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Brazil's fire corals may be facing silent extinction, experts say
According to the authors of a study published in the journal Coral Reefs, fire corals may be undergoing a "silent extinction." Coral bleaching occurs when seawa...
How New Jersey's limits on 'forever chemicals' in tap water brought levels down
Levels of toxic "forever chemicals" in New Jersey's public water systems dropped by as much as 55% after the state moved to limit the contaminants in drinking w...
Using 'imaginative' AI to survey past and future earthquake damage
Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in makin...
Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated
Fires are a recurring phenomenon in central South America, often intensified by drought and deforestation. In 2024, wildfire activity reached its highest levels...
A captive chimp's instrumental performances hint at the evolution of vocal externalization
In February 2023, a resident at Kyoto University's Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior—EHUB—treated researchers to a spontaneous musical perfo...
Significant grade inflation may be occurring in graduate education, according to decades' worth of data
Analysis of two decades of student data at a large U.S. university suggests that grade inflation exists in graduate education. Researcher Vivien Lee and colleag...
A potential antibiotic target emerges as pneumonia-linked enzyme's dynamic structure proves essential
Antibiotics revolutionized health care when they were introduced in the early twentieth century, making many severe and often fatal diseases easily treatable. B...
Scalable flow chemistry speeds deuteration of fatty acids with tunable isotope selectivity
The National Deuteration Facility has developed a capability to use a flow chemistry process to increase efficiency, increase production capacity and reduce dec...
Stabilized hybrid photocatalyst boosts artificial photosynthesis efficiency
A hybrid photocatalyst system from Science Tokyo tackles an overlooked flaw in artificial photosynthesis to dramatically improve CO2-to-formate conversion. Unli...
One species or two? Understanding the Formosan legless lizard
A research team from the National Taiwan Normal University has clarified the status of a secretive reptile. Led by Si-Min Lin, the team focused on the Formosan...
Developing optical vortex phase masks for the detection of habitable worlds
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for futu...
JWST reveals most distant red galaxy yet at redshift 11.45
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new red galaxy at a redshift of approximately 11.45. The newfound galaxy, which recei...