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Chemists unlock first total synthesis of rare plant alkaloid tied to anticancer activity
Plants are undeniably one of nature's most promising sources of new medicines, with monoterpenoid indole alkaloids (MIAs) being a great example. Some intricate...
5 ways data centers endanger their local communities and the country as a whole
Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud com...
Rocket launches and reentries harm Earth's ozone layer
The space industry is surging. In coming years, nearly 10,000 spacecraft are slated to launch into low-Earth orbit for a variety of purposes, such as global sur...
Magnesium transporter discovery could improve rice nutrition and taste
Rice is a staple food for nearly half the global population and an important dietary source of magnesium, a mineral essential for human health, plant growth and...
Brazilian breadbasket's aquifers are falling, and new satellite maps show where water stress is growing
A collaboration of scientists from NASA and Brazilian research institutions has produced a detailed picture of groundwater change across Brazil. The images reve...
Mining companies may soon bypass UN rules and mine the deep sea
A Canadian deep-sea mining company may become the first to commercially mine the international seabed under a controversial U.S. executive order that bypasses U...
Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well
Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult...
Study reveals north–south differences in water isotopes across North America during the last deglaciation
The last deglaciation (between 11,000 and 20,000 years ago) was a period of dramatic natural warming on Earth. During this time, North America experienced the m...
'From STEM to earn': High school programs aimed at diversifying the field drive gains in college, salaries
High school students participating in pipeline programs aimed at increasing diversity in STEM fields are more likely to enroll in—and graduate from—elite colleg...
Why this $10 spectrometer chip could bring real-time chemical sensing to wearables
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and GlitterinTech, a startup founded by the same research group, have unveiled a fundamentally new type of optical...
Magnon momentum microscopy: A new window into nanoscale spin-wave physics
An international team led by the Max Born Institute has developed a new type of momentum microscopy to image magnons—the quanta of collectively excited spins—di...
Elusive Cozumel dwarf fox reappears in first confirmed photos after two decades
A publication has revealed the first photographic evidence and confirmed sighting of the Cozumel dwarf fox in more than 20 years. Published in the journal Neotr...