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Engineering heat-tolerant, high-yield rice for a warming planet
- Feb 6, 2026
Rising day and night temperatures are threatening rice, wheat, and maize production by disrupting plant growth, grain filling, and grain quality, putt...
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Challenging California's water 'scarcity' narrative
- Feb 6, 2026
California doesn't have a water scarcity problem. It has a distribution problem, according to Nícola Ulibarrí, whose new research is reshaping how pol...
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Promise the Earth: Why real climate action means restraint
- Feb 6, 2026
A new book by a Cambridge engineer and an Oxford theologian argues that our faith in technology to solve the climate crisis is distracting us from the...
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The evolutionary trap that keeps rove beetles alive
- Feb 6, 2026
Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant co...
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When the interaction between fungi and bacteria becomes a dangerous alliance
- Feb 6, 2026
Rivals or allies—how do bacteria and fungi interact in our bodies? Until now, bacteria on our mucous membranes were primarily considered to be antagon...
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Rare natural compound from teak tree shows promise for treating diabetes and lipid disorders
- Feb 6, 2026
In a study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology on January 29, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chi...
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Gut physiology, not host species, dictates microbiome diversity: Study
- Feb 6, 2026
A large-scale population metagenomic study has shed new light on the spatial heterogeneity of viral communities across the gastrointestinal tracts of...
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How gold is formed in China's Tianshan mountains
- Feb 6, 2026
A new study led by Prof. Xiao Wenjiao from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds light on the ore-f...
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Amino acid 'stickers' help decode spider silk's strength and flexibility
- Feb 6, 2026
Scientists have identified the molecular interactions that give spider silk its exceptional strength and flexibility, opening the door to new bio-insp...
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The internet names a new deep-sea species of chiton
- Feb 6, 2026
The Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), in partnership with the scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers and science YouTuber Ze Frank, have let...
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Raising human capital in BRICS is linked to lower emissions, study suggests
- Feb 6, 2026
Climate change and worsening environmental conditions have brought into sharp relief how we must reconcile development with sustainability. This issue...
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Light-driven probe enables sensitive detection of epigenetic intermediates
- Feb 6, 2026
Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation play a key role in regulating gene expression. Emerging evidence suggests that intermediates generate...