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Bigger, faster, but still outfoxed: How prey escape predators
- May 1, 2026
Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new study published in the P...
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5th-century Belgian burial with 'scrap metal' may reveal missing link between Roman and Merovingian monetary systems
- May 1, 2026
A study published in the journal Britannia analyzed coins and metal items found in an early 5th-century AD burial in Oudenburg, Belgium. The burial oc...
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Dolls beat screens for building children's social skills, study finds
- May 1, 2026
What's the point of play? Is it simply a way to keep children occupied, or something more? For some, it's about learning literacy and numeracy. For ot...
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New lithium-plasma engine passes key Mars propulsion test
- May 1, 2026
You're on the fourth human mission to Mars, and you're told the Odyssey spacecraft designed to take you there will be the smoothest ride you'll ever t...
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How genetic information helps cells resist chaos and stay alive
- May 1, 2026
A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher has introduced a new model that addresses one of biology's most fundamental questions: How does genetic information...
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Living near a gas station raises childhood cancer risk, study shows
- May 1, 2026
Childhood cancers are devastating. Even when the disease is not fatal, its long-term effects can be severe. Not enough is known about the risk factors...
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Understanding the inspiration for social entrepreneurship
- May 1, 2026
New research published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business suggests that universities have a bigger role to play in sh...
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Explosive evaporation unlocks new possibilities in 3D printing and chemical analysis
- May 1, 2026
Water droplets might seem simple at first. But when nearing evaporation, a desperate power struggle of competing physical forces can emerge, with expl...
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Sentinel-1D goes live: A milestone for Europe's radar mission
- May 1, 2026
The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite, launched last November, is now fully operational after successfully completing its critical in-orbit commissioni...
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AI tackles one of math's most brutal problems: Inverse PDEs
- May 1, 2026
Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathemat...
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'A study showed…' isn't enough—scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers revisit questions
- May 1, 2026
Your goofy but lovable cousin just told you that you should stop eating eggs because he read somewhere that a study showed they are bad for you. How m...
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Long-term study of COVID lockdown and family life shows unexpected, lasting effects on fatherhood
- May 1, 2026
In the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, much has been said about how the lockdowns created conditions for dual-parent families to spend more tim...