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How charges invert a long-standing empirical law in glass physics
- Feb 10, 2026
If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass incre...
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Where did that raindrop come from? Climate model ensemble captures worldwide water isotopes over 45 years
- Feb 10, 2026
Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, and sometimes these atoms are slightly heavier than usual. These heavier forms are called isotopes. As water eva...
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What's in a name? Information structure parallels discovered across cultures—with repercussions for Asian names
- Feb 10, 2026
First names in Western countries today are more diverse than they were before early modern states evolved. This difference started to emerge in the 17...
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Acoustic communication—an overlooked driver in boxfish evolution
- Feb 10, 2026
A new international study reveals the unexpected importance of acoustic communication in the evolution of boxfishes. This discovery offers new perspec...
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New dataset reveals how US law has grown more complex over the past century
- Feb 10, 2026
A century ago, the section of U.S. federal law governing public health and welfare was relatively small and loosely connected to the rest of the legal...
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Neural crest cells: Miniature electric muscles that colonize embryonic organs
- Feb 10, 2026
Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what you look like: the pigment...
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Old galaxies in a young universe?
- Feb 10, 2026
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and mu...
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Deep learning detects foodborne bacteria within three hours by eliminating debris misclassifications
- Feb 10, 2026
Researchers have significantly enhanced an artificial intelligence tool used to rapidly detect bacterial contamination in food by eliminating misclass...
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Software tool can detect hidden errors in complex tissue analyses
- Feb 10, 2026
A new software tool, ovrlpy, improves quality control in spatial transcriptomics, a key technology in biomedical research. Developed by the Berlin Ins...
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'Increase' framing makes research results seem bigger and more important, experiments show
- Feb 10, 2026
Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians...
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Social media feeds: Algorithm redesign could break echo chambers and reduce online polarization
- Feb 10, 2026
Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue,...
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Underestimated wake: Shipping traffic causes more turmoil in the Baltic Sea than expected
- Feb 10, 2026
Commercial shipping not only affects the Baltic Sea on the surface, but also has a significant impact on the water column and the seabed. A study by t...