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Occupy Mars? Or the moon? Get a reality check on Elon Musk's plans
- Feb 22, 2026
It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, Spa...
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Five ways that AI could be reshaping your relationship with money
- Feb 22, 2026
The financial industry is entering a new era, with AI and new regulations on accessing data transforming how finance works. These changes are giving p...
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Is teasing playful or harmful? It depends on a number of factors
- Feb 21, 2026
Picture this: A group of girls are sitting at a table in the lunchroom when a boy walks by. One girl turns to another girl and laughingly says, "Oh, i...
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Natural selection can work at many levels, from molecules to ecosystems
- Feb 21, 2026
When most people think about natural selection, they imagine individuals competing with one another: The fastest animal escapes predators, the stronge...
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Engineered nanoparticles could deliver better targeted cancer treatment to lymph nodes
- Feb 21, 2026
Scientists at McGill University and the Rosalind and Morris Goodman Cancer Institute have developed a new way to deliver cancer immunotherapy that cau...
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A trillionth of a second: How lasers may sharpen next-gen cryo-ET microscopy
- Feb 21, 2026
The laser you see in the photo above may one day enhance images taken by the most powerful microscopes in biology. This advancement, detailed in a pap...
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Metamaterial image sensor keeps colors clear even under oblique light
- Feb 21, 2026
Smartphone cameras are becoming smaller, yet photos are becoming sharper. Korean researchers have elevated the limits of next-generation smartphone ca...
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Water is bed bugs' kryptonite: The parasites avoid wet surfaces at all costs
- Feb 21, 2026
Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the firs...
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From pets to precision medicine: Study finds striking parallels in feline and human cancers
- Feb 21, 2026
A study from an international team of experts in veterinary medicine, human medicine and genomics provides the first large-scale genetic map of feline...
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Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory
- Feb 21, 2026
An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our...
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Species on east–west coastlines are more likely to go extinct than those on north–south shores—new study
- Feb 21, 2026
As the Atlantic warms, many fish along the east coast of North America have moved northward to keep within their preferred temperature range. Black se...
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Do animals have a future on Hollywood sets?
- Feb 21, 2026
There is a long and storied history of nonhuman actors, from Luke, the dog of silent star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, to the collies cast in the role of...