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Oregon State chemists report a framework, BVR-19, that makes hydrogen from water in light with no added expensive metal catalyst. Without a reported rate or efficiency, its bearing on green hydrogen's roughly $5-a-kilogram price is still untested.
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Researchers from eight countries reviewed hundreds of studies and found vertebrates use insects as medicine, shelter and bait as well as food. Their Nature Reviews Biodiversity paper says studies of insect decline rarely count anything beyond lost food.
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Europe's €500 million Choose Europe for Science package is about 0.3% of the up to $177 billion in US federal grants cut. US researchers' applications to European programmes number in the hundreds, so the talent employers can count today is a small academic intake.
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Eighty percent of respondents reported at least one harmful interaction during fieldwork, and three quarters of the worst incidents went unreported. Severe violence and misconduct were excluded by design, which makes the headline figure a floor rather than a prevalence estimate.
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LSU geologists imaged the plate sinking off Vancouver Island tearing apart, with part of the slab dropped about 5 kilometres along one fault. The finding suggests subduction zones end in stages, though its bearing on future Cascadia earthquakes is stated only as a possibility.
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A five-year, $3.3 million project led at Worcester Polytechnic Institute will test whether the biology that builds sea sponge skeletons can break silicon-rich industrial waste apart gently enough to free the minerals inside.
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North Carolina State University researchers say calcium makes the protein Sfi1 go slack, tightening a fishnet of myonemes around a single-celled ciliate. They are still working out what starts the calcium signal and how the cell resets to fire again.
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Uncertainty quantification on PDE inverse problems normally costs either an adjoint solve or a large offline training set. A Nature Communications paper reports a sampler whose gradients come from a small local fine-tune instead.
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A new report combines a survey of 637 scientists with 15 million Gemini conversations. Its authors trace the gap between mathematics and biology to what it costs to check whether an answer is right.
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Ethan Secor's group sprays ink as a mist through a nozzle a robotic arm carries over non-flat surfaces, at feature sizes of 10 to 100 microns. NASA has put $150,000 behind commercialising it.
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Michigan State and the University of Hawaii are placing ocean-bottom sensors on the Alaskan-Aleutian subduction zone, where batteries and atomic clocks replace the solar panels and GPS that a land station would use, to record how the fault behaves now.
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A Frontiers Q&A says funding losses have put Dan Blumstein's yellow-bellied marmot study at risk. A marked-animal record that lapses cannot be rebuilt later, and his OnlyFans account is the response.
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The five-year survey covers about 75 percent of the sky and roughly 4 billion objects, and what shows it has landed as a product is the 1,800 papers already citing it.
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Every dollar of the $4.3bn observatory rode one vehicle from one provider, which is the concentration number to carry into any space-sector position, whatever the science eventually turns out to be worth.
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The Carnegie Mellon team has released a 13.5-billion-year hydrodynamic run that ends at the present day, which lets JWST's crowd of early massive black holes be tested against a model that also has to produce a recognizable today.
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A phase-field plus active learning loop inverted the process-microstructure problem for hard drive media, and beat expert best guesses. The abstract is short on how the win was measured.
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A Buffalo-led team reports RNA condenses about 10 degrees Celsius below matched DNA, and traces it to the 2'-hydroxyl. That gives the RNA-world story a compartment without a membrane.
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