SCIENCE
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Making crops colorful for easier weeding
To make weeding easier, scientists suggest bioengineering crops to be colorful or to have differently shaped leaves so that they…
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Two-dimensional nanomaterial sets record for expert-defying, counter-intuitive expansion
It is a common hack to stretch a balloon out to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches,…
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Novel robotic training program reduces physician errors placing central lines
More than five million central lines are placed in patients who need prolonged drug delivery, such as those undergoing cancer…
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Research explores how a father’s diet could shape the health of his offspring
New research, published in Nature Communications, finds that the macronutrient balance in the diet of male mice affects the level…
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Tracking a protein's fleeting shape changes
Researchers have developed a powerful, new technique to generate ‘movies’ of changing protein structures and speeds of up to 50…
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Copper beads in pig feed reshape swine gut microbiome
Copper is a natural antimicrobial material that, when added to pig feed, may promote the growth and health of the…
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Study finds iron-rich enamel protects, but doesn’t color, rodents’ orange-brown incisors
Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers — along with some other rodents — have orange-brown front teeth. Researchers have…
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Paradox of extreme cold events in a warming world
According to Copernicus Climate Change Service, February 2024 was the warmest February ever recorded globally. However, North America, Asia, and…
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Unique field study shows how climate change affects fire-impacted forests
During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund…
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Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human — defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins — and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary…
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