Could Mars have once supported life? Scientists still don’t have proof. Yet some of the planet’s strange surface features might seem to hint at it. Earth scientist Dr. Lonneke Roelofs of Utrecht University set out to study the origin of…
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Tracking solar winds to spy the Sun? NASA’s PUNCH Space Mission head explains
On May 31 this year, “riotous torrents of blobs and streams” that were ejected out of the sun’s atmosphere blasted outwards at over a million miles an hour and, within a day, swept over the Earth.
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Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects | MIT News
Say a person takes their French Bulldog, Bowser, to the dog park. Identifying Bowser as he plays among the other canines is easy for the dog-owner to do while onsite.
But if someone wants to use a generative AI model like…
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Exploration of the GRAS family in Dimocarpus longan: identification, characterization, expression analysis and DlGRAS24 role in flowering time | BMC Plant Biology
Identification of DlGRAS family genes
In this study, 56 GRAS genes were identified in longan and named DlGRAS1–DlGRAS56 according to their physical location on the chromosome (Fig. 3A). The fundamental properties of the 56 DlGRAS proteins…
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UC Irvine develops human-like colon model for precision medicine
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a 3D human colon model integrated with bioelectronics to aid in colorectal cancer research and drug discovery. The “3D in vivo mimicking human colon” enables…
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Early evolution of the stonefly lineage (Insecta, Plecoptera) revealed by a new diversity of Carboniferous stem-group species | BMC Ecology and Evolution
Individual morphological characters and their phylogenetic significance
Several morphological characters observed in Carbonoperlidae support the attribution to the stonefly total group (i.e., stem + crown groups). Below, we discuss individual…
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Ancient lead exposure may have shaped human evolution and language
A groundbreaking international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The research reveals that our human ancestors were periodically exposed to lead for over two…
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Ancient Heavy Water Found in Planet-Forming Disk Reveals Solar Origins of Earth’s Oceans
Ancient Heavy Water Found in Planet-Forming Disk Reveals Solar Origins of Earth’s Oceans
by Clarence Oxford
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 16, 2025
Astronomers have detected “heavy water” in a planet-forming disk for the first time,…
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New Species of Triassic Carnivorous Dinosaur Identified in Argentina
A new genus and species of theropod dinosaur being named Anteavis crurilongus has been described by a team of paleontologists from the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales ‘Bernardino Rivadavia,’ the…
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Boron isotopes breakthrough could help enhance nuclear waste management
Researchers have found a new approach for monitoring and modeling glass corrosion in environmental and nuclear waste management. They have uncovered how tiny differences in boron atoms can help scientists better predict the long-term behavior of…
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