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Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks – studying their clever brains can clarify human intelligence, too
Kelly Lambert, University of Richmond When a curious raccoon broke into an Ashland, Virginia, liquor store in December 2025, sampled…
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In the most cleared state in Australia, Victoria’s native wildlife needs our help after fires
Euan Ritchie, Deakin University Victoria has just suffered some of its worst bushfires since the Black Summer fires of 2019–20.…
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5 things to make with mangoes that aren’t smoothies
Margaret Murray, Swinburne University of Technology It’s mango season. They’re cheap, delicious, in the shops or you can buy trays…
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Australia needs a canine brain bank to reduce the risk of dog attacks
Paul McGreevy, University of Sydney and Rimini Quinn, University of Sydney Dog attacks are on the rise in Australia. The…
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A ‘cosmic clock’ in tiny crystals has revealed the rise and fall of Australia’s ancient landscapes
Maximilian Dröllner, Curtin University; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ; Chris Kirkland, Curtin University, and Milo Barham, Curtin University Australia’s iconic red landscapes…
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Takeaway coffee cups release thousands of microplastic particles
Xiangyu Liu, Griffith University It’s 7:45am. You grab a takeaway coffee from your local cafe, wrap your hands around the…
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death-haunted masterpiece The Blind Owl shadows the decline of modern Iran
Hossein Asgari, Adelaide University Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) abandoned his training in dentistry and, later, engineering in France and Belgium, to…
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Reddit and TikTok – with the help of AI
Layla Bouzoubaa, Drexel University When you think of tools for studying substance use and addiction, a social media site like…
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US military has a long history in Greenland, from mining during WWII to a nuclear-powered Army base built into the ice
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or…
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From a new flagship space telescope to lunar exploration, global cooperation – and competition – will make 2026 an exciting year for space
Grant Tremblay, Smithsonian Institution In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era,…
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For some Jewish women, ‘passing’ as Christian during the Holocaust could mean survival – but left scars all the same
Hana Green, College of Charleston Travel case in hand, dressed in fashionable clothing and wearing a practiced, coquettish smile, Hela…
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Climate engineering would alter the oceans, reshaping marine life – our new study examines each method’s risks
Kelsey Roberts, Cornell University; UMass Dartmouth; Daniele Visioni, Cornell University; Morgan Raven, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Tyler Rohr,…
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There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants
Austin Sarat, Amherst College Texas A&M University told philosophy professor Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not…
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Remembering the friendship between Martin Luther King Jr. and Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh
Jeremy David Engels, Penn State Before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he asked several of his friends to continue…
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Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? Threat of manipulation looms as AI companies gear up to sell ads
Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Nathan Sanders, Harvard University Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might…
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