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Students discover new crab egg predator
- Mar 17, 2026
After a year and a half of remote work and learning, UC Santa Barbara undergraduate students Sophia Lecuona Manos, Gabrielle Plewe, Carson Gadler and...
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Solar energy transforms polystyrene waste into valuable chemicals using sulfur
- Mar 17, 2026
Turning waste into wealth may no longer be just a marketing slogan, as a team of researchers in China has found an eco-friendly way to do exactly that...
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Nanoengineered spintronic device can store data in four different ways
- Mar 17, 2026
Over the past decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly smaller devices that can store information reliably, even when t...
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Large craters offer clues to the origin of asteroid 16 Psyche
- Mar 17, 2026
Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th-most massive asteroid in...
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Engineered lipid nanoparticles reprogram immune metabolism for better mRNA vaccines
- Mar 17, 2026
The most common side effects of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot are well known: soreness, mild fever, and general malaise. Those symptoms, which...
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Charcoal records reveal 'unprecedented' wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century
- Mar 17, 2026
A new study reveals an unprecedented increase in wildfires in tropical peatlands during the 20th century. "Unprecedented burning in tropical peatlands...
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Dinos hatched eggs less efficiently than modern birds, researchers show
- Mar 17, 2026
What do we really know about how oviraptors—bird-like but flightless dinosaurs—hatched their eggs? Did they use environmental heat, like crocodiles, o...
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It's coyote puppy season; here's what you need to know
- Mar 17, 2026
Coyotes may be building dens and having litters of pups near you, according to new research from the University of Georgia. But chances are you won't...
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Carbon trading cuts emissions better than carbon taxes
- Mar 17, 2026
Carbon trading limits the amount of carbon dioxide an organization can emit. To emit more, organizations must buy unused carbon emission allowances fr...
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A milestone voyage for Antarctic science
- Mar 17, 2026
Navigating monolithic icebergs, massive ocean waves and sub-zero snowstorms, CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator is a workhorse for Antarctic scie...
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A 60-year old mystery about the moon's magnetosphere is finally solved
- Mar 17, 2026
One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the...
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Ticketmaster's Eras Tour chaos made worse by crisis communication failures
- Mar 17, 2026
Ticketmaster was seemingly not ready for the influx of hopeful Taylor Swift fans logging onto the digital ticketing platform when sales for the Eras T...