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It's go time: historic Moon mission set for lift-off
- Mar 25, 2026
More than half a century after the groundbreaking Apollo program's last crewed flight to the moon, three men and one woman are preparing for a lunar j...
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Britain's hibernating hazel dormice are getting lighter in spring as temperatures rise, study suggests
- Mar 25, 2026
Britain's hazel dormice are getting lighter in spring but fatter in autumn as our climate changes, suggests new research in Scientific Reports. The st...
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Combining algae and oyster shells for biodiesel born in the bayou
- Mar 25, 2026
Biodiesel is a renewable fuel and offers a sustainable and potentially carbon-neutral alternative to petroleum products. Yet production costs remain a...
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Eight amino acids may explain salamanders' reduced cold sensitivity
- Mar 25, 2026
The ability to sense environmental temperature, which helps animals move away from suboptimal locations and find those with ideal temperatures, involv...
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Are mercury levels elevated across US conservation lands?
- Mar 25, 2026
A study published in The Journal of Wildlife Management found varying risks to species due to mercury pollution across the United States' National Wil...
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The world's great fish migrations are collapsing. That's a problem for millions of people
- Mar 25, 2026
Hidden beneath the surface of the world's rivers, some of Earth's great animal movements unfold—migrations that rival, in sheer biomass, the famous ma...
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Successful minority employees can create a false sense of diversity
- Mar 25, 2026
Highly successful women and racial minorities help to challenge stereotypes and serve as role models for members of their social groups, but seeing th...
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Uncovering the evolutionary limits of the COVID-19 virus
- Mar 25, 2026
A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, indicates that while the COVID-19 virus has developed rapidly since 2019, it has done so within limited g...
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Global study identifies urgent blue carbon priorities in the fight against climate change
- Mar 25, 2026
An international study warns that critical scientific and practical gaps are slowing the use of blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs) in global efforts to tac...
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Bio-based polymer offers a sustainable solution to 'forever chemical' cleanup
- Mar 25, 2026
Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered a renewable, bio-based polymer membrane capable of efficiently capturing toxic "forever chemical...
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Irrational decision or helpful evolutionary adaptation? A philosopher on the rationality wars behind 'nudge' policy
- Mar 25, 2026
Twelve-year-old Jaysen Carr died in July 2025. While he swam in Lake Murray, a reservoir a few miles from Columbia, South Carolina, Naegleria fowleri—...
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Red-tailed bumblebees found to be key hosts for dangerous bee virus
- Mar 25, 2026
Wild bumblebees serve as key hosts for acute bee paralysis virus. While the virus appears to cause little harm to bumblebees, infection is usually fat...