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The radical world of red-winged fairy wrens
- Feb 17, 2026
Fairy wrens are everywhere. Go anywhere in Australia and there will be at least one local fairy wren. They're not endangered. In fact, it would be har...
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Scientific discoveries and research
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A smart fluid that can be reconfigured with temperature
- Feb 17, 2026
Imagine a "smart fluid" whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study published in Matter, researchers repor...
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AI system TongGeometry generates and solves olympiad-level geometry problems
- Feb 17, 2026
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a prestigious competition featuring talented high school students from around the world, in which com...
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Navigation apps can help level the playing field for ride-hail drivers
- Feb 17, 2026
Technology is making the ride-hail industry more accessible than ever, according to new research published in the Strategic Management Journal. The st...
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Specially engineered crystal reveals magnetism with quantum potential
- Feb 17, 2026
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working with international partners, have uncovered surprising behavior in a...
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Longer roots for drought? How an edited protein could reshape crop resilience
- Feb 17, 2026
What's the key to growing resilient crops that can survive tough conditions? Researchers at the University of Missouri are getting to the root of it—l...
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Physicists observe polaron formation for the first time
- Feb 17, 2026
When an electron travels through a polar crystalline solid, its negative charge attracts the positively charged atomic cores, causing the surrounding...
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From cells to companies: Study shows how diversity scales within complex systems
- Feb 17, 2026
A mystery novel, a history book, and a fantasy epic may have little in common in plot or style. But count the words inside them and a strange regulari...
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Tuned nanocrystals speed light-driven reactions by matching molecular vibrations
- Feb 17, 2026
Adjusting the size and chemistry of nanocrystals within an ultrathin surface can speed up light-driven chemical reactions, according to a University o...
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Early study connects dogs' cancer survival with their gut microbiome composition
- Feb 17, 2026
Canine cancer patients receiving a new form of immunotherapy lived longer or shorter depending on the composition of their microbiome, the community o...
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JWST spots most distant jellyfish galaxy to date
- Feb 17, 2026
Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have observed a new jellyfish galaxy, the most distant one of its kind ever captured. Jellyfish galaxi...
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Not all humans are 'super-scary' to wildlife, animal behavior study suggests
- Feb 17, 2026
Humans have climbed to the top of the food chain by skillfully hunting, trapping, and fishing for other animals at scales that far exceed other predat...