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Huge areas of Australia are vulnerable to tree-killing beetle, study warns
- Feb 5, 2026
A new Curtin University study warns that large parts of Australia, including major cities and farming regions, could be highly vulnerable to a fast-sp...
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Bacteria can survive washing and disinfection in food production plants
- Feb 5, 2026
Bacteria in food can make you seriously ill, which is why it is so important for the facilities that produce your food to ensure proper hygiene in the...
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Snowball Earth: Ancient Scottish rocks reveal annual climate cycles
- Feb 5, 2026
Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most ext...
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AI accelerates access to insect collections
- Feb 5, 2026
Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of labe...
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MXenes for energy storage: More versatile than expected
- Feb 5, 2026
MXene materials are promising candidates for a new energy storage technology. However, the processes by which the charge storage takes place were not...
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Skua deaths mark first wildlife die-off due to avian flu on Antarctica
- Feb 5, 2026
More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first docume...
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Surgery for quantum bits: Bit-flip errors corrected during superconducting qubit operations
- Feb 5, 2026
Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series...
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CRISPR-based biosensors enable real-time ocean health monitoring
- Feb 5, 2026
Oceanic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global warming, which causes coral bleaching, species migration and, through the loss of habitats an...
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Invasive termites threatening homes in Florida are spreading farther than predicted
- Feb 5, 2026
Florida's coastal and urban counties continue to see the spread of two invasive termite species beyond South Florida. The species are now threatening...
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Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart
- Feb 5, 2026
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gra...
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Finger length could provide vital clue to understanding human brain evolution
- Feb 5, 2026
The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in pr...
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Simulations and experiments meet: Machine learning predicts gold nanocluster structures
- Feb 5, 2026
Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) advance understanding of gold nanocluster behavior at elevated temperatures using machine learning-ba...