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Chemical impurities make carbon surfaces superslippery, researchers find

• Jun 14, 2026

Engineers often treat impurities as a problem to eliminate to improve material performance. But new research from Osaka Metropolitan University and Fr...

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What powered the Earth's earliest life?

• Jun 14, 2026

Early biological systems likely relied on RNA molecules to copy themselves and drive simple chemical reactions. Any system that could generate guanosi...

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Light-programmed system projects 28-layer 3D images in single shot

• Jun 14, 2026

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, introduced a snapsh...

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NASA's Chandra discovers possible supernova remnant in galactic center

• Jun 14, 2026

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of our ga...

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Is 'gender gating' the secret to success in online dating?

• Jun 14, 2026

Digital matching platforms—from professional networking to ride-sharing and accommodation services—add value by bringing supply and demand into balanc...

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Unique chromium beam experiment unlocks cosmic ray origins and galactic chemistry

• Jun 14, 2026

When a star dies, it generates an explosion of elemental nuclei and hurls them into space. Those elements, called cosmic rays, travel at nearly the sp...

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South African telescope detects record‑breaking signal from the early universe

• Jun 14, 2026

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio a...

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David Kipping has new take on the existence of advanced life in the universe and the numbers are not encouraging

• Jun 13, 2026

Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extrater...

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Ocean monitoring is in trouble: It's up to Europe and Asia to avoid losing sight of the world's deep‑sea ecosystems

• Jun 13, 2026

The world relies on a modest number of countries to keep watch over the ocean. That arrangement is starting to fail. Europe and Asia must now decide w...

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Could leaves help feed humanity after disaster?

• Jun 13, 2026

UC researchers are investigating whether leaf protein and sugar extracted from plant fiber could help sustain people if major global shocks disrupt fo...

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Dogs and humans are more alike than we thought, study finds

• Jun 13, 2026

The same biological signals that help predict lifespan in humans also appear in dogs, according to new research from the Dog Aging Project—a finding t...

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How directing water flows in the landscape could support groundwater and surface water streams

• Jun 13, 2026

Researchers at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research have investigated how water from streams can be stored in the aquifer during wet...