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Amino acid 'stickers' help decode spider silk's strength and flexibility
Scientists have identified the molecular interactions that give spider silk its exceptional strength and flexibility, opening the door to new bio-inspired mater...
The internet names a new deep-sea species of chiton
The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let the inter...
Raising human capital in BRICS is linked to lower emissions, study suggests
Climate change and worsening environmental conditions have brought into sharp relief how we must reconcile development with sustainability. This issue is nowher...
Light-driven probe enables sensitive detection of epigenetic intermediates
Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation play a key role in regulating gene expression. Emerging evidence suggests that intermediates generated during D...
Governments urged to fix faulty radar in economic models disregarding climate risk
Economic models used by governments, central banks and investors are increasingly understating physical climate risk because they rely on assumptions that break...
Study: Why Nobel Prize-level materials have yet to reach industry
Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, polluted water, and increasingly strict environmental regulations are driving the search for materials that can efficie...
Into the neutrino fog: The ghosts haunting our search for dark matter
Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps planning one. He bounces around the edg...
Large study shows scaling startups risk increasing gender gaps
When startups scale quickly, founders often make hurried hiring decisions that unintentionally disadvantage women, according to new study from the Stockholm Sch...
New VRscores database maps workplace politics across 530,000 US employers
Researchers, including Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, have produced V...
What Olympic athletes see that viewers don't: Machine-made snow makes ski racing faster and riskier
When viewers tune in to the 2026 Winter Olympics, they will see pristine, white slopes, groomed tracks and athletes racing over snow-covered landscapes, thanks...
'Dispersal-driven' evolution fuels diversity at the air-liquid interface
As in a batch of kombucha or a barrel of sherry, microbes can assemble into a mat-like layer at the boundary between air and liquid. In laboratory culture, the...
How to close the justice gap: What a health-linked legal model showed in three years
A three-year study has found that legal services work best when they are designed with communities, delivered face-to-face and closely linked to health and well...