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Climate change may shift hailstorms toward Earth's poles—new study

• Jun 3, 2026

Everyone has a storm story—whether it's that time you just escaped a downpour, or the hailstorm that wrote off your car. Even though hailstorms are re...

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The push to standardize ESG scores could make corporate greenwashing easier, not harder

• Jun 3, 2026

Three-quarters of S&P 500 companies now tie a portion of their CEO's pay to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. They typically include...

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Hail conditions on the move as winter crops face rising risk

• Jun 3, 2026

A hailstorm can undo a season's work in minutes. It can strike quickly and unevenly, shredding wheat, bruising fruit, flattening crops—while also leav...

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A lot of 'recycled' plastic is being burned overseas—and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems

• Jun 3, 2026

Picture a pile of trash the size of Manhattan and taller than one and a half Empire State Buildings. That's how much plastic waste the world is predic...

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Whiskey chemistry propels microscopic machines through liquid

• Jun 3, 2026

Whisky-inspired chemicals could help power a new generation of microscopic machines, according to researchers who have discovered a way to make tiny p...

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Ultrafast laser shrinks to chip scale, potentially lowering costs for diagnostics and atomic clocks

• Jun 3, 2026

Ultrafast lasers emit pulses lasting only a few hundred femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second). These flashes of light power applications from prec...

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Cells have a built-in 'seatbelt' against sudden stress

• Jun 3, 2026

When cells experience sudden physical stress, like stretching or pressure, they can activate a fast, protective mechanism that shields their nuclei fr...

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Common plastics soak up ballistic impacts thanks to a cross-linking molecule

• Jun 3, 2026

With help from a novel cross-linking molecule, MIT chemists have shown they can substantially improve the ballistic impact resistance of common polyme...

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Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life

• Jun 3, 2026

Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their origins presented a puzzling...

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Food industries embrace AI sensors to improve efficiencies

• Jun 3, 2026

Food waste is a nagging problem that weighs heavily on global food production, distribution and sales industries—but an emerging generation of AI sens...

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How honeybees really crown their queens

• Jun 3, 2026

For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal jelly and a ruler emerges....

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Ancient cave lion genomes reveal a distinct lineage

• Jun 3, 2026

A new study on multiple genomes from the extinct cave lion has discovered that it represented a highly distinct evolutionary lineage, which separated...