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Number of conflicts between states reaches highest level since World War II
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Number of conflicts between states reaches highest level since World War II

The number of conflicts between states continued to increase sharply in 2025 and has now reached the highest level since World War II. At the same time, the Upp...

Koala population crash came before humans, genomic study reveals
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Koala population crash came before humans, genomic study reveals

A genomic study has reshaped our understanding of the evolutionary history of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), revealing the iconic Australian marsupial expe...

More people with disabilities are seeking work, report reveals
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More people with disabilities are seeking work, report reveals

The June 2026 National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) report reveals a large increase in job-seeking among people with disabilities, signaling that mor...

Expedition to Antarctica advances research on potential melanoma treatment
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Expedition to Antarctica advances research on potential melanoma treatment

Deep beneath the icy waters surrounding Antarctica, a small marine organism may hold clues to a future cancer treatment. Researchers from USF recently returned...

Finding hidden catalytic knowledge from literature data
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Finding hidden catalytic knowledge from literature data

Exciting new research at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) explains how to transform decades of scattered literature data...

Politicization in humanities scholarship may compromise scholarly standards
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Politicization in humanities scholarship may compromise scholarly standards

A national report co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa sociologist has found that while the humanities and social sciences continue to produce rigoro...

Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows
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Protected bike lanes, not painted lanes, lift NYC bikeshare ridership, analysis shows

Protected bike lanes increase Citi Bike ridership in New York City, but painted bike lanes and sharrows do not show a statistically significant causal effect on...

50 years of data reveals true extent of climate change impacts on kelp forests
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50 years of data reveals true extent of climate change impacts on kelp forests

New research from the University of Victoria (UVic) has found that some kelp forests around Vancouver Island were disappearing far earlier than scientists previ...

Artemis II moon mission research continues on Earth
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Artemis II moon mission research continues on Earth

Since NASA's Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the moon, science teams hav...

NASA's INCUS mission on road to launch, study storms from space
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NASA's INCUS mission on road to launch, study storms from space

Teams working on NASA's INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission, the first space-based survey of the dynamics of tropical convective storms, have c...

Agricultural waste can be used to clean wastewater
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Agricultural waste can be used to clean wastewater

Water pollution caused by pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other organic contaminants is an increasing global issue, especially in regions with limited wastewate...

They call it 'stupid hot' for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains
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They call it 'stupid hot' for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains

On a blazing hot day in South Africa, female southern pied babblers can't think straight. The medium-sized black-and-white birds are trying to get at tasty meal...

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