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Hellish Venus-like planets may be more prevalent than true exoEarths
- May 21, 2026
Preliminary results of a study presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna indicate that hellish Venus-type planets...
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Flint reveals changes in human mobility in the southern Pyrenees during the Upper Paleolithic
- May 21, 2026
Analysis of more than 3,000 lithic artifacts from the Cova Gran de Santa Linya site (Les Avellanes-Santa Linya, Lleida) shows that anatomically modern...
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Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution
- May 21, 2026
From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these animals evolved from earlier,...
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Extraterrestrial life may be slipping past space missions, astrobiologists warn
- May 21, 2026
Suppose there are signs of extraterrestrial life and we have not yet been able to detect them. What does that mean? In Nature Astronomy, researchers d...
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AI-designed miniproteins switch key cell receptors on and off
- May 21, 2026
G protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs, sit in the plasma membrane, the boundary that defines the inside and outside of a living cell. They communicate...
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Research team awakens 'hidden oxygen' to produce green hydrogen
- May 21, 2026
A joint research team led by Professor Hyung Mo Jeong from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) and Professor Ji Hoo...
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Researchers develop AI model that maps how genes work together in human cells
- May 21, 2026
Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have created a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that helps reveal how genes function t...
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Why talking like Yoda can help you to master British Sign Language
- May 21, 2026
I'm not surprised that Talk Like Yoda Day exists. Over 40 years since his Star Wars debut (puppeteered and voiced by Frank Oz), Yoda remains a recogni...
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Is organic farming the solution to enhance natural drought resilience in crops?
- May 21, 2026
A study led by researchers from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Malaga has revealed how organic farming—using natural substances a...
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Molecule-in-a-crystal system could boost quantum computing via chemically engineered qubits
- May 21, 2026
Within a crystal's atomic structure, tiny atomic-scale flaws will naturally occur where electrons can become trapped. These defects have emerged as on...
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Glacial cycles shape evolution of many species of Antarctic sea slug
- May 21, 2026
Marine scientists have discovered that what was once thought to be a single sea slug species is actually at least 75 distinct species that were shaped...
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Ice core discovery finds volcanic eruptions could cause greater global disruption than previously thought
- May 21, 2026
New research from the University of St Andrews has precisely dated an eruption from Newberry Volcano and discovered that its ash spread more than 5,00...