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Less than half of parents say schools are ready for nudification AI abuse
- Apr 9, 2026
Less than half of parents are confident that their children's school is well prepared if their students become victims of "nudification AI" apps, a su...
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Street green space can help cool cities, but it will not be enough on its own
- Apr 9, 2026
A new IIASA-led study finds that expanding street green space can reduce urban heat stress in cities worldwide, but even ambitious greening efforts ar...
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Skills overtake age as economic driver in China, analysis finds
- Apr 9, 2026
As the global aging population advances and countries face shrinking workforces, a new study focusing on China by IIASA researchers and colleagues fro...
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Non-producing oil and gas wells may emit microbial methane at rates 1,000 times higher than previously estimated
- Apr 9, 2026
Microbial methane leaking from non-producing oil and gas wells is being emitted at rates about 1,000 times higher than previously estimated, according...
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Megawatt structured light arrives with 3,070 optical vortices in one array
- Apr 9, 2026
Optical vortices—light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM)—are characterized by helical wavefronts and phase singularities. While they have...
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Turning uncertainty into a design tool for AI-engineered molecules
- Apr 9, 2026
While precision seems critical for science, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Texas A&M Univer...
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Artemis II astronauts describe their lunar voyage as surreal and profound ahead of Earth return
- Apr 9, 2026
Drawing ever closer to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts tidied up their lunar cruiser for its upcoming "fireball" return and reflected on their histor...
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Unlocking the hidden metabolism of algae to advance the promise of renewable fuels and sustainable biomass
- Apr 9, 2026
Researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center have solved a long-standing mystery of how a model green microalga reorganizes its central met...
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Integrative experiment design reveals hidden patterns in decades-old social science research
- Apr 9, 2026
Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to...
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Antidepressants build up in winter wastewater, raising risks for fish
- Apr 9, 2026
Every time we flush the toilet, wastewater containing more than tens of thousands of unknown substances, some of which may be toxic to animals and pla...
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Nickel catalyst enables precision mirror-image assembly for key drug scaffolds
- Apr 9, 2026
A research team led by Prof. Sangwon Seo of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has developed a catalytic technology that can easily and...
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Simple vineyard growing practice impacts soil microbiome deep below surface
- Apr 9, 2026
Pennsylvania is the fourth-largest wine producer in the United States, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. The industry supports...