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One species or two? Understanding the Formosan legless lizard
- Mar 25, 2026
A research team from the National Taiwan Normal University has clarified the status of a secretive reptile. Led by Si-Min Lin, the team focused on the...
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Developing optical vortex phase masks for the detection of habitable worlds
- Mar 25, 2026
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression neede...
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JWST reveals most distant red galaxy yet at redshift 11.45
- Mar 25, 2026
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new red galaxy at a redshift of approximately 11.45. The newfound galaxy, w...
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Dancing to invisible choreography, quantum computers can balance the noise
- Mar 25, 2026
Large-scale quantum computers are waiting in the wings. One of the main reasons we don't have them yet is because quantum hardware is so noisy. This i...
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Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen
- Mar 25, 2026
Three-hundred-million years ago, Earth was very different. The continents had coalesced into Pangea, which was dominated in its equatorial regions by...
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Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C warming, study warns
- Mar 25, 2026
Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C). A new study led by the...
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How the body senses cold has been a mystery—until now
- Mar 25, 2026
When you reach into a bucket of ice, open your front door on a snowy day, or feel the tingle of menthol toothpaste, a protein in your nerve cells call...
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Past CO₂ emissions may drive far bigger future economic losses
- Mar 25, 2026
The economic damage yet to come from carbon dioxide emitted decades ago far exceeds the harm it has wrought so far, according to a new Stanford Univer...
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The earliest dogs in Europe: 14,200-year-old DNA helps reveal their identity
- Mar 25, 2026
An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, the University of East Anglia and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary A...
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Low-cost sensor system could warn farmers of salt stress in plants
- Mar 25, 2026
Soil salinity is a critical concern in agriculture when excessive soluble salts restrict a plant's water uptake, according to the U.S. Department of A...
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Bioelectronic platform enables precise H₂S delivery to cells, turning a toxic gas into a therapeutic tool
- Mar 25, 2026
A toxic gas known for its "rotten egg smell" has been transformed into a therapeutic tool. A research team at KAIST has developed a technology to prec...
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Now you see it, now you don't: Material can transition between quantum states
- Mar 25, 2026
A team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a rare, switchable quantum property in a...