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The best place to look for alien megastructures might be moon dust
- Jun 16, 2026
Our search for technosignatures—clear signs of advanced civilizations beyond Earth—takes many forms. Many are driven by the famous Drake equation, whi...
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Young coqui frogs 'play it safe' when disease strikes, study finds
- Jun 16, 2026
For a frog no bigger than a fingernail, survival depends on how it spends every bit of energy. New research from the University of Florida shows that...
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World Cup Fever Study now open to all major smartwatches
- Jun 16, 2026
At the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Bielefeld University is looking for fans of all national teams. The Football Fever Study uses smartwatch data...
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Radiocarbon dating confirms 10,000 years of continuous human occupation in the Pyrenees
- Jun 16, 2026
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have created an open database with 124 carbon-14-dated samples that have made it possible...
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Study tracks juvenile sturgeon from Ohio's first-ever reintroduction effort
- Jun 16, 2026
A new telemetry study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences finds that the method used to raise juvenile lake sturgeon b...
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Young disk around WRAY 15-1880 may contain a primitive planetary system
- Jun 16, 2026
Italian astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform polarimetric observations of the star WRAY 15-1880 and its young circumstellar...
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New alliance to protect Atlantic's leatherback turtles launched on World Sea Turtle Day
- Jun 16, 2026
A newly established alliance, comprising leading researchers and conservation experts, has mobilized to safeguard the Atlantic Ocean's leatherback tur...
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New tool helps protect communities from flooding during rain-on-snow events and optimize reservoir management
- Jun 16, 2026
While Reno families were celebrating the 1997 New Year, the Truckee River was surging into the city's downtown streets. A rainstorm was falling on the...
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Jury service boosts public trust in courts, but fewer Americans are serving
- Jun 16, 2026
As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to fall, new research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylv...
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New research suggests writing with AI demands more thought from students, not less
- Jun 16, 2026
Writing with AI can look deceptively simple. Effortless, even. Type in a prompt and a polished paragraph appears in seconds. Tidy, confident, clean. B...
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Powerful UFO spotted blasting from a distant black hole
- Jun 16, 2026
Astronomers have detected one of the most powerful ultra-fast outflows ever seen from a distant supermassive black hole. Using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR,...
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Mongooses prepare for likely future battles with powerful enemies, study finds
- Jun 16, 2026
Dwarf mongooses anticipate encounters with rival groups and adjust how they move, communicate and defend resources beforehand, according to new resear...