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Largest review finds formal ethics education improves students' moral reasoning
How important is it that kids learn to tell right from wrong? Businessman and former university chancellor David Gonski recently called for
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Anti-influenza therapies that target the host
A drug that targets the host rather than the virus could get around the problem of antiviral resistance. Every year, hundreds of thousands o
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UK chalks up hottest summer on record for second year running
Britain experienced its hottest summer on record for the second year in a row, the UK's national weather agency announced Tuesday, after wee
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Experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter
For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the ma
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For a century, journalists have had a voluntary ethics code. Editors are giving it an AI-era reboot
Walk into a corner of a newsroom somewhere and you can often find it affixed to a bulletin board, perhaps peeking out from behind the coffee
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Ice island survives run-in with Joe Island
Summer is prime iceberg season in Greenland's glacier-fed fjords, and 2026 was no exception. Especially notable was the berg that broke from
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Warming winters weaken New Hampshire forest's carbon sink over 20 years
Can we count on forests to continue absorbing the carbon dioxide that's warming our world? A new study from researchers at NAU and the Unive
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Peacemaker program linked to 61% decline in gun violence deaths and injuries
A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley's Center for Global Healthy Cities, published in JAMA Network Open, found that the California city
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Trawling threatens vital carbon stores in Scotland's sea lochs
New research from the University of St Andrews shows that disturbing seabed sediments through trawling could cause significant losses of car
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Marmite lures discovery from lake depths
Dr. Roe Stuart didn't find a taniwha in the unexplored depths of New Zealand's lakes—but they may have found a new species of fish.
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Ultrafast snapshots reveal the first moments on the way from light to electricity
Physicists at the University of Graz (Austria), in collaboration with colleagues from Marburg University and Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germa
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Screening tool amplifies tiny changes in protein levels within cells
Imagine a brain teaser where the challenge is to spot the difference between two nearly identical sandcastles. The only difference? The remo
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Ecological collapse in the world's largest mangrove forest is a preview of what's to come
The first thing that struck us wasn't the missing trees, but the missing water. In May 2026, we visited the Sundarbans, a mangrove forest in
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How Ukraine created world-leading prostheses amid the chaos of war
Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. What can the
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Nepal's devastating floods won't be the last as the region's mountains heat up
On the morning of Aug. 26, a section of mountain near Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal suddenly collapsed.
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Q&A: Can you trust online ratings in the age of 'review bombing'?
Before buying a product, booking a hotel or streaming a movie, many people check online reviews. But not every glowing recommendation or one
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Resin-mounted wallaby teeth reveal rare 1,200-year-old ornaments in Queensland
While sorting through animal bones in a rock shelter in Queensland, Australia, archaeologists came across a tooth where something was "not q
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Three common study myths busted by a learning expert—and better strategies to use instead
As high school and university students approach exam periods, study sessions often increase in frequency and intensity.
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Old-growth tropical forests bear lasting legacy of ancient Maya civilization
Rainforests in Central America that have remained largely untouched by modern human activities could bear the invisible imprint of ancient M
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Fieldwork safety emerges as a structural challenge for ecological research
A new Viewpoint in the journal BioScience argues that gender-based and sexual violence (GBSV) in ecological fieldwork should be understood n
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The first signs of dark matter particles may finally have been spotted
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that may have just
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Primary school food provision 'complex, fragmented and lacking central oversight', study reveals
A lack of central oversight and shifting catering models in primary schools could be putting children's dietary health at risk, according to
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Los Angeles Basin map shows deep sediments that could amplify earthquake shaking
In computer simulations of the Big One—a large-magnitude earthquake that may occur along the San Andreas Fault in California—seismic waves r
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The UK just had its hottest summer ever
The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the record-breaking heat was
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