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Bullying tied to higher suicide attempt risk for high school girls
- Jan 24, 2026
A study by CUNY SPH researchers suggests that U.S. high school students who are bullied at school have substantially higher odds of attempting suicide...
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An app that uses drone footage to track plastic litter on beaches is promoting voluntary cleanup in Ireland
- Jan 24, 2026
Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the beaches around Tramore i...
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Humanity's oldest known cave art has been discovered in Sulawesi
- Jan 24, 2026
When we think of the world's oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was...
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How to get managers to say yes to flexible work arrangements
- Jan 24, 2026
In the modern workplace, flexible arrangements can be as important as salary for some. For many employees, flexibility is no longer a nice-to-have lux...
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Rats demonstrate ability to replay episodic memories in complex experimental settings
- Jan 24, 2026
In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, suggesting that rats can serve as...
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A year after undermining Bredt's rule, scientists make cage-shaped, double-bonded molecules that defy expectations
- Jan 24, 2026
Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules gover...
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DNA origami enables precise patterning of molecules on 2D semiconductors
- Jan 24, 2026
Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Nanjing University of China, and the National Institut...
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Ancient Spanish trees reveal Mediterranean storms are intensifying
- Jan 24, 2026
Ancient pine trees growing in the Iberian mountains of eastern Spain have quietly recorded more than five centuries of Mediterranean weather. Now, by...
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Why some Central Pacific El Niños die quickly while others linger for years
- Jan 24, 2026
Predicting the duration of a Central Pacific El Niño event has long frustrated climate scientists and forecasters. Now, a new study reveals that Centr...
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Using amino acids as fuels to make conductive graphene
- Jan 24, 2026
Graphene has drawn attention as a scientific curiosity owing to its record conductivities, strength and thermal properties. But now, it's starting to...
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Saturday Citations: A weird, extinct life form; cholesterol hacking; interspecies prosociality of whales
- Jan 24, 2026
It's Saturday! This week, in an eminently practical analysis of the Boltzmann brain conjecture, physicists put constraints on the idea that memories c...
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Icy storm threatens Americans with power outages, extreme cold
- Jan 24, 2026
Americans stripped supermarket shelves Friday ahead of potentially "catastrophic" winter weather that threatened at least 160 million people across th...