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A silent robot shadows sperm whales by listening to their clicks
- Apr 30, 2026
An autonomous underwater glider is giving us a new and effective way to track sperm whales by tuning into their clicks and silently following them. To...
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Lithium in the Appalachians could replace imports for a century or more, estimates suggest
- Apr 30, 2026
The southern Appalachians hold an estimated 1.43 million metric tons of lithium oxide, concentrated in the Carolinas, and the northern Appalachians ho...
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Mixed messages on kids' screen time leave parents feeling overwhelmed
- Apr 30, 2026
First-time parents are feeling confused, anxious and judged when it comes to managing their young children's screen time, according to new research fr...
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Researchers create DNA 'nano-rings' to control viral cell proteins
- Apr 30, 2026
Scientists at Durham University, working in partnership with Jagiellonian University in Poland, have developed a new nanoscale tool that can capture a...
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XXP instrument back online, marking a key milestone in high-energy upgrade to SLAC's X-ray laser
- Apr 30, 2026
XPP, the X-ray Pump Probe instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), is back online and welcoming researchers after a complete rebuild. The...
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Room-temperature multiferroic could pave way to low-energy computing
- Apr 30, 2026
A team of researchers at Rice University has engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of magnitude higher performanc...
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Rap fans share the bad rap in court
- Apr 30, 2026
An innovative James Cook University experiment has found rap-related cues shape how people judge a hypothetical fan accused of violent crime, raising...
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Perceptions of cultural foreignness may lead to job discrimination, study finds
- Apr 30, 2026
Asian, Arab and Latino Americans may face more discrimination when seeking jobs that emphasize stereotypically American characteristics because they a...
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Western US is fending off more fires before they start—and still getting hit by its biggest blazes yet
- Apr 30, 2026
The number of wildfires burning in the Western United States each year dropped roughly 28% over the past three decades, even as annual burned area and...
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New study finds urban parks in less privileged neighborhoods are smaller, hotter and more polluted
- Apr 30, 2026
A new study from researchers at George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health reveals that not all urban parks provide equal health b...
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GP Com observations sharpen picture of a rare ultracompact binary system
- Apr 30, 2026
Using the Rozhen National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian astronomers have conducted optical photometric observations of an ultracompact binary kn...
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ESA's Proba 3 is unlocking secrets of the solar wind
- Apr 30, 2026
It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool in their arsenal: on-deman...