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NASA science flights venture to improve severe winter weather warnings
- Jan 28, 2026
A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature...
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Deforestation is drying out the Amazon rainforest faster than previously thought
- Jan 28, 2026
Deforestation is having a more devastating effect on the Amazon rainforest than earlier data suggested. While cutting down large swaths of trees destr...
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Residents from strongly blue or red counties favor like-minded destinations for everyday travel, analysis finds
- Jan 28, 2026
A new analysis of 471 U.S. counties has found that, for everyday travel, people from counties with particularly strong political leanings—whether libe...
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Microplastics found in a third of surveyed fish off the coasts of remote Pacific Islands
- Jan 28, 2026
A third of fish living in the remote coastal waters of the Pacific Island Countries and Territories are contaminated with microplastics, with especial...
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How a superionic state enables long-term water storage in Earth's interior
- Jan 28, 2026
The cycling of water within Earth's interior regulates plate tectonics, volcanism, ocean volume, and climate stability, making it central to the plane...
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Hearing angry or happy human voices is linked to changes in dogs' balance
- Jan 28, 2026
In a small study, dogs experienced both stabilization and destabilization of their balance upon hearing angry or happy human voices, but angry voices...
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Capturing the moment of organelle handoff inside living cells
- Jan 28, 2026
For the first time, researchers have directly visualized how newly formed cellular organelles leave the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and transition onto...
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Webb pushes boundaries of observable universe closer to Big Bang
- Jan 28, 2026
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise to push the boundaries of the observable universe...
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It's one storm after another for much of the US, but the next one's path is uncertain
- Jan 28, 2026
Winter's brutal grip on the U.S. East is not letting up, with coming days bringing subfreezing temperatures that will plunge deep into what had been a...
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Antitrust crackdowns may reduce corporate know-how
- Jan 28, 2026
Interlocking directorates—the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies—have long been identified with backroom deals...
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The magnetic 'birdsong' of the smallest planet
- Jan 28, 2026
BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the more interesting things fou...
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Extracellular vesicles manage to slip gene edits into Pneumocystis fungi
- Jan 28, 2026
Pneumocystis is an unwieldy genus of fungal pathogens that cause severe pneumonia, particularly in immunocompromised people like those with HIV/AIDs o...