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Rotating light pattern reveals laser frequency in a single image
An international team of physicists has developed a new method for determining the precise color of laser light using an image that rotates
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Scandium's electrons may explain predicted room-temperature superconductivity
Scientists have confirmed the existence of a predicted room temperature superconductor, while explaining the microscopic mechanism that dist
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Tokyo suffers the longest streak of rainy days on record
Tokyo has logged 34 straight days of rain, the longest streak on record, Japan's weather agency said Tuesday.
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Identical hiring algorithms may create echo chambers that overlook stronger job candidates
AI tools are increasingly replacing human judgments in some settings. For instance, resume-screening algorithms are often used in hiring, wh
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Study shows California's rodenticide restrictions are working, and flags new rodenticides rising in their place
New research from the Integral Ecology Research Center (IERC) offers some of the clearest evidence yet that California's efforts to restrict
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India turns to corals and seagrass to shield against rising seas
Under a blazing sun, workers crouch on a shrinking island off India's southern coast, threading bright green seagrass shoots onto wooden fra
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Why your house might be too clean - video
Our use of cleaning products has increased since the pandemic, but do we understand what they could be doing to our health? The journalist R
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Enantioresolution turns bright but racemic gold-silver clusters into circularly polarized emitters
Chiral metal clusters that emit circularly polarized light often face a trade-off between photoluminescence efficiency and luminescence diss
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Same plant species, different chemistry: Why chemotype labels matter
Plants of the same species can differ considerably in their chemical composition, affecting their smell, taste and even toxicity. A new stud
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New statistical method can flag hidden anomalies in scientific datasets
A research team at the University of Vienna, led by pharmaceutical chemist Johannes Kirchmair, has developed a statistical method to identif
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Spectacular feathered dinosaur fossil shows bird-like adaptations
An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China shows that many anatomical features seen in birds also evolved independently in another group
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Why are so many animals moving to hotter places as the world warms?
We have long expected animals to move to cooler habitats as climate change bites, but it now appears that many are actually doing the opposi
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Polo makes landfall in Mexico as a category 3 hurricane
Hurricane Polo made landfall on Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Tuesday, cutting power and causing flooding as the sea breached coasta
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NASA ramps up support to get Boeing's astronaut capsule flying after Butch and Suni fiasco
NASA is throwing extra support and money behind Boeing's troubled astronaut capsule to get it fixed and flying again as soon as possible.
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An endangered frog nursery in LA cares for hundreds of tadpoles until they're ready for the wild
The transition from tadpole to juvenile frog is never easy—legs sprout, tails shrink and lungs develop for a life on land, all while being h
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Feeling like you are losing ground predicts suicidal ideation more than income or age
New research finds that people are far more likely to report suicidal ideation when they perceive their lives as getting worse relative to t
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Ancient bird becomes second Australian species to be named from the Cretaceous period
A pair of exceptionally rare Cretaceous bird bones found at separate sites near Richmond, Queensland, reveal a previously unknown species—th
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The molecular mechanism that regulates TMEM63B lipid scrambling
TMEM63B, a mechanosensitive lipid scramblase, has an autoinhibitory domain in its C-terminal tail that helps keep it inactive under resting
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Researcher solves a nanoparticle mystery using an iPhone camera
Instead of capturing a memory with an iPhone camera, Carnegie Mellon University's Nivedita Shyamsundar used hers to make a scientific discov
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Half a million older Scots facing fuel insecurity, study finds
Data from more than 4,000 adults across Scotland showed that fuel, food and financial insecurity are widespread, and more than 1 in 10 adult
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Warming weakens Asian monsoon's reach into the Mediterranean
The South Asian summer monsoon has long been known to shape the Mediterranean climate thousands of kilometers away as part of a phenomenon k
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How will El Niño affect the world?
From Australia to California, the UK to Peru, turbulent weather is on the way
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Peeling crust beneath Italy's Apennines may explain why mountains stretch and squeeze
Extending some 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) along the length of Italy, the Apennine Mountains present a challenging puzzle for geologists. I
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How NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will open a window into the Milky Way
Look up at the night sky with the naked eye and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the universe is in constant flux. Stars drift throug
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