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Air-conditioning cools homes but may weaken climate action

• May 20, 2026

New research from Singapore University of Technology and Design and the Singapore-ETH Centre finds that private cooling may protect people from heat w...

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The quantum key to seeing through chaos

• May 20, 2026

Researchers from the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, the Kastler Brossel Laboratory and the University of Glasgow have developed an innovative met...

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Climate change spurs weight gain in owl monkeys

• May 20, 2026

Azara's owl monkeys, a small primate species found in South America, are heavier today than those that lived a quarter-century ago, and evidence sugge...

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Discovery of new fossils in Northwest Canada changes view of early animal evolution

• May 20, 2026

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering unprecedented insight into the earlie...

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Cows can recognize familiar human faces and match them to voices

• May 20, 2026

Cows show a visual preference for new human faces over a familiar one and can match a known handler's voice to their face, according to a study publis...

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Scientists improve knowledge on sea level rise—and confirm it has been accelerating since 1960

• May 20, 2026

Sea level rise is a direct consequence of human-induced climate change: global warming. It is relentless and very hard to stop. It arises from human-i...

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Thousands of UK beekeepers submit honey to benefit environmental science

• May 20, 2026

Beekeepers and their honeybees can be invaluable participants in environmental surveys, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS...

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How climate change is destroying Arctic cultural heritage sites

• May 20, 2026

Climate change is rapidly destroying cultural heritage sites across the Arctic, as exemplified in a 17th century "whalers' graveyard" which provides i...

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Rising seawater heat may collapse coral oxygen flow before bleaching appears

• May 20, 2026

Tropical coral reefs support the highest levels of biodiversity in the ocean. This vital ecosystem depends on reef-building corals, which form colonie...

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Disability compounds employment woes for people with criminal records, and vice versa

• May 20, 2026

Justice-impacted individuals with disabilities (JIID) are nearly 11 percentage points less likely to be employed than people with disabilities who hav...

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Insects in the city: Flowers alone may not be enough to sustain them

• May 20, 2026

What renders a city garden attractive to insects such as solitary bees, bumblebees and hoverflies? And how well do they pollinate plants in urban area...

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Astronomers uncover why some solar eruptions die

• May 20, 2026

A team of scientists has recorded one of the most detailed views ever of a failed solar eruption, a powerful blast from the sun that never broke free....