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Can plants hear? Latest research offers new insights
- May 11, 2026
Researchers at MIT have suggested that rice seeds can hear the sound of rain, according to a new study. MIT calls it "the first direct evidence that p...
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Shark face study uncovers 400-million-year-old blueprint shared across jawed vertebrates
- May 11, 2026
Most of what scientists know about face development comes from studies in bony vertebrates such as mice, chickens, and zebrafish. However, their evolu...
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Looped polymers unlock stronger, faster molecular binding through entropy, model suggests
- May 11, 2026
Entropy gets a bad rap. Typically associated with randomness and chaos, it can also correlate with freedom and diversity. Cornell researchers have fou...
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How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions
- May 11, 2026
In Baltimore on Oct. 20, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial i...
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New alien-life test could help Mars and Europa missions read organic molecules
- May 11, 2026
For decades, the search for life beyond Earth has revolved around a key question: What molecules should scientists be looking for on other planets or...
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Study finds airborne testing could help spot equine herpesvirus at major events
- May 11, 2026
Researchers from,the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment have found that air sampling at major equestria...
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Light reshapes metal-organic framework to harvest airborne water
- May 11, 2026
Chemists at the University of Iowa have created a three-dimensional lattice that captures water from the air and stores it. In a new study appearing i...
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New AI tool predicts how cells choose their future—helping uncover hidden drivers of development
- May 11, 2026
What are the first steps that chart the path for a cell to become a blood cell, neuron cell, or pigment cell? Scientists have developed increasingly p...
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Vessel tracking reveals how invasive seaweed could spread across New Zealand
- May 11, 2026
Examining the movements of vessels between locations helped to predict where an invasive seaweed spread, researchers led by the Australian Institute o...
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Wildfire smoke's hidden ozone threat may be adding thousands of US deaths each year
- May 11, 2026
A study that assesses the effects of wildfires over two decades shows that wildfire smoke significantly raises ground-level ozone and contributes to e...
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Pentagon releases UFO files that go back to the Apollo moon missions
- May 11, 2026
The Department of Defense has released a fresh batch of images and transcripts relating to reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, formerly known...
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How the evolution of blockchain is changing our ideas about trust
- May 11, 2026
In the shadow of the 2008 global financial crisis, trust in the financial system was at a historic low. Banks had failed, markets had collapsed, and c...