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Ever felt like doing a bare minimum at work? Not investing any extra effort, not going any extra mile? You aren't alone. That ...

A highly sensitive quantum sensor from Jena has traveled nearly 9,000 kilometers: by truck to Hamburg, by ship across the ...

One percentage point of feed conversion loss in large-scale poultry production can cause millions in lost revenue, so even ...

While the majority of states require public school students to take at least one sexual education course, a patchwork of ...

A research team led by Prof. Jiao Chengliang at the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators, has introduced a self-consistent model that addresses ...

Methane—a potent greenhouse