Cities are known to shape the evolution of wildlife within them, but according to a study of European cities published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, this is not a one-off event. Rather than a single urban…
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How European city life is continually rewriting insect DNA
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Scientists are building viruses from scratch to fight superbugs
Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, have been used as medical treatments for bacterial infections for more than 100 years. Interest in these viruses is rising again as antibiotic resistance becomes a growing global health threat….
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Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years
A giant reservoir of “secret” fresh water off the East Coast that could potentially supply a city the size of New York City for 800 years may have formed during the last ice age, when the region was covered in glaciers, researchers…
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Four camera-type eyes in the earliest vertebrates from the Cambrian Period
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Decoupling of metabolism and vasculature in tumors revealed by novel Capillary-Cell microscopy
A multidisciplinary team from Harvard Medical School, Duke University, and Massachusetts General Hospital has developed the dual-scale Capillary-Cell (CapCell) microscope, a revolutionary tool for visualizing tumor metabolism and…
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Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
Quantum and classical model
The theory of Talbot–Lau interference is best formulated in phase space using the Wigner–Weyl representation of quantum mechanics42. This framework can account for incoherent particle sources, phase and absorption…
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Oldest cave art ever found discovered in Indonesia
January 21, 2026
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Oldest cave art ever found discovered in Indonesia
Beating the previous record for the oldest known cave artwork by at least 15,000 years, a hand stencil in an Indonesian cave might shed light on…
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Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy
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Childhood ADHD linked to midlife physical health problems
People who have ADHD traits at age 10 are more likely than those without such traits to have physical health problems and to report physical health-related disability at age 46, according to a study led by University College London (UCL) and…
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Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus
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