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Tiny radio transmitters reveal a hidden survival tactic in birds
- Feb 3, 2026
In Sturt National Park, near Tibooburra in central Australia where temperatures can range from freezing to nearly 50°C, there lives a small bird with...
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Open-access software tool helps researchers spot fake journals
- Feb 3, 2026
Research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals are at the heart of academic integrity. New ideas and discoveries are vetted and checked by experts...
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CT scans unwrap secrets of ancient Egyptian life
- Feb 3, 2026
Keck Medicine of USC radiologists use computed tomography (CT) scanners to diagnose and treat patients' diseases and injuries. Recently, however, this...
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Weight-loss drugs are creating an environmental disaster—a new water-based method aims to change that
- Feb 3, 2026
The world is in the middle of a peptide drug revolution. These short chains of amino acids—the building blocks of proteins—sit at the heart of some of...
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Shrinking shellfish? Study uncovers acidic water risks in Indian River lagoon
- Feb 3, 2026
Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL), one of the state's most ecologically productive estuaries, is facing a growing but invisible threat that could re...
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Shared purpose outperforms specialization, study shows
- Feb 3, 2026
A new study published in the Strategic Management Journal challenges long-standing assumptions about managerial specialization by examining when organ...
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New model predicts the melting of free-floating ice in calm water
- Feb 3, 2026
A pair of US researchers have developed a new model to tackle a deceptively simple problem: how a small block of ice melts while floating in calm wate...
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Chromosome-level genome unlocks evolution of endangered fern Brainea insignis
- Feb 3, 2026
Ferns, defined by large genomes, high chromosome counts, and pervasive aneuploidy as well as intraspecific polyploid complexity, diverge significantly...
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Probiotics for plants: Microorganisms boost growth and nitrogen uptake
- Feb 3, 2026
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have identified a bacterial genus that promotes root growth and nitrogen uptake in plants. The...
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High-tech imaging could improve cultivation of trees essential to Alberta's forestry industry
- Feb 3, 2026
University of Alberta researchers have, for the first time, captured a much better view of what may be contributing to failures in lodgepole pine seed...
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Superconductivity exposes altermagnetism by breaking symmetries, study suggests
- Feb 3, 2026
How are superconductivity and magnetism connected? A puzzling relation between magnetism and superconductivity in a quantum material has lingered for...
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Microplastics behave differently in aquatic environments depending on whether they are fragments or fibers
- Feb 3, 2026
Researchers led by Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1357 Microplastics at the University of Bayreuth have overturned a common scientific assumption...