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800 visits to a suburban park: Inside an epic 40‑year birdwatching quest
- Jun 17, 2026
Birdwatching is one of the most common and popular ways people experience nature. But it's not often that even the most enthusiastic birdwatcher retur...
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Thawing permafrost may trigger overlooked carbon sink in rivers
- Jun 17, 2026
A new study published in Nature shows that rock weathering increasingly counteracts river CO2 emissions as permafrost degrades. The study was carried...
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Bees avoid too much of a good thing by balancing nutrients in pollen, study reveals
- Jun 17, 2026
New Oxford University-led research reveals that bees can regulate their feeding to avoid overconsuming certain essential nutrients, and that honey bee...
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Mountain lions have major ecological impact even in small preserves
- Jun 17, 2026
Big cats have a big impact. A long-term study showed that when mountain lions began regular visits to a small suburban preserve about 45 miles (72 kil...
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Levels of 'forever chemicals' in dolphins and whales are rising globally
- Jun 17, 2026
Whales and dolphins inhabit some of the largest and seemingly most pristine environments on Earth, from tropical coastlines to Antarctic waters. Yet e...
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Payload electronics and flight software being developed for NASA's Landsat 10 spacecraft
- Jun 17, 2026
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite, whi...
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Volcanic shifts suggest Andes mountain growth comes in powerful bursts rather than a slow and steady rise
- Jun 17, 2026
Scientists have discovered that the southern Andes Mountains don't rise slowly and steadily as previously thought. Instead, the range builds itself in...
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Goats listen to human voices to find hidden food treats
- Jun 17, 2026
Goats appear to have a rare ability not shared by many in the animal kingdom, and that is being able to follow the direction of a human voice to locat...
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Mineral garnet discovered in Mars meteorite may reveal how the red planet evolved billions of years ago
- Jun 17, 2026
An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock from the red planet and, for the first time, discovered the mineral g...
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Quantum Hall effect gains a new twist in graphene moiré systems
- Jun 17, 2026
Physicists have long been drawn to the nonlinear Hall effect: a subtle variant of the classical Hall effect, in which an electric voltage appears perp...
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Dark matter cannot be ruled out as cause of gamma ray glow at the Milky Way's center, machine learning shows
- Jun 17, 2026
An international research collaboration between the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States has used machi...
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How evolution can make cells smaller without slowing down their growth
- Jun 17, 2026
A new study led by Marco Fumasoni, principal investigator at Fundação GIMM, shows that evolution can substantially reduce cell size without significan...