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New species of ladybird beetle discovered on university campus in Japan
- Jan 31, 2026
University campuses are often places of learning and discovery, but rarely do researchers find a new species living right on their doorstep. However,...
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Farm waste could lock away carbon for decades
- Jan 31, 2026
Agricultural waste that is usually burned or left to rot could play a far bigger role in tackling climate change if it were instead used in long-lasti...
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Fossil hunters uncover 132-million-year-old dinosaur footprints on South Africa's coast
- Jan 31, 2026
Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs. But, about 182 million...
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New 3D map of the sun's magnetic interior could improve predictions of disruptive solar flares
- Jan 31, 2026
For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the fundamental driver of solar activ...
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Ashwagandha is having a moment—researchers want to take this shrub further
- Jan 31, 2026
Ashwagandha is a small shrub that's having a big moment. Used in traditional Indian medicine for thousands of years, ashwagandha is now one of the mos...
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Why well-known brands invest millions in repetitive advertising
- Jan 31, 2026
Auto insurance companies are some of the largest advertisers, with top brands spending upward of $1.5 billion per year, even though they're household...
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A world-first mouse that makes gene activity visible
- Jan 31, 2026
DNA can be thought of as a vast library that stores all genetic information. Cells do not use this information all at once. Instead, they copy only th...
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Saturday Citations: Understanding procrastination; delicious baby sauropods; a study on musical 'pleasure chills'
- Jan 31, 2026
This week, researchers identified the role of the brain's protein clean-up system in dementia. Fecal transplants show promising benefits in treating m...
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Experts urge schools to embed critical thinking skills from early years
- Jan 31, 2026
Education systems need to focus more on independent critical thinking and rational, evidence-based learning and problem-solving to find answers to man...
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Using complex networks to tame combustion instability
- Jan 31, 2026
Engineers have long battled a problem that can cause loud, damaging oscillations inside gas turbines and aircraft engines: combustion instability. The...
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'Negative viscosity' helps propel groups of migrating cells, study finds
- Jan 31, 2026
The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development—but because of resistance, or viscosit...
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Puzzling slow radio pulses are coming from space. A new study could finally explain them
- Jan 30, 2026
Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our...