parts of Wisconsin are in the midst of a historic flooding event in spring 2026. Days of heavy rainfall on top of snow have sent lakes an...
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Climate change means more landslides in NZ—but new tech can help reduce the risk
- Apr 24, 2026
Thousands of slips in Tairāwhiti in January. The loss of eight lives in the Bay of Plenty later that month. And, days ago, landslides that damaged hom...
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New bioreactor turns stem cells into an immune-cell factory, producing 40 million human macrophages per week
- Apr 23, 2026
Researchers at Hannover Medical School (MHH) have developed a method for the efficient production of human immune cells, such as macrophages, in mediu...
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DNA damage just got more complicated: A long-missed weak spot emerges when light and oxygen strike
- Apr 23, 2026
In everyday life, our genetic material is constantly under attack from many factors. Environmental influences such as light, along with internal proce...
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Milky Way's 'little cousins' may hold clues about infant universe
- Apr 23, 2026
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies—tiny satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way—have long been seen as cosmic fossils. Now, a new study published today in M...
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Retrospective genre bias can misread art; AI helps recover original context
- Apr 23, 2026
Featuring gory attacks by bloodthirsty vampires, one may be quick to categorize "Sinners" as a horror movie. That classification, however, may not be...
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Moon dust could stop being a nuisance and start reshaping how humans may build beyond Earth
- Apr 23, 2026
As space agencies and private companies look toward a sustained human presence on the moon, a fundamental challenge centers on how to build strong, du...
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Ancient African topography remotely modulated the South Asian summer monsoon millions of years ago, study finds
- Apr 23, 2026
The South Asian summer monsoon sustains billions of people today. For a long time, the prevailing scientific view has held that the formation and inte...
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These 'good' viruses hold up a booming industry—AI just found a faster way to track them
- Apr 23, 2026
Researchers have developed a new methodology that uses artificial intelligence tools to identify and count target viruses more efficiently than previo...
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Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago
- Apr 23, 2026
Today's octopuses are intelligent, remarkably flexible animals that lurk in reefs, hide in crevices, or drift through the deep sea. But new research s...
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Life's earliest proteins may have folded into complex shapes with far fewer amino acids
- Apr 23, 2026
How did the earliest life on Earth build complex biological machinery with so few tools? A new study explores how the simplest building blocks of prot...