Science Discoveries
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Scientists solve 30-year-old molecular mystery of rye pollen compounds
EVANSTON, July 7 — A pair of molecules first glimpsed in rye pollen nearly three decades ago have…
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How Nuclear Fusion Works: The Science of Recreating a Star on Earth
WASHINGTON, July 6 — The race to harness the power of the stars is entering a new phase,…
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Ultra-Black Coating Reflects 2% of Light, Slashes Satellite Pollution
ROME, July 6 — For families who have taken children to see the Milky Way, only to find…
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The Sugar Glider’s Long Glide: Precision, Parallax and a Fifty-Meter Descent
New York, July 5 — The first thing to understand about a Sugar Glider is what it cannot…
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Energy scientist Chen Peipei leaves Cambridge for Hong Kong lab
HONG KONG, July 5 — Chen Peipei, an energy transition scientist, has left a research associate role at…
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Marie Curie: From Warsaw exile to Nobel-winning scientist
PARIS, July 4 — Against the backdrop of a city that still bears the intellectual fingerprints of its…
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Founding contradictions and historical stakes of 1776 examined
LONDON, July 4 — Against this backdrop of America’s 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a webinar…
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UK Farmland Birds Down as Much as 90% in Places, Conservationists Warn
WASHINGTON, July 4 — The birds haven’t vanished completely. But their numbers are falling fast enough that scientists…
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Boston heard the Declaration of Independence two weeks after the signing
PHILADELPHIA, July 4 — The first Fourth of July was not a day of celebration at all. Nobody…
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Heliconius butterflies defy aging norms with near-year-long lifespans
PANAMA CITY, July 3 — 348 days. That is how long one tropical butterfly, Heliconius hewitsoni , survived…
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Record-Breaking Solar Device Converts Sunlight to Hydrogen at 31.3% Efficiency
FREIBURG, July 1 — In the corridors of Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), a team…
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How the 1776 Viceroyalty of La Plata Redrew Spanish South America
BOGOTÁ, June 30 — On the ground in Colombia’s high plains, the year 1776 is not a story…
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Study Reveals Nordlys Laser Alters DNA Methylation in Human Skin
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — The line between cosmetic dermatology and cancer biology just got thinner. A peer-reviewed study published…
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The Sentence That Forever Changed History
WASHINGTON, June 30 — Two hundred and fifty years ago today, the American experiment began with a single…
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Glutathione: A Century of Scientific Discovery and Vital Cellular Role
NEW YORK, June 30 — If TikTok is to be believed, the fastest way to reduce inflammation, improve…
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Reason Credits the American Long Rifle With Turning Key Revolutionary War Battles
WASHINGTON, June 28 — A declassified Pentagon filing has identified a single firearm as the weapon that turned…
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Freckles Are Not Flaws: What Psychology and Science Say
WASHINGTON, June 27 — The cultural calculus around freckles has shifted dramatically in recent years, moving from something…
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Students’ Rumor Leads to Roman House Found Beneath Rome High School Gym
SPOLETO, Italy — The basketball games will stop. That much is certain. What happens next at Liceo Classico…
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UMKC Researcher Finds Decline in Daily Conversation Since 2009
KANSAS CITY — The U.S. Surgeon General declared a loneliness epidemic in 2023. That official warning arrived two…
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Roman House Under Rome’s Cavour High School Gym Tied to Umbrius Family
SPOLETO, Italy — The basketball games have stopped. For now, the gym floor at Liceo Classico Pontano Sansi…
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U.S. Plans DNA ‘Noah’s Ark’ for 2,300 Endangered Species
WASHINGTON, June 25 — The figure that matters: 2,300. That’s the number of threatened and endangered plant and…
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U.S. Funding Gap Drives Partnership with De-Extinction Startup for Species DNA Bank
The math is brutal. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service currently protects 1,662 domestic and 638 foreign species…
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Funding Gap Drives U.S. Biobanking Deal for 2,300 Endangered Species
The math behind the new federal biobanking deal with Colossal Biosciences is not complicated. It is grim. The…
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Causal mediation method aids large-scale biomedical data analysis
WASHINGTON — A new statistical method promises to help researchers untangle why a treatment works — not just…
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