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Thursday, January 8, 2026

How light reflects on leaves may help researchers identify dying forests

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Trees at UNDERC Photo Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame Early detection of declining forest health is critical for the timel...

Bristol scientists discover early sponges were soft

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Xestospongia muta, the barrel sponge, may live for 100 years and grow to over 6 feet tall. While populations have declined at sites througho...

A molecular switch that controls transitions between single-celled and multicellular forms

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The marine yeast Hortaea werneckii switches between unicellular and multicellular forms depending on food availability. These microscope ima...

Arctic has entered a new era of extreme weather

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Cassiope tetragona killed by a rain-on-snow event. Photo Credit: R Treharne Extreme weather events have become significantly more common in ...

Lipid have their own VIP drivers

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Image Credit: Scientific Frontline / AI generated In addition to providing energy, lipids are also essential building blocks of our cell mem...

Beyond gene scissors: New CRISPR mechanism discovered

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Cryo-electron microscope structure of the nuclease Cas12a3 cleaving the tail of a transfer RNA (tRNA).  Image Credit: Biao Yuan / Helmholtz ...

Pills that communicate from the stomach could improve medication adherence

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Two photos show the gelatin-coated capsules (left) and the capsule without the coating (right). The capsule can be broken down and absorbed ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Cosmic Lens Reveals Hyperactive Cradle of Future Galaxy Cluster

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The galaxy cluster lens J0846 in optical light (bottom right), the ALMA view of dust-enshrouded, star-forming galaxies strongly lensed into ...

Researchers uncover molecular roots of fibrosis or tissue scarring in inflammatory bowel disease

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Spatial mapping of intestinal tissue from patients with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis (shown here) allowed the researchers to ch...

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Natural physical networks are continuous, three-dimensional objects, like the small mathematical model displayed here. Researchers have foun...