Extreme climate impacts on people and the environment are often associated with very high levels of global warming (3 or 4°C). A new study led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) shows that this assumption is too simplistic….
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Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2°C warming, study warns
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Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen – Phys.org
- Massive insect body size 300 million years ago may not have been due to high atmospheric oxygen Phys.org
- 300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About Why IFLScience
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MIT team decodes ‘cracks’ that cause short circuits in batteries
New research has uncovered a surprising cause behind short circuits in next-generation solid-state batteries, challenging long-held assumptions in the field.
For years, researchers believed dendrites—tiny, branch-like structures that can…
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NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2026
The class of 2026 NHFP Fellows is shown in this photo montage. The Einstein Fellows appear in the blue hexagons, the Hubble Fellows in the purple hexagons, and the Sagan Fellows in the teal hexagons.
Artwork: NASA, ESA, Joyce Kang…
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That minty fresh feeling? Scientists now know how our bodies feel cold
March 25, 2026
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That minty fresh feeling? Scientists now know how our bodies feel cold
Scientists have finally pinned down the mechanism behind cold- and menthol-sensing proteins
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Scientists Just Found Why You Suddenly Lose Your Appetite When Sick
Scientists finally cracked the mystery of why infections kill your appetite—and it all starts with hidden gut cells talking to your brain. Anyone who has gone through a severe stomach illness knows the experience. Your appetite disappears and…
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Europe’s first domesticated dogs arrived over 3,000 years earlier than we thought
Geneticists are pushing back the timeline of when people first domesticated
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When were dogs domesticated? The oldest known dog DNA offers clues
Dogs in Europe had been domesticated from wild wolves by at least 14,200 years ago, two new genetic studies suggest.
Both studies, published March 25 in Nature, use ancient DNA recovered from fossil dog bones to revise the early…
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Five more community-led African groups join global landscape restoration network
Amid rapid deforestation in Uganda’s Kalangala district, the School Food Forest Initiative launched a tree-planting project in school premises in 2019, aiming to instill knowledge and value for conservation in local communities by involving…
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World’s first antimatter truck transport could solve Big Bang mystery
Scientists at CERN have achieved a historic first in antimatter research, after they successfully transported antiprotons across their Geneva campus using a specially designed portable trap.
The BASE experiment researchers first accumulated a…
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