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Box jellyfish reveal secret life cycle with implications for coastal safety
- Jun 1, 2026
Box jellyfish are often feared as dangerous animals, with some species capable of causing severe or even fatal stings. However, box jellyfish nematocy...
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How drought rewires roots, cutting iron uptake across major food crops
- Jun 1, 2026
New research by scientists at the University of Calgary has found that plants, ranging from canola to rice to tomatoes, actively shut down their own a...
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Blue Origin's lunar lander just passed its toughest test yet
- Jun 1, 2026
There is a chamber at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that is, in its own way, one of the most extraordinary rooms on Earth. Chamber A is one o...
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Precise polymer 'knots' uncover hidden slack for designing ultra-tough and responsive smart materials
- Jun 1, 2026
From household plastic packaging to the flexible frameworks that support wearable electronics, polymer materials form the invisible backbone of modern...
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Why dirty farm plastic matters: Cleaner mulch film could cut landfill waste and fossil fuel use
- Jun 1, 2026
Nearly a billion pounds of plastic film mulch is used in American agriculture each year, and most of it is dumped into landfills. New research from Wa...
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AI to rescue Australian wildlife research drowning in data
- Jun 1, 2026
The power of AI has been harnessed to rapidly clear a photography bottleneck and bring greater coordination and computing power to efforts to save Aus...
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Fifty-year protein mystery breaks open as acid-driven water loss comes into view
- Jun 1, 2026
Proteins systematically lose their protective hydration shell when their environment becomes more acidic. Until recently, this was just a theory. Stat...
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Trees and greenery can cool cities by as much as 18°C—but only if they're the right type
- Jun 1, 2026
Cities around the world are planting more trees to cope with rising urban heat. But our research shows trees alone are often not enough. In some cases...
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Enzymes that assemble into droplets can speed up cellular reactions, biologists find
- Jun 1, 2026
Within the past decade, biologists have discovered that one strategy cells use to keep their contents organized is a phenomenon known as phase separat...
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New 'SMArT' platform makes gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells more efficient and safer
- Jun 1, 2026
A team of researchers led by Luigi Naldini at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget) has developed a new strategy to signific...
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Synthesized peptides can slip into cells to block hard-to-target protein interactions
- Jun 1, 2026
Many diseases are driven by proteins interacting with each other inside cells. But blocking these interactions with drugs is difficult because typical...
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Better math discriminates exotic from classical materials
- Jun 1, 2026
The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it...