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With international law at a 'breaking point', a tiny country goes after Myanmar's junta on its own
Just four months ago, Timor-Leste formally became a member of the Association of Southeast Asian States (ASEAN). This week, the tiny country took an unprecedent...
Polarstern heads to the Weddell Sea to probe Antarctica's sharp sea ice drop
With the departure of the research vessel Polarstern from Punta Arenas (Chile) scheduled for this weekend, the "Summer Weddell Sea Outflow Study" (SWOS) interna...
Predicting glacier surges by understanding ecological tipping points
When and how quickly can ecosystems "tip" and how will they develop in the future? Researchers from the University of Potsdam, the Potsdam Institute for Climate...
The dirty afterlife of a dead satellite
Sometimes we humans get ahead of ourselves. We embark on grand engineering experiments without really understanding what the long-term implications of such proj...
Blood tests in young bald eagles track PFAS pollution across Wisconsin River sites
It hadn't been a successful morning for the Great Lakes Eagle Health team. Traveling by boat, truck, and foot, the team was searching for active eagle nests alo...
New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge
Technological advances over the past four decades have turned mobile devices and computers into the world's largest library, where information is just a tap awa...
New CRISPR tool spreads through bacteria to disable antibiotic resistance genes
Antibiotic resistance (AR) has steadily accelerated in recent years to become a global health crisis. As deadly bacteria evolve new ways to elude drug treatment...
Video: How the science of saltwater-tolerating plants could protect coastlines
Rising sea levels along coastlines not only threaten populations, but also pose a danger to agricultural crops, which may be damaged by surging amounts of saltw...
Researchers demonstrate organic crystal emitting red light from UV and green from near-infrared
Invisible light beyond the range of human vision plays a vital role in communication technologies, medical diagnostics, and optical sensing. Ultraviolet and nea...
Broken inversion symmetry lets 3D crystals mimic 2D Ising superconductivity
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, in general, allow the realization of unique quantum phenomena unattainable in the common three-dimensional (3D) world. A prime e...
Quantum encryption method demonstrated at city-sized distances for the first time
Concerns that quantum computers may start easily hacking into previously secure communications has motivated researchers to work on innovative new ways to encry...
A dinosaur with spikes exhibiting unprecedented properties discovered in China
Documented for 200 years, the Iguanodontia group is expanding with the discovery of a brand-new species, the first known to bear spikes with properties never be...