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Turtle fossil narrows timeline of Cretaceous species migration
- Feb 9, 2026
Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting...
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Bioengineers build branched, perfusable kidney collecting ducts using 3D bioprinting
- Feb 9, 2026
The human kidney filters about a cup of blood every minute, removing waste, excess fluid, and toxins from it, while also regulating blood pressure, ba...
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Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster
- Feb 9, 2026
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with...
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Discovering new connections between Great Lakes' winter storms and global climate patterns
- Feb 9, 2026
About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in th...
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DeepChopper model improves RNA sequencing research by mitigating chimera artifacts
- Feb 9, 2026
Scientists in the laboratory of Rendong Yang, Ph.D., associate professor of Urology, have developed a new large language model that can interpret tran...
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From fins to fingers: How nature 'redeployed' ancient genes to shape limbs
- Feb 9, 2026
How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Ta...
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A piece of Africa in Europe? New insights into plate tectonics of the Balkans
- Feb 9, 2026
Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million...
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A quick stretch switches this polymer's capacity to transport heat
- Feb 9, 2026
Most materials have an inherent capacity to handle heat. Plastic, for instance, is typically a poor thermal conductor, whereas materials like marble m...
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Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
- Feb 9, 2026
New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Res...
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Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story
- Feb 9, 2026
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, del...
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3D 'polar chiral bobbers' identified in ferroelectric thin films
- Feb 9, 2026
A novel type of three-dimensional (3D) polar topological structure, termed the "polar chiral bobber," has been discovered in ferroelectric oxide thin...
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Eco-friendly catalyst switches oxygen source based on particle size, study finds
- Feb 9, 2026
As the climate crisis becomes a part of daily life with unprecedented heat waves and cold snaps, technology to effectively remove greenhouse gases is...