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NASA develops sensor to improve firefighter safety
- May 29, 2026
With peak wildfire season approaching, scientists with NASA's FireSense project have created low-cost thermal sensors to install on fire bulldozers th...
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Settling down vs. settling: New study proves being single beats a bad relationship
- May 29, 2026
While society often assumes that finding a romantic partner is the ultimate key to happiness, tracking relationship changes over time reveals a distin...
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Established farm-business ties may steer agri-start-up ideas toward smaller gains
- May 29, 2026
The Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), in collaboration with other academic institutions, has published a new study on start-u...
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Training, not silence: With support, teachers can address racism, xenophobia in any classroom
- May 29, 2026
Teachers can address structural racism and xenophobia with students of any age and in any subject when schools provide training, materials, and profes...
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Mineral clues in Gale Crater track ancient Mars climate change
- May 28, 2026
While NASA imagery has shown evidence of ancient rivers and lakes on Mars that transitioned to dry dunes, uncertainty remains over the timing of the e...
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How bacteria survive with almost no oxygen— and why blocking one enzyme could aid new antibiotics
- May 28, 2026
Researchers in Leiden have, for the first time, observed how a specialized enzyme helps bacteria stay alive when oxygen levels are low, and how that p...
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Taller structures produce more blaze-spreading embers, research suggests
- May 28, 2026
Test burns involving wooden structures of varying heights suggest taller buildings tend to be more prolific producers of the wind-carried firebrands t...
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New ammonia-making method could upend one of industry's dirtiest processes
- May 28, 2026
As our world's population grows, so does the demand for ammonia—a key ingredient in fertilizer. The International Renewable Energy Agency estimates th...
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Longer droughts and changes in rainfall are already occurring in the Amazon, research finds
- May 28, 2026
According to two recently published studies led by scientists from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the Brazilian Amazon is alre...
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Red dwarf stars detected 'eating' Earth-like planets
- May 28, 2026
Astronomers have found some of the strongest evidence yet that stars can swallow their own planets. A new study, published in Monthly Notices of the R...
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Heron-like, fish-eating dinosaur from 70 million years ago discovered in Argentina
- May 28, 2026
A new raptor-like dinosaur from some 70 million years ago that ate fish and behaved like modern herons has been unearthed from southern Patagonia. The...
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Ultrafast holographic imaging reveals electron and magnetic dynamics inside next-generation materials
- May 28, 2026
An extremely fast microscopy method to research the interaction of light and matter makes it possible to study optical processes on very short timesca...