Fertilizers carry a hidden cost for soil's crucial microbes. Using less might pay off for farms in unexpected ways

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Maize-fed animals may have helped Maya farmers solve corn's protein deficiency

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Study shows why comfort at home is more than a temperature issue

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Hunting for a New Hallucinogen in the Lilliputian Psychedelic

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Astronomers build a one-stop universe data hub

Optimizing RNA design with AI and an Ising machine: Encoding matters

Moral framing reduces stigma around Fair Chance Hiring—legal compliance language does not, according to study

Unraveling a long-standing solar mystery: The extreme thinness of the sun's tachocline layer

How Fourth of July celebrations and the national political mood may shape psychedelic experiences

How sea stars build materials that can see

Warm temperatures disrupt spider sex-changing bacteria across generations

Study compares machine learning models of raindrop formation

The Surprising Evolutionary Trade-offs Between Fangs, Stingers, and Claws

California wolves feed heavily on cattle and their presence causes significant stress among livestock

Beavers thrive in river estuaries along North America's northwest coast

Nature's puncture tools reveal shape trade-offs between piercing power and strength

Measuring what cupping therapy pulls from the skin

Scientists find gas emissions from rocks may have contributed to ancient climate swings, mass extinctions

International team says science alone won't save coral reefs

Can geoengineering blunt El Niño’s fury?

Employees who feel overqualified view more work tasks as unreasonable

Simple treatment strengthens pineapple leaf fibers for sustainable composites

Study explores social media's role in tornado disaster communication

Is the state of nature fair? Researchers measure how biomass is distributed in microbial communities

What powers the Everglades? Study tracks how algae and plant matter fuel the food web

Our fertility window could be extended by making ovaries softer

How do World Cup crowds get synchronized so quickly? Researchers explain

Traveling protein waves reveal how dividing cells set chromosome-splitting spindle size

From the lab to the moon: Lunar cement alternative survives 6 months on ISS and returned stronger in some tests

How cells keep genomic hitchhikers under control

More than 90% of key nutrients degrading the Mar Menor lagoon come from recirculated underground flows

Making the 'invisible' visible: How high-speed movies could change the way scientists study disease

Nanoplastics found in Antarctic soils for first time, suggesting long-range atmospheric transport

Turning up the heat on cancer: Manganese ferrite nanoparticles outperform rivals

Large language model guides discovery of catalysts for clean energy tech

Tiny 60,000-neuron ant brains reveal how parental care evolved from feeding circuits

Occam’s razor has lost its edge. Can we sharpen our search for truth?

A hotter climate may lead to more same-sex mounting in corpse-eating beetles

In time but out of tune: Exploring the rapid evolution of Hawaii's songless crickets

Ocean acidification may be shrinking the brains of the world's most intelligent invertebrates

Think that fishes and amphibians don't have necks? Think again

RFK, Jr. is turning his attention to the U.S. Preventive Services Taskforce

Hidden jet from a 'missing-link' black hole lights up the radio sky

Why ‘Neil the seal’ is unleashing chaos in Tasmania

Wavelength-multiplexed diffractive optical storage enables massively parallel image retrieval

Brain in a chip: Biocomputing infrastructure raises questions for urban planning