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What network science can tell us about the 2026 World Cup
- Jun 4, 2026
Team Australia kicked it long from the goalkeeper. Switzerland took a slower approach and preferred short passes over long drives. Spain, on the other...
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DNA repair enzyme uses one-dimensional sliding to detect key sites, researchers reveal
- Jun 4, 2026
DNA is the blueprint of the human body. However, tens of thousands of DNA lesions occur in our bodies every day. In particular, if "apurinic/apyrimidi...
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'Out-of-place' rocks reveal how a young ocean formed
- Jun 4, 2026
Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found pieces of granite that see...
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Black suburbanization is reshaping American neighborhoods, study finds
- Jun 4, 2026
In 1970, nearly half of all Black individuals in the U.S. resided in a large city. Over the past 50 years, that number has fallen to merely 25%, while...
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Jupiter bow shock reveals electrons accelerating to relativistic speeds
- Jun 4, 2026
Electrons around Jupiter have been caught in the process of being accelerated, revealing a potentially unified mechanism for particle acceleration. Th...
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Understanding Earth's hidden east-west symmetry could improve climate models
- Jun 4, 2026
Earth is divided into two halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Both reflect equal amounts of sunlight (albedo) even though they have differe...
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Home-sorted recycling produces higher-quality plastic bales with fewer contaminants, finds study
- Jun 4, 2026
The quality of recycled plastic tends to be higher when the waste is pre-sorted by households compared with plastics recovered from mixed waste at a r...
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Can fighting via text be good for a relationship?
- Jun 4, 2026
Today, many of our social interactions are routed through technology: text messages, video calls, voice messages, emails and instant messaging apps. I...
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How tuning atomic order and surface chemistry can shape MXenes
- Jun 4, 2026
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are helping show what it means to design a material almost atom-by-ato...
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Young caregivers twice as likely to be persistently out of work or education, UK research shows
- Jun 4, 2026
New data reveals that young people with caregiving responsibilities are more than twice as likely as their peers to be persistently not in employment,...
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Not too sunny, not too shady, just right for Japanese macaques
- Jun 4, 2026
As climate change alters the temperatures of animal habitats, it seems natural that endotherms, warm-blooded animals, would prefer to hang out in the...
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DigMethpy: An AI-driven platform for accelerating methane pyrolysis catalyst discovery
- Jun 4, 2026
Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence-powered platform that could significantly speed up the discovery of catalysts for methane pyr...