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Archaeologists examine evidence for Indigenous long-distance voyaging below 50°S

Scientists have unlocked a way to dye polyester using 90% fewer chemicals and 40% less water

Concealed deals drive up 401(k) fees

Deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone,' first study of its kind finds

Who is setting fire to the Amazon?

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds

Is it ok for politicians to use AI? Survey shows where the public draws the line

A genetic switch lets plants accept nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Lonely? Here's how to connect with old friends—and make new ones

Landscape clues suggest Indigenous Peoples have thrived in southwestern Amazon for more than 1,000 years

Do you speak cat? Take this quiz to find out

Where's nature positive? Australia must ensure environment reforms work to restore what's been lost

Minnesota schools under stress as they try to serve students' mental health needs

Online child sexual exploitation is a rising but misunderstood threat—here's what the experts want you to know

How wars ravage the environment—and what international law is doing about it

The beauty backfire effect: Being too attractive can hurt fitness influencers, new research shows

Ancient Greeks and Romans knew harming the environment could change the climate

Deep-sea sponge microbes yield promising molecule to combat salmonid disease

Home advantage? How consumers misjudge the environmental impact of imported food

Bioinspired dual-phase nanopesticide enables smart controlled release

An innovative tool coating could improve the way products—from aerospace to medical devices—are made

Island reptiles face extinction before they are even studied, warns global review

Asymmetric stress engineering advances current-carrying performance of iron-based superconducting wires

Universe's expansion 'is now slowing, not speeding up': Evidence mounts that dark energy weakens over time

Brazil's upcoming UN climate summit highlights how tricky climate pledges are to keep

Video: Copernicus Sentinel-1D launch

Astronomers reveal tasty insights into exoplanet formation using SPAM

Engineered membraneless organelles boost bioproduction in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Researchers improve marine aerosol remote sensing accuracy using multiangular polarimetry

Tiny diatoms, big climate impact: How microscopic skeletons rapidly shape ocean chemistry

New environmental DNA test could help rare hammerhead sharks fight extinction

Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows

Simulations show Antarctic meltwater slows warming but drives uneven sea level rise

The basic mechanisms of visual attention emerged over 500 million years ago, study suggests

California surface water costs can triple during drought, underlining need for better management

East African Rift study uncovers why breaking up is hard for some continents

Researchers discover an 'all-body brain' in sea urchins

The 'blue forest' in figures: First global inventory of carbon stored by seagrass meadows

Urban fungi show signs of thermal adaptation

Extended defects unlock new properties in nanomaterials

Chasing and splashing molecules create resilient order from apparent chaos, study shows

Female college students fall behind in academic recovery from COVID pandemic

Ultrathin racetrack memory devices now work without insulating buffer layers

Forests face hotter canopies as projected CO₂ levels drive up leaf temperatures

UK law turns a blind eye to the severe financial consequences of being in an abusive relationship, study warns

Rabies research unlocks how viruses do so much with so few proteins

Euclid peers through dark cloud LDN 1641's dusty veil

Should we build an optical interferometer on the moon?

UN says forests should form key plank of COP30

Helheim Glacier's massive calving events don't behave the way scientists assumed