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Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after
Whether on lunch break or on the clock, many employees scroll through the news and social media during the workday. Researchers found that e
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New AI model detects hidden signs of solar eruptions hours before they emerge
Long before dark sunspots appear on the sun's surface, a new active region—where powerful solar eruptions can originate—begins showing subtl
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Pacific farmers are reviving traditional knowledge to tackle a changing climate
For thousands of years, farmers in the Pacific have lived in harmony with their environment. But rising temperatures, unpredictable rainfall
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Red skies, lost solar power: Why Australia must prepare for more dust storms
Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a red sky, hear a ferocious blast of wind and watch as tree branches creak
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Quantum Latin squares cannot solve Euler's 36 officers problem without entanglement
Latin squares are arrangements of symbols in a grid in which every symbol appears exactly once in each row and column. These symbol arrangem
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Can 'digital twins' help California manage its growing flood risk?
Approximately 1.4 million Californians live in areas at high risk of flooding each year, and climate change is only driving this number up.
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Scholar's work in South America helps fight Chagas disease in the U.S.
A three-month Fulbright U.S. Scholar trip to Argentina wasn't just about bringing Texas know-how to South America for Gabriel Hamer, Ph.D.,
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Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why
The closest living relatives of crocodiles and alligators are, perhaps surprisingly, birds. Both are archosauriforms, a group of species tha
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Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elites
Meteorites provided a rare but ready source of iron for ancient Bronze Age cultures before smelting became common. A new study, published in
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An 'influencer' degree? Colleges bet on content creator major as critics question its value
Ask a teen what they want to be when they grow up, and there's a fair chance being an influencer is on their list.
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EU cities plan to compensate for a fifth of their emissions through carbon removal, but few have thought through how
An analysis of 103 European cities' climate-neutral plans for 2030 (including 22 capital cities) shows that municipalities are planning to r
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Why has Britain's grass turned yellow? A plant scientist explains what happens next
Fields, parks and lawns across Europe have turned to straw this summer. Landscapes thousands of years old have been revealed as green outlin
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Teens are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support—here's how to keep kids safe
It's 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about an issue with a friend, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, op
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Two oceans, one country—and 20 times more sharks in the prehistoric Pacific
How many sharks should a coral reef have? It sounds like a simple question, but almost nowhere on Earth is there a reef that has not at some
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Layered nano-biohybrid uses sunlight, air and water to make hydrogen peroxide
A research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed a new material that combines inorgani
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Fulfilling friendships linked to better health and well-being across 22 countries
Fulfilling friendships and close social relationships are strongly linked to excellent physical and mental health, finds a substantial globa
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Tracer exchange reveals ions can speed up or slow down inside battery solids
Understanding how ions diffuse in solid materials is essential for technologies including batteries, electronics and chemical catalysts, but
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Theoretical framework expands directional light control beyond ordered crystal structures
A research team has developed a new theoretical framework that can suppress light scattering in certain directions while enhancing it in oth
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Synchronized star pairs unleash radio bursts via a Jupiter-Io-like mechanism
Researchers have helped unravel the mystery of why certain pairs of stars pulse with regular, long-period bursts of radio waves. The particu
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Butterfly effects of climate change
The Australian National Insect Collection at CSIRO holds 2,000 drawers of butterfly specimens, including some that were collected more than
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Mutation hotspots help 'friendly' viruses outmaneuver the bacteria in your gut
Every 15 minutes, someone in the U.S. dies from a drug-resistant superbug. A few decades from now, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
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While Great Lakes ice cover is slipping, a 'temporary respite' may be on the way
There's good news and bad news for folks who love a good coat of ice on the Great Lakes for the activities and businesses it supports. The g
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Proposed 900-telescope array could detect an Earth-like exoplanet's atmosphere in a single transit
What do you do when the observation you need comes around once a year? Well, preparation is key, but this is the awkward truth about finding
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How a mystery kept in London led to the discovery of a new Ecuadorian frog
Scientists from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador officially described Pristimantis milpe, an abundant and widely distributed
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