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Raising human capital in BRICS is linked to lower emissions, study suggests
- Feb 6, 2026
Climate change and worsening environmental conditions have brought into sharp relief how we must reconcile development with sustainability. This issue...
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Light-driven probe enables sensitive detection of epigenetic intermediates
- Feb 6, 2026
Epigenetic modifications such as DNA methylation play a key role in regulating gene expression. Emerging evidence suggests that intermediates generate...
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Governments urged to fix faulty radar in economic models disregarding climate risk
- Feb 6, 2026
Economic models used by governments, central banks and investors are increasingly understating physical climate risk because they rely on assumptions...
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Study: Why Nobel Prize-level materials have yet to reach industry
- Feb 6, 2026
Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, polluted water, and increasingly strict environmental regulations are driving the search for materials that c...
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Into the neutrino fog: The ghosts haunting our search for dark matter
- Feb 6, 2026
Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime—or perhaps planning one. He bounces arou...
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Large study shows scaling startups risk increasing gender gaps
- Feb 6, 2026
When startups scale quickly, founders often make hurried hiring decisions that unintentionally disadvantage women, according to new study from the Sto...
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New VRscores database maps workplace politics across 530,000 US employers
- Feb 6, 2026
Researchers, including Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, have...
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What Olympic athletes see that viewers don't: Machine-made snow makes ski racing faster and riskier
- Feb 6, 2026
When viewers tune in to the 2026 Winter Olympics, they will see pristine, white slopes, groomed tracks and athletes racing over snow-covered landscape...
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'Dispersal-driven' evolution fuels diversity at the air-liquid interface
- Feb 5, 2026
As in a batch of kombucha or a barrel of sherry, microbes can assemble into a mat-like layer at the boundary between air and liquid. In laboratory cul...
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How to close the justice gap: What a health-linked legal model showed in three years
- Feb 5, 2026
A three-year study has found that legal services work best when they are designed with communities, delivered face-to-face and closely linked to healt...
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Scientists outline case for next-generation ocean iron fertilization field trials
- Feb 5, 2026
A team of ocean and climate researchers is calling for a new generation of carefully designed ocean iron fertilization (OIF) field trials to determine...
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Thinking of AI-written vows? A study explains why it can backfire
- Feb 5, 2026
Psychologists at the University of Kent are suggesting people think wisely about their use of ChatGPT this Valentine's Day after new research has reve...