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Racial bias is at play in overrepresentation of Black youth in Canadian child welfare systems

Image: Artist's concept of a white dwarf star

Oak-killing beetle significantly expanding range in SoCal

Happiness, autonomy and wealth: Worldwide analysis reveals a nuanced relationship

Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways

Yeast DNA changes reveal hidden triggers for cancer-linked chromosome chaos

Gamma rays quickly toughen nitrogen‑fixing bacteria

EPA opposes Colorado plan to close coal-fired power plants

Not just 'eunuchs' or sex workers: In ancient Mesopotamia, gender-diverse people held positions of power

El Niño and La Niña synchronize global droughts and floods, study finds

What most corporate carbon reports get wrong, and how to fix them

Atmospheric physicists find error in widely cited Arctic snow cover observations

Fruit flies' embryonic stage reveals that climate adaptation begins early

Robotic nanoprobe enables precise extraction of a single mitochondrion from a living cell

Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil

Fungal mechanism reveals how powdery mildew overcomes wheat immune defenses

How E. coli exploit fluid flow and channel shape to swim upstream and cause infections

Open-source model more accurately measures greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas

Designing atomic coordination for sustainable hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis

An AI-driven strategy to accelerate microbial gene function discovery

Tiny Mars's big impact on Earth's climate: How the red planet's pull shapes ice ages

How marine viruses help fuel underwater oxygen-rich zones

Surface ceramics reveal self-sufficient rural economy in Ancient Samos

Plastic—when a miracle technology becomes a burden

Overlooked decline in grazing livestock brings risks and opportunities

How hidden factors beneath Istanbul shape earthquake risk

Hubble spies stellar blast setting clouds ablaze

A new valve for quantum matter: Steering chiral fermions by geometry alone

Monkeys are on the loose in St. Louis and AI is complicate efforts to capture them

How floodwaters impact fossil formation

Silky shark tagging study reveals gaps in marine protected areas

Complex life on planets orbiting the galaxy's most common stars may be unlikely

Nightingales strike right chord in territorial singing duels

Compressed data technique enables pangenomics at scale

The secrets of the invasive short-spined thrips

High-speed AFM imaging reveals how brain enzyme forms a dodecameric ring structure

The cosmic seesaw: Black holes eject material as winds or jets, but not both at once

Retail therapy fail? Online shopping may raise stress more than news, email or adult content

Feeling stressed? Help yourself by stepping into the shade of trees

What Christian Reconstructionism is, and why it matters in US politics

Mangrove loss is making the Niger Delta more vulnerable: We built a model that can track how the forests are doing

Why the mad artistic genius trope doesn't stand up to scientific scrutiny

The economics of climate risk ignores the value of natural habitats

Why Greenland's vast natural resources won't necessarily translate into huge profits

Researchers harness nonlinear Compton scattering to create sharper, multicolor gamma-ray beams

Hemp roots offer new opportunities for farmers and cancer research

Scientists reveal what drives homosexual behavior in primates

Surprise discovery reveals silica's hidden potential in flat optics

Cat disease challenges what scientists thought about coronaviruses

Mars was once a 'blue planet': Ancient river deltas point to vast ocean