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Drought hits gulf fisheries, sparking food security fears
- Mar 18, 2026
A severe and prolonged U.S. drought in the late 1980s played a central role in one of the largest fisheries declines ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexi...
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Building trust in the future of quantum computing
- Mar 18, 2026
Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advan...
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Finding Easter eggs in entertainment boosts enjoyment and fan behavior, study finds
- Mar 18, 2026
If you've watched popular movies or television shows in the last decade, there's a good chance you've found an Easter egg or two: not an actual bright...
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NASA's Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up
- Mar 18, 2026
In a happy twist of fate, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope witnessed a comet in the act of breaking apart. The chance of that happening while Hubble watc...
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Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once: Reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously
- Mar 18, 2026
Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are present in a given sample. But most instruments stil...
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Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago, long before pottery or farming, archaeologists find
- Mar 18, 2026
Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay with their hands, carefull...
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3D model predicts mosquito flight paths from sight and CO₂ cues
- Mar 18, 2026
A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person's silhouette and the carbon dioxide they exhale. Now re...
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Mental health policy is emerging as a key voting issue for Americans, study suggests
- Mar 18, 2026
A new University of Missouri study suggests mental health policies can play a significant role in how Americans choose political candidates. Past scho...
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New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome
- Mar 18, 2026
A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeolog...
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Why heights and snakes still hit harder: Study tracks fear sweat in 119 people
- Mar 18, 2026
Fear-eliciting images of modern and ancestral threats are equally likely to evoke physiological reactions, despite their distinct evolutionary origins...
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Neanderthals may have used birch tar for its anti-bacterial properties, experiments suggest
- Mar 18, 2026
Neanderthals probably used birch tar for multiple functions, including treating their wounds, according to a study published in the open-access journa...
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California's lead-ammo bans are working, but expanding condor ranges undercut gains
- Mar 18, 2026
Recent data showing an increase in lead exposure and deaths among critically endangered California condors seems to fly in the face of decades of cons...