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Rare-earth-free zinc oxide achieves a first in stress-to-light conversion
- Jun 12, 2026
Mechanoluminescent materials convert mechanical energy such as stress, strain and vibration directly into light, making them attractive as self-powere...
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Scientific discoveries and research
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Landscape water velocities across Europe reshape nitrogen pollution risk under climate change
- Jun 12, 2026
Nitrate pollution is a growing global environmental challenge due to the extensive use of fertilizer. A study published in Science, led by the Leibniz...
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Nuclear clocks tick for the first time
- Jun 12, 2026
Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang...
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Carbon dioxide unlocks safer oxidation chemistry under room-temperature conditions
- Jun 12, 2026
Oxidation reactions are indispensable to the chemical industry, but from a process safety perspective, they are among the most challenging transformat...
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Horse owners' personality and attachment style shape how they interact with and care for their horses
- Jun 12, 2026
A new study shows that horse owners' psychological characteristics, including their attachment styles and personality traits, are systematically linke...
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Engineered bacterium turns potato starch into biodegradable plastic in 24 hours
- Jun 12, 2026
Every year, hundreds of millions of tons of petrochemical-based plastics are produced, much of which ends up in the environment or is incinerated. Thi...
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Dragonfly and damselfly migrations crisscross planet, with 100 species confirmed
- Jun 12, 2026
Migration flights of dragonflies and damselflies crisscross much of our planet, new research reveals. Scientists from the universities of Exeter and L...
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AI tracks missing hydrogen atoms in crystals with 97% success rate
- Jun 12, 2026
Artificial intelligence is often used to generate images. In research, specialized AI models are used for scientific applications—for example, to pred...
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A cornerstone of Milky Way history may need rewriting with evidence of multiple ancient mergers
- Jun 12, 2026
Astronomers may have uncovered new details about one of the Milky Way's most important ancient collisions. Using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscop...
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New findings complete first evolutionary history of all living millipede orders, dating back 460 million years
- Jun 12, 2026
Long before vertebrates walked on land, millipedes had the place to themselves. Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs arrived, these early de...
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Photo: Hubble and Webb offer new view of Black Eye Galaxy
- Jun 12, 2026
This March 20, 2026, image of Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is a composite view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telesco...
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Hubble captures galaxy swarm with lensed arcs from early universe
- Jun 12, 2026
Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galax...