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Daily Exercise May Be Key to Better Sleep, New Study Finds

New research from The University of Texas at Austin suggests that exercising more frequently — ideally every day — could improve sleep quality, particularly the kind of deep, restorative sleep that supports better mood and mental health.

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Using Machine Learning and Computation to Unveil Mechanisms for Co₂-To-Fuel Conversion

Scientists are increasingly exploring carbon dioxide (CO₂) hydrogenation – where CO₂ reacts with hydrogen over a catalyst to give rise to products like methanol – to convert CO₂ into useful chemicals and fuels. 

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Discovery Marks the First Detection of Variable Water Clouds Outside of Our Solar System

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

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MIT Farm Is Growing

Co-founders Aleks Banaś and Zachary Rapaport see architecture and farming as deeply complementary disciplines. 

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Using AI to Mitigate the Growing Environmental Threat of Data Centers

By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.

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New Framework Developed for Moving Endangered Species to Safer Locations

A new framework designed to guide one of the hardest decisions in conservation—whether to move a species outside its historical range to save it from extinction—has been published in Conservation Science and Practice, capping a multi-year, Pacific-wide effort in which the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa played a central supporting role.

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UH Study Reveals How Tilapia Adapt to Extreme Salt Stress

In the world of aquatic life, the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) is remarkably tolerant to salt water, surviving in habitats ranging from fresh water to hypersaline ponds three times saltier than the ocean.

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New Possibilities Uncovered for Efficiently Converting Sunlight Into Clean Energy

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new family of materials that use light to produce hydrogen from water, opening the door to new ways of converting the sun’s rays into clean energy.

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Cartilage Can't Heal Well - But That May Change

New scaffolds, drugs and imaging to repair joints and prevent arthritis.

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The Cheshire Cat’s Grin: Cooper Pairs Found Above Superconducting Critical Temperature in Pair Density Waves

Physicists with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering have identified a new form of superconducting behavior. 

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