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  • A 'consortium' of bacteria cooperates to eat phthalate plasticizers that single microbes can't stomach – Phys.org

    1. A ‘consortium’ of bacteria cooperates to eat phthalate plasticizers that single microbes can’t stomach  Phys.org
    2. EarthTalk: Scientists seek better ways to battle plastic with bacteria  Arizona Daily Sun
    3. Ocean microbes are key to breaking down…

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  • Even JWST can’t see through this planet’s massive haze

    Even JWST can’t see through this planet’s massive haze

    A newly studied exoplanet, Kepler-51d, is wrapped in an unusually dense layer of haze that may be hiding both what it is made of and how it formed. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team led by Penn State researchers took a closer…

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  • Watch live today: NASA astronauts conducting spacewalk delayed by ISS medical evacuation

    Watch live today: NASA astronauts conducting spacewalk delayed by ISS medical evacuation

    Two NASA astronauts will conduct a long-delayed spacewalk today (March 18), and you can watch the action live.

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  • Signs of aging vary across brain cells

    Signs of aging vary across brain cells

    As cells age and acquire damage, they stop dividing and enter a comatose-like state. This natural process, called senescence, has several classic hallmarks, including the expression of cell cycle arrest genes and enlarged nuclei, and…

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  • Large-scale multi-omics profiling reveals environmental and evolutionary drivers of fungal phylogeographic and metabolic diversity

  • Case, N. T. et al. Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems. Nature 638, 49–57 (2025).

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  • Iliev, I. D. et al. Focus on fungi. Cell 187, 5121–5127 (2024).

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  • AlphaFold Database expands with millions of predicted protein complexes

    AlphaFold Database expands with millions of predicted protein complexes

    A new collaboration between EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Seoul National University has made millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures openly available through the…

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  • Dragon fruit peel extract enhances bread nutrition and reduces food waste

    Dragon fruit peel extract enhances bread nutrition and reduces food waste

    A research team led by Professor ZHOU Weibiao from the Department of Food Science and Technology at the NUS Faculty of Science has shown that compounds extracted from red dragon fruit peel can be incorporated into bread to increase…

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  • Toronto subway fossil mystery solved after 50 years

    Toronto subway fossil mystery solved after 50 years

    Researchers have identified the long-mysterious Toronto “subway deer” as a previously unknown extinct deer related to the ancestors of modern mule deer and white-tailed deer.

    The finding transforms a decades-old fossil puzzle into new evidence…

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  • Lab-made hexagonal diamond tests harder than natural stones

    Lab-made hexagonal diamond tests harder than natural stones

    Researchers have reported the first laboratory creation of a pure hexagonal diamond that tests slightly harder than many natural diamonds.

    The result turns a long disputed carbon structure into a measurable material and reframes how scientists…

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