A River of News

Science headlines, Wednesday, September 30, 2026

195 items. Times are UTC.

23:00 UTC 9

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    Fine-tuning cobalt for cleaner chemical transformations Phys.org
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    Bacteria can make plant-based foods healthier for humans and animals Phys.org
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    Why some Ukrainian refugees struggle to rebuild their careers after arriving in Canada Phys.org
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    Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest BBC
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    Scientists develop 'floating scarecrow' to protect threatened seabirds Phys.org
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    The AI telling farmers when to harvest BBC
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    Anglo-Saxons got special treatment in medieval Rome New Scientist (limited free articles) by James Woodford
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    Community-led archaeology project uncovers a major monastery of medieval Scotland Phys.org story
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    Devastating year for Switzerland's glaciers after extreme heat and low snow Phys.org story

22:00 UTC 8

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    Confronting demons: How acoustic and AI technology brought ancient Etruscan tombs back to life Phys.org
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    Key protein for cells' gene regulation needs a chaperone to do its job Phys.org
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    Peruvian mummies raise questions about Wari conquest of Nasca civilization Phys.org
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    The real cost of coal mines to people and planet Phys.org
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    Ocean predator chemical cues could provide early warnings for toxic algal blooms Phys.org
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    Trekkers helicoptered off mountains as more deadly landslides hit Nepal BBC story
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    Catch a rare lunar occultation of Jupiter plus Saturn at opposition in early October Phys.org
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    Fluorescent sensors could help researchers see diabetes in action Phys.org

21:00 UTC 10

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    'Special surprise' as rare moth found in nature reserve for first time BBC
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    Digging deep, researchers find high-altitude glacier endured last ice age Phys.org
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    Border entry reveals gap in international human rights law, new analysis argues Phys.org
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    AI scientist autonomously generates and validates new biological discoveries Phys.org
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    Short on time? It could be good for you Phys.org
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    Tracking the fin whale and the sperm whale in the Mediterranean Phys.org
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    Anti-fibrotic drug could be repurposed to control cell communication Phys.org
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    Scientists in 1960 predicted Friday 13 November 2026 will be 'Doomsday.' Should you be worried? Phys.org
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    1 in 2 Florida residents live in HOAs—how these private governments are reshaping the American Dream Phys.org
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    Fossil long known as world's oldest reptile dethroned Phys.org story

20:00 UTC 9

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    'Molecular movie' fills in blanks of how nonenveloped viruses infect cells Phys.org
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    Classifying groundwater systems by their ability to recover from drought Phys.org
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    Clay tablets reveal how Babylonian students learned about their gods Phys.org
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    Some threatened species may miss out as zoos try to balance conservation efforts with competing pressures Phys.org
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    Mouse study reveals magnetic nanoparticles' potential for ectopic pregnancy diagnosis and treatment Phys.org
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    Wood beneath German lake may reveal buildings 3,000 years older than region's first farms Phys.org story
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    Groups of genetically identical fish follow different behavioral paths as they mature Phys.org
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    UV light locks radiation-detecting materials into durable, water-resistant films Phys.org
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    Stratospheric observatory Sunrise-III reveals intricate solar magnetic structures Phys.org

19:00 UTC 9

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    NASA satellite can monitor most of world's irrigation canals, study finds Phys.org
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    Astronomers link mysterious cosmic flashes to collisions of dead stars Phys.org
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    How New World blackbirds conquered the Americas Phys.org
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    Longer lives despite mitochondrial defects? Worms rely on calcium-triggered 'cages' Phys.org
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    Your home's energy performance is already affecting your mortgage––soon climate risk will too Phys.org
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    Bending nanoribbons tunes diamond's light emission without doping Phys.org
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    AI-enhanced petitions on Change.org: More text, less success Phys.org
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    New click beetle species named after Dominican Republic's Indigenous Arawak people Phys.org
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    Research collaboration helps Gulf Coast communities plan for the unpredictable Phys.org

18:00 UTC 8

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    Mysterious oarfish's fins inspire large underwater robot design Phys.org
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    How sea squirts perceive underwater noise Phys.org
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    International study identifies key childhood experiences that predict happiness and well-being in adulthood Phys.org
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    Women leave psychology research more often than men, especially early in their careers Phys.org
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    Antarctica's ice loss is locked in, and extra snowfall won't save it—low‑lying coastal areas elsewhere to suffer Phys.org
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    Chlamydia packs DNA with lipids, revealing possible target for blocking infection Phys.org
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    Poverty in the EU declined in the last decade, but disparities persist among nations Phys.org
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    Adult fossil strengthens evidence for Homo erectus in southern Africa 2 million years ago Phys.org

