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Nearly 90% of Americans engaging with nonprofits do not realize it, researchers find
Many Americans encounter nonprofits in everyday life without recognizing those interactions as nonprofit service use, according to a new rep
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Fossil found on Welsh beach ends 'confusion' over 200-million-year-old fish teeth
Fossilised teeth across Europe had been wrongly identified until the latest find in south Wales.
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Organic chemists harness AI to uncover how fast chemical reactions proceed
Chemists routinely optimize reactions to maximize the yield of their desired products, but understanding why those reactions work can requir
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Generous paternal leave policies improve maternal and newborn health, family finances and workplace equality
When our second child was born, my spouse had several weeks of paternity leave under his parental leave policy at work.
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Scientists can’t stop using AI, even when forbidden from doing so
When scientists were asked to review papers for a conference without using AI tools, many of them ignored the request and used AI anyway
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Our food system is vulnerable to El Niño, warns UK climate minister
Extreme weather could damage harvests worldwide, but the answer is more local food production, not stockpiling, Katie White said in an inter
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Did you solve it? Isaac Newton’s tower drop puzzle
The solution to the seventeenth century stumperEarlier today I set you a puzzle that Isaac Newton posed in 1679 in a latter to Robert Hooke.
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Mating-related chemical changes in New World screwworm identified
Researchers at the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE) and the U.S. Department of Agric
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Faded cave glyphs offer fresh clues to Teotihuacan's ancient writing system
In a shallow cave high on a cliff in Chalcatzingo, Mexico, scientists documented three red glyphs in the 1980s, but the paintings received r
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The joy of song: Where songbirds came from and why we should listen to them
In 2001, I had an epiphany while making my first trip to Australia. Walking across a remote sheep station in the dusty west, my ears were su
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Halting plastic flows into oceans by 2050 may not stop microplastic buildup
Halting new marine plastic inputs by 2050 is the core objective of the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, which was shared and endorsed alongside the
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Bullfrog brains can make their own backup fuel
For decades, scientists believed most animals relied on a steady supply of glucose, the body's primary fuel source, to power their brains. W
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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’Two of the “godf
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What's behind part-time work for men
In Switzerland, 40% of the working population works part-time, according to 2025 figures from the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Women ac
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Embracing the glitches in gravity could give us a unified theory of reality
Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve that problem –
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The right timing of treatment keeps resistant cells in check, yeast experiments suggest
The development of treatment resistance is one of the key challenges in modern cancer and antibiotic therapy. New therapeutic approaches aim
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Climate risks don't stop at sector boundaries—our responses shouldn't either
Australia's first mandatory climate reporting regime is now upon us. Since January 2025, organizations across the economy have been required
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Worm experiments reveal how epigenetic effects persist across generations
Every cell in an organism contains the same DNA, which carries all the instructions needed for it to function. Yet cells do not all use the
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NASA tests dual mode propulsion CubeSat ahead of launch
Spacecraft propulsion traditionally relies on volatile fuels and separate, bulky systems for different types of maneuvering in space. NASA i
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One of Canada's worst invasive species may have arrived naturally
Most invasive species are introduced into the areas where they become damaging. That's part of why they tend to be so successful in taking o
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Watch: SpaceX launches Starship rocket into orbit for first time
Until now, all Starship flights have been suborbital, meaning the capsules did not complete a loop around the Earth.
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A tiny stellar system may be a 'satellite of a satellite'
Astronomers using data from the Euclid space telescope have discovered an exceptionally faint stellar system near the Fornax dwarf galaxy. C
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Mapping one atom's interaction with light uncovers an unbounded network of quantum states
A new graph-theoretic framework provides a unified description of atom-light interactions across regimes ranging from weak to deep-strong co
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Scientists just discovered what coffee really does to your gut and brain
A new study suggests coffee may influence mood and brain function by changing the activity of microbes in the gut. Both caffeinated and deca
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