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In areas where freshwater is scarce, farmers often turn to treated wastewater to irrigate crops. And many regulators and consumers worry about exposin...
Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of individual photons and, id...
Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech's Xiaofeng Wang and Bor...
Is your phone use hurting your relationship? A study from researchers at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University published in the Journa...
Neuroscientists have uncovered new insights into a key evolutionary question: Why can humans talk when most animals can't? The journal Science publish...
A research team is using astrophysical explosions to understand the mysterious forces at work in some of the smallest building blocks in nature: atomi...
For an oyster, creating an internal environment for calcification that forms its distinctive hard shell is essential. But new Harvard research has fou...
Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusuall...
Coral reefs over the past 12,000 years grew best when the ocean temperature was 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), according to new research...
When many disease-causing bacteria encounter penicillin, they are not always destroyed right away, shifting into a temporary survival state called ant...
Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) have led an international collaboration to study how semiconductor materials enable the productio...
A new study on mayflies of the genus Ecdyonurus illustrates just how multifaceted and surprising reproductive behavior in nature can be. Entomologists...
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