Science
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Extreme heat is harming remote First Nations communities. It's time we listen to them
In remote Australia, First Nations communities battle extreme heat each summer. In January 2026 alone, the town of Alice Springs (Mparntwe) endured 20 days of t...
Economic and environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture vary widely across farms and regions
Regenerative agriculture can deliver both economic and environmental benefits for European farmers, Wageningen University & Research (WUR) concludes in the rese...
Nanoparticle exsolution opens a new route to functional oxide electronics and spintronics
A research team has developed a new strategy to simultaneously control the electronic and magnetic properties of oxide thin films through a process known as exs...
How to manage public investment in science with balance
Public debt is higher today and growing at a faster rate than before the pandemic in 80% of the world's economies. According to the latest fiscal report from th...
Nearly isotropic superconducting property revealed in trilayer nickelate
A research team led by Prof. Zhang Jinglei from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that the trilayer nickelate La4Ni3O10-δ...
Integration could be key to computational thinking in students
Training in computational thinking can improve a student's ability to tackle complex problems, according to research in the International Journal of Technology...
Ancient stellar flyby may still be steering long-period comets today
The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the motions of stars like never before, even revealing possible interactions between our solar system and...
Microscale hydrogel fibers could enable imaging inside tiny tissue structures
Researchers have developed light-transmitting hydrogel fibers that are just hundreds of micrometers in diameter. With further development, these soft fibers cou...
After parenthood, same-sex parents diverge from different-sex norms—and from each other, researcher finds
Research by Penn sociologist Pilar Gonalons-Pons and others has shown that after a man and a woman have a child, the couple's relative share of paid and unpaid...
Social media messages may help counter youth loneliness epidemic by encouraging real-world connection
Loneliness among young adults has reached what the U.S. surgeon general has called an "epidemic," with recent estimates suggesting that roughly half of U.S. adu...
Why old nuclear-site concrete could become a tool for trapping strontium-90
Crushed concrete from legacy nuclear facilities could play a far greater role in safely managing radioactive land than previously understood. Research published...
Hidden molecular code in tosyl groups directs pillararene formation and assembly, study finds
A research team at Mahidol University, Thailand, has discovered that tosyl groups, long regarded as routine synthetic handles, can actively guide the formation...