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Heat‑resistant corals could help reefs adapt to climate change
Austin Bowden-Kerby, a pioneer in coral reef conservation, spends many of his days gardening corals for reefs around Fiji and the Pacific. He grows corals in oc...
Federal grant terminations disproportionately impact minority scientists, study finds
Researchers from University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science have found that recent federal grant te...
'Not just hot water': Marine heat waves can create toxic relationship between seagrasses and microbes
Heat stress from marine heat waves can create a toxic relationship between seagrasses and a hidden ecosystem of bacteria, transforming a previously beneficial c...
Fewer insects, fewer nutritious crops: Pollinator decline puts human health at risk
Biodiversity loss is directly threatening human health and welfare, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study, published in Nature r...
School cell phone bans deliver benefits—but not right away
New research reveals that while bans aren't an instant panacea for problems in U.S. classrooms, schools can achieve positive outcomes with persistence, accordin...
Diaspora distress: When geopolitical conflict follows immigrant workers into the office
Rostam does not sleep through the night anymore. At 2 a.m., when his phone buzzes, he's awake before the sound finishes. It might be his parents calling from Te...
Webb and Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope together with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked deeply at thousands of young star cl...
What can singing mice say about human speech?
Speech is a crowning achievement of human evolution, the skill that separates us from every other animal. So, it would stand to reason that evolving this capabi...
Deforestation may push Amazon degradation threshold below 2°C warming
Around two-thirds of the Amazon rainforest could shift into degraded forest or savanna-like ecosystems at 1.5–1.9°C of global warming if deforestation increases...
Dark proteome yields 1,785 new microproteins that could reshape disease research
Scientists have uncovered more than 1,700 new proteins that could have implications for human diseases, including cancer. Mostly very small, these proteins were...
A new kind of CRISPR could treat viral infection and cancer by shredding sick cells' DNA
A new kind of CRISPR that destroys cells rather than gene editing them has shown potential for killing sick cells while leaving healthy cells untouched. The tec...
How to build cities for wildlife, not just people
In central Seoul, South Korea, a motorway once covered a buried urban stream. Today, that same stretch has been uncovered—a process known as daylighting—and thi...