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Antitrust crackdowns may reduce corporate know-how
- Jan 28, 2026
Interlocking directorates—the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies—have long been identified with backroom deals...
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The magnetic 'birdsong' of the smallest planet
- Jan 28, 2026
BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the more interesting things fou...
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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi
- Jan 28, 2026
Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs o...
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Which countries are paying the highest price for particulate air pollution?
- Jan 28, 2026
Polluted air causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Much of the mortality comes from PM...
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Lake Anna analysis finds multiple pollution sources, with mines a key contributor
- Jan 28, 2026
A new University of Virginia study led by environmental scientist Justin Richardson shows that phosphorus pollution driving algae blooms in Virginia's...
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NASA telescopes spot surprisingly mature cluster in the early universe
- Jan 28, 2026
Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much larger than anything astro...
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Warming weakens natural enemies of insects, new research shows
- Jan 28, 2026
A warming climate is disrupting the delicate balance of nature. An international team of scientists led by entomologists from the Biology Center of th...
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Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving
- Jan 28, 2026
Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can b...
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Mineral dust accelerates Greenland ice sheet melt by promoting algae growth
- Jan 28, 2026
Large-scale melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is irreversible and happening at a rapid rate, and now a new international study is the first to unders...
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Q&A: Learning how we respond to wildfire smoke to help inform policy and programs
- Jan 28, 2026
With wildfires growing in size, frequency, and intensity, more and more people are being exposed to their smoke, sometimes thousands of miles from the...
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Scientists just mapped the family tree of all 11,000 bird species—and you can explore it
- Jan 28, 2026
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the evolutionary relationships among bir...
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New radio method uncovers hidden bursts from dwarf stars and hints of exoplanets
- Jan 28, 2026
An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering previously undetectable ste...