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An Australian native plant traditionally used by Indigenous communities for food and medicine could help scientists develop stronger, more flexible biodegradable film. UNSW researchers have discovered that adding extracts from pigface, Carpobrotus glaucescens, a hardy coastal suc
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have achieved early success using electron beam, or eBeam, technology for the sterile insect technique, or SIT, against New World screwworm flies.
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What would it mean to teach students who are learning academic writing to use AI in "ethical" ways—for example, large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT, a specific form of GenAI?
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The Euclid Consortium and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released the first major batch of data from the Euclid space telescope. This release, which captures light from more than a billion objects and covers an area of sky equivalent to 9,500 full moons, lays the foundation
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In the deep ocean, translucent sea pigs trundle across the seafloor. Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered an unusual bacterium beneath the sea pig's "skin." Through fluorescent imaging, they determined the location of the bacterium, which they named Candidatus A
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There's a doomsday scenario where university students hand in work generated by artificial intelligence (AI), which is then graded by AI and university assessment no longer involves any humans at all.
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Getting older usually brings a higher risk of death and declining reproduction. Yet for western harvester ant colonies, the opposite occurs. As a colony gets older, it becomes less likely to die and more likely to reproduce.
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CCTV has been promoted as one way to make early learning safer in the wake of ongoing reports of child abuse and neglect. It's certainly something families see as enhancing safety in services. But does it help in practice?
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The world of mushrooms is surrounded by myth and misunderstanding. One thing seems clear: There are magic mushrooms, containing psychedelic compounds, and there are poisonous mushrooms, containing amatoxins. Or is it?
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Building a multicellular organism, even a fruit fly, is kind of like assembling a complicated piece of Ikea furniture. As with furniture, you have to assemble it in the right order. "There are many moving parts, many cell types, many organs, and the sequence and timing of events
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Yesterday evening, an unknown hacker posted messages on the Victorian exam authority website, saying they had accessed 2026 Year 12 exam papers.
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The number of reported hate crimes (hate crime refers to violence, threats or hateful speech motivated by someone's skin color, ethnicity, religion, gender identity or similar characteristics) has more than quintupled since 2012. Approximately 40% of them consist of hate speech.
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