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Platypus population expands to 20 in Australia's Royal National Park
- May 22, 2026
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have confirmed a reintroduced platypus population in Royal National Park has now grown to 20 known individuals, following...
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Social mammals live longer—but bigger groups don't add that many extra years
- May 22, 2026
A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality...
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How countries can build effective DNA barcoding networks
- May 22, 2026
Aligning with the International Day for Biological Diversity's theme of "Acting locally for global impact," researchers have released a comprehensive...
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Unclear tasks and command structures may increase fatigue in disaster responders
- May 22, 2026
The frequency of natural disasters is increasing, and hence disaster responders are called on more than ever before. During disaster response, the foc...
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Earth's outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal
- May 22, 2026
The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA satellites provided data...
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Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf
- May 22, 2026
Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an exoplanet orbiting this star, whi...
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Heat vulnerability follows more than temperature, and this global map exposes the overlooked fault lines
- May 22, 2026
A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," provides the first large-scale,...
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Hubble captures galaxy cluster MACS J1141.6-1905
- May 22, 2026
Look closely at this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and you'll see galaxies of various shapes and sizes clustered together toward the center...
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How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes
- May 22, 2026
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, including the magnitude 5.8 Cair...
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Asexual lizards, virgin births and clones—the all‑female species of the animal kingdom
- May 22, 2026
It may sound too bizarre to be true, but the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a fish that inhabits rivers, lakes, and swamps in Mexico and Texas, exis...
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Researchers collaborate on effort to map biodiversity on Indonesia's unexplored seamounts
- May 22, 2026
Researchers from the University of Rhode Island are contributing to an international effort to document life on Indonesia's remote tropical seamounts—...
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Superconducting vortices moonlight as controllable qubits, turning a disruption into a resource
- May 22, 2026
Vortices in superconductors have so far been considered a disruption, as they can impair the superconducting properties. Researchers at the Karlsruhe...