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Snowball Earth: Ancient Scottish rocks reveal annual climate cycles
- Feb 5, 2026
Scientists at the University of Southampton have uncovered evidence from ancient rocks that Earth's climate continued to fluctuate during its most ext...
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AI accelerates access to insect collections
- Feb 5, 2026
Researchers at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with data scientists, have developed a new method to largely automate the extraction of labe...
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MXenes for energy storage: More versatile than expected
- Feb 5, 2026
MXene materials are promising candidates for a new energy storage technology. However, the processes by which the charge storage takes place were not...
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Skua deaths mark first wildlife die-off due to avian flu on Antarctica
- Feb 5, 2026
More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, marking the first docume...
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Surgery for quantum bits: Bit-flip errors corrected during superconducting qubit operations
- Feb 5, 2026
Quantum computers hold great promise for exciting applications in the future, but for now they keep presenting physicists and engineers with a series...
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CRISPR-based biosensors enable real-time ocean health monitoring
- Feb 5, 2026
Oceanic ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global warming, which causes coral bleaching, species migration and, through the loss of habitats an...
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Invasive termites threatening homes in Florida are spreading farther than predicted
- Feb 5, 2026
Florida's coastal and urban counties continue to see the spread of two invasive termite species beyond South Florida. The species are now threatening...
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Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart
- Feb 5, 2026
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gra...
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Finger length could provide vital clue to understanding human brain evolution
- Feb 5, 2026
The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly dependent on increases in pr...
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Simulations and experiments meet: Machine learning predicts gold nanocluster structures
- Feb 5, 2026
Researchers at University of Jyväskylä (Finland) advance understanding of gold nanocluster behavior at elevated temperatures using machine learning-ba...
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Rare 'universal paralog' genes may reveal a pre-LUCA evolutionary record
- Feb 5, 2026
All life on Earth shares a common ancestor that lived roughly four billion years ago. This so-called "last universal common ancestor" (LUCA) represent...
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DNA provides a solution to our enormous data storage problem
- Feb 5, 2026
Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to pr...