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Plants & Animals May 20, 2025

Hazy prospects for rainbow trout: Researchers uncover hidden dangers of water 'browning'

Scientists from the University of South Bohemia and the Research Institute of Farm Animal Biology (FBN) have discovered that the increasing browning of our waters caused by organic substances poses a previously underestimated ...

Evolution May 20, 2025

Ancient pollen reveals stories about Earth's history, from dinosaurs to the Mayan collapse

If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks of male reproductive material that many of us notice only when we get watery eyes and runny noses.

Bio & Medicine May 20, 2025

Cool science: Researchers craft tiny biological tools using frozen ethanol

Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell鈥攚ithout damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have made this discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron beams ...

Condensed Matter May 20, 2025

Overlooked electron property opens up new avenues for orbitronics

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists at Forschungszentrum J眉lich have now discovered that in certain ...

Nanophysics May 20, 2025

From thin to bulk: Affordable, brighter and faster scanning with high-energy radiation sources

Imagine a medical scanner that works faster and produces clearer images, or a radiation detector that pinpoints tiny traces of radioactive material with unprecedented accuracy. These futuristic possibilities are a step closer ...

Bio & Medicine May 20, 2025

'Sharkitecture:' A nanoscale look inside a blacktip shark's skeleton

Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized form of cartilage. These creatures are more than just fast swimmers鈥攖hey're built for efficiency. ...

Nanophysics May 20, 2025

Understanding randomness: Researchers visualize decision-making in nanomagnetic structures

As the world's energy needs for computing and artificial intelligence continue to increase, developing alternative low-power solutions to traditional computing becomes crucial. Devices that reliably generate randomness, or ...

Ecology May 20, 2025

On 'World Bee Day,' the bees did not seem bothered. They should be

On the eighth annual "World Bee Day," the bees did not seem bothered.

Optics & Photonics May 20, 2025

The US has a new most-powerful laser

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts).

Plants & Animals May 20, 2025

Deep-sea 'flapjack' octopus with umbrella-like body found at 1,500-meter depths

A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia.

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