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New satellite method maps 'creeping drought' in Canada's mountain snow

Student well-being comes from care, but is caring enough? Academics reflect on three stumbling blocks

To reduce CO₂ emissions, policy on carbon pricing, taxation and investment in renewable energy is key

Study finds imported ozone blunted Europe, US gains from NOx cuts

RNA droplets may have accelerated prebiotic Earth's development of complex molecules

Freestanding 3D MXene structures push the limits of microscale devices

Direct imaging captures the crystalline vibrations of a supersolid made of atoms and light

New chemi-mechanical process removes pigments and restores properties in recycled plastics

Silica nanocomposite can generate biocides on demand

Biodegradable polymers used to develop eco-friendly, high-performance gas sensors

Growing meltwater reservoirs—glacial lakes are both a resource and a habitat worthy of protection

MXene nanoscrolls could improve energy storage, biosensors and more

How fire-loving fungi learned to eat charcoal

Light-based nanotechnology offers potential alternative to chemotherapy and radiation

Prototype cassettes mark key step toward new CMS high-granularity calorimeter

Mapping 'figure 8' Fermi surfaces to pinpoint future chiral conductors

When Toronto paused for COVID, a key 'forever chemical' rapidly declined

Real-time imaging captures contact between cells and between a single neuron's extensions

NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars

New map of the Milky Way's magnetism offers insights into cosmic evolution

Bacterial 'brains' operate on the brink of order and disorder

Kangaroo and wallaby evolution tied to Australia's past climate shifts

Refractive-index microscope measures a sample's optical properties with pinpoint accuracy

Scientists develop high-performance Hg-based crystal for mid-far infrared birefringence

Rescheduling marijuana would be a big tax break for legal cannabis businesses, and a quiet form of deregulation

Collective intelligence: How to incentivize problem solving in groups

How plants respond to changing environments for better reproductive success

Another Arctic blast bears down on US as snow cleanup drags on

Photocatalysis enables direct coupling of native sugars and N-heteroarenes

Flying gurnard grunts and flares fins to communicate, camera study confirms

Why termite kings and queens are monogamous: Scientists uncover surprising answer

What ice-fishing competitions reveal about human decision-making

AI models retrace evolution of genetic control elements in the brain

Caribbean heat waves intensify over five decades, study finds

Learning about happiness could improve economics education

From metabolism to disease: Mitochondria's hidden signaling networks unveiled

'Jerk' volcano early warning method uses single seismometer to detect magma movement

Novel quantum refrigerator benefits from problematic noise

Hidden toxin risks during nutrient-starved algal blooms uncovered

Biodegradable bark–plastic composite lets engineers predict product lifetime from tensile tests

Male or female? How one frog gene 'hijacked' sex determination about 20 million years ago

How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair

Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607

Rethinking Troy: How years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city

Welcome to the 'Homogenocene': How humans are making the world's wildlife dangerously samey

EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a license to ignore public health

Gravitational wave signal tests Einstein's theory of general relativity

Weakening the soy moratorium in Brazil: A political choice that ignores the science

Pubs are far more valuable to society than the tax they pay

King's Trough: How a shifting plate boundary and hot mantle material shaped an Atlantic mega-canyon