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Scientists Discover How Iron Minerals Secretly Lock Away Carbon for Centuries

Scientists have uncovered new details explaining why iron oxide minerals are such effective long-term carbon traps in soils. Scientists have known for years that iron oxide minerals play a major role in storing carbon by keeping it out of the atmosphere. A new study from Northwestern University now …

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Breakthrough shows light can move atoms in 2D semiconductors

Laser light can physically distort Janus TMD materials, revealing how their asymmetrical structure amplifies light-driven forces. These effects could power breakthroughs in photonic chips, sensors, and tunable light technologies.

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Physicists Crack a New Code To Explore Dark Matter’s Hidden Life

A new computational breakthrough is giving scientists a clearer view into how dark matter structures evolve. Dark matter has remained one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology for almost a hundred years, shaping the universe while remaining invisible and poorly understood. A new study from researche…

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Biofilm and substrate complexity affects recruitment of a functionally extinct native oyster

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.

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Algae-based gel offers new tool for breast cancer research

Researchers have created an algae-based gel in the lab as a platform for studying mammary epithelial cells, which can turn into cancer cells.

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Your Music Playlist Could Influence Your Driving Ability in Unexpected Ways

Here's how to choose your tunes.

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World's Deepest Gas Hydrate Discovered Teeming With Life Off Greenland

An oasis in the dark.

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Response Of Atmospheric Convection To Surface Drying: New Insights From Isentropic Analysis

There is strong evidence that the atmospheric moisture content of several solar system planets, including Earth, has varied over their lifetimes. A growing body of work also documents a range of atmospheric water vapor content on exoplanets. An improved understanding of the coupling between atmosphe…

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Diatoms reveal survival strategy under nutrient co-limitation

Scientists at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) and the University of Exeter have discovered how tiny photosynthetic microbes known as phytoplankton prioritise resource use when nutrients are scarce, in a breakthrough that could reshape our understanding of the impacts of nutrient limitation o…

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