1. With international law at a ''breaking point'', a tiny country goes after Myanmar''s junta on its own

2. Polarstern heads to the Weddell Sea to probe Antarctica''s sharp sea ice drop

3. Predicting glacier surges by understanding ecological tipping points

4. The dirty afterlife of a dead satellite

5. Blood tests in young bald eagles track PFAS pollution across Wisconsin River sites

6. Can a bird be an illegal immigrant? How the White Australia era influenced attitudes to the bulbul

7. New study uses Neanderthals to demonstrate gap between generative AI and scholarly knowledge

8. New CRISPR tool spreads through bacteria to disable antibiotic resistance genes

9. Video: How the science of saltwater-tolerating plants could protect coastlines

10. Researchers demonstrate organic crystal emitting red light from UV and green from near-infrared

11. Broken inversion symmetry lets 3D crystals mimic 2D Ising superconductivity

12. Quantum encryption method demonstrated at city-sized distances for the first time

13. A dinosaur with spikes exhibiting unprecedented properties discovered in China

14. Why rethinking wellness could help students and teachers thrive

15. Three-way quantum correlations fade exponentially with distance at any temperature, study shows

16. Gut microbe Blautia luti uses formate, not hydrogen, to shuttle electrons

17. Study strengthens the potential of mycoprotein as an alternative to meat

18. New database enables comparative archaeological and historical urbanism

19. Quantum Twins simulator unveils 15,000 controllable quantum dots for materials research

20. ''Energy efficiency'' proves key to how mountain birds adapt to changing environmental conditions

