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AI and drones can select the most resilient wheat
- Apr 11, 2026
Making wheat more resilient to climate change without compromising yields has become an urgent priority for the agricultural sector. Now, a study led...
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New research shows habitat restoration projects have paid off for Forest Park in St. Louis
- Apr 11, 2026
Over the past few decades, a collaboration of St. Louis regional groups have partnered to be good stewards of Forest Park, one of the largest urban pa...
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With drones, geophysics and artificial intelligence, researchers prepare to do battle against land mines
- Apr 10, 2026
When Jasper Baur was a freshman at New York's Binghamton University, his interests centered on earth sciences. Then he got involved in a seemingly unr...
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Nicotine's last biosynthesis steps mapped in wild tobacco, ending a long mystery
- Apr 10, 2026
Nicotine, a potent insecticidal alkaloid unique to the nightshade family, has been employed in agriculture as a pesticide since 1690. It also has ther...
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Underwater architects: Nest-building in cichlids reveals more than hardwired instinct
- Apr 10, 2026
We associate nests with shelter, warmth, and a safe retreat—and usually picture a bird's nest made out of twigs, grass and feathers. Yet many other an...
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Chang'e mission samples reveal how exogenous organic matter evolves on the moon
- Apr 10, 2026
Elements essential to life, such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, were "delivered" to Earth and the moon during the early stages o...
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Universal surface-growth law confirmed in two dimensions after 40 years
- Apr 10, 2026
Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang equation. Since then, i...
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Highway widening may be heating cities faster; here's what could curb it
- Apr 10, 2026
U.S. cities are rapidly becoming urban heat islands, where these cities are significantly warmer than their surrounding area. Vast expanses of asphalt...
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How bromoform wrecks ozone: Ultrafast 'roaming' step captured in 150 femtoseconds
- Apr 10, 2026
The halomethane compound bromoform (CHBr3) has devastating effects on the ozone layer. In the upper layers of the atmosphere, bromoform reacts with UV...
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Camera-tagged Adélie penguins caught eating sea snails in East Antarctica
- Apr 10, 2026
There are many poorly understood links in the food web, often referred to as trophic relationships. Out in East Antarctica, a previously unconfirmed l...
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Scientists discover f-block metals yield new oxygen-binding chemistry
- Apr 10, 2026
Iron and oxygen bind together throughout the body. Most famously, iron binds dioxygen, or two oxygens paired with each other, in hemoglobin that trans...
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Subaru Telescope sheds light on Jupiter Trojan asteroids' color mystery
- Apr 10, 2026
Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new insights into the relation...