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Smartphone use cuts into school hours, with social media leading the way

Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered giant virus may offer clues to the origin of life

How is drought in New England affecting water levels and the environment?

Nature-inspired computers are shockingly good at math

Human-made materials could make up as much as half of some Scottish beaches

Inflatable fabric robotic arm picks apples

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds

How a parasite 'gave up sex' to find more hosts—and why its victory won't last

Ammonites survived asteroid impact that killed off dinosaurs, new evidence suggests

Image: Algae swirls across a South African reservoir

The next great space race: Building data centers in orbit

FAST J0139+4328 is a low-surface-brightness galaxy, deep imaging reveals

Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Environmentalists push back against US EPA plan to extend coal plant closings

Boomers are the key to sustainability in boardrooms, study suggests

Drone monitoring helps dolphins

Report: After more than 2 years of war, Palestinian children are hungry, denied education and 'like the living dead'

Overseas scholars drawn to China's scientific clout, funding

Boosting the cell's own cleanup: New class of small molecules accelerate natural protein degradation

A dead whale found on the bow of a ship in New Jersey sparks an investigation

Where a Saudi company pumps desert groundwater, Arizona considers imposing limits

'Pocket-type' high-temperature superconducting coil achieves 44.86 tesla combined magnetic field

Environmentalists sue feds to protect 'prehistoric' crabs that frequent South Carolina coast

The 5 stages of the 'enshittification' of academic publishing

Study reveals weakening of circumglobal teleconnection pattern under future warming and its impact on heat waves

When is it time to jump? The boiling frog problem of AI use in physics education

Algorithms replace intuition as urban landscape design enters digital era, study suggests

Twitter data reveals partisan divide in understanding why pollen season's getting worse

Indigenous-led conservation efforts match or surpass similar initiatives when properly funded, new research shows

The book only gets 3 stars... but is considered great literature

Protection gap for migratory freshwater fishes found in Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

Catalyst behavior that could cut emissions and stabilize supply of everyday materials revealed

AI river forecasts may be accurate, but based on flawed logic

New census of sun's neighbors reveals best potential real estate for life

Advanced quantum detectors are reinventing the search for dark matter

Bird-friendly tourism: A conversation between biodiversity conservation and rural development

Mass spec innovation uses 'bin' sorting to detect overlooked molecules

How a persistent chemical enters our surface waters: Modeling TFA formation and distribution in the atmosphere

Americans generally like wolves, except when we're reminded of our politics

Marine regression emerges as key driver of Late Paleozoic Ice Age in high-resolution model

Shelled amoeba crawls like an octopus, shifting tactics on the go

Webb reveals a sample of galaxies with unusual features, nicknamed 'Platypus'

How well-meaning allies increase stress for marginalized people

Webb finds early-universe analog's unexpected talent for making dust

Cracking sleep's evolutionary code: Neuron protection traced back to jellyfish and sea anemones

Ticking time bomb: Some northeastern US farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period

Programmable microparticles morph and self-propel under electrical fields

AMOC collapse simulations reveal what could happen to the ocean's carbon

Should AI be allowed to resurrect the dead?

Young galaxies grow up fast: Research reveals unexpected chemical maturity