Two native turtles are vying to survive in a coastal Australian river. One doesn't belong there
The Manning River helmeted turtle (Myuchelys purvisi) might just be Australia's most beautiful freshwater turtle.
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Cash flow lessons help individual investors look beyond reported earnings
Why are individual investors, commonly known as "retail investors," prone to losing money in the stock market? A…
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X-ray method predicts anion behavior, opening path to longer-lasting batteries and AI-assisted chemistry
A new way of measuring how materials interact at the atomic level could help scientists develop better-performing,…
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Light beam 'swims' upstream through a quantum fluid by violating Newton's third law
Just as a leaf drifts along with a stream, objects in other moving fluids normally drift along with the flow. That is,…
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Is a nearby advanced alien civilization out there waiting to pounce on Earth? Unlikely, says new study
Science fiction suggests that life on other planets, if it exists, is likely far more advanced than life on Earth. A…
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From deforestation to reclamation, automated satellite tool tracks vegetation shifts around mining sites
To better assess the spatial extent of mining facilities and their environmental impact, a research team at the…
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Tiny quantum nanostructures could make AI less of an energy hog
Engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have designed a new type of quantum nanostructure that could enable…
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Game delays for lightning may be annoying, but they save lives—a sports meteorologist explains the risk
When nearby lightning forces officials to delay a big college football game, the backlash from fans can be fierce,…
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The mosquito's transition from vegan to bloodsucker explained
Scents govern most key events in the lives of mosquitoes, and there is extensive research on their sense of smell. A…
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How families can support children's early mathematics learning at home
For parents whose children have just entered kindergarten or first grade, new fall routines can bring excitement—and…
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Earth's chorus waves show limited link to rapid electron loss from radiation belts
The Van Allen radiation belts are huge, doughnut-shaped regions of highly energetic charged particles trapped by…
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Sheep grazing may pose greater threat to Scotland's wild pollinators than honey bees
Sheep grazing, rather than honey bees, could be the bigger threat to wild pollinators on Scotland's moorlands,…
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A single temporary stimulus may redirect cell fate without permanently altering genes
Which genes need to be controlled to guide a stem cell toward a desired cell type or modulate an immune cell's…
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AI model predicts peptide bitterness and enables novel flavor design
During the production of fermented products such as kefir, Parmesan, or mountain cheese, as well as in the production…
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Rice bran—source for antimicrobial, biodegradable food packaging film
Rice bran is a plentiful agricultural byproduct that is often underused, but research from the Arkansas Agricultural…
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Largest dataset of its kind could clarify how massive stars shaped early galaxies
The more astronomers learn about the universe's earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising…
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How amateur naturalists are helping scientists track what everything eats
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created an open-source website for learning what different organisms eat…
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Electrical control method tunes magnetic properties for next-generation spintronic memory
A research team led by Professor Jung-Il Hong of the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST has successfully used…
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What billiard balls reveal about computers and the limits of prediction
When is a billiard ball not a billiard ball? When mathematicians get involved and view a popular game as a model…
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Microcrystal electron diffractometer brings hidden hydrogen into focus
Hydrogen—the lightest atom—does the heavy lifting when it comes to important chemical reactions. It can be stored and…
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VR boosts English vocabulary scores for students with dyslexia, pilot study finds
Virtual reality (VR) could be a new tool to help students with dyslexia learn English vocabulary more effectively than…
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Antibiotic resistance research calls for tests that reflect bacteria's changing environments
The World Health Organization (WHO) regards antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, as one of the…
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Briny 'death pools' hold clues to early life
The origins of the earliest life on Earth, prior to the rise of oxygen and photosynthesis, remain a mystery. Graveyards…
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Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time
Exoplanets are exotic worlds orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system. Ever since the first ones were…
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Day and night get equal billing on Tuesday. A guide to the fall equinox
The fall equinox is Tuesday, when light and darkness split the day evenly. It marks the beginning of fall for the…
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New statistical methods could lead to more reliable research findings
How much can we really trust a measurement? And how much data do researchers need to collect to draw reliable…
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Emissions from the past decade have made Europe's recent heat waves worse
Recent heat waves in Europe have been intensified by the greenhouse gases emitted since nations committed to limiting…
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Gold nanoplasmonic chip tracks L-DOPA response in Parkinson's 'mini-brains'
Researchers have developed an organoid-on-a-chip technology that verifies the efficacy of Parkinson's disease…
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3I/ATLAS has an extreme taste for heavy water
More and more details about 3I/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known…
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Methane beneath the Greenland ice sheet shapes microbial life and influences the carbon cycle
A new study involving researchers from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, shows that methane…
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Milky Way's first microblazar may produce fastest particles in the galaxy
An international team of astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, the University of Amsterdam and other institutions has found…
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Can a long-lived seabird evolve fast enough to avoid extinction under a changing climate?
As the climate changes, species face a critical question: Can they evolve quickly enough to keep pace with their…
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UN warns super El Niño a 'significant' threat to world health
El Niño represents a "significant" threat to global health, the United Nations warned Tuesday, as the world braces for…
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The tilt in Earth's axis makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons
Most kids learn in elementary school that the seasons are caused by Earth rotating on a tilted axis during its yearly…
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Hurricane Polo strengthens to top Category 5 off Mexico
Hurricane Polo reached maximum Category 5 strength off Mexico's Pacific coast Tuesday but is expected to stay at sea,…
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Respiratory problems climb past 170,000 cases in haze-hit Indonesia
More than 170,000 respiratory cases were recorded in regions affected by haze in Indonesia, a Health Ministry official…
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