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Chimpanzees' unusually protracted and vulnerable adolescences
- May 22, 2026
For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: adolescence. It's also unusual. Most other species pass fr...
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Hidden for 100 years, bright pink shrub identified as new Australian species
- May 22, 2026
Botanists at the University of New England (UNE) have formally described a new plant species endemic to northeastern New South Wales (NSW), ending mor...
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Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it
- May 22, 2026
In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two bespoke microscopes—each a Swiss Army knife for high-resolution i...
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Q&A: What can plant evolution teach people about breeding better crops?
- May 22, 2026
Today (May 22) is United Nations International Day for Biological Diversity, drawing attention to a critical resource for developing crops that are re...
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Stressed crystal creates nanoscale patterns on chip materials at room temperature
- May 22, 2026
A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used...
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Platypus population expands to 20 in Australia's Royal National Park
- May 22, 2026
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have confirmed a reintroduced platypus population in Royal National Park has now grown to 20 known individuals, following...
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Social mammals live longer—but bigger groups don't add that many extra years
- May 22, 2026
A new study, published in Ecology and Evolution, shows that social living is associated with longer lifespan, but also that the benefits of sociality...
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How countries can build effective DNA barcoding networks
- May 22, 2026
Aligning with the International Day for Biological Diversity's theme of "Acting locally for global impact," researchers have released a comprehensive...
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Unclear tasks and command structures may increase fatigue in disaster responders
- May 22, 2026
The frequency of natural disasters is increasing, and hence disaster responders are called on more than ever before. During disaster response, the foc...
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Earth's outer core beneath Pacific reversed direction in 2010, satellite data reveal
- May 22, 2026
The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA satellites provided data...
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Astronomers discover a super-Earth orbiting a nearby red dwarf
- May 22, 2026
Astronomers from Italy and Brazil have investigated a nearby red dwarf star known as Ross 318 and have discovered an exoplanet orbiting this star, whi...
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Heat vulnerability follows more than temperature, and this global map exposes the overlooked fault lines
- May 22, 2026
A Nature Sustainability paper titled "A multidimensional assessment of Systemic Cooling Poverty in the Global South," provides the first large-scale,...