17:00 UTC 20

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    Clues to Why a Breakthrough Pancreatic Cancer Drug Eventually Stops Working The New York Times (limited free articles) by Gina Kolata
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    Where Fire Ends, Chemistry Begins Eos by Eleni Dovrou
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    3D light fields push electrons into quantum states previously beyond experimental reach Phys.org
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    Why the nor'easter's storm surge was so high, and what it says about the El Niño winter ahead Phys.org story
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    NASA directive might increase the odds of contaminating Mars Scientific American (limited free articles)
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    Criminal conspiracy to steal used cooking oil shows how trash can become treasure Phys.org
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    Zinc oxide quantum dots enable faster charge detection, laying groundwork for spin qubits Phys.org
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    Michael Sheen campaign on toxic waste sites wins Senedd backing BBC
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    Honeybee silk could power smarter wound dressings Phys.org
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    Polar oceans transformed as warming melts ice habitats: Research Phys.org story
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    Benjamin Labatut has written an utterly haunting novella about science New Scientist (limited free articles) by Jacklin Kwan
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    Unsettling images reveal stark impact of humans on the environment New Scientist (limited free articles) by Michael Le Page
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    Moonfish, a haunting animation, captures a tragedy in space New Scientist (limited free articles) by Davide Abbatescianni
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    Why do we have hair – on our heads and elsewhere? A new book explores New Scientist (limited free articles) by Elle Hunt
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    A ‘unique opportunity’: is this the weirdest RightMove listing ever? New Scientist (limited free articles) by New Scientist
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    Why a modern approach to healthcare must consider more than illness New Scientist (limited free articles) by New Scientist
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    This week’s new questions New Scientist (limited free articles) by Connie Murray
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    Our verdict on Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-Time: a wild ride New Scientist (limited free articles) by Alison Flood
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    Tom Gauld on an audience with the great theoretical scientist New Scientist (limited free articles) by Connie Murray
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    Twisteddoodles on the discovery of a new cat species New Scientist (limited free articles) by Connie Murray

16:00 UTC 8

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    Hidden star cluster discovered in Milky Way's crowded disk defies easy classification Phys.org
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    Using an AI chatbot to practice new languages can be helpful, but it doesn't replace speaking with an actual person Phys.org story
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    For the first time, no hurricanes have formed in the Atlantic this season so far Scientific American (limited free articles)
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    Sugar found in meteorites may have helped secure its own survival on early Earth Phys.org story
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    Stoicism isn't just for men—despite what the manosphere suggests Phys.org
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    Dark kitchens are popping up everywhere, but what are they and why does it matter? Phys.org
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    Earth and Mars: Built from different cosmic recipes Phys.org story
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    Satellite images reveal ethereal auroral storm raging above the North Pole Scientific American (limited free articles)

15:00 UTC 11

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    A Viper That Caused Alarm in California Was A.I.-Generated The New York Times (limited free articles) by Victor Mather
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    Cities across the world are sinking because of groundwater depletion, but the process can be reversed Phys.org
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    Alpine bacteria show unexpected ability to fight viruses Phys.org
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    Drones, satellites and AI help scientists watch over Antarctica's smallest lifeforms Phys.org
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    Q&A: The safety and sterilization of pharmaceuticals manufacturing Phys.org
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    Light-activated crystals break down DNA-like molecules in water, potentially curbing antibiotic resistance Phys.org
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    Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators Phys.org story
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    Asgard archaea suggest crawling motility may be far older than previously thought Phys.org story
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    Little-studied Antarctic basin could raise sea levels, but melt timing remains unknown Phys.org story
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    The overlooked power of diet for improving your mental health New Scientist (limited free articles) by Olivia Goldhill
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    Slashing sugar intake before antibiotics may save your microbiome New Scientist (limited free articles) by Chris Simms story

14:00 UTC 10

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    Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings Quanta Magazine by Conor Feehly
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    Trump’s surgeon general nominee Nicole Saphier clears key Senate committee Scientific American (limited free articles) story
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    Physicists identify 'octupolar' magnetism, with implications for quantum technologies Phys.org
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    Study: Paid internships deliver strong payoff early in careers Phys.org
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    Lost shark becomes viral star in South Korea Phys.org story
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    As El Niño strengthens across the Pacific, Australian farmers could face fierce frosts Phys.org story
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    Pigeon fathers take on more responsibility when times get tough Phys.org
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    ‘Astonishing’ weight loss when GLP-1 drug used with second medication New Scientist (limited free articles) by Carissa Wong
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    Climate refuges may be key to restoring imperiled amphibians Phys.org
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    Research shows how AI is getting better at exams: How universities can respond Phys.org story

