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Researchers advance solvent-based recycling for flexible plastics
- Mar 5, 2026
Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, microwave containers, and...
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Cleaner water, longer-lasting devices: New benchmark measures electrocatalysis oxidants in real time
- Mar 5, 2026
From brightly colored textile dyes to persistent pesticides and antibiotics, many modern pollutants dissolved in water—such as Bisphenol A—resist trad...
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CEO turnover taxes analyst attention, skewing broader forecasts
- Mar 5, 2026
When analyst attention is absorbed by CEO turnover, other companies in their portfolio pay the price, new Cornell research finds. The study, "Analyst...
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How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes
- Mar 5, 2026
How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show how forces and cooperation...
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Piecing together parasitic plant pathways
- Mar 5, 2026
Genes that play a key role in the formation of an infectious organ used by parasitic plants have been identified by plant scientists at RIKEN. This di...
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Cooling Dwight: Researchers are helping to address heat inequities in New Haven
- Mar 5, 2026
During the hottest summer days in New Haven's Dwight neighborhood, the kids at Kensington Playground improvise a way to stay cool—wedging T-shirts alo...
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Franconia's agriculture of the future: Olives and rice instead of barley and sugar beet?
- Mar 5, 2026
Due to climate change, agriculture is facing an unprecedented transformation. While Germany was hardly affected by massive crop failures for decades,...
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Pond-dwelling microalga exposes a parallel track for RNA processing
- Mar 5, 2026
Biology textbooks explain that cells follow a universal rule when processing gene transcripts to make proteins. Non-coding snippets of RNA are bracket...
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Scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction
- Mar 5, 2026
All complex biological systems—like the DNA, RNA and proteins constantly being copied and built within our cells—are prone to errors. That means as li...
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Lord of the fruit flies: How scientists are defending against a major agricultural pest
- Mar 5, 2026
When Vasilis Rodovitis rips open his brown paper bag in a sunny persimmon orchard just outside Naousa, in Greece, I half expect groceries to spill out...
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Scientists create a hexagonal diamond that could be even harder than the real thing
- Mar 5, 2026
To misquote a famous song, "Diamonds are industry's best friend." Cubic diamond is the hardest mineral on Earth and is used in everything from precisi...
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Introducing the Interplanetary Habitable Zone
- Mar 5, 2026
Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the t...