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Earth's mantle may have been cooler than thought before Pangea's breakup
- Feb 23, 2026
When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new...
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Breadcrumbs offer fossil fuel–free production of everyday goods
- Feb 23, 2026
The humble breadcrumb could hold the key to cutting out fossil fuels from one of the chemical industry's most widely used reactions, according to a ne...
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Peatland lakes in Congo Basin release carbon that is thousands of years old
- Feb 23, 2026
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of the central Congo Basin are...
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Globe-trotting ancient 'sea-salamander' fossils rediscovered from Australia's dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs
- Feb 23, 2026
Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehisto...
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Study finds warming world increases days when weather is prone to fires around the globe
- Feb 23, 2026
The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy—ideal to spark extreme wildfires—has nearly tripled in the past 45 years across the globe,...
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Elevated E. coli, staph still detected in Potomac river 4 weeks after sewage spill
- Feb 23, 2026
Nearly a month after a wastewater pipe broke and spewed hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River just north of Washington,...
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How shaming unethical brands makes companies improve their behavior
- Feb 22, 2026
Recent investigations have uncovered forced labor in agricultural supply chains, illegal fishing feeding supermarket freezers, deforestation embedded...
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The algorithmic feed on X could be shifting political views toward conservatism
- Feb 22, 2026
Turning on the "For You" algorithm on X (formerly Twitter) may shift users' political opinions toward more conservative views, suggests research invol...
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Why your brain has to work harder in an open-plan office than private offices
- Feb 22, 2026
Since the pandemic, offices around the world have quietly shrunk. Many organizations don't need as much floor space or as many desks, given many staff...
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How to improve the performance of qubits: Super-fast fluctuation detection achieved
- Feb 22, 2026
Using commercially available technology and innovative methods, researchers at NBI have pushed the limits of how fast you can detect changes in the se...
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National survey finds microplastic pollution around Britain's coastline could be double than previously recorded
- Feb 22, 2026
Data collected during a rowing challenge around the seas of Great Britain has found significantly higher concentrations of microplastic pollution than...
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Language barriers slow down the international diffusion of knowledge, study finds
- Feb 22, 2026
Rapid technological and scientific advances have fueled a huge wave of innovation over the past decades. The speed of global innovation is known to be...