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Tracking the toxic metals left behind by wildfires

New research warns charities against 'AI shortcut' to empathy

Plant cell structure could hold key to cancer therapies and improved crops

AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring

Amazon fish contaminated with toxic metals threaten riverine communities' health

Making mini-lightning in a block of plastic

Toward practical laser-driven light sails using photonic crystals

Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing

NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis

Chemically tuning nanographene into topological spin chains and why the ends matter

Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it

Marine biologists create a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades

Protecting wildlife from genetic collapse with newly identified 'early warning signals'

Shrinking the carbon footprint of chemical manufacturing with lasers and solar radiation

How evolution shapes color diversity in coral reef fish

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