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Tracking the toxic metals left behind by wildfires
- Mar 6, 2026
Between 2023 and 2025, more than 30 million hectares burned in Canada due to wildfires. The threat from increasingly frequent and intense wildfires go...
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New research warns charities against 'AI shortcut' to empathy
- Mar 6, 2026
A new report from the University of East Anglia (UEA) warns that the potential reputational damage of charities using AI-generated images in their cam...
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Plant cell structure could hold key to cancer therapies and improved crops
- Mar 5, 2026
Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The proteins that give plants t...
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AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring
- Mar 5, 2026
A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for monitoring structural vibrations using...
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Amazon fish contaminated with toxic metals threaten riverine communities' health
- Mar 5, 2026
For riverside communities along the Amazon, fish is not a menu choice—it is a lifeline. Millions of people in the Brazilian Amazon depend on fish as t...
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Making mini-lightning in a block of plastic
- Mar 5, 2026
Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is l...
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Toward practical laser-driven light sails using photonic crystals
- Mar 5, 2026
Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and trave...
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Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing
- Mar 5, 2026
An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have...
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NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis
- Mar 5, 2026
When NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the revamped approach to the Artemis moon program, it was unclear whether the new mobile launcher tha...
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Chemically tuning nanographene into topological spin chains and why the ends matter
- Mar 5, 2026
When most people hear "polymer," they think of plastics. In our group, polymerization is a way to line up identical molecules like beads on a string a...
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Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it
- Mar 5, 2026
Estimating things that exist is generally easy, but when it comes to estimating things that do not exist, it's more difficult. This is something physi...
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Marine biologists a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades
- Mar 5, 2026
The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one parent holding fast to the ha...