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Are llamas big pharma's secret weapon to find new drugs?
- Jan 26, 2026
One llama is sprawled on the grass with its neck craned, basking in a patch of sunshine. Another stands on a dirt hill, ears flattened defiantly. A th...
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Shrubs curb carbon emissions in China's largest desert, decades-long experiment shows
- Jan 26, 2026
An experiment in western China over the past four decades shows that it is possible to tame the expansion of desert lands with greenery, and, in the p...
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Hibernating hamsters maintain muscle cells by suppressing muscle regeneration, study shows
- Jan 26, 2026
Skeletal muscle stem cells in hibernating Syrian hamsters preserve their ability to function by suppressing their activation during the hibernation pe...
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Saltier seas in spring double the chance of extreme El Niño events, study finds
- Jan 26, 2026
Stronger El Niño events are more likely when springtime surface waters in the western Pacific Ocean become unusually salty, a new study in Geophysical...
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Historic winter storm kills at least 10 across US
- Jan 26, 2026
A monster storm barreling across swaths of the United States has killed at least 10 people and prompted warnings to stay off the roads, mass flight ca...
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To reach net-zero, reverse current policy and protect the largest trees in the Amazon, say scientists
- Jan 26, 2026
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2015, countries around the world committed to striving towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by...
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Vanishing birds across Norway's agricultural landscape may signal deeper changes
- Jan 25, 2026
In Europe, it is well documented that bird species associated with agricultural landscapes have experienced a sharp decline over several decades. Sinc...
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Banal but brutal: Career anxiety as a driving force behind authoritarianism
- Jan 25, 2026
Career pressure—not ideology—causes military officers to protect or overthrow dictators. New research from the Department of Political Science shows t...
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Innovative catalyst enables CO₂-free production of hydrogen and formate from waste byproduct glycerol
- Jan 25, 2026
Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a method that gives access to the valuable raw materials formate and hydrogen...
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Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation observation
- Jan 25, 2026
Already recognized for its excellence and even adopted for operational weather forecasting, the European Space Agency's Arctic Weather Satellite has n...
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Chandra catalog now contains 1.3 million X-ray detections across the sky
- Jan 25, 2026
Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has a "back catalog" of cosmic recordings that is impossible to re...
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CEO accents play role in everyday investors' decision-making, but not professionals, study finds
- Jan 25, 2026
Within the S&P 500, only a small fraction of chief executive officers speak with an accent or come from foreign backgrounds. The figure hovers around...