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Climate change is driving rising agricultural water use in Central Asia
- Feb 12, 2026
Even as farmers shift toward less water-intensive crops, climate change is pushing agricultural water consumption upward in Central Asia. A new study...
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Scientific discoveries and research
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Chip makes pH measurements easier and devices more robust and portable
- Feb 12, 2026
Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has developed a new technology that makes pH measurements significantly more robust, simple, and r...
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Holistic monitoring system measures the state of lake ecosystems
- Feb 12, 2026
A new holistic monitoring system developed under the leadership of TU Graz measures boat waves with millimeter precision using satellite navigation da...
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Silicon metasurfaces boost optical image processing with passive intensity-based filtering
- Feb 12, 2026
Of the many feats achieved by artificial intelligence (AI), the ability to process images quickly and accurately has had an especially impressive impa...
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New 3D printing ink uses 70% lignin and recycles with water
- Feb 12, 2026
Additive manufacturing (AM) methods, such as 3D printing, enable the realization of objects with different geometric properties, by adding materials l...
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Photonic integrated circuits enable programmable non-Abelian 'braiding' of light states
- Feb 12, 2026
A research team has successfully implemented a programmable spinor lattice on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This platform enables the realizati...
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Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs
- Feb 12, 2026
Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that ar...
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What to know about EPA decision to revoke a scientific finding that helped fight climate change
- Feb 12, 2026
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday revoked its own 2009 "endangerment finding," a scientific conclusion that for 16 years has been the ce...
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New perspectives on how physical instabilities drive embryonic development
- Feb 12, 2026
Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex orga...
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Yangtze River fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline
- Feb 12, 2026
The Yangtze River Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, has endured severe ecological degradation over several decades due to intense human activity,...
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Nanolaser on a chip could cut computer energy use in half
- Feb 12, 2026
Researchers at DTU have developed a nanolaser that could be the key to much faster and much more energy-efficient computers, phones, and data centers....
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Sea turtles are nesting earlier but producing fewer eggs, 17-year study finds
- Feb 12, 2026
Climate change is reshaping life on Earth at an unprecedented pace. Across the globe, species are shifting their ranges, altering migration routes and...