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Gravitational lensing technique unveils supermassive black hole pairs
- Feb 12, 2026
Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that ar...
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What to know about EPA decision to revoke a scientific finding that helped fight climate change
- Feb 12, 2026
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday revoked its own 2009 "endangerment finding," a scientific conclusion that for 16 years has been the ce...
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New perspectives on how physical instabilities drive embryonic development
- Feb 12, 2026
Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize itself into a complex orga...
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Yangtze River fishing ban halts seven decades of biodiversity decline
- Feb 12, 2026
The Yangtze River Basin, a global biodiversity hotspot, has endured severe ecological degradation over several decades due to intense human activity,...
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Nanolaser on a chip could cut computer energy use in half
- Feb 12, 2026
Researchers at DTU have developed a nanolaser that could be the key to much faster and much more energy-efficient computers, phones, and data centers....
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Sea turtles are nesting earlier but producing fewer eggs, 17-year study finds
- Feb 12, 2026
Climate change is reshaping life on Earth at an unprecedented pace. Across the globe, species are shifting their ranges, altering migration routes and...
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Pareto-optimized windbreak designs proposed for sustainable arid agriculture
- Feb 12, 2026
In a new review, researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEF) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences synthesized evidence and p...
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Demographic forms can undermine a sense of belonging in Latino Americans
- Feb 12, 2026
The way Latino Americans' identity is represented on demographic forms can undermine their fundamental sense of belonging in the U.S., says new resear...
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New AI method advances prediction of Brazil's national soybean yield
- Feb 12, 2026
A new AI-based system can generate high-resolution soybean yield maps across Brazil using only limited local data, improving yield estimates for this...
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Global analysis tracks 3,100 glacier surges as climate change rewrites the rules
- Feb 12, 2026
While most of the world's glaciers are retreating as the climate warms, a small but significant population behaves very differently—and the consequenc...
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Mapping where local pollution and fishing suppress climate refugia for world's coral reefs
- Feb 12, 2026
As ocean temperatures rise due to climate change, corals and other sensitive organisms survive where temperatures are less extreme. But a new study fr...
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A new microscope for the quantum age: Single nanoscale scan measures four key material properties
- Feb 12, 2026
Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale pre...