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What you study in school shapes your voting choices in adulthood
- Mar 16, 2026
Across Europe, education has become one of the biggest dividing lines in politics, and educational qualifications are now one of the best predictors o...
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Microbes in Antarctica survive the freezing and dark winter by living on air
- Mar 16, 2026
Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and does not rise above the hori...
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Light-controlled hydrogel mimics soft human tissue for more realistic cell studies
- Mar 16, 2026
For decades, lab-grown cells have been studied in materials that don't reflect the softness and flexibility of human tissue. Now researchers at the Un...
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Gold nanoclusters could selectively recognize chiral biomolecules to help detect certain diseases
- Mar 16, 2026
An extensive computational study by researchers from Finland's University of Jyväskylä predicts that gold nanoclusters could selectively recognize chi...
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Not just spin—electron orbitals can provide new method for controlling magnetism
- Mar 16, 2026
Research is actively underway to develop a "dream memory" that can reduce heat generation in smartphones and laptops while delivering faster performan...
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Personal change thresholds may explain why popular policies fail to spread
- Mar 16, 2026
Why do widely supported solutions to major problems, such as climate change, so often struggle to gain real traction? A new study suggests that part o...
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Structural modeling reveals phage proteins that manipulate bacterial immune signaling
- Mar 16, 2026
The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. L...
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Location of reforestation projects has greater effect on climate than number of trees planted, study shows
- Mar 16, 2026
In the fight against the climate crisis, countries are pinning great hope in reforestation projects. In a new study, ETH Zurich researchers show that...
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Why some metals turn transparent: A key mechanism for touchscreen conductors
- Mar 16, 2026
Researchers Gyanendra Singh and Josep Fontcuberta, from the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, have experimentally confirmed a theory they p...
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Frog-cell 'neurobots' grow self-organized nervous systems and alter gene activity
- Mar 16, 2026
Biobots, whose growing line of variants started with xenobots, are fascinating tiny self-powered living robots built exclusively using frog embryonic...
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Breathing in nanoparticles could enable a 10-minute pneumonia check at point of care
- Mar 16, 2026
Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect disease-related compounds in a patie...
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Photorespiration may help maintain plant epigenome by fueling C1 metabolism
- Mar 16, 2026
Photorespiration is a cellular conversion process in which plants release carbon dioxide and consume oxygen when exposed to light. Until now, it has b...