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Dairy farms in California may transmit H5N1 virus through multiple sources
- May 5, 2026
The H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in over 700 herds of dairy cows in California, the largest dairy-producing...
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It's complicated: New research reveals more about the social networks of baboons and African monkeys
- May 5, 2026
Like people, nonhuman primates live in groups that vary in size and shape depending on the species. Some primate groups are small and simple; others a...
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Super transformer aims to bring order to biology's data under one AI model
- May 5, 2026
Modern biology is awash in data. Scientists can sequence DNA, track gene activity cell-by-cell, map proteins in space, and image tissues at microscopi...
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Books and brain development: Why reading is much more than a pastime for children and teens
- May 5, 2026
While some of us enjoy curling up with a good book, others prefer watching a series or playing video games. But from the perspective of neuroscience,...
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Elastic rules may explain why nematic crystals look ordered and disordered at once
- May 5, 2026
Electronic nematicity is a phase of some crystalline solids in which electrons' collective properties, such as charge or spin densities, organize them...
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Unraveling the evolution of an extraordinary photosynthesis in a tropical tree species
- May 5, 2026
Plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich sugars and oxygen in various ways (photosynthesis). Drought is a major challe...
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Hostage‑taking by rogue states is on the rise: New research provides fresh ways to tackle it
- May 5, 2026
Hostage-taking by nation-states is emerging as an overlooked consequence of the more unstable and dangerous world that's been created by the fracturin...
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Indigenous Andeans have a digestive superpower—and it may be linked to potatoes
- May 5, 2026
Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for this high-altitude populatio...
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Water and 13 hallmarks of complexity trace path from molecules to life
- May 5, 2026
Many properties of molecules cannot be predicted from the properties of the atoms they consist of. These properties only emerge when they are combined...
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Astronomers map lifetime of over 100,000 molecular clouds across 66 galaxies
- May 5, 2026
An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array...
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Red button or blue button? What a viral question tells us about game theory and the state of the world
- May 5, 2026
Everyone on Earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less...
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Decades of deep sea mining research show threat to seafloor creatures
- May 5, 2026
There's increasing interest in deep-sea mining, but the impacts that this will have on the animals that live in the depths isn't fully understood. A n...