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Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

• Mar 23, 2026

Arctic rivers wind through remote tundra and boreal forests, freezing solid in winter and surging each spring with snowmelt, eventually emptying into...

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Urban blue tits use discarded cigarette butts to protect their nests, study suggests

• Mar 23, 2026

Discarded litter not only makes our streets and neighborhoods look untidy, but it can also pose a significant risk to wildlife. However, in a surprisi...

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The evolutionary secret of the California poppy's alkaloids

• Mar 23, 2026

Characteristic features of plants, such as their active ingredients or flower color, may have developed through very different evolutionary histories....

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Decoding sugars one bond at a time—without labels

• Mar 23, 2026

Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed a tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy platform that can identify tiny structural differences in o...

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Mining a methane-degrading bioreactor for protein rubies

• Mar 23, 2026

Scientists have found a new type of iron-storing protein in a mixture of microbes containing methane-degraders. This discovery underscores the importa...

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Moby Dick 'ship sinking' sperm whales caught headbutting on camera

• Mar 23, 2026

New research from the University of St Andrews reports sperm whales headbutting one another. The behavior was captured on film and described scientifi...

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Ancient 'syphilis-like' disease in Vietnam challenges long-held assumptions on congenital infection

• Mar 23, 2026

The findings of a new study by a Charles Sturt University researcher and colleagues challenge a long-standing assumption used by scientists studying a...

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Online ad fraud is a feature, not a bug

• Mar 23, 2026

Technological advancements and the dynamics of the platform economy make rooting out fraud more complicated than it may seem. With print media circula...

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Self-cleaning fabric could eliminate the need for detergent

• Mar 23, 2026

Detergents may begin their journey by cleaning our clothes, but they end up contaminating the environment, flowing into rivers, ponds, and oceans, whe...

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Quantum computers could have a fundamental limit after all

• Mar 23, 2026

The performance of quantum computers could cap out after around 1,000 qubits, according to a new analysis published in the Proceedings of the National...

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Saturn-mass world discovered orbiting two low-mass stars

• Mar 23, 2026

Researchers report the discovery of a Saturn-sized exoplanet orbiting two M-dwarf stars, which are smaller and cooler than our sun. The findings from...

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Hydrogen shell detected around Nova Persei 1901 may be a planetary nebula

• Mar 23, 2026

Using NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, astronomers have observed remnants of the eruption of Nova Persei 1901. As a result, they detected a bipolar mol...