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Birth rates are declining in most of the world—here's why it really matters
- Jun 6, 2026
Birth rates have been declining worldwide since the peak of the post-Second World War baby boom. Birth rates have now reached below replacement in mos...
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Texas governor wants to speed up work on a fly-breeding factory to fight a cattle parasite
- Jun 6, 2026
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expressed concern Friday that a new factory isn't expected to start breeding sterile New World screwworm flies for more than a...
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Americans share the same struggles despite deep political divides, new bipartisan report finds
- Jun 6, 2026
As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary amid deep political division, a major new bipartisan report aims to get consensus on a fundament...
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Scientists map more than 200 years of nature's progress
- Jun 6, 2026
Armed with trail cameras, artificial intelligence, and a powerful national research network, scientists are revisiting Lewis and Clark's legendary jou...
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A new strategy for assembling π-conjugated panels into square molecules revealed
- Jun 6, 2026
A research group has developed a new method for selectively synthesizing three-dimensional macrocycles,⁽¹⁾ in which four panels are arranged in a squa...
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Starting kindergarten soon? Summer is a perfect time to support a child's early literacy learning
- Jun 6, 2026
The first day of kindergarten is a momentous occasion for children and families. It's an exciting milestone that comes with new friends, teachers, and...
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Why do rival plants coexist? The secret is in the soil beneath the oaks
- Jun 6, 2026
How can plants that compete for the same resources grow in the same area without one driving the other to extinction? Ecologists have been trying to a...
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Transnational history explores the Japanese migration to Canada 1877–1988
- Jun 5, 2026
"Japanese Migration to Canada, 1877–1988," a new reference essay by Masumi Izumi, was published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studi...
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Physicists discover attractive forces between molecular condensates may cause running off
- Jun 5, 2026
Inside cells, certain functions are carried out by locally adjusting molecular composition. This condensation of material results in the formation of...
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Did this star eat its planets? A new study offers clues on 'chemical paradox' of a binary system
- Jun 5, 2026
Astronomers have investigated a puzzling binary star system in which two stars that may have formed together now show dramatically different chemical...
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Light pulses uncover Higgs mode that reshapes perovskite crystal symmetry
- Jun 5, 2026
Waves of light and sound interact to drive electronic and structural changes in a perovskite crystal. At the atomic scale, nothing is ever truly still...
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Hagfish fossils reveal stepwise eye simplification before near-total vision loss
- Jun 5, 2026
Many animals, including humans, rely on their eyes to detect changes in their surroundings. The eyes of vertebrates, animals with a backbone or a simi...