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Findings could justify greater protections for minks in Everglades
- May 28, 2026
Their fur might feel the same, but a mink in the Everglades is not the same as a mink from northern Florida, researchers from the University of Connec...
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Platform fast-tracks microbial design for high-temp manufacturing
- May 28, 2026
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a platform that engineers heat-loving microbes for industrial-sc...
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Green stones buried with Panama's ancient chiefs confirmed as Colombian emeralds
- May 28, 2026
More than 1,000 years ago, Panama elites were buried together with translucent green stones long suspected to be emeralds. However, scientific analysi...
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Chang'e-5 regolith studies reveal nanoscale space-weathering processes
- May 28, 2026
On the moon, the lack of atmosphere and accompanying features such as biological activity, oxygen-rich air, flowing water and rain, wind, and most ero...
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Scientists develop new method to estimate hidden species
- May 28, 2026
When researchers survey wildlife in a lake, forest, or other habitat, they rarely capture every species present—some are simply too rare or elusive to...
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Ripples in fire-ant collectives suggest motions are driven by neighbor alignments
- May 28, 2026
Researchers in Spain have discovered that in collectives of moving fire ants, rippling "waves" of density and activity are likely triggered by local r...
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New study shows atmospheric compounds formed from tire wear may pose human health risk
- May 28, 2026
Tire rubber contains antioxidant chemicals, most notably 6PPD and DPPD, that are released into the air as tiny particles during normal driving. A sing...
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Neanderthal ancestry may lower defenses against common DNA viruses in people today
- May 28, 2026
Researchers have found surprising links that show that Neanderthal ancestry influences our immune system today in ways more nuanced than previously re...
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Hyena clan rank metrics need to be trait specific to fully explain hierarchies, scientists argue
- May 28, 2026
Spotted hyenas live in hierarchically organized groups (clans). An individual's dominance over another determines priority access to resources such as...
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Forgotten museum fossil helps rewrite part of animal evolution
- May 28, 2026
New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago,...
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Adequate potassium management is key to maximizing cotton yield and fiber quality, researchers reiterate
- May 28, 2026
With the 2026 cotton planting season in full swing, research out of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station provides a fresh reminder of the impo...
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The generation of massive Schrödinger cat states using ultracold atoms
- May 28, 2026
Quantum mechanics is a physics framework that describes how matter and energy behave at an extremely small scale, specifically at the scale of atoms a...