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Video shows that sunbirds suck, while hummingbirds don't
- Apr 13, 2026
Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, have evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from flowers. The tongue...
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Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the story of their lunar journey—and update some classic Apollo images
- Apr 13, 2026
At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material—documents, artifacts and images—with which to tell...
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From ship wakes to soft tissues: Exploring fluid and solid surface-wave physics
- Apr 13, 2026
A new study by scientists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) shows that when a pressure disturbance move...
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Combining ion pumps and click chemistry enables precise drug release in the body
- Apr 13, 2026
How can a drug be released or activated exactly where and when it is needed in the body? For many treatments, particularly in cancer therapy, the acti...
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Physicists discover how reverse to 'quantum scrambling'
- Apr 13, 2026
Quantum computers stand to revolutionize research by helping investigators solve certain problems exponentially faster than with conventional computer...
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Gray whales are dying in San Francisco Bay at an alarming rate. This isn't normal
- Apr 13, 2026
At least six gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay from mid-March to early April 2026. These deaths follow a pattern over the past few years, and...
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Why do some stars in the galactic center survive while others are destroyed?
- Apr 13, 2026
The center of our galaxy is an extreme place. Surrounding the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, stars are packed densely into a region where gra...
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Plants use a protein-tagging complex to control stress survival, study finds
- Apr 13, 2026
A specific cellular mechanism regulates the protein balance of plants, thereby influencing how they respond to environmental stress. An international...
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Small, medium-sized independent US firms adapted well to minimum wage hikes, as did workers
- Apr 13, 2026
Proposals to raise the minimum wage are often met with arguments that independent businesses may be vulnerable to such increases. In a new study, "Who...
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Rapid method uncovers hidden structures in materials—including elusive quasicrystals
- Apr 13, 2026
An international team of scientists, including researchers from Loughborough University, has developed a method to dramatically speed up the discovery...
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Disrupting genome architecture selectively impairs developmental genes
- Apr 13, 2026
Weill Cornell Medicine researchers have found that temporarily disabling a protein complex that organizes DNA into loops inside the cell's nucleus dra...
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Teaching critical thinking may help teens resist fake news, AI slop and online harm
- Apr 13, 2026
Social media is where teenagers spend most of their time, either scrolling and sharing, or sometimes falling into the traps of fake news, toxic conten...