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Which of your climate actions make the biggest difference? Here's how to find out
Go vegan, ditch the car, avoid air travel. Or forget all that—because it's corporations and governments that are really to blame. This argument can feel quite p...
Outdoor lights may keep mosquitoes biting and breeding deeper into autumn
In some parts of the world, autumn brings welcome relief from mosquitoes, such as the Northern house mosquito (Culex pipiens). As the days grow shorter, the wan...
Dying cells don't all release key inflammatory cytokine in the same way, research reveals
Researchers at Toho University have uncovered a previously unrecognized mechanism controlling how dying cells release the inflammatory cytokine IL-33, a key dri...
Pay-to-play system prices out young soccer talent
Every season, Georgia families spend thousands of dollars on youth sports in fees, travel, uniforms and other expenses. University of Georgia senior Gabriella E...
The strange quantum property of tomorrow's insulator
Ultra-fast data transfer and superconductivity: Quantum materials offer significant technological prospects—if we can understand them at the atomic scale. A tea...
Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere may owe its existence to cold subduction
Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to allow for the eventual buildup of oxyge...
The impact of nanoplastics on neurons may depend on their size
Smaller plastic particles have more effects on neurons, the key information processing cells of the brain, new research from the University of Eastern Finland s...
Women's faces outrank men's in attractiveness across cultures, global study shows
Why are women considered the "fairer sex" in humans, when in most animal species it is males that display the more elaborate and visually striking traits? This...
Advancing detection of genome-edited crops in food mixtures
Researchers from Sciensano, partner of the DARWIN project, have published a new paper in npj Science of Food addressing one of the key scientific and regulatory...
As snow droughts continue to threaten global food security, research calls for climate-resilient agriculture practices
Global climate change is reshaping agricultural ecosystems. As warmer winters become more prevalent, snow droughts caused by insufficient snowfall are becoming...
Coral study could help explain infertility and ovarian cancer by decoding cilia-driven fluid flows
A study by researchers at The University of Manchester, carried out alongside the Universities of Melbourne and Copenhagen, could hold the key to understanding...
Droplet-like clusters reveal new control switch for major drug-target receptors
A study by researchers at Duke University School of Medicine identifies a new way that G protein–coupled receptors (GPCRs)—targets of roughly one-third of FDA-a...