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Consumers often make suboptimal loan prepayment choices
- Jun 9, 2026
When consumers pay down debt, many choose to put funds toward their oldest loans first—even when doing so may not make the most financial sense, accor...
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Ancient ground squirrel droppings reveal Arctic's rich evolutionary history
- Jun 9, 2026
Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of...
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Koala numbers crashed across Australia 100,000 years ago. Global glacial cycles are likely to blame
- Jun 9, 2026
It's surprising how easy it is to see a koala every day in Australia's major cities. The cute, gray marsupial can be found on T-shirts, hanging off pe...
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'Super-connected' teenagers key to tackling violent crime, study suggests
- Jun 9, 2026
Young people with the most connections to other suspected offenders of any age are almost five times more likely to carry knives than the average yout...
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Teachers more likely to accept low AI grades than equivalent human grades, study finds
- Jun 9, 2026
Teachers were more likely to accept an overly harsh grade given to a student by AI than when the unduly low grade was handed out by a human. As AI is...
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These underwater 'living pink rocks' help store carbon: Scientists just found four new species
- Jun 9, 2026
Rhodoliths may look like small rocks on the seafloor, but they are actually living algae that create habitats for marine life and contribute to long-t...
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Some drugs 'fail' because of unrealistic testing conditions, scientists discover
- Jun 9, 2026
A drug once dismissed as ineffective suddenly worked—when scientists tested it under more realistic conditions that mimic the human body. In this surp...
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New maps chart old-growth forests across Alaska and British Columbia
- Jun 9, 2026
Mature and old-growth forests are vital for biodiversity, carbon storage, cultural traditions and economic activity. But in Alaska and British Columbi...
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Possible dark matter-deficient twins discovered in the Fornax Cluster
- Jun 9, 2026
Astronomers have identified a possible new example of one of the universe's strangest galaxy types: galaxies that appear to contain little or no dark...
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Chasing the ghost dog of the Amazon: New insights into a mythical canid
- Jun 9, 2026
For decades, the short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) has been considered one of the least-known carnivores in Latin America, and potentially one of...
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Quantum memory surpasses classical limits for storing unknown quantum operations
- Jun 9, 2026
Quantum memories, systems that store and retrieve information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, can outperform classical storage systems on some...
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Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails
- Jun 9, 2026
Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server from researchers at NASA'...