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New law of physics helps humans and robots grasp the friction of touch

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Researchers advance DNA as a storage material

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Icebreaker's cyclone encounter reveals faster sea ice decline

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Lightning and subvisible discharges produce molecules that clean the atmosphere

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Why our brains miss opportunities to improve through subtraction

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Scientists propose improvements to precision crop irrigation

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Host, management, or microbial traits: Which is dominant in plant microbiome assemblages?

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Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code

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Study ties solar variability to onset of decadal La Niña events

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Engineers find ankle exoskeletons can greatly increase walking speed

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Membranes unlock potential to vastly increase cell-free vaccine production

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Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations

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Research inside hill slopes could help wildfire and drought prediction

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Extinct 'horned' crocodile gets new spot on the tree of life

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Drug-resistant cancer protein becomes druggable, thanks to shrub

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Scientists reveal links between migrating Gulf Stream and warming ocean waters

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Channel migration plays leading role in river network evolution, study finds

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The tuberculosis pathogen releases its toxin via a novel protein transport system

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Norovirus clusters are resistant to environmental stresses and UV disinfection, new study finds

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The influence of genetic variations

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Computer model fosters potential improvements to 'bionic eye' technology

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Effects of noise on plants persist over long periods

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Black hole pairs found in distant merging galaxies

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Researchers begin to decipher the sea urchin microbiome

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Deep dive into key COVID-19 protein is step toward new drugs, vaccines

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Deep learning networks may prefer the human voice -- as we do

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Flooding in Houston polluted reefs more than 100 miles offshore

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Bacteria release more carbon from the ocean than previously thought

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A diversity of wildlife is good for human health

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How humans evolved a super-high cooling capacity

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