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Scientific discoveries and research
Study finds trust is the missing ingredient for AI-driven food safety
Artificial intelligence promises to transform food safety by helping companies identify risks earlier, predict outbreaks and learn from patterns too rare for an...
A new family of materials for efficiently converting sunlight into clean energy
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new family of materials that use light to produce hydrogen from water, opening the door to new ways of c...
Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surf...
Mysterious giant carving may show a Kushite ruler and mark an ancient borderland
For centuries, a life-size petroglyph has stood over the rocky landscape of Miseeda in northern Sudan. Exactly who the figure carved into a granite hill represe...
Taylor Swift: My database of her 123,553 lyrics reveals hidden patterns
"It seems like all I ever do is change," Taylor Swift writes in the prolog to the bestselling album 1989 (Taylor's Version), released in 2023. In fact, change i...
Across six cultures, children step in when peers need help
A new study by an international research team provides the first systematic, cross-cultural comparison of how children help their peers. While previous research...
Research shows poor mental health among politicians may impair decision-making
When political leaders disclose mental health challenges—as an increasing number of high-profile leaders have done in recent years—the public debate usually foc...
Suns set on hunt for giant planets in nearby binary system
New research led by the University of Michigan is helping set the stage for future observatories to characterize rocky planets outside our solar system, planets...
Wolves did not save Yellowstone—why were we so desperate to believe they did?
You might be among the 46 million people who've seen a video showing how wolves changed Yellowstone, or you may have heard another version of the story. Yellows...
How the moon and sun may trigger slow earthquakes on Earth
While not quite a fatal attraction, the gravitational pull of the moon and sun creates tiny stresses on Earth that can trigger events known as slow earthquakes....
How ocean chemistry helped life keep breathing
Scientists have helped solve a longstanding mystery about how Earth remained habitable after oxygen first accumulated in its atmosphere more than 2 billion year...
Researchers find a fungus in Kentucky's forest grass that makes rare bug-fighting chemicals
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) have discovered that a fungus living inside a common...