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'Digital ibuprofen' offers Chinese youth comfort through cute characters facing familiar struggles

Attention can't be bought, so brands turn to memes

Unusual senses: The secret superpowers of amphibians and reptiles

What a locust can teach us about how neuromodulators alter odor processing

Rhinos and elephants can cause huge problems if reintroduced badly—here's how to get it right

Quantum interactions may have locked early universe's fields into existing energy states

Does increased childcare funding help mothers into work?

Forests are dying along North Carolina's coast—and it's speeding up

An iced coffee won't predict job performance—but it might reveal hiring bias

Rare insect discovery reveals a new species from the dinosaur age

How psychopathic traits shape language

Long-term logging experiment reveals how protecting the forest floor helps preserve soil carbon

Experts deem empowering neurologists and neurology trainees to perform lumbar punctures at bedside a worthwhile goal

Ancient DNA evidence narrows down when people first reached the Americas

Standard 3D printers let labs build and adapt tools for bacterial research

Astronomers catch a star slowly snacking on a brown dwarf, 300 light years away

How game publishers set international prices: A study reveals four pricing approaches on Steam

A health app designed for teachers

Atomic motion could help push solar cells beyond conventional limits

Quantum systems never quite forget where they came from

Unmowed strips attract insects, but many abandon partially mowed dikes

A novel path to fusion ignition: Heat first, then add fuel

Sniffer dogs, bloodstain patterns and ballistics evidence under the microscope in new studies

Florida Keys heat wave reveals nearly fourfold death risk for diseased coral

Russia is using Ukraine's children to win its occupation—and the wider war

Local tipping points in dune landscapes: How does a dune system organize itself?

Detecting forever chemicals—with yeast and AI

New saber-toothed predator from Argentina suggests its lineage survived longer than believed

How changing recipients of golden roses reflect centuries of evolving papal influence

Tracking uncovers $80 million spent on AI political ads, most without disclosure

Sharks' inner ears reveal surprising diversity that may reflect evolution more than environment

Whether it's banning books or preventing artists from touring, silencing often backfires

Why Great Plains rivers depend on wetlands as well as climate

Why can't people regenerate limbs like salamanders?

Pollen study reveals the hidden history of grasses

Waste plastic yields carbon quantum dots with emissions tunable from UV to yellow-green

Lightsaber-like plasma antenna uses laser-ionized air to transmit radio waves

Lipid signals help cells seal the damage from bacterial attacks, researchers discover

Resource scarcity influences maternal brain activity and caregiving in rats

Space radiation sparks: A biological cascade of cancer

Tiny ancient black holes may live in a five-dimensional world

Farmer-macaque conflict in Algeria poses a complicated conservation challenge

X-rays and AI reveal how spacecraft heat shields burn in real time

Bumblebees carry bacteria-killing viruses to cherry blossoms, reducing bacterial populations in experiments

'Flying rivers' above South America form drainage networks resembling those on land

Ofsted wields great power in school choices, research finds

Tortoises win support, hyenas face doubts in survey on adding exotic wildlife to UK parks

How rotting food in the kitchen and a whiff of vinegar led to a 'happy' agricultural accident

Study finds that to counter misinformation online, we need to copy its style

The phoenix planet: Astronomers find a world reborn from its star's ashes