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To fight fraud, psychological scientists issue a call to arms
- Jun 4, 2026
Journalist Charlotte Cowles received a call about suspicious activity on her Amazon account. A dentist named Daniel answered a call from a number list...
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Billions are going into fish passage projects, but planning methods can undercut results
- Jun 4, 2026
Fish that split their lives between fresh and salt water often face obstacles getting back and forth. Dams and roads fracture river networks and inter...
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Buoys track ocean waves across 14,000 km, from storms in Antarctica to ripples in Alaska
- Jun 4, 2026
For the first time, mighty ocean waves generated in the Southern Ocean have been accurately measured all the way to the tiny ripples they form on the...
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Costa Rica paid landowners to restore forests and biodiversity—bioacoustics indicate that it worked
- Jun 4, 2026
Forest restoration can help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity, but the satellite-based techniques used to measure successful forest r...
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Physics-trained digital 'super-brain' speeds nanophotonic design
- Jun 4, 2026
Studying physics can be very useful—even when it comes to machine learning. A digital "super-brain" with built-in knowledge of the fundamental laws of...
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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...