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Parental advice on interacting with police varies widely by race
- Mar 25, 2026
The birds and the bees. Say no to drugs. Advice from parents is an expected—if cringeworthy—part of growing up. But for some children, the odds of rec...
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Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period
- Mar 25, 2026
The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups...
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Studies offer insight into how owners experience pet loss
- Mar 25, 2026
New research from the Dog Aging Project and Texas A&M University highlights that for many families, losing a dog means losing a family member—and that...
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If the Laschamps geomagnetic excursion happened today, aviation radiation exposure would be radically altered
- Mar 25, 2026
Earth's magnetic field acts as a vital shield against radiation arriving from space, but it is not constant. A new international study has examined ho...
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Brazil's fire corals may be facing silent extinction, experts say
- Mar 25, 2026
According to the authors of a study published in the journal Coral Reefs, fire corals may be undergoing a "silent extinction." Coral bleaching occurs...
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How New Jersey's limits on 'forever chemicals' in tap water brought levels down
- Mar 25, 2026
Levels of toxic "forever chemicals" in New Jersey's public water systems dropped by as much as 55% after the state moved to limit the contaminants in...
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Using 'imaginative' AI to survey past and future earthquake damage
- Mar 25, 2026
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responder...
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Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated
- Mar 25, 2026
Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire activity reached its high...
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A captive chimp's instrumental performances hint at the evolution of vocal externalization
- Mar 25, 2026
In February 2023, a resident at Kyoto University's Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior—EHUB—treated researchers to a spontaneous mus...
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Significant grade inflation may be occurring in graduate education, according to decades' worth of data
- Mar 25, 2026
Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education. Researcher Vivien Lee a...
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A potential antibiotic target emerges as pneumonia-linked enzyme's dynamic structure proves essential
- Mar 25, 2026
Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often fatal diseases easily tr...
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Scalable flow chemistry speeds deuteration of fatty acids with tunable isotope selectivity
- Mar 25, 2026
The National Deuteration Facility has developed a capability to use a flow chemistry process to increase efficiency, increase production capacity and...