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Study tracks juvenile sturgeon from Ohio's first-ever reintroduction effort
A new telemetry study published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences finds that the method used to raise juvenile lake sturgeon before stoc...
Young disk around WRAY 15-1880 may contain a primitive planetary system
Italian astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to perform polarimetric observations of the star WRAY 15-1880 and its young circumstellar disk. Res...
New alliance to protect Atlantic's leatherback turtles launched on World Sea Turtle Day
A newly established alliance, comprising leading researchers and conservation experts, has mobilized to safeguard the Atlantic Ocean's leatherback turtle popula...
New tool helps protect communities from flooding during rain-on-snow events and optimize reservoir management
While Reno families were celebrating the 1997 New Year, the Truckee River was surging into the city's downtown streets. A rainstorm was falling on the Sierra Ne...
Jury service boosts public trust in courts, but fewer Americans are serving
As public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court continues to fall, new research from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania finds...
New research suggests writing with AI demands more thought from students, not less
Writing with AI can look deceptively simple. Effortless, even. Type in a prompt and a polished paragraph appears in seconds. Tidy, confident, clean. But that ap...
Powerful UFO spotted blasting from a distant black hole
Astronomers have detected one of the most powerful ultra-fast outflows ever seen from a distant supermassive black hole. Using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, a team stu...
Mongooses prepare for likely future battles with powerful enemies, study finds
Dwarf mongooses anticipate encounters with rival groups and adjust how they move, communicate and defend resources beforehand, according to new research from th...
50-megapixel Earth models capture storms in unprecedented detail—but four consistent blind spots remain
Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras—they had only about 10,000 pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big stor...
Scientist confronting the rising global threat of mosquitoes
Growing up in Tahiti, Anna-Bella Failloux saw firsthand the threat posed by mosquitoes: Nearly a third of adults on the picturesque island once had swollen limb...
UK bans under-16s from using social media apps including TikTok and YouTube
Britain will ban children aged under 16 from using a range of social media apps, including Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube, to protect them from harmful content an...
6.7-magnitude earthquake shakes part of Indonesia, causing damage and injuries
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook part of central Indonesia's Sulawesi island Tuesday, injuring at least eight people, causing scattered damage and rattling resi...