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Hearing angry or happy human voices is linked to changes in dogs' balance
- Jan 28, 2026
In a small study, dogs experienced both stabilization and destabilization of their balance upon hearing angry or happy human voices, but angry voices...
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Capturing the moment of organelle handoff inside living cells
- Jan 28, 2026
For the first time, researchers have directly visualized how newly formed cellular organelles leave the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and transition onto...
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Webb pushes boundaries of observable universe closer to Big Bang
- Jan 28, 2026
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe...
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It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain
- Jan 28, 2026
Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a...
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Antitrust crackdowns may reduce corporate know-how
- Jan 28, 2026
Interlocking directorates—the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies—have long been identified with backroom deals...
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The magnetic 'birdsong' of the smallest planet
- Jan 28, 2026
BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the more interesting things fou...
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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi
- Jan 28, 2026
Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs o...
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Which countries are paying the highest price for particulate air pollution?
- Jan 28, 2026
Polluted air causes an estimated 7 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the World Health Organization. Much of the mortality comes from PM...
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Lake Anna analysis finds multiple pollution sources, with mines a key contributor
- Jan 28, 2026
A new University of Virginia study led by environmental scientist Justin Richardson shows that phosphorus pollution driving algae blooms in Virginia's...
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NASA telescopes spot surprisingly mature cluster in the early universe
- Jan 28, 2026
Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much larger than anything astro...
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Warming weakens natural enemies of insects, new research shows
- Jan 28, 2026
A warming climate is disrupting the delicate balance of nature. An international team of scientists led by entomologists from the Biology Center of th...
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Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving
- Jan 28, 2026
Ordinary matter, when cooled, transitions from a gas into a liquid. Cool it further still, and it freezes into a solid. Quantum matter, however, can b...