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Hailstorms could grow more dangerous and damaging with climate change
- May 28, 2026
Hailstorms can be incredibly dangerous, posing risks to life and property. Then there's the economic damage to cars, crops, and infrastructure caused...
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Italy on red alert as France, Portugal beat hottest May day record
- May 28, 2026
Italy issued a red alert warning for the capital Rome on Thursday and Portugal and France reported their hottest days in May as Europe struggled with...
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Taking dark energy out of the equation: Mathematicians challenge the standard cosmological model of the universe
- May 28, 2026
Mathematicians are challenging the idea that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe. In a new paper published in Pr...
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Mitochondria reveal built-in speed control for protein production
- May 28, 2026
Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have elucidated how the...
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One in six kids could be experiencing online sexual exploitation and abuse
- May 28, 2026
One in six internet-using children from a survey of nearly 12,000 children in 12 countries across Asia and Africa are found to experience at least one...
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Quantum pendulum clock overcomes classical accuracy limits and sheds light on quantum to classical transitions
- May 28, 2026
In a grandfather clock, a pendulum swings back and forth and this periodic motion is maintained using the energy stored in its suspended weights. This...
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Deep beneath Utah, rare mantle earthquakes reshape seismic hazard questions
- May 28, 2026
Nearly 50 years ago, a puzzling earthquake beneath northern Utah jolted scientists' understanding of how Earth works. Now, research from the Universit...
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An AI solution to an 80‑year‑old problem has shocked mathematicians
- May 28, 2026
Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexam...
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Some experts now say psychopathy doesn't exist—here's why we may be looking at it all wrong
- May 28, 2026
As an expert on personality disorders, people often ask me about psychopathy. It seems everybody has had an ex, a boss, a neighbor or a relative who t...
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How bean plants call on wasps for help when hungry caterpillars attack
- May 28, 2026
Some plants are not the sitting ducks they appear to be when they come under attack. If a hungry caterpillar starts to chomp on the succulent leaves o...
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Introduced wild pigs linked to fewer invasive plants, while native deer show the opposite pattern
- May 28, 2026
Wild pigs are generally considered among the world's most problematic invasive mammals. But a major new study from Aarhus Universitet shows that the i...
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Study finds soils can naturally suppress major crop diseases
- May 28, 2026
Curtin University researchers have discovered some agricultural soils can naturally suppress one of Australia's most damaging broadacre crop diseases....