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Electric field tunes vibrations to ease heat transfer
- Mar 5, 2026
New research from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with The Ohio State University and Amphenol Corporation,...
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Missing technosignatures? Turbulent plasma may blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems
- Mar 5, 2026
A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests that stellar "space weather" could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence har...
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New software for biodiversity research enables comprehensive quantification of ecological stability
- Mar 5, 2026
Intact ecosystems have the capacity for self-regulation, which keeps their complex structure of species—such as animals, plants, fungi and bacteria—in...
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Research sheds light on food safety risks in California's Central Coast produce
- Mar 5, 2026
A five-year study on California's Central Coast, led by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Western Center for Food Safety at the University...
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Flipped chromosomal segments drive natural selection, Atlantic silversides study shows
- Mar 5, 2026
When a species lives in two distinct types of habitats, individuals with traits better suited to each habitat will thrive and reproduce, naturally sel...
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Polymer-chemistry dataset created for training AI models
- Mar 5, 2026
Polymers are fundamental to our daily lives, serving as the core components for a wide array of goods, including clothing, packaging, transportation i...
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Why woodpeckers rarely get rattled: Skulls built to control rotation, not cushion blows
- Mar 5, 2026
Woodpeckers are well known for striking tree trunks with remarkable force and precision. These birds deliver thousands of high-speed impacts per day,...
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Ocean currents drive disease spread between oyster reefs: Research identifies restoration sites at risk
- Mar 5, 2026
The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) was once widespread in the North Sea. However, overfishing, habitat destruction and infectious diseases pushe...
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A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history
- Mar 5, 2026
The Neo-Latin theater play "Cenodoxus" (1602) by Jakob Bidermann is now only known to some researchers in Latin and German studies. But from 1930 to 1...
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New species of ancient mollusk found in South Korean waters
- Mar 5, 2026
Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the last 300 million years. Ch...
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Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets
- Mar 5, 2026
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the sur...
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Drones capture rare harbor porpoise mating behavior off Shetland
- Mar 5, 2026
Drones flying above the waters of Shetland have captured rare footage of harbor porpoises gathering in unusually large groups and engaging in mating b...