13:00 UTC 9

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    Watch: Meet 'Backpack', the chunky bear who won Fat Bear Week BBC story
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    Study reveals how tilapia adapt to extreme salt stress Phys.org
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    As I said… How intonation influences perception Phys.org
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    New satellite tool to help communities better prepare for Bushfire season Phys.org
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    Laser-made muons produce first images of dense objects Phys.org
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    Unlocking the cell's supply chain: How cholesterol keeps cellular recycling centers running Phys.org
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    The north pole of Mars is less dusty than scientists thought Phys.org story
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    Starship's first orbital flight put its heat shield to the test Phys.org story
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    AI solves a ‘holy grail’ problem from probability theory Scientific American (limited free articles) story

12:00 UTC 6

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    More cats: The key to happy countries? Phys.org
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    Why Kamchatka's giant earthquake sent a smaller tsunami across the Pacific Phys.org
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    Co-design with the community? Study provides insights on building trust Phys.org
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    Only 28% of nurdles 'recovered', researchers say BBC
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    E. coli survives longer in poultry-amended Georgia onion soils, two-year study finds Phys.org
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    New simulations connect the first stars to cosmic fingerprints still visible today Phys.org

11:00 UTC 7

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    After 20 years, jet diffusion wakes detected in quark-gluon plasmas Phys.org
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    Who decides what time it is? The politics behind contested clocks Phys.org
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    Gene-silencing technology to protect forests from invasive pests Phys.org
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    Wild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varieties Phys.org
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    Engineered nanostructured surfaces could offer a new way to limit marine biofouling Phys.org
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    Butterfly wing patterns give predators the old razzle-dazzle Science by Phie Jacobs story
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    Method to ‘watermark’ AI-designed proteins could deter bioweapons, protect scientific credit Science by Catherine Offord story

10:00 UTC 3

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    Snakes' appearances linked to how scary or appealing people find them Phys.org
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    IVF ‘add-ons’ offer hope to parents desperate for a baby. But are they backed by science? Scientific American (limited free articles)
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    Why AI-powered romance scams are harder than ever to spot Scientific American (limited free articles) story

09:00 UTC 3

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    Young minds develop ideas to tackle climate change BBC
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    See How El Niño Is Washing Ashore in California The New York Times (limited free articles) by Raymond Zhong story
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    The best new science-fiction books of October 2026 New Scientist (limited free articles) by Alison Flood

08:00 UTC 2

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    One-third of world population exposed to harmful air pollution: Monitor Phys.org story
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    Explainer: What is El Niño? New Scientist (limited free articles) by Alec Luhn story

07:00 UTC 1

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    The astonishing collective impact of household energy shifts New Scientist (limited free articles) by Justin Mullins

06:00 UTC 4

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    The 6 August 2025 fatal Dayuan landslide in Guangzhou, China Eos by Dave Petley
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    Orionid meteor shower to streak across night sky this week BBC
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    Paw-fect candidate: Australia finds new koala rescue dog Phys.org
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    Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t Science by Adrian Cho

05:00 UTC 1

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    Dead animals found in canal where children row BBC

04:00 UTC 3

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    Insects are essential to vertebrate life—as food, shelter and medicine Phys.org
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    Dinosaur snacked on seaweed washed up on North American coasts, fossil teeth suggest Phys.org
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    Crystal spacing predicts magnetic states in complex alloys better than electron count Phys.org

03:00 UTC 2

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    Watch: Moment a government building collapses into a river in Nepal amid floods BBC story
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    Camera system sheds new light on bird collisions at sea Phys.org

02:00 UTC 2

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    Norwegian 12-year-olds: British English is 'cringe' Phys.org
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    Dangerous ozone threatened half of world’s population this year Scientific American (limited free articles) story

01:00 UTC 1

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    Unlocking AI as a research tool for plant microscopy Phys.org

