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Narrow-ridged finless porpoises are more social than assumed, study finds
- Mar 9, 2026
A well-established fact of infancy in mammals is that the mother is the primary adult with whom an infant will interact. This holds true across specie...
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Recent pandemic viruses jumped to humans without prior adaptation, study finds
- Mar 9, 2026
A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of spar...
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2D topological Kondo insulator observed in a moiré superlattice
- Mar 9, 2026
When mobile charge carriers, also known as itinerant electrons, interact with the strong exchange magnetic fields associated with the intrinsic angula...
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Most Saharan dust is generated by 'hidden thunderstorms' high above the desert
- Mar 9, 2026
When Saharan dust reaches the UK and Europe, as a huge country-sized cloud did over the past few days, it can transform the sky. Tiny particles drifti...
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Why simulating an entire cell cycle took years, multiple GPUs and six days per run
- Mar 9, 2026
By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have o...
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Study finds teens spend nearly a third of the school day on smartphones: Frequent checking linked to poorer attention
- Mar 9, 2026
A new study from researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that middle and high school students spend nearly one-third of the s...
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Lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest identified in Blois, central France
- Mar 9, 2026
A page long believed to have been lost from the Archimedes Palimpsest, one of the most important surviving manuscripts of antiquity, has been identifi...
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Which climate policies actually make a difference? Our new analysis has the answer
- Mar 9, 2026
Countries worldwide have dramatically ramped up their climate policies over the past two decades. The number of climate measures has quadrupled since...
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Camera captures first video of a red fox attacking a wolf pup
- Mar 9, 2026
We are used to seeing a strict order in nature, with apex predators at the top feeding on those lower down the pecking order. But in video footage fro...
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ESA analyzing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026
- Mar 9, 2026
At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday, March 8, 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by man...
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Multi-wavelength observations track bright gamma-ray blazar's three-year cycle
- Mar 9, 2026
By analyzing the data from various space observatories and ground-based telescopes, European astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of a b...
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Study finds unexpected link between public health, tax policies
- Mar 9, 2026
A new study finds that the more a state's budget relied on sales tax revenue, the more likely it was to shorten stay-at-home orders during the early s...