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Are there plants that could survive as a food source on the moon? Part 2
Fresh answers are questioning the broader applicability of the Wardian case – and note the importance of where on the moon the plants are gr
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This week’s new questions
Is there such a thing as an olfactory illusion, and what forces make a particle of fluid start spiralling down a pipe instead of flowing smo
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Can ‘quantum musical agents’ really make a melody better?
Feedback wonders if a bum note is being struck in a new paper exploring "quantum teleportation in multi-agent systems for interactive music”
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Tom Gauld on picking the right staff
Tom Gauld's weekly cartoon
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Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape
The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fo
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Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes
When you look at someone, you usually look at their face. It serves as one of the most important sources of social information in primates,
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Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits
Lakes play an important role in capturing and storing carbon, which accumulates in their sediments. But the amounts they can absorb have var
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Researchers develop hydrogels to create a programmable niche for blood stem cells
A research team from Tel Aviv University and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), led by Ayala Lampel and Carsten Werner
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Narrow ultrasonic beam enables stable 3D levitation six times farther than before
Scientists have developed a new acoustic levitation technique using an ultrasonic beam capable of levitating and moving small objects in mid
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CanopyFit maps urban tree sites with greatest cooling potential
UBC researchers and municipal partners have developed a modeling tool to help cities adapt to rising temperatures by mapping where new trees
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5 graphs that show how the record-breaking El Niño will affect the world
A stronger El Niño means more extreme weather, including droughts and wildfires in some places and flooding and tropical storms in others
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Are mushroom-growing kits seeding a biodiversity crisis across Europe?
What began as a seemingly harmless and delicious hobby may have released an invasive species across the continent. Experts fear that these d
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Tax break 'megadeals' spurred innovation in local communities
When cities, counties or states provide corporations with big tax breaks to lure factories, corporate headquarters and other facilities, the
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Why some lava-covered exoplanets retain atmospheres for billions of years
Stanford researchers have offered an explanation for why some sizzling, lava-covered worlds nestled tightly around their stars can retain th
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Tangled plastic and fishing gear found in pilot whales stranded in Hawaii
A new study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers shows that nearly 23% of short-finned pilot whales that stranded over 13 years in
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No sick days? How remote work is changing the way we work when ill
Working from home and digital technology may be making it easier for employees to work while ill and blurring the boundaries between work an
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Nanoparticles induce neuroregeneration in Alzheimer's disease models
The adult human brain has limited capacity to repair or regenerate neurons lost to Alzheimer's disease, the most common type of dementia. Ex
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One molecule, one photon: Entanglement makes an imperceptible recoil measurable
For decades, light has been used to understand the molecular structures of matter. A sample is irradiated with light, and measurements deter
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Bat DNA adaptations may connect virus defense, longevity and cancer resistance
Bats are anomalies in the mammalian world—they fly, have long lifespans and rarely get cancer. Scientists now suspect the bat immune system
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Sharpening an essential tool for biotechnology
Scientists at the Department of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have shown that more than 93% of possible E. coli CRISPR
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Nanoparticles ease Alzheimer’s by making neurons from other cells
A drug made up of a cage of nanoparticles and antibodies created neurons from another type of brain cell, which relieved symptoms of Alzheim
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Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
Withdrawal symptoms following long-term SSRI use appear far more pervasive and serious than previously realised. Now medical bodies are reth
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How to see the 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse
How to see the 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse
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AI robot trains teachers to handle heated issues
Researchers at La Trobe University are using a robot driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to better prepare teachers to deal with challeng
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