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How imagery styles shape pathways into STEM and why gender gaps persist
- Feb 9, 2026
New research is proving persistent gender gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers can't be explained by academic abil...
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Laser‑written glass chip pushes quantum communication toward practical deployment
- Feb 9, 2026
As quantum computers continue to advance, many of today's encryption systems face the risk of becoming obsolete. A powerful alternative—quantum crypto...
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A road map to truly sustainable water systems in space
- Feb 9, 2026
If humans want to live in space, whether on spacecraft or the surface of Mars, one of the first problems to solve is that of water for drinking, hygie...
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Intense sunlight reduces plant diversity and biomass across global grasslands, study finds
- Feb 9, 2026
The sun is the basis for photosynthesis, but not all plants thrive in strong sunlight. Strong sunlight constrains plant diversity and plant biomass in...
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Bee bandits: How a yeast influences nectar-robbing behavior in bumble bees
- Feb 9, 2026
From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit f...
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Supercomputer simulations test turbulence theories at record 35 trillion grid points
- Feb 9, 2026
Using the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology hav...
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Mitochondrial superoxide signal helps preserve the nuclear envelope and delay aging, study finds
- Feb 9, 2026
The nuclear envelope (NE) is a dynamic and selective barrier that organizes genome function and nucleocytoplasmic communication, and its structural de...
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Turtle fossil narrows timeline of Cretaceous species migration
- Feb 9, 2026
Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an apparently fate-tempting...
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Bioengineers build branched, perfusable kidney collecting ducts using 3D bioprinting
- Feb 9, 2026
The human kidney filters about a cup of blood every minute, removing waste, excess fluid, and toxins from it, while also regulating blood pressure, ba...
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Escape from Fukushima: Pig-boar hybrids reveal a genetic fast track in the wake of nuclear disaster
- Feb 9, 2026
A new genetic study examines an unusually large hybridization event that followed the Fukushima nuclear accident, when escaped domestic pigs bred with...
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Discovering new connections between Great Lakes' winter storms and global climate patterns
- Feb 9, 2026
About a year ago, researchers at the University of Michigan found that the extratropical cyclones that are the biggest drivers of winter weather in th...
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DeepChopper model improves RNA sequencing research by mitigating chimera artifacts
- Feb 9, 2026
Scientists in the laboratory of Rendong Yang, Ph.D., associate professor of Urology, have developed a new large language model that can interpret tran...