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Polymer-chemistry dataset created for training AI models
- Mar 5, 2026
Polymers are fundamental to our daily lives, serving as the core components for a wide array of goods, including clothing, packaging, transportation i...
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Why woodpeckers rarely get rattled: Skulls built to control rotation, not cushion blows
- Mar 5, 2026
Woodpeckers are well known for striking tree trunks with remarkable force and precision. These birds deliver thousands of high-speed impacts per day,...
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Ocean currents drive disease spread between oyster reefs: Research identifies restoration sites at risk
- Mar 5, 2026
The European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) was once widespread in the North Sea. However, overfishing, habitat destruction and infectious diseases pushe...
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A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history
- Mar 5, 2026
The Neo-Latin theater play "Cenodoxus" (1602) by Jakob Bidermann is now only known to some researchers in Latin and German studies. But from 1930 to 1...
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New species of ancient mollusk found in South Korean waters
- Mar 5, 2026
Scientists have discovered a new species of chiton, an ancient marine mollusk that has remained virtually unchanged for the last 300 million years. Ch...
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Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets
- Mar 5, 2026
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have found that viruses circulating in live poultry markets can be detected more effectively by sampling the sur...
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Drones capture rare harbor porpoise mating behavior off Shetland
- Mar 5, 2026
Drones flying above the waters of Shetland have captured rare footage of harbor porpoises gathering in unusually large groups and engaging in mating b...
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Weaponizing kinship: How Colombia's armed conflict uses family loss to tear apart communities
- Mar 5, 2026
During armed conflicts in Latin America, state forces, insurgents, and paramilitaries systematically employed massacres, torture, abductions, and targ...
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Whole-genome study of koalas shows genetic diversity alone can misread extinction risk
- Mar 5, 2026
A new study published in Science is challenging long-held assumptions about how we measure genetic risk in endangered species. Researchers analyzed wh...
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This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields
- Mar 5, 2026
An international team of researchers has uncovered a remarkable molecular trick used by a unique group of land plants, one that could eventually be en...
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Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
- Mar 5, 2026
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed c...
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Wild macaques don't abandon babies. So why did Punch's mother?
- Mar 5, 2026
Little Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque living in the Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, has captured hearts on the internet. Abandoned by his mothe...