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Modeling reveals Sydney's 1789 smallpox outbreak killed as many as 220,000 indigenous Australians

Making robots faster by helping them think ahead

By planning actions based on the future position of a robot, the VLASH technique streamlines motions and accelerates…

Q&A: What influences teens' career expectations?

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What are 'fire clouds', the ominous phenomenon seen in France?

Extreme heat increases the risk of workplace injuries across Canada

Q&A: Training the next generation of coastal scientists

New sensing method measures laser-cutting depth by tracking vaporization recoil

Diet reveals what life was like 2,700 years ago in an Italian community: Gender inequality, social status and migration

Water's local asymmetry drives proton hopping between molecules, simulations reveal

Seawater samples may offer early clues to changing reef health

Digital revolution forcing archaeology to rethink research data management

Border crossings shut as heavy snow coats Argentine Andes

When polymers meet primitive membranes: How molecular cooperation may have helped life begin

How international aid fragmentation affects corruption in developing countries

How changing environments can preserve an ancient microbial survival strategy

Tropical species near thermal limits as global warming compresses safety margins

Researchers develop model that predicts which Red Sea fish are most likely to invade the Mediterranean

Seabirds trade their own survival to raise more chicks after energy-intensive breeding seasons

Molecular switch that activates cell growth signaling may offer more precise route for anticancer therapy

Listening to living soil may help people reconnect with nature

Kids who own cellphones have poorer reading comprehension scores than those who don't, researchers find

How NASA plans to build the Habitable Worlds Observatory

New thermodynamic framework explains pressure and edge currents in spinning active particles

Prolonged stretching reorganizes tissue scaffolds and uncages cell nuclei

California wildfire damage risk map uses factors most closely linked to severe property losses

Thin films 'dance' with substrates that are no longer inert, opening path toward 3D chips

Microscopic atlas reveals how citrus Huanglongbing disease progresses through trees

Membrane nanostructures reshape in water, revealing route to better ion transport

Purple corn offers a stable natural alternative to artificial food dyes

Harmful bugs can thrive in your kitchen sponge for weeks, and you won't be able to tell

Unveiling fungal plant infection strategies to reshape the future of crop protection

How invasive rats rewire coral reef food webs to create winners and losers

New quantum chip architecture could use built-in vibrations to link distant qubits

Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds