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'Gaybourhoods' boost LGB voter turnout
- Feb 12, 2026
Living near other lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people makes LGB people significantly more likely to vote, according to new research published in T...
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Antarctic magnetic anomaly is a trace of an ancient continental collision, scientists find
- Feb 12, 2026
Geologists from St. Petersburg State University, as part of an international scientific team, have analyzed rock data from East Antarctica and determi...
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Assessment quantifies nitrogen retention and carbon sequestration in China's forests
- Feb 12, 2026
A research team from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has clarified how deposited nitrogen is retained in for...
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Sleek, lithe and extremely rare: This elusive California fox has finally been GPS-collared
- Feb 12, 2026
The stunning Sierra Nevada red fox is one of the nation's rarest and most critically threatened mammals, with fewer than 50 believed to remain in the...
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Rocket science? 3D printing soft matter in zero gravity
- Feb 12, 2026
What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The sub...
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Valentine's day: Can 36 questions really change your love life?
- Feb 12, 2026
About a decade ago, author Mandy Len Catron wrote an essay for the New York Times about "36 questions that lead to love." The idea suggests that two p...
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Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star
- Feb 12, 2026
One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-...
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New model tracks antimicrobial resistance genes across gut, wastewater, soil and air
- Feb 12, 2026
A multinational research team led by Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong K...
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NASA's SPHEREx mission spots 3I/ATLAS's bright envelope
- Feb 11, 2026
NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of pe...
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Rethinking climate change: Natural variability, solar forcing, model uncertainties, and policy implications
- Feb 11, 2026
Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for n...
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Why some forests unlock more soil phosphorus: Elevation, soil pH and calcium stand out
- Feb 11, 2026
Phosphorus is essential for plant growth and ecosystem productivity. In many natural forests, plants rely on soil microbes to release bioavailable pho...
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A new framework could transform national flood prediction
- Feb 11, 2026
When severe weather strikes, the National Weather Service's (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP) makes critical flood forecasts with the National Wa...