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Peering into the Milky Way's far side, Roman could unveil 100,000 worlds
- May 28, 2026
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientis...
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Electrical 'knob' can switch light on, off and tune intensity at the nanoscale
- May 28, 2026
Physicists from Emory University have led work to develop a microscopic, nonlinear light source that can be switched on, off or tuned to a particular...
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Oceanic regime shifts affect subarctic moth communities—impacts divide species into winners and losers
- May 28, 2026
Regime shifts in the Atlantic Ocean, which have subsequently affected the Baltic Sea, are also impacting moths in Lapland, according to a new study co...
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Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching, research reveals
- May 28, 2026
Italians are famous for speaking with their hands. But a new international study suggests that when it comes to teaching children, adults everywhere i...
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Silver nanoparticles enable assembly of a theorized, previously unobserved crystal metallic structure
- May 28, 2026
Using finely tuned nanoscale building blocks, researchers from Brown University and the University of Michigan College of Engineering have stabilized...
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Something just passed between us and a distant star
- May 28, 2026
On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly got brighter. Not dramatically nor explosively,...
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MIZ-ing in action: How much of Antarctic sea ice is affected by waves?
- May 28, 2026
Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an understudied and crucial region of the An...
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The human gaze speaks to children, who remain insensitive to the gaze of humanoid robots
- May 28, 2026
Very young children (even as young as 3 years old) can read intention and preferences in the eyes of a person, but they do not recognize this type of...
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A 'Balrog' in the tunnels: Scientists discover a new cave cricket species on the tiny island of Kastellorizo, Greece
- May 28, 2026
Despite the intensity of modern exploration, the eastern Mediterranean continues to yield unexpected discoveries. On the small Greek island of Kastell...
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Why the most massive galaxies in the early universe stopped forming stars prematurely
- May 28, 2026
Astronomical observations show that the most massive galaxies in the early universe formed approximately three to four billion years after the Big Ban...
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New Gulf Coast plan uses ocean technology to trap carbon dioxide
- May 28, 2026
The motion of the ocean may be the key to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so University of Houston researchers set out to determine which...
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Dutch universities still lack firm rules on tobacco ties, raising wider questions
- May 28, 2026
Researchers from Leiden University and Solid Sustainability Research have published a new study in PLOS Climate on the links between Dutch universitie...