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Many workplaces resist plant-based lunches despite substantial climate benefits
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Many workplaces resist plant-based lunches despite substantial climate benefits

Are organizations ready for plant-based food at work? A new study from the University of Copenhagen explores this question and shows that only a small proportio...

Tiny atomic changes could lead to smarter wireless technology
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Tiny atomic changes could lead to smarter wireless technology

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown that making extremely small changes to the structure of a material can dramatically improve its abilit...

Narwhals help researchers uncover unique data from the deepest East Greenland fjords
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Narwhals help researchers uncover unique data from the deepest East Greenland fjords

They live in some of the most inaccessible waters on Earth, where ocean temperatures hover around freezing. Because they move through areas that humans rarely r...

Chagas parasite's survival trick offers antimalarial-style target
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Chagas parasite's survival trick offers antimalarial-style target

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have identified a potential new target to prevent the spread of Chagas disease. The parasitic infection is transmitt...

Buried underwear shows land use is key to soil health
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Buried underwear shows land use is key to soil health

Soil is the foundation of our food supply. It stores water, carbon and nutrients and is home to a large share of the world's biodiversity. More than half of glo...

Did ocean motion carve Enceladus's tiger stripes?
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Did ocean motion carve Enceladus's tiger stripes?

Saturn's moon Enceladus sports a thick shell of ice surrounding a liquid water ocean. As though scraped by an enormous claw, four parallel cracks slash across i...

Even protected Florida wetlands can't escape microplastic pollution
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Even protected Florida wetlands can't escape microplastic pollution

Microplastics are turning up almost everywhere—from oceans and rivers to soils and sediments—yet far less is known about what happens when they enter freshwater...

Congo Basin study reveals nuanced relationship between people and flooding
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Congo Basin study reveals nuanced relationship between people and flooding

In the Lac Télé Community Reserve, a vast tropical peatland in Africa's Congo Basin that is home to about 20,000 people, the forces of climate change and global...

Expert Comment: More extreme weather is coming—AI may help us to better prepare for it
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Expert Comment: More extreme weather is coming—AI may help us to better prepare for it

As of August 2026, the world is bracing for what forecasters describe as one of the strongest El Niño events on record. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheri...

Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape
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Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape

The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fossils can offer clue...

Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes
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Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes

When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social information in primates, so the evolution of...

Gambling branding dominates Premier League YouTube highlights, new study finds
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Gambling branding dominates Premier League YouTube highlights, new study finds

New research from the University of Nottingham has found that gambling brands were visible in 32% of Premier League soccer highlight footage, compared with less...

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