00:00 UTC 49

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    How AI is creating a UK super-museum and revealing our planet's history BBC
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    Small fields, great diversity: How a diverse patchwork of crops helps birds Phys.org
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    Daily briefing: How to save corals from the El Niño Nature by Flora Graham story
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    This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition Nature by Rachel Fieldhouse story
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    AI ‘speech clock’ assesses how fast you’re ageing from your voice Nature by Gemma Conroy
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    ATF4 Modulates Group 1 mGluR-Dependent molecular signaling, hippocampal plasticity and behavior Molecular Psychiatry by Shiyu Wang
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    Population-scale immune multiome atlas reveals regulatory disease mechanisms Nature by Masahiro Kanai
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    Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ Nature by Elie Dolgin story
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    How did Earth get its water? Inside the extreme machine seeking answers Nature by James Dinneen story
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    Who’s the loudest of them all? The bare-throated bellbird vies for the prize Nature story
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    A two-hit mechanism triggers autoimmune hair loss Nature by Jun Cui
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    A TBK1/ULK1 signalling axis couples lysosomal stress to TFEB activation Nature by Alessandra Esposito
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    Function-preserving watermarking of AI-generated proteins Nature by David Stutz story
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    Self-aligned optical microcomb emerging between octave-separated lasers Nature by Grégory Moille
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    Butterfly wing patterns in flight create powerful illusory motion cues Nature by George R. A. Hancock story
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    Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod Nature by Ben Igielman
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    Scalable decision-making for games of imperfect information Nature by Samuel Sokota
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    Spatiotemporal clonal architecture of the newborn mouse forebrain Nature by Guohua Yuan
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    γδ T cell receptor dependencies define a unique immunosurveillance modality Nature by Nicolas Veland
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    GPCR antagonism via rewiring of receptor trafficking and degradation Nature by Kaitlin Rhee
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    Transcription pause and elongation regulators mediate somatic hypermutation Nature by Lizhen Wu
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    Written in development and lost in ageing: the grammar of cellular identity Nature by A. Doğa Yücel
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    Wafer-scale epitaxy growth of high-mobility p-type boron carbon nitride Nature by Chien-Chih Tseng
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    Prion-like transmission of human tau strains in the mouse brain Nature by Sofia Lövestam story
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    Human genetics implicates a BACH2–NRF2 axis in fetal haemoglobin activation Nature by Chun-Jie Guo
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    Osteoclasts intercept meningeal lymphatic paths for dural metastasis Nature by Rui Zeng
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    Dynamic protrusions mediate crawling motility in Asgard archaea Nature by Philipp Radler story
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    An amygdala to anterior hypothalamic circuit gates stress sensitivity Nature by Zachary T. Pennington
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    Carbene transfer from thianthrenium ylides for cyclopropanation Nature by Deepak Behera
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    Histone readers MLLT1 and MLLT3 concentrate AID to confer locus specificity Nature by Noé Seija
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    X-ray liquidography decodes complex motions in azobenzene isomerization Nature by Jungmin Kim
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    Global mangrove distribution on the open coast is controlled by waves Nature by Sarah Wells
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    Type 2 immune history trains lung macrophages for viral disease tolerance Nature by Payal Damani-Yokota
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    Sugar-rich foods exacerbate antibiotic-induced microbiome disruption Nature by Anqi Dai story
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    Pipework problems when cancer spreads to an area bordering the brain Nature by Jang Hyun Park
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    Harmful tau spreads like self-propagating prion proteins Nature by Kayleigh Mason-Chalmers story
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    Sugar amplifies antibiotic disruption of gut microbes Nature by Mengxi Du story
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    Elena, Aris, Marcus: AI-generated ‘ghosts’ are polluting the scientific literature Nature by Jackson Ryan story
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    2D semiconductor aims to turbocharge development of high-performance electronics Nature by Taoyu Zou
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    These optical illusions are whybutterflies are so hard to catch Nature by Nick Petrić Howe story
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    Restoring hearing in people with a rare form of deafness Nature by Laurie Udesky
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    How to spend $25 billion on science: OpenAI’s staggeringly rich research charity gets under way Nature by Ewen Callaway
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    Is exposomics the key to making personalized medicine a reality? Nature by Virginia Gewin
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    The buck stops with me Nature by Mercer Eddy
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    Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards Nature by Ana Cehovin
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    I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong? Nature by Rachael Pells
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    Beware sham scientific societies: the research community must be more vigilant Nature story
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    The super El Niño is cooking coral reefs — can lullabies and probiotics save them? Nature by James Dinneen story
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    Investigating the associations between neurodevelopmental and psychiatric genetic liability and adverse social and functional outcomes across childhood, adolescence and young-adulthood Molecular Psychiatry by Beatrice Fury