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From fins to fingers: How nature 'redeployed' ancient genes to shape limbs
- Feb 9, 2026
How did the complexity of many organisms living today evolve from the simpler body plans of their ancestors? This is a central question in biology. Ta...
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A piece of Africa in Europe? New insights into plate tectonics of the Balkans
- Feb 9, 2026
Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African crust resurfaced 40 million...
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A quick stretch switches this polymer's capacity to transport heat
- Feb 9, 2026
Most materials have an inherent capacity to handle heat. Plastic, for instance, is typically a poor thermal conductor, whereas materials like marble m...
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Fentanyl or phony? Machine learning algorithm learns to pick out opioid signatures
- Feb 9, 2026
New forms of fentanyl are created every day. For law enforcement, that poses a challenge: How do you identify a chemical you've never seen before? Res...
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Building blocks of life discovered in Bennu asteroid rewrite origin story
- Feb 9, 2026
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, del...
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3D 'polar chiral bobbers' identified in ferroelectric thin films
- Feb 9, 2026
A novel type of three-dimensional (3D) polar topological structure, termed the "polar chiral bobber," has been discovered in ferroelectric oxide thin...
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Eco-friendly catalyst switches oxygen source based on particle size, study finds
- Feb 9, 2026
As the climate crisis becomes a part of daily life with unprecedented heat waves and cold snaps, technology to effectively remove greenhouse gases is...
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Satellite observations put stratospheric methane loss higher than models predicted
- Feb 9, 2026
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas with strong heat-trapping capabilities. Although there is less methane in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, the...
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Wireless sensor assesses subsoil health in effort to cut costs and refine farming
- Feb 9, 2026
A new smart platform invented by Purdue University researchers to wirelessly monitor subsoil health could change the landscape of agricultural sensing...
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Improving predictions for 'tailor-made' wheat with AI and big data
- Feb 9, 2026
Climate change and evolving growing conditions present new challenges for breeding. It is important to take local environmental conditions into accoun...
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Climate change could halve areas suitable for cattle, sheep and goat farming by 2100
- Feb 9, 2026
A new study conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that grassland-based grazing systems—currently covering a third...
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Nature's 'engine is grinding to a halt' as climate change gains pace, says study
- Feb 9, 2026
Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zo...