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How bacteria learned to target numerous cell types
- Feb 2, 2026
Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and bind to receptors on the s...
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Bigger is not always better: Smaller leaves optimize light use in soybeans
- Feb 2, 2026
In efforts to better understand how soybean plants capture and use light, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign investigated how...
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The tension between moral pursuits and personal authenticity
- Feb 2, 2026
French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin created innovative, enduring paintings and sculptures set on Tahiti and other Pacific islands, but he had to le...
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Complex tongue bones, fleshy teeth on the roof of earliest known bird's mouth might have helped it snag food
- Feb 2, 2026
Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most...
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AI mapping reveals over 20,000 malaria protein interactions across parasite life cycle
- Feb 2, 2026
An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for Structural Systems Biology and...
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Banning lead in gas worked: The proof is in our hair
- Feb 2, 2026
Prior to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970, Americans lived in communities awash with lead from industrial sources, pai...
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Some tropical land may heat up nearly twice as much as oceans under climate change, sediment record suggests
- Feb 2, 2026
Some tropical land regions may warm more dramatically than previously predicted, as climate change progresses, according to a new CU Boulder study tha...
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Air pollution causes social instability in ant colonies, triggering attacks on returning nest mates
- Feb 2, 2026
A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollutio...
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Reshaping gold leads to new electronic and optical properties
- Feb 2, 2026
By changing the physical structure of gold at the nanoscale, researchers can drastically change how the material interacts with light—and, as a result...
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AI streamlines deluge of data from particle collisions
- Feb 2, 2026
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to...
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Psychological therapies for children whose first language isn't English can become lost in translation, study warns
- Feb 2, 2026
Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be "lost in translation" because it is reliant on good profi...
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Earth's largest volcanic event reshaped an oceanic plate, seismic wave analysis reveals
- Feb 2, 2026
A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the world's largest oceanic plateau...