The Sun’s twin star may have tilted the planets’ orbits – Sciworthy

A scientist simulated the early solar system to determine how interactions between the Sun and other stars affected its planetary orbits.

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Using seaweed to harvest valuable metals – Sciworthy

Researchers demonstrated that blooms of the free-floating seaweed Sargassum can sustainably extract rare earth elements from water.

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Industrial waste solidified a UK beach in just 35 years – Sciworthy

Scientists found that water interacting with furnace slag rapidly solidified beach sediments at Derwent Howe.

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Viruses help plants obtain nitrogen – Sciworthy

Scientists discovered soil viruses that help legume plants convert atmospheric nitrogen into biologically available nutrients.

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Cold shocks in a warming ocean affect large marine animals – Sciworthy

Researchers identified trends in extreme cold events that can push migratory animals, such as bull sharks, beyond their thermal tolerance and sometimes cause death.

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A parasite that numbs your pain – Sciworthy

Researchers discovered a parasitic worm that reduces mice’s ability to feel pain by suppressing the activity of pain-sensing neurons in their skin.

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How do ice sheets melt? – Sciworthy

Scientists who observed a glacier collapse in Greenland proposed a new model for how ice sheets melt, via water flowing both upward and down.

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A new method to detect volcanic eruptions – Sciworthy

Scientists developed a new seismic-based signalling system that provides early alerts of volcanic eruptions.

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Were dinosaurs doomed before the asteroid hit? – Sciworthy

Scientists found that dinosaurs in the south remained diverse until the asteroid impact that caused their extinction 66 million years ago.

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Brewing sustainable power from used coffee grounds – Sciworthy

Researchers developed a fully biodegradable energy-harvesting device that uses spent coffee grounds to transform motion into electricity.

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When glaciers retreat, microbes take over – Sciworthy

Researchers demonstrated that the first microbes to colonize recently deglaciated soil can extract nutrients from air and rock.

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The history of tsunami-causing earthquakes in Japan – Sciworthy

Researchers pieced together clues from seismic data and sediment samples to unravel the history of tsunami-causing earthquakes in Japan.

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Lithium mining impacts local waters – Sciworthy

Researchers found elevated metal concentrations in waters downstream of lithium-containing hard rock processing sites, even decades after mining was discontinued.

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Using bacteria to fight fungal brown rot – Sciworthy

Scientists compared how effective traditional chemical fungicides and newer biological fungicides are in killing the fungus responsible for brown rot disease.

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Is Earth’s water why intelligent life evolved here? – Sciworthy

A Columbia University scientist argued that the existence of humans provides strong evidence that intelligent life is more likely to evolve on water-covered versus land-covered planets.

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Plants changed the chemistry of magmas – Sciworthy

Researchers used isotopes in magmatic minerals to demonstrate that continental magmas altered globally around 450 million years ago following the evolution of land plants.

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How did land plants change rivers? – Sciworthy

Scientists studied meandering rivers across the globe to establish how they responded to the evolution of land plants.

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Clay minerals suggest a warm, wet past for Mars – Sciworthy

Researchers studied clay deposits on Mars using the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and found evidence for a warm and humid past climate.

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Characterizing galaxies at

Astronomers studied 3 galaxies that formed 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang to calculate how much gas, stars, and dark matter they contained.

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Does the Arctic Ocean regulate or amplify global warming? – Sciworthy

Researchers found that interactions between methane gas and seawater affected greenhouse gas emissions from the Arctic Ocean during a past period of global warming.

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Upcycling polystyrene with sunlight and sulfur – Sciworthy

Researchers developed a rapid, solar-driven process that transforms waste polystyrene and excess sulfur into chemicals used in electronics.

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Magma rapidly rises to Earth’s surface as Africa splits in two – Sciworthy

Researchers analyzed timescales preserved in crystal growth zones and found that magma beneath Ethiopia rises dozens of miles to the surface in just weeks to months.

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Searching for planets in a galaxy far away – Sciworthy

Researchers surveyed over 20,000 stars thought to come from a nearby galaxy and found that no more than 1% harbored close-orbiting, Jupiter-like planets.

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Why the 2023 El Niño broke records – Sciworthy

Researchers found that the 2023 El Niño event was fueled primarily by heat stored in the ocean rather than in Pacific winds.

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What makes ‘chemically peculiar stars’ peculiar? – Sciworthy

Scientists used a network of satellites to measure the rotational characteristics of 85 stars previously thought to have unique chemistries.

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Biofertilizers change plants’ natural microbes – Sciworthy

Scientists tested how mixtures of plant-growth-promoting bacteria affect sunflower plants' microbes for use in sustainable agriculture.

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Ants struggle to protect host plants under rising temperatures – Sciworthy

Scientists found that ants under heat stress were less active, which left their host acacia plants vulnerable to herbivores and other environmental threats.

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A humane genomics curriculum to help curb racism – Sciworthy

Scientists developed a new genetics curriculum that emphasizes how environmental factors and social interactions contribute to differences among humans.

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