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Microbial ancestor of complex life was more sophisticated than previously thought, studies suggest

Electric field tunes vibrations to ease heat transfer

Missing technosignatures? Turbulent plasma may blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems

New software for biodiversity research enables comprehensive quantification of ecological stability

Research sheds light on food safety risks in California's Central Coast produce

Flipped chromosomal segments drive natural selection, Atlantic silversides study shows

Polymer-chemistry dataset created for training AI models

Why woodpeckers rarely get rattled: Skulls built to control rotation, not cushion blows

Ocean currents drive disease spread between oyster reefs: Research identifies restoration sites at risk

Real-time imaging of microplastics in the body improves understanding of health risks

A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history

New species of ancient mollusk found in South Korean waters

Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets

Drones capture rare harbor porpoise mating behavior off Shetland

Weaponizing kinship: How Colombia's armed conflict uses family loss to tear apart communities

Whole-genome study of koalas shows genetic diversity alone can misread extinction risk

This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields

Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss

Wild macaques don't abandon babies. So why did Punch's mother?

Paleontologists challenge use of bone growth rings to age crocodiles, dinosaurs

We designed an AI tutor that helps college students reason rather than give them answers

The Black Death's counterintuitive effect: As human numbers fell, so did plant diversity

Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go

Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons?

2025 was hotter than it should have been: Five influences and a dirty surprise offer clues to what's ahead

Researchers advance solvent-based recycling for flexible plastics

Cleaner water, longer-lasting devices: New benchmark measures electrocatalysis oxidants in real time

CEO turnover taxes analyst attention, skewing broader forecasts

How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes

Piecing together parasitic plant pathways

Cooling Dwight: Researchers are helping to address heat inequities in New Haven

Franconia's agriculture of the future: Olives and rice instead of barley and sugar beet?

Pond-dwelling microalga exposes a parallel track for RNA processing

Scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction

Lord of the fruit flies: How scientists are defending against a major agricultural pest

Scientists create a hexagonal diamond that could be even harder than the real thing

Introducing the Interplanetary Habitable Zone

Binary star population of open cluster NGC 2158 explored with Hubble

Multifractal patterns across deep time: What measurement density reveals about Earth's history

Newfound terrestrial crocodile fossil redraws the map of Europe in the age of the dinosaurs

Drug-related homicides increased in Mexico after NAFTA, study finds

Freshwater fish are more resilient to rising temperatures than marine fish, ecologists find

Researchers find harmful algae species wasn't new to South Australian waters

How Japanese red elder plants save two lives with one fruit drop

New LVK catalog adds 128 gravitational-wave candidates, more than doubling detections

NASA's eclipse megamovie project releases full data on 2024 solar eclipse

Burned permafrost peatlands release carbon for years after wildfires, researchers find

How considering green spaces at multiple scales improves city planning

When populist rhetoric is high, entrepreneurs are more likely to dodge taxes

Neutrons reveal magnetic signatures of chiral phonons