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New tool aims to deliver graziers a faster, more accurate read on exactly how much feed is in front of their cattle
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New tool aims to deliver graziers a faster, more accurate read on exactly how much feed is in front of their cattle

A drone lifts off over a paddock at Boorowa Agricultural Research Station, the breeze from its rotors setting the tall, uncut grass below rippling. At the contr...

A tiny chariot fitting reveals Egyptian glass reached Iron Age Britain
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A tiny chariot fitting reveals Egyptian glass reached Iron Age Britain

At the end of last year, curators from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford came to Diamond to learn more about a 2,000-year-old prehistoric artifact. Using the micro...

Study finds families raising autistic children show resilience alongside higher stress
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Study finds families raising autistic children show resilience alongside higher stress

Families raising a child with autism may experience greater levels of stress, but new University of Kentucky research published in the journal Autism suggests t...

Duncan Russet offers heat tolerance and virus resistance for southern potato growers
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Duncan Russet offers heat tolerance and virus resistance for southern potato growers

The latest potato variety released in August by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program, the Duncan Russet potato, delivers disease resistance that will directly...

Newly discovered orange killifish in the Brazilian Amazon may already be endangered
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Newly discovered orange killifish in the Brazilian Amazon may already be endangered

Researchers have discovered a new species of brilliantly colored fish from a network of forest streams in the Brazilian Amazon and have already recommended it f...

Follow the fish: How marine life is helping reveal hidden shipwrecks
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Follow the fish: How marine life is helping reveal hidden shipwrecks

In September 2026, 20 Australian university students departed Brisbane for Fiji aboard the CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator on a CAPSTAN sea training voy...

Planetary crises deepen global health inequality, paper warns
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Planetary crises deepen global health inequality, paper warns

The global inequality in health opportunities is being further heightened by the triple planetary crisis—climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pol...

Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition
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Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition

A type of transformation best known for hardening steel and enabling shape-memory alloys may also occur in a much softer class of materials, according to new re...

Children's sport is great at keeping them busy—but are they learning?
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Children's sport is great at keeping them busy—but are they learning?

When families look into getting their children involved in sports and physical activities, there is often a lot to consider. For some, this means choosing betwe...

Quantum protocol securely verifies a device's position using stations 2 km apart
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Quantum protocol securely verifies a device's position using stations 2 km apart

Reliably verifying the location of a device connected to the internet or other networks is important for various real-world applications. For instance, it could...

Mass shooting model identifies firearm availability as key limit on risk
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Mass shooting model identifies firearm availability as key limit on risk

Can mass shootings be forecast? Mohammad R.K. Mofrad and colleagues constructed an agent-based model of mass shootings within a Bayesian inference framework. In...

Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age
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Rope, twine and thread: Invisible technologies of the Stone Age

When an abstract-looking ivory artifact emerged from the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany in 2015, archaeologists didn't know quite what to make of it. Previ...

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