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Rainfall near 700 mm marks turning point in ecosystem nitrogen retention
- May 30, 2026
In a study published in Nature Geoscience, a research team led by Prof. Liu Lingli from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IB...
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Q&A: Ancient bird species found in China's Liaoning had extra-long tail feathers for elaborate courtship
- May 30, 2026
A recently discovered extinct bird from the early Cretaceous Period (approximately 121 million years ago) may have waggled its long tail feathers to a...
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Quantum light gives a 20-fold boost to ultrafast laser processes
- May 30, 2026
Nonlinear interactions between light and matter are at the heart of some of the most powerful tools in modern optics, but pushing these processes to t...
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Backlash is often swift when authorities try to plan retreat from the coast: Is there a better way?
- May 30, 2026
Climate change is exacerbating rainfall, flooding and sea-level rises in coastal and low-lying areas. During the past few years, disastrous floods hav...
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A 'supereruption' transformed NZ 350,000 years ago—we now know how it happened
- May 30, 2026
Some 350,000 years ago, the center of New Zealand's North Island appeared much different than the mountainous, scrub-covered landscape it is today. Am...
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Pulsar wind nebula inside supernova remnant explored with Chandra
- May 30, 2026
Astronomers from the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, and elsewhere have employed NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft to observe a pu...
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These California wildflowers could save other plants
- May 30, 2026
As wildflowers go, the mountain jewelflower is demure, clever and quietly unbreakable. It has spread across many of California's iconic landscapes, fr...
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Saturday Citations: Failure to launch; cellular mortality; heavy weather
- May 30, 2026
Highlights from the last week of May, 2026: A key climate tipping point is disrupting the Arctic Ocean food chain (more of a lowlight, I guess). Scuba...
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Inside Europe's largest Copper Age tomb, children's bones expose an ancient health crisis hidden for 5,000 years
- May 30, 2026
Nearly 5,000 years ago, respiratory infections, possibly including tuberculosis, were ravaging the children buried at Camino del Molino (CMOL), Spain....
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Axial encoding unlocks up to eightfold faster 3D microscopy with less light
- May 30, 2026
A research team from HKU Engineering has pioneered a fundamentally new imaging strategy known as AIMED (Arbitrary illumination microscopy with encoded...
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Evidence of cosmic-ray acceleration from a nearby supernova remnant
- May 30, 2026
Cosmic rays seen at Earth show a wide range of particle energies, from 107 electron-volts (eV) to more than 1020 eV, the latter being about the same a...
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Ancient lake cores reveal unprecedented 2012 Rwenzori fire and ecological shift
- May 30, 2026
For the past several years, Penn State geoscientist Sarah Ivory and her students have been among a team of scientists scaling the East African Rwenzor...