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Chandra reveals flickering supernova remnants in M83 over 14 years
- Jun 15, 2026
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA's Chandra X-ray Obser...
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Digital platforms are making it more difficult to focus, read and even engage in democracy
- Jun 15, 2026
Oxford's 2024 Word of the Year, "brain rot," refers to the loss of intelligence or critical thinking skills due to the overconsumption of specific typ...
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Feeling poorer than peers linked to lower well-being, even when incomes are similar
- Jun 15, 2026
New research is shedding light on how comparing ourselves to others affects happiness and life satisfaction. Led by McGill University researchers, the...
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Modern human skeletal biology needs to move beyond the strict male/female binary, scientists argue
- Jun 15, 2026
Human skeletal biologists traditionally provide sex estimations as part of establishing biological profiles (skeletal sex, age-at-death, stature, ance...
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Deep Earth model traces 270 million years of seamount formation across oceans
- Jun 15, 2026
Over 40,000 seamounts—undersea mountains that don't breach the ocean's surface—are scattered across the ocean floor. Some form linear chains, while ot...
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Onboarding support helps merchants adopt digital payment methods
- Jun 15, 2026
Change can be hard—especially when you're used to receiving change. Switching from cash-based to digital payment methods can be a difficult sell, part...
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Benzene reaction may explain how DNA and RNA building blocks formed on early Earth
- Jun 15, 2026
Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA and RNA, the molecules th...
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Why Arctic sea ice loss could reshape the Gulf Stream's future
- Jun 15, 2026
The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine. To predict how ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean may develop,...
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Earthquakes can be destructive for distant cities built on top of basins—now we know why
- Jun 15, 2026
Sedimentary basins—depressions in Earth's crust caused by tectonic activity—tend to be flat and are favored places to build cities. But during earthqu...
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Deep-sea crust uncovers steady plutonium rain from ancient kilonova debris
- Jun 15, 2026
Debris is still raining down on Earth more than 100 million years after the giant cosmic explosion that created it. A study published this week in Nat...
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A waltz over evolutionary timescales: Why it's so hard for animals to invent a new mating dance
- Jun 15, 2026
"Love makes fools of all of us," wrote 19th-century novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. A moment spent watching the pigeons at your local park sugge...
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Do shark culls keep people safe in the ocean? Here's what the science says
- Jun 15, 2026
A young mother remains in hospital after being bitten by a shark at Coogee Beach in Sydney on Saturday morning. Leah Stewart, 35, was swimming about 3...