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Since the beginning of January, an unusually long period of easterly winds has caused the average water level in the Baltic Sea to fall to a historic...
Constructed with tubulin heterodimers connected into a hollow cylinder, the microtubule, an essential component of the cytoskeleton, plays a vital rol...
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed software that reduces the time needed for a key task in the deve...
A psychological assessment test often used to evaluate psychopathy in Canadian criminal cases is unreliable and prone to unconscious bias on the part...
This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captures a strong solar flare erupting from the star. Solar flares are powerful...
Harbor porpoises "buzz" less when boats and ships are nearby—suggesting a drop in feeding and socializing, new research shows. The paper, published in...
Polymer micelles are tiny, self-assembled particles that are revolutionizing the landscape of drug delivery and nanomedicine. They form when polymer c...
They say that love is a two-way street, but that may only hold true to a point. It turns out that couples who obsess over equal give-and-take may be s...
In her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," American biologist Rachel Carson revealed that DDT, a widely used pesticide at the time, was responsible for the ma...
Using the skin of an Amazonian fish known as tambatinga as the raw material, researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) and EMBRAPA Pecuária Sud...
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered how fertilized rice seeds begin to divide and establish their "body axis." Using a new im...
In terms of area, forest is the most important means of avalanche protection. It is also the most cost-effective and is naturally renewable. This insi...
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