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Beyond 'survival' of fittest: Evolution works in teams
- Feb 17, 2026
Survival of the fittest. Nature red in tooth and claw. The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organ...
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Plasma rotation simulations could help fusion reactors survive decades of use
- Feb 17, 2026
Scientists have long seen a puzzling pattern in tokamaks, the doughnut-shaped machines that could one day reliably generate electricity from fusing at...
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New amplifier design promises less noise, more gain for quantum computers
- Feb 17, 2026
The low-noise, high-gain properties needed for high-performance quantum computing can be realized in a microwave photonic circuit device called a Jose...
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Honey bees navigate more precisely than previously thought
- Feb 17, 2026
A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the flight behavior of honey bees...
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Is dark energy actually evolving?
- Feb 17, 2026
Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its e...
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The ice on Greenland is acting strangely: Scientists believe they finally know why
- Feb 17, 2026
Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet are giant swirling plume-like structures. These have puzzled scientists for over a decade, but UiB researchers now...
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Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon
- Feb 17, 2026
Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic ac...
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Massive ceramics haul from a 14th-century shipwreck reveals Singapore's trading past
- Feb 17, 2026
Singapore was a thriving trading hub hundreds of years before popular narratives depicted it as a quiet fishing village, according to a study of the c...
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Why Triceratops has such a big nose: The first comprehensive hypothesis on soft tissue in the dinosaur
- Feb 17, 2026
Triceratops and similar horned dinosaurs had unusually large nasal cavities compared to most animals. Researchers, including those from the University...
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Climbing behaviors of tree-dwelling mammals unlock insights on early primate evolution
- Feb 17, 2026
Researchers have shed new light on the features that enable tree-dwelling mammals to move effectively through their environments, providing insights i...
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Northern Europe's radiator: Volcanic eruptions in the past may have pushed ocean currents toward collapse
- Feb 17, 2026
New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupt...
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Family matters: How growing up together molds us
- Feb 17, 2026
When psychologist Darby Saxbe began studying how parenthood shapes the brain, she made a seismic discovery that upended a long-held assumption: that o...