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Can dogs help teens cope with peer stress?
About one in 10 teenagers experiences social anxiety—persistent and disruptive worries about being judged by classmates and other peers. In a new study of adole...
Flightless beetles evolved distinct snail-hunting shapes on Japan's largest island
Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing isolated populations to adapt to differ...
Radio telescopes help scientists map molecules in space and uncover where and how stars form
You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements heavier than hydrogen an...
Brief firearm safety talks more than double openness to out-of-home storage
A brief chat about firearm safety can sharply increase willingness among gun owners to consider temporarily storing their firearms outside the home during times...
Belgium races to tame huge wildfire creeping toward Germany
Water-bombing aircraft and farmers' tractors joined forces Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day wildfire, which has scorched vast swath...
Japan aims for the moons of Mars
Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system and life on Earth, although a riva...
A small squeeze reveals new clues about an unusual kind of magnet
Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual properties at the same time: its tiny ma...
Gene-edited beagles produce no detectable major dog allergen, early tests find
Humans love dogs, but petting them can leave some people sneezing and wheezing. About 15% of the world's population lives with a dog allergy, which can increase...
Phytophthora dieback linked to habitat loss and lower digging activity among quendas in Western Australia
A new study from Murdoch University has found that the introduced plant disease Phytophthora dieback is indirectly hindering quendas in Western Australia's jarr...
Strain flips Hall signal in altermagnetic manganese telluride, suggesting a path to practical spintronics
Time-reversal symmetry is an exotic behavior found in systems whose internal physics looks different when running forward versus backward in time. For some time...
Chinese ship sets off for Europe through Arctic, halving travel time
A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic as part of a new weekly service on a route that cuts shipment times in half but that envir...
Shrinking water bodies can turn drought into disease hotspots or dead ends
Prolonged dry spells or droughts can sometimes reduce aquatic diseases, many of which affect people. Yet other times, water scarcity can counterintuitively lead...