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Birds change altitude to survive epic journeys across deserts and seas
- Feb 20, 2026
Every year, billions of birds undertake extraordinary migrations, crossing vast deserts and open seas with no place to stop, feed, or rest. A new inte...
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Social media advertising suppresses voting in targeted communities, research shows
- Feb 20, 2026
Messages intended to suppress votes can be precisely delivered to particularly vulnerable and consequential groups of people via social media and keep...
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Neutron scattering helps clarify magnetic behavior in altermagnetic material
- Feb 20, 2026
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have identified the true source of a magnetic effect seen in the material ruthenium dioxide (Ru...
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New generation of climate models sheds first light on long-standing Pacific puzzle
- Feb 20, 2026
Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. Existin...
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Blood marker from dementia research could help track aging across the animal world
- Feb 20, 2026
A protein called neurofilament light chain (NfL)—studied in humans in the context of neurodegenerative diseases and aging—is also detectable in the bl...
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Scientists home in on Acinetobacter baumannii's resistance evolution
- Feb 20, 2026
Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacteria which can become a virulent killer in health-care settings among severely ill patients. The germ has rapidly dev...
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Symbiotic bacteria in planthoppers break record for smallest non-organelle genome ever found
- Feb 20, 2026
Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Natu...
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Flexible force fields can protect our return to the moon
- Feb 20, 2026
Lunar dust remains one of the biggest challenges for a long-term human presence on the moon. Its jagged, clingy nature makes it naturally stick to eve...
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How massive lava fields formed in the Pacific Northwest
- Feb 20, 2026
Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral role in marine geology a...
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A new way to judge how the economy performs in booms and busts
- Feb 20, 2026
When the economy grows or shrinks, we often focus on how long the phase lasts or how deep it goes. A new paper asks a sharper question: How does actua...
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Robot clean-up crews tackle litter on Europe's seabed
- Feb 20, 2026
EU researchers are developing AI-guided robot fleets to take over the dangerous, dirty work of finding and removing marine litter from the sea floor....
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Can a chatbot be a co-author? AI helps crack a long-stalled gluon amplitude proof
- Feb 20, 2026
Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answer...