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Destined to Melt

Glaciers are fighting back against climate change by cooling the air that touches their surfaces. 

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Generative AI Can Help Athletes Avoid Injuries

Researchers developed an AI model that generates the best motions for athletes to train and to rehab after injury.

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Rebalancing the Gut: How AI Solved a 25-year Crohn’s Disease Mystery

UC San Diego researchers have settled a decades-long debate surrounding the role of the first Crohn’s disease gene to be associated with a heightened risk for developing the auto-immune condition.

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Wolves at the Coast: Marine Diets, Ecosystem Impacts

On Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, gray wolves are doing something unexpected: hunting sea otters.

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Making Yeast More Efficient ‘Cell Factories’ for Producing Valuable Plant Compounds

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has discovered a new way to make yeast cells more efficient “factories” for producing valuable plant compounds.

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New ‘Liquid Metal’ Composite Material Enables Recyclable, Flexible and Reconfigurable Electronics

Electronic waste is piling up around the world at a rate that far outpaces recycling efforts, partly because it’s so costly and time-consuming to recover useful materials from discarded gadgets.

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Researchers Tackle Growing Threat of ‘Forever Chemicals’

A new project led by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology will transform our understanding of a group of manufactured chemicals that can last hundreds of years in the environment, posing long-term risks to ecosystems and potentially human health.

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Climate Change Drove Extreme Wildfire Seasons Across the Americas, Making Burned Areas Around 30 Times Larger

Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts.

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Plastic Pollution Could Linger at Ocean Surfaces for Over a Century, New Research Finds

Published today in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, the study is the third and final paper in a trilogy that explores the long-term fate of microplastic in the ocean.

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Tiny Ocean Organisms Missing From Climate Models May Hold the Key to Earth’s Carbon Future

Calcifying plankton quietly regulate the Earth’s thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon. 

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