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Can lithium cure what ails the Salton Sea?
Studying the complexity of mud on the ocean floor is a life’s work for Timothy Lyons,…
Stem cell memories may drive wound repair, and also chronic disease
A trifling paper cut is a site of frenzied activity. Within it, a squad of epidermal…
New study shows the largest comet ever observed was active at near-record distance
A new study by University of Maryland astronomers shows that comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), the largest comet…
Study outlines challenges to ongoing clean-up of burnt and unburnt nurdles along Sri Lanka's coastline
When a fire broke out on the deck of the M/V XPress Pearl cargo ship on…
Researchers propose a simpler design for quantum computers
Today’s quantum computers are complicated to build, difficult to scale up, and require temperatures colder than…
Steam disinfection of baby bottle nipples exposes babies and the environment to micro- and nanoplastic particles
Using a new microspectroscopic technique, collaborating scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Nanjing University…
Uncovering a promising use case for exosomes
Extracellular vesicles—or exosomes, as they are more commonly known—continue to be a curious research focus for…
A catalytic recipe for transforming quantum states
Quantum physicists at the University of Warsaw have discovered new applications for quantum catalysis—the quantum equivalent…
Satellites reveal Arctic rivers are changing faster than we thought
A civil and environmental engineering researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has, for the first…