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Bacterial hitchhikers can give their hosts super strength

• Feb 10, 2026

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical treatment by corralling them...

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Crop rotation boosts number and diversity of microbes in soil, research finds

• Feb 10, 2026

Farmers now have more reasons to consider rotating their crops, University of Alberta research shows. Widely used to restore soil health, the agricult...

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Alexandria on the Tigris: Exploring the forgotten and rediscovered metropolis

• Feb 10, 2026

What was the political and economic importance of the ancient city Alexandria on the Tigris? How was the city laid out? And what does the material cul...

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How charges invert a long-standing empirical law in glass physics

• Feb 10, 2026

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass incre...

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Where did that raindrop come from? Climate model ensemble captures worldwide water isotopes over 45 years

• Feb 10, 2026

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are called isotopes. As water eva...

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What's in a name? Information structure parallels discovered across cultures—with repercussions for Asian names

• Feb 10, 2026

First names in Western countries today are more diverse than they were before early modern states evolved. This difference started to emerge in the 17...

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Acoustic communication—an overlooked driver in boxfish evolution

• Feb 10, 2026

A new international study reveals the unexpected importance of acoustic communication in the evolution of boxfishes. This discovery offers new perspec...

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New dataset reveals how US law has grown more complex over the past century

• Feb 10, 2026

A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected to the rest of the legal...

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Neural crest cells: Miniature electric muscles that colonize embryonic organs

• Feb 10, 2026

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what you look like: the pigment...

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Old galaxies in a young universe?

• Feb 10, 2026

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and mu...

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Deep learning detects foodborne bacteria within three hours by eliminating debris misclassifications

• Feb 10, 2026

Researchers have significantly enhanced an artificial intelligence tool used to rapidly detect bacterial contamination in food by eliminating misclass...

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Software tool can detect hidden errors in complex tissue analyses

• Feb 10, 2026

A new software tool, ovrlpy, improves quality control in spatial transcriptomics, a key technology in biomedical research. Developed by the Berlin Ins...