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Tens of thousands flee fire near U.S. city of Reno
Tens of thousands of people looked set to spend another night away from home Monday as a wind-driven fire bore down on the western U.S. city
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Trees 'giving up': Climate change hammers historic English gardens
At Hampton Court Palace, head gardener Graham Dillamore strode across the burned beige grass in the spectacular formal gardens southwest of
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Access to bilingual education lags behind in Andalusia's rural areas, study reveals
Over the past two decades, bilingual education programs have significantly expanded within the Spanish education system, with the aim of imp
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Hotel stigma may drive Chinese hospitality graduates away from careers
Research published in the International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development analyzed interviews with more than 300 Chinese ho
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Process doubles the size of PFAS molecules, making them easy to destroy
Ask a chemist to name the strongest single bond in organic chemistry, and they'll likely say carbon-fluorine. It's that bond, repeated dozen
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What would happen to human interaction if AI could read our emotions?
AI systems are increasingly being developed to recognize emotions by analyzing facial expressions, voices, body language and other physiolog
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Blood-clotting protein may be SARS-CoV-2's hidden accomplice, helping it hide from antibodies and reach blood vessels
Fibrinogen, the abundant plasma protein best known for forming blood clots, may play a second and far less benign role during SARS-CoV-2 inf
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Mystery statue unearthed at Sardis archaeological dig
Researchers with the long-running Harvard–Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis have unearthed a larger-than-life statue estimated to
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Natural gas drilling could raise salt levels, in turn boosting radium in water
Pennsylvania ranks second in U.S. natural gas production, accounting for about one-fifth of U.S. output in 2024, and has one of the most ext
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NASA starshade would enable astronomers to directly image rocky exoworlds
A NASA-led team hopes to take a shortcut to direct imaging of extrasolar Earth-like planets. The idea is to use what they call a hybrid tele
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Meteorite dust holds records of magnetism that may have helped form the sun
Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million years, this "sol
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How fusion reactions can survive flaws—up to a point
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have found that implosions designed for inertial fusion energy (IFE) can tolera
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How the sun's galactic journey and superflare-filled youth shaped Earth's climate
At the center of our solar system, the sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent studies, scientists uncovered how ancient e
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Why marine heat waves and acidification strike together
Marine heat waves and extreme ocean acidification events are each damaging on their own. But when both stressors hit simultaneously, their i
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Supersized quantum sensors make faint photons easier to catch
Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep
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Catching cow burps in real time: Methane sensor matches industry monitor in early field test
Methane is a short-lived but powerful greenhouse gas; cutting methane emissions can slow near-term warming and improve air quality by reduci
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The midlife clock is ticking: How we understand 'time left' can help us use it well
In Adaptation and the Life Cycle, psychologist Bernice Neugarten tells us that we arrive in our middle years by our social clocks, not our a
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Molecular trick opens the door to a new generation of glass
Researchers at TU Dortmund University, Paderborn University, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and the University of Oxford have developed a
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Wildlife trafficking spreads across social media, putting thousands of species at risk
Researchers monitoring online activity for six weeks in mid-2025 found primates, birds, snakes, frogs, orchids and many other wildlife group
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Human rights rankings reveal surprising over- and underperformers
When it comes to human rights, it probably won't surprise you that Scandinavian countries perform well by statistical measures, along with C
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Temperature-tunable micropillars enable programmable sorting of particles and cells
A programmable microfluidic device developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, combines deterministic lateral displacement, a microf
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A bird's eye view of illegal logging and its consequences in the Peruvian Amazon
When I first arrived in Peru's Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in 2005, a local youth surprised me with an offer to sell me a live owl,
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AI finds six ways to print rocket-grade alloy on commercial 3D printers
Washington State University researchers used artificial intelligence to find a more efficient, less expensive way to 3D-print a high-perform
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Deuterium enables chip waveguides to generate broadband light from infrared pulses
A research team from Singapore, led by Associate Professor Dawn Tan of the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Dr. Luo
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