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Meerkat sunning calls may act as 'vocal grooming' for social bonding
- Jan 30, 2026
As the sun rises over the Kalahari Desert, meerkat groups emerge from their burrows and gather closely, turning their bodies toward the warmth of the...
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Overcoming the solubility crisis: A solvent-free method to enhance drug bioavailability
- Jan 30, 2026
A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For m...
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Random driving on a 78-qubit processor reveals controllable prethermal plateau
- Jan 30, 2026
Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phas...
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Webb reveals five-galaxy merger just 800 million years after the Big Bang
- Jan 30, 2026
Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were...
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The devastation of island land snails: Pacific leads global wave of extinctions, researchers find
- Jan 30, 2026
A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the Univer...
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Bromacker regurgitalite reveals what an early land predator spit up 290 million years ago
- Jan 30, 2026
New research conducted by paleontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the CNRS (France) documents the ea...
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One of Earth's most abundant organisms is surprisingly fragile
- Jan 30, 2026
A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scient...
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Corals' boldest cousins: Zoantharians bend the laws of evolution
- Jan 30, 2026
In the realm of marine biogeography, there is a widely held scientific principle: the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific oceans are worlds apart. If you dive i...
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When both partners work from home: The hidden cost of always-on technology
- Jan 30, 2026
When partners work from home, constant digital interruptions increase after-work frustration, strain couples' relationships, and place a heavier psych...
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How design of public housing can lift future prospects of children
- Jan 30, 2026
Public housing high-rises, common in the late 20th century, often siloed residents from surrounding communities. "You had these big towers that were i...
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How brick-building bacteria react to toxic chemical in Martian soil
- Jan 30, 2026
Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical d...
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Why hospitality skills can help all businesses adapt to the AI revolution
- Jan 30, 2026
The future of work is being rewritten by artificial intelligence (AI)—but technology competence alone will not be enough to empower the workforce of t...