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Friday, December 5, 2025

Icy Hot Plasmas: Fluffy, Electrically Charged Ice Grains Reveal New Plasma Dynamics

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Ice grains, illuminated by a green sheet of laser light, are suspended in the plasma discharge (purple). Insets show individual ice grains i...

A speed camera for the universe

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The stars (or rather galaxies) of the show. A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

New marine sponges provide clues about animal evolution

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Paco Cárdenas and Julio A. Díaz have described new sponges found off the coast of Spain. The researchers discovered that the sponges produce...

Heat and drought change what forests breathe out

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Qingyuan County forest research site Photo Credit: Kai Huang/UCR Scientists have long warned that rising global temperatures would force for...

New Method Uncovers How Viruses Evade Immune Responses — and How We Might Fight Back

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Co-first authors Erin Doherty (left) and Jason Nomburg (right) Photo Credit: Courtesy of Innovative Genomics Institute Viruses and their hos...

A new approach links quantum physics and gravitation

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Quantum-Geodesics  Large masses – such as a galaxy – curve space-time. Objects move along a geodesic. If we take into account that space-tim...

Contraceptive pills may affect women's mental health

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Photo Credit:  Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition The contraceptive pill has been hailed as one of the most revolutionary health technol...

Our brains recognize the voices of our primate cousins

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When participants heard chimpanzee vocalisations, this response was clearly distinct from that triggered by bonobos or macaques. Image Credi...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter millions of years ago

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Purdue University research into scattered kaolinite rocks on Mars’ surface shows the dry, dusty planet could have featured a rain-heavy clim...

The mystery of the missing deep ocean carbon fixers

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Alyson Santoro Associate Professor Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Alyson Santoro's research focuses on microbes involved in nutr...