21. Watching a critical green-energy catalyst dissolve, atom by atom

22. Study reveals microscopic origins of surface noise limiting diamond quantum sensors

23. Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, study suggests

24. New 3D method maps Paleolithic engravings at submillimeter resolution

25. Compound in 500-million-year-old fossils sheds new light on Earth''s carbon cycle

26. The surprising power of a tiny, disordered protein in a mitochondrial supercomplex

27. Self-assembling ''bundlemers'' could reshape next-generation protein-based materials

28. Artificial light is reshaping caracal behavior, limiting where the South African wild cat can hunt

29. Norway''s Sami population posed an enigma for the occupying Nazis, researcher says

30. Extreme plasma acceleration in monster shocks offers new explanation for fast radio bursts

31. Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

32. Revealing deformation mechanisms of the mineral antigorite in subduction zones

33. Almost half of the world''s aquatic environments are severely contaminated by waste, research reveals

34. When silicon fills the role of carbon: Debut of all-silicon cyclopentadienides

35. Scientists discover ''levitating'' time crystals that you can hold in your hand

36. Engineered enzymes enable greener one-pot amide synthesis for drug manufacturing

37. Three-component catalyst boosts ammonia from nitrate electrolysis by more than 50%

38. Simulation finds Grass2Gas biogas systems may reduce dairy emissions by over 20%

39. Turning nitrate pollution into green fuel: A 3D COF enables highly efficient ammonia electrosynthesis

40. Smartwatch study shows stadium atmosphere spikes heart rate and stress levels

41. Widening beaches make California 500 acres bigger than it was 40 years ago

42. JWST uncovers rich organic chemistry in a nearby ultra-luminous infrared galaxy

43. Measuring time at the quantum level depends on material symmetry

44. Did trees in the Dolomites anticipate a solar eclipse? Not quite, say researchers

45. Concert formats measurably change audience experience, classical music study finds

46. Disaster can sway votes but won''t deliver climate action, study shows

47. Engineering heat-tolerant, high-yield rice for a warming planet

48. Challenging California''s water ''scarcity'' narrative

49. Promise the Earth: Why real climate action means restraint

50. The evolutionary trap that keeps rove beetles alive

51. When the interaction between fungi and bacteria becomes a dangerous alliance

52. Rare natural compound from teak tree shows promise for treating diabetes and lipid disorders

53. Gut physiology, not host species, dictates microbiome diversity: Study

54. How gold is formed in China''s Tianshan mountains

55. Study of 174 U.S. law firms finds when employers ''build'' vs. ''buy'' talent

56. Amino acid ''stickers'' help decode spider silk''s strength and flexibility

57. Giant snails and tiny insects threaten the South''s rice and crawfish farms

58. The internet names a new deep-sea species of chiton

59. Raising human capital in BRICS is linked to lower emissions, study suggests

60. Light-driven probe enables sensitive detection of epigenetic intermediates

61. Governments urged to fix faulty radar in economic models disregarding climate risk

62. Study: Why Nobel Prize-level materials have yet to reach industry

63. Into the neutrino fog: The ghosts haunting our search for dark matter

64. Large study shows scaling startups risk increasing gender gaps

65. New VRscores database maps workplace politics across 530,000 US employers

66. What Olympic athletes see that viewers don''t: Machine-made snow makes ski racing faster and riskier

67. Why cheaper power alone isn''t enough to end energy poverty in summer

68. ''Dispersal-driven'' evolution fuels diversity at the air-liquid interface

69. How to close the justice gap: What a health-linked legal model showed in three years

70. Scientists outline case for next-generation ocean iron fertilization field trials

71. Thinking of AI-written vows? A study explains why it can backfire

72. Tuning topological superconductors into existence by adjusting the ratio of two elements

73. When lasers cross: A brighter way to measure plasma

74. A smarter way to watch biology at work: Microfluidic droplet injector drastically cuts sample consumption

75. An estimated 8,000 cold-stunned iguanas removed from parts of Florida

76. NASA Langley makes final preparations for Artemis II mission to launch around the moon

77. Research team finds E. coli, other pathogens in Potomac River after sewage spill

78. Why has SpaceX not launched from Kennedy Space Center this year?

79. Detection system uses gravitational waves to map merging black holes

80. Researchers propose multi-sector approach for global challenge posed by presence of pharmaceuticals in environment

81. Natto fermentation actively produces health-promoting supersulfide molecules, study reveals

82. Removing southern African fences may help wildlife and boost economy

83. Faster enzyme screening could cut biocatalysis bottlenecks in drug development

84. Listening to polymers collapse: ''Water bridges'' pull the strings

85. Pittsburgh study links dark roofs and roads to higher heat and social vulnerability

86. VIP-2 experiment narrows the search for exotic physics beyond the Pauli exclusion principle

87. Live-cell tracking reveals dynamic interaction between protein folding helpers and newly produced proteins

88. From deer to chickadees: How fewer social encounters could raise extinction risk

89. Morocco says evacuated 140,000 people due to severe weather

90. New study reveals people judge lines by what''s ahead—not how long they wait

91. CRISPR screen maps 250 genes essential for human muscle fiber formation

92. Deadly storm sparks floods in Spain, raises calls to postpone Portugal vote

93. A ''crazy'' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics

94. 2018 Kīlauea earthquake may have stalled fault''s slow slip for decades

95. Ancient bird routes mapped via plant diversity

96. AI-powered compressed imaging system developed for high-speed scenes

97. How intertidal sediment stratification regulates coastal nutrient fluxes

98. High-entropy garnet crystal enables enhanced 2.8 μm mid-infrared laser performance

99. Seeds ''listen'' to mom: Study finds mother plants send ABA hormone signals that set seed dormancy

100. When Earth''s magnetic field took its time flipping

101. Range-resident logistic model connects animal movement and population dynamics

102. The compleximer: New type of plastic mixes glass-like shaping with impact resistance

103. Philadelphia communities help AI machine learning get better at spotting gentrification

104. Global map catalogs 459 rare continental mantle earthquakes since 1990

105. Increasing pesticide toxicity threatens global biodiversity protection goal: Only one country is currently on target

106. Two-day-old babies show brain signs of rhythm prediction, study finds

107. Scientists explain why methane spiked in the early 2020s

108. Could apes ''play pretend'' like toddlers? A study tracks imaginary juice and grapes

109. Teaching machines to design molecular switches

110. Study finds numbing the mouth may speed up silent reading

111. A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

112. Hannibal''s famous war elephants: Single bone in Spain offers first direct evidence

113. New report confirms 2025 among Hawai''i''s driest, warmest on record

114. Understanding the hazard potential of the Seattle fault zone: It''s ''pretty close to home''

115. The Amaterasu particle: Cosmic investigation traces its origin

116. People use enjoyment, not time spent, to measure goal progress, study suggests

117. Huge areas of Australia are vulnerable to tree-killing beetle, study warns

118. Bacteria can survive washing and disinfection in food production plants

119. Snowball Earth: Ancient Scottish rocks reveal annual climate cycles

120. AI accelerates access to insect collections

121. MXenes for energy storage: More versatile than expected

122. Skua deaths mark first wildlife die-off due to avian flu on Antarctica

123. Surgery for quantum bits: Bit-flip errors corrected during superconducting qubit operations

124. CRISPR-based biosensors enable real-time ocean health monitoring

125. Invasive termites threatening homes in Florida are spreading farther than predicted

126. Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way''s heart

127. Finger length could provide vital clue to understanding human brain evolution

128. Simulations and experiments meet: Machine learning predicts gold nanocluster structures

129. Rare ''universal paralog'' genes may reveal a pre-LUCA evolutionary record

130. DNA provides a solution to our enormous data storage problem

131. How superconductivity arises: New insights from moiré materials

132. Unlocking the ''black box'' of Grand Canyon''s water supply

133. Sudanese Copts acquired malaria resistance thanks to a rapid evolutionary process, research reveals

134. Scents of the afterlife: Identifying embalming recipes by ''sniffing'' the air around Egyptian mummies

135. Capturing gravity waves: Scientists break ''decades of gridlock'' in climate modeling

136. When gigantism shapes the diet of a superpredator: The Japanese giant salamander''s spectacular transition

137. Seamounts promote expansion of oxygen minimum zone in western Pacific, researchers discover

138. Microbial system to convert CO₂ into eco-friendly butanol

139. 3D architecture of genome enables cells to remember their past

140. LimbLab: A tool to visualize embryonic development in 3D

141. Controlling magnetism to unlock better hydrogen storage alloys

142. Spain, Portugal face floods and chaos after deadly new storm

143. Petra aqueduct survey uncovers rare 116-meter lead conduit beside terracotta pipe

144. Commentary urges balance between research integrity and technology transfer in biomedicine

145. Study links daily mental sharpness to 30 to 40 extra minutes of work

146. New DNA tagging workflow boosts gene delivery to the nucleus over tenfold

147. AI to track icebergs adrift at sea in boon for science

148. YouTubers love wildlife, but commenters aren''t calling for conservation action

149. New crew set to launch for ISS after medical evacuation

150. Peppermint oil plasma coating could cut catheter infections without releasing drugs

151. The coming end of ISS, symbol of an era of global cooperation

152. ''Jetty McJetface'': Star-shredding black hole may keep ramping up its radio jet until 2027 peak

153. Breathing in the past: How museums can use biomolecular archaeology to bring ancient scents to life

154. AI foundation model aims to make stem cell therapies more predictable

155. Gray wolf crosses into Nevada after breaking from California pack

156. Little blue penguin chick reared by its parents at aquarium

157. Catalina Island''s deer to be culled to restore its ecosystem

158. Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests

159. Are returning Pumas putting Patagonian Penguins at risk? New study reveals the likelihood

160. Red giant stars can''t destroy all gas giants—some are hardy survivors

161. New AI model enables native speakers and foreign learners to read undiacritized Arabic texts with greater fluency

162. Mindful choice or locked in? Study probes feelings about written consent

163. Electron-phonon ''surfing'' could help stabilize quantum hardware, nanowire tests suggest

164. Graphene sealing enables first atomic images of monolayer transition metal diiodides

165. When continents try, and fail, to break apart

166. Honest or deceptive? What a new signaling model means for animal displays and human claims

167. Workplace gamification erodes employee moral agency, finds study

168. Acoustic study reveals deep-diving behavior of elusive beaked whales

169. Beyond climate: Connection and mobility were key drivers in early human innovation, research suggests

170. Platinum nanostructure sensor can differentiate mirror-image volatile scent compounds

171. Quick test can curb antimicrobial resistance, identifying bacteria and antibiotic susceptibility in under 40 minutes

172. Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from ''nothing''

173. How lipid nanoparticles carrying vaccines release their cargo

174. Study ties particle pollution from wildfire smoke to 24,100 US deaths per year

175. DIVE multi-agent workflow streamlines hydrogen storage materials discovery

176. Oysters play unexpected role in protecting blue crabs from disease

177. Lack of information hinders regulation of ''green'' nanopesticides

178. Forest soils increasingly extract methane from the atmosphere, long-term study reveals

179. From cryogenic to red-hot: Optical temperature sensing from 77 K to 873 K

180. Nanocrystal biohybrids harvest light to reduce N₂ gas to ammonia

181. Analysis reveals interhemispheric thermal imbalance as key to Asian-Australian monsoon variability

182. Lab-grown beef: Novel line of bovine embryonic stem cells shows promise

183. 2024 total eclipse subtly shifted animal calling across three Ohio prairies, study finds

184. Dual-atom platinum–ruthenium catalyst achieves efficient low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation

185. How high temperatures disrupt anthocyanin metabolism in red kiwifruit

186. Invisible actors in groundwater mapped for first time, revealing role in freshwater reservoir

187. From single queens to mega-colonies: How ant societies are shaped by the environment

188. Well-behaved dogs generally have lower cortisol and higher serotonin, study finds

189. Reuniting forcibly separated families: How a machine-learning model can help

190. From sea to space: Turning the tide on microplastic pollution with satellite technology

191. Why snakes can go months between meals: A genetic explanation

192. Experiments with 1,600 volunteers link social exclusion to higher interest in gossip

193. Where are Europe''s oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent

194. Hudson Valley initiative puts food sovereignty into practice

195. Schools are increasingly telling students they must put their phones away. Ohio''s example shows mixed results

196. Hard to recycle packaging? This glue could let plastics peel apart on cue

197. Friendly bacteria can unlock hidden metabolic pathways in plant cell cultures

198. Simulations and supercomputing calculate one million cislunar orbits

199. Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years—far longer than we thought

200. Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm

201. Women have been mapping the world for centuries, and now they''re speaking up for the people left out of those maps

202. How to ensure affordable, safe and culturally grounded housing for Indigenous older adults

203. Zambia''s farmers are working in dangerous heat: How they can protect themselves

204. ''Inoculation'' helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds

205. Scientists use RNA nanotechnology to program living cells, opening a new path for cancer cure

206. Grazing and digging put some herbivores at greater risk from toxic elements in soil: New research

207. Researchers uncover a one-hour ''crown'' checkpoint that enables malaria reproduction

208. Lüften sounds simple, but ''house-burping'' is more complicated in Pittsburgh

209. Funny teachers can make classes more enjoyable—if their jokes land

210. A digital game improves the mathematical performance of children with dyscalculia

211. Neutron scans reveal hidden water in famous martian meteorite

212. New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions

213. Temperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2C warming

214. Orange, camphor-smelling solid could be a key to the next generation grid-storage batteries

215. TESS observations reveal sustained quasi-periodic oscillations in multiple blazars

216. Hadean zircons reveal crust recycling and continent formation more than 4 billion years ago

217. Cracking the rules of gene regulation with experimental elegance and AI

218. AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts

219. A minimalist bacterial defense strategy: Scientists discover single protein that disrupts viral assembly

220. Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

221. Poop as medicine? A Roman vial''s chemistry backs up ancient medical texts

222. An ''AI afterlife'' is now a real option—but what becomes of your legal status?

223. Using influencers to encourage people to drink tap water

224. Victoria''s mountain ash forests naturally thin their trees. So why do it with machines?

225. An unusual dust storm on Mars reveals how the red planet lost some of its water

226. Astronomers trace a runaway star to a former companion''s supernova

227. New briefing paper outlines concerns around TikTok moderation policies political influence, and election integrity

228. Nanobodies: A cure for treatment-resistant depression depression?

229. A bold calculation: What would it cost to end extreme poverty worldwide?

230. Experts reveal how a major food crisis might happen in the UK, and what we can do to stop it

231. ''Red Potato'' galaxy discovered by astronomers

232. UK polling clerks struggle to spot fake IDs, study reveals

233. How cities primed spotted lanternflies to thrive in the US

234. Stacking the genetic deck: How some plant hybrids beat the odds by erasing lethal genes

235. CFC replacements behind vast quantities of global ''forever chemical'' pollution, research reveals

236. Launching the idea of data centers in space

237. Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans

238. Engineered antibody targets bacteria-specific sugar, clears lethal drug-resistant infection in mice

239. The possible applications of olive pomace: A study reveals the most sustainable option

240. NASA''s Artemis II plans to send a crew around the moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing

241. Q&A: What we''ve learned about how students are using AI, and how to help them

242. Mediterranean pine needle loss analyzed for more efficient forest management

243. A human tendency to value expertise, not just sheer power, explains how some social hierarchies form

244. Why the idea of an ''ideal worker'' can be so harmful for people with mental health conditions

245. Cryogenic cooling material composed solely of abundant elements reaches 4K

246. Medieval women used falconry to subvert gender norms

247. Why futuristic, tech-centered ''smart city'' projects are destined to fail

248. Reading the moon''s diary, one speck of dust at a time

249. Innate biases of newborn animals inspire adaptive decision-making model

250. Political division in the US surged from 2008 onward, study suggests

251. What''s the point of a space station around the moon?

252. Reproduction in space, an environment hostile to human biology

253. Urban light pollution disrupts nighttime melatonin in wild nurse sharks

254. Study finds long-term research partnerships can strengthen sustainable urban farming

255. Modeling finds old-growth wildfire risk highest where low-severity fires once burned

256. New framework maps seven pillars for judging research trustworthiness

257. One-of-a-kind ''plasma tunnel'' recreates extreme conditions spacecraft face upon reentry

258. Under snowpacks, microbes drive a winter-to-spring nitrogen pulse, study finds

259. Global plastics treaty negotiations: Success is still possible, researchers argue

260. Agave or bust! Mexican long-nosed bats head farther north in search of sweet nectar

261. SpaceX grounds Falcon 9 missions, could impact ISS launch

262. Even larvae mind the social bubble: How they adjust their behavior in response to social surroundings

263. The rise and fall (and rise again) of gold prices: What''s going on?

264. Supermassive black holes sit in ''eye of their own storms,'' studies find

265. AI systems could identify math anxiety from student inputs and change feedback

266. Warmer Northeast Atlantic waters and heavy fishing leave cod and haddock chasing smaller prey

267. A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried until now

268. Not an artifact, but an ancestor: Why a German university is returning a Māori taonga

269. Study highlights stressed faults in potential shale gas region in South Africa

270. Cosmic radiation brought to light: Researchers measure ionization in dark cloud for the first time

271. Research finds ''cheap stock'' options common before IPOs, averaging fivefold gains

272. Ozone-depleting CFCs detected in historical measurements—20 years earlier than previously known

273. New mineral sunscreen reduces white cast by using tetrapod-shaped zinc oxide

274. Physicists achieve near-zero friction on macroscopic scales

275. Maps offer neighborhood-level insight into American migration

276. The unraveling of the shrew, in winter: Studies decode genetic basis of seasonal organ shrinkage in mammals

277. No fences needed: GPS collars show ''virtual fencing'' is next frontier of livestock grazing

278. Photosynthesis: Study reveals how minerals are involved in homeostasis of chloroplasts

279. Solid, iron-rich megastructure under Hawaii slows seismic waves and may drive plume upwelling

280. A new class of strange one-dimensional particles

281. Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so—and it could explain (almost) everything

282. NASA''s Crew-12 begins quarantine before February launch to space station

283. Climate change threatens the Winter Olympics'' future, and even snowmaking has limits for saving the Games

284. How play and social connection may help some dogs understand words

285. AI challenges established norms in higher education

286. Cape Town project tests what hydroponic farming can do in urban spaces

287. Ancient American pronghorns were built for speed

288. Q&A: Researcher calls for scientific reason when building artificial reefs

289. City council meetings amplify broader civic voices

290. Global warming is speeding breakdown of major greenhouse gas, research shows

291. How climate change and human psychology make this US cold snap feel so harsh

292. NASA moon mission launch delayed to March after test

293. We ate space mushrooms and survived to tell the tale

294. A hearing test for the world''s rarest sea turtle: Understanding its vulnerability to human-caused noise

295. Accurately predicting Arctic sea ice in real time

296. Whether it''s Valentine''s Day notes or emails to loved ones, using AI to write leaves people feeling crummy

297. Thousands of alien plant species could invade the Arctic

298. Warning of kidney cell damage from high exposure to nanoplastics

299. What potoroo poo tells us about climate change

300. ''Sponge city'' construction fuels major gains in urban biodiversity, study reveals