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Plants reveal hidden PFAS pollution that soils can miss, study finds
A new study has found that plants may reveal recent PFAS contamination linked to airborne deposition that can go undetected in soil analyses. Conducted in agric...
Why restoring rivers isn't enough: New research shows fish are evolving in response to human-made rivers
This new international study is calling for a major rethink of how rivers are managed, arguing that fish are not just passive victims of environmental change bu...
Cosmic dawn fuel discovery unlocks early galaxy growth secrets
Astronomers have discovered a huge reservoir of cold molecular gas, the direct fuel for star formation, in REBELS-25, a massive, star-forming galaxy. The team,...
CO₂ injection reveals hidden cement chemistry behind 13% stronger early strength
One September day, it started to snow inside MIT's Pierce Laboratory. Researchers depressurized a tank of liquid carbon dioxide (CO2), instantly freezing it and...
New cavity control strategy improves performance of blue vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
GaN-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are promising for displays, sensing and optical communication, but improving efficiency remains chall...
Quantum friction causes light to slow down nanoworld movements
A research team in Bochum, Germany has unexpectedly found that light can slow down movements in the nanoworld. This is due to quantum friction, a phenomenon tha...
AI study reveals stark inequalities in global climate plans
An international team including researchers from the University of Alicante (UA) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has used artificial intellige...
Why cells started sticking together could help explain how animals first evolved
A recent study by Ruibao Li and Jennah Dharamshi published in Nature may help us understand the beginnings of animal evolution billions of years ago. These find...
A new kind of entanglement helps quantum sensors tune out noise
In a quest to build the most accurate quantum sensors in the world, scientists are constantly improving their performance, making them more precise, more stable...
Integrating sustainable practices into undergraduate science education
Faculty and students at Georgia State University are working to integrate sustainable practices into undergraduate science education, and a new study highlights...
AI fast-forwards molecular simulations by 10,000-fold
A new AI model has become so good at predicting how molecules evolve over time that, in the future, it could speed up the costly and time-consuming process of t...
Light echoes reveal possible dark matter buildup around supermassive black holes
We may not know what dark matter is, but we keep getting whiffs of it. "We are reaching a point where the observational evidence for dark matter is simply unden...