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Shining a light on sustainable sulfur-rich polymers that stay recyclable
- Jan 30, 2026
For the first time, scientists have used ultraviolet (UV) light, a low-cost and readily available energy source, to successfully synthesize more susta...
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Beyond the eye of the beholder: Mathematically defining attributes essential to color perception
- Jan 30, 2026
Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos sci...
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Snakes on trains: King cobras are 'hopping railways' to unsuitable habitats in India
- Jan 30, 2026
King cobras are the world's longest venomous snakes. So, imagine seeing one a few feet away as you embark on a train in India. The Western Ghats King...
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Spider spinneret evolution: How a genome duplication event 438 million years ago set the stage
- Jan 30, 2026
Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their webs. Spiders didn't beg...
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Tropical peatlands are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, research reveals
- Jan 30, 2026
Using a new method to track groundwater levels and greenhouse gas emissions, researchers uncover the climate impact of Southeast Asia's peatlands. In...
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Exploration of exoplanets: A mathematical solution for investigating their atmospheres
- Jan 30, 2026
Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has solved a fundamental math...
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Kissing the sun: Unraveling mysteries of the solar wind
- Jan 30, 2026
Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led research team has measured the d...
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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...