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• An Ybor business owner closed her yoga studio repeatedly from worries over moldy, waterlogged walls. • A Pinellas woman’s home flooded in one hurricane, and a tree crushed her ca

• Fake news generated by AI is often perceived as more credible than texts written by humans. • That worries linguist Silje Susanne Alvestad. • In 2017, ‘fake news’ was chosen as t

• Along with cricket, thongs and backyard barbecues, the arrival of the annual Australian Lamb ad has become synonymous with an Australian summer. • What began back in 2005 as a pi

• When Paul Reillo learned the endangered mountain bongo antelopes that he had cared for since birth were stranded in a cargo plane on an airport tarmac ahead of their journey to a

• Persistent concerns about poor behavior in UK secondary schools have led to the widespread implementation of disciplinary behavior management strategies. • These include the use

• New research from Adelaide University is questioning the widespread use of the term ‘resilience’ in Australian agriculture, arguing that its overuse can place unfair pressure on

• In an era of rising grocery costs, eggs remain one of the most accessible and complete protein sources for families. • New research from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s Coll

• Inspired by the simple mechanism of a seesaw-when one side goes up, the other side goes down-researchers asked an intriguing question: Could a single molecule switch between two

• Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth’s climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. • The large white ice surfaces and clouds play a decisive role in this pr

• Advances in supercomputing have made solving a long‐standing astronomical conundrum possible: How can we explain the changes in the chemical composition at the surface of red gia

• Hundreds of thousands of marine animals are killed every year after becoming accidentally caught in commercial fishing nets. • Sharks, skates and rays are at particular risk, alo

• Recurrent droughts, conflict, and changing land use have placed significant strain on pastoral populations in the dryland regions of Africa, resulting in numerous crises that req

• Space junk returning to Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found.

• Ribosomes, the cell’s protein-making factories, consume large amounts of energy as they build the proteins that keep cells alive and functioning. • When cells experience stress-s

• She had brown eyes and black hair. • She was almost 5 feet, 7 inches tall and chewed tobacco. • She was in her 20s, carried heavy loads with her left arm and had given birth. • W

• Almost half a century ago, a remarkable molecule called metallocene took center stage in chemistry, earning Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer the Nobel Prize. • These org

• Approximately 9,000 years ago, human communities in Southwest Asia underwent a dramatic transformation, known as the Neolithic revolution. • This period was marked by pronounced

• When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. • For example, most people will associate a sharp-sounding word with a jagged, pointed shape, while

• As countries strive to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, a new international study published in Nature Communications brings together 19 r

• Since the third Gaia data release in 2022, wide binary stars with separation greater than several thousand astronomical units have been intensely investigated across the world, t

• An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) has pres

• In crowds, most people are strangers to you, and everyone else for that matter. • However, until now, the effect of stranger-to-stranger interactions on the choices people make i

• For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. • These are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of extraterrestrial bodies against Ear

• A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station after launching with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission. • NAS

• Ribonucleotide reductases (RNR) are indispensable enzymes that convert ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs), the precursors to make up DNA. • Because DNA synthesis is

• With a new mathematical model, a team of biophysicists has revealed fresh insights into how biological tissues are shaped by the active motion of structural imperfections known a

• When 200 natural accessions of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana grown in a nitrate-enriched medium were compared, one observation stood out: some accessions formed significan

• Human beings are social animals; they need places to relax, connect with others, and feel a sense of belonging beyond the demands of home and work. • Traditionally, these ’third

• Green hydrogen production technology, which utilizes renewable energy to produce eco-friendly hydrogen without carbon emissions, is gaining attention as a core technology for add

• Preschool-age children are most engaged in pretend play 10-15 minutes after playing begins. • In addition, girls exhibit higher organizational skills, according to a study conduc

• Some pet foods contain potentially harmful PFAS chemicalsCris Cantón/Getty Images Some pet foods contain potentially harmful PFAS chemicals Cris Cantón/Getty Images Many pet food

• Every year, billions of birds undertake extraordinary migrations, crossing vast deserts and open seas with no place to stop, feed, or rest. • A new international study published

• Microtargeted social media ads can suppress voter turnout in vulnerable groups. • Study tracked 10,000 US voters, capturing all ads viewed before 2016 election. • Researchers qua

• Scientists at the U.S. • Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have identified the true source of a magnetic effect seen in the material ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂), helping resolve an ac

• Researchers have long been puzzled by the observed cooling of the eastern tropical Pacific and the Southern Ocean accompanying global warming. • Existing climate models have fail

• A protein called neurofilament light chain (NfL)-studied in humans in the context of neurodegenerative diseases and aging-is also detectable in the blood of numerous animals, and

• Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacteria which can become a virulent killer in health-care settings among severely ill patients. • The germ has rapidly developed drug resistance to

• NASA aims to send astronauts to the moon in March after acing the latest rocket fueling test.

• Millions in North America kicked off 2026 with bitterly cold temperatures, with many saying it’s been years since they’ve experienced such frigid winter weather.

• Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. • A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicat

• Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest knownHomo erectusfossils in eastern Asia. • A recent study has r

• Lunar dust remains one of the biggest challenges for a long-term human presence on the moon. • Its jagged, clingy nature makes it naturally stick to everything from solar panels

• Volcanic eruptions are significant geologic hazards. • Underwater volcanoes are challenging to study, yet they play an integral role in marine geology and may cause destructive t

• When the economy grows or shrinks, we often focus on how long the phase lasts or how deep it goes. • A new paper asks a sharper question: How does actual growth compare with stea

• EU researchers are developing AI-guided robot fleets to take over the dangerous, dirty work of finding and removing marine litter from the sea floor. • A ship with a crane floats

• Like many scientists, theoretical physicist Andrew Strominger was unimpressed with early attempts at probing ChatGPT, receiving clever-sounding answers that didn’t stand up to sc

• An evolutionary ‘arms race’ for light and space led to the early domestication of wheat, according to new research that could offer fresh insights into crop design. • Yixiang Sha

• Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. • Understanding how these elements bond with o

• Traditional chemistry textbooks present a tidy picture: Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. • A molecule such as formic acid (methanoic acid, HCOO

• Four of five Norwegians use digital maps when they are in the outdoors. • In just a few years, our mobile phones have gone from being a practical navigation aid to a virtual comp

• Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. • Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include c

• Scientists reveal how exercise protects the brain from Alzheimerâ s Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified a biological process that may explain why exercise sharpens th

• Disasters arise from the convergence of natural and social forces. • Earthquakes, cyclones, floods, droughts, and other catastrophic events disproportionately affect the most vul

• Atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide are ideally suited for radiation-resistant spacecraft electronics, researchers in China have confirmed. • In a study published in Nature

• Human language is rich, yet could be compressed into binary, raising questions about efficiency. • Researchers Hahn and Futrell model why natural language remains complex instead

• Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan have discovered a previously undiscovered behavior in cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus). • When presented with a mirror,

• Quantum computer breakthrough tracks qubit fluctuations in real time Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have significantly increased how quickly changes in delicate quantum

• This image combines views from the Hubble and Keck II telescopes. • A galaxy in the foreground, which appears as a diagonal line, is acting as a gravitational lens. • The ring sh

• Acoustic frequency combs organize sound or mechanical vibrations into a series of evenly spaced frequencies, much like the teeth on a comb. • They are the acoustic counterparts o

• Spanish astronomers have conducted a near-infrared study of an ultra-high energy gamma-ray source designated LHAASO J2108+5157. • The new study, published February 11 on the arXi