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- Exploring how bumble bee queens coordinate chemical signals
- Ancient DNA reveals cacao was consumed in present-day Georgia 1,000 years ago
- Fleeting sugar pairs may help curb abnormal cell-growth signals
- Light particles reveal critical scaling in a two-dimensional photon gas
- Ramped fields create more robust entanglement between trapped-ion qubits
- AI designs new antibodies that pass blinded laboratory tests
- Chagas parasite's survival trick offers antimalarial-style target
- Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes
- Researchers develop hydrogels to create a programmable niche for blood stem cells
- LLM-based platform for generating new materials synthesis recipes dramatically cuts trial and error
- A field guide for the Wild West of AI-assisted environmental science
- Catalyzing the community: Chemists and Navajo leaders educate on clean water
- Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyria
- Pomegranate emerges as a promising natural phytobiotic for veterinary medicine
- Sound waves do double duty, carrying and protecting quantum information
- Bioinspired nanoparticles deliver gene editing to lower 'bad' cholesterol
- Satellite analysis tracks carbon cost of coastal erosion
- A tiny drop of water is all that's needed to find threatened frogs
- Wildlife trafficking spreads across social media, putting thousands of species at risk
- Vacuum-fluctuation-enhanced superconductivity demonstrated for the first time
- As California embraces universal transitional kindergarten, the state's other child-care workers are struggling
- Hydrogel platform uses vitamin B2 and blue light to simplify living tissue models
- New ROOT method charts a path to reversing biological changes once thought irreversible
- Move over bears. Fat Marmot Week puts a spotlight on the alpine rodents
- Scientists uncover environmental cues behind black bear hibernation
- Spinach peptide discovery leads to citrus greening treatment
- Magnetically levitated quantum bit could address design flaws
- New measurements explain how silicon and diamond achieve extreme reversible stretching
- 'Shaking up' biofilm research: Active topography reduces bacterial infections
- Nanoparticle combines two strategies to speed up the healing of chronic wounds
- Scientists tested 212 plant-based meat alternatives. Every one contained fungal toxins
- Australia to evacuate sub-Antarctic research base over bird flu fears
- Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains
- Evolution favors flatter paths when fitness outcomes are equal, study finds
- Tiny oxygen gaps may determine whether next-generation memory films store data well
- Vehicle-mounted spectroscopy system detects methane in real time
- Specific cover crops may help attract insects that target harmful pests
- Discovery reveals rapid pathways to complex aromatic molecules in space
- Short, intense storms gain intensity across Hawaiʻi
- Shear flow in narrow channels sparks amyloid formation, experiments reveal
- MOF-coated catalyst converts CO₂ to CO nearly five times faster under ultrasonic vibration
- Fast but error-prone AI assists in solving a decades-old fluid mechanics problem in five weeks
- A few minutes of freezing can change the fate of iron in nature
- AI searched 100 million possibilities and found a cheaper way to 3D-print a NASA rocket alloy
- Scientists discover a brain “brake” that can shut down chronic pain
- Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells
- Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyria
- Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk
- Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons
- Common medications may change your gut for years