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Hard to recycle packaging? This glue could let plastics peel apart on cue
- Feb 4, 2026
Newcastle University engineers are at the forefront of adhesive technology that promises to change how we recycle. They have developed a reversible gl...
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Friendly bacteria can unlock hidden metabolic pathways in plant cell cultures
- Feb 4, 2026
Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an entire plant just to extract...
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Simulations and supercomputing calculate one million cislunar orbits
- Feb 4, 2026
Satellites and spacecraft in the vast region between Earth and the moon and just beyond—called cislunar space—are crucial for space exploration, scien...
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Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years—far longer than we thought
- Feb 4, 2026
How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing...
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How to ensure affordable, safe and culturally grounded housing for Indigenous older adults
- Feb 4, 2026
A good home, or Minosin Kikiwa in Cree, is the foundation of dignity in later life, according to the Indigenous seniors who spoke to us. Yet "every ye...
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Zambia's farmers are working in dangerous heat: How they can protect themselves
- Feb 4, 2026
Farming is central to life in Zambia, with about 60% of the country's labor force relying on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihood or income. Seas...
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'Inoculation' helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds
- Feb 4, 2026
Informing people about political deepfakes through text-based information and interactive games both improve people's ability to spot AI-generated vid...
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Scientists use RNA nanotechnology to program living cells, opening a new path for cancer cure
- Feb 4, 2026
Scientists at Rutgers University–Newark have developed a first-of-its-kind RNA-based nanotechnology that assembles itself inside living human cells an...
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Grazing and digging put some herbivores at greater risk from toxic elements in soil: New research
- Feb 4, 2026
If you've watched a giraffe browsing in the tree canopy, a white rhino meandering across open grassland, or a warthog shuffling around on its knees in...
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Researchers uncover a one-hour 'crown' checkpoint that enables malaria reproduction
- Feb 4, 2026
A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Pla...
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Lüften sounds simple, but 'house-burping' is more complicated in Pittsburgh
- Feb 4, 2026
Recently, the German term "lüften" has been circulating on social media and trending on Google. The term refers to the practice of opening windows and...
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Funny teachers can make classes more enjoyable—if their jokes land
- Feb 4, 2026
Instructors cracking a joke here and there could make students feel better about the class as a whole, according to new research from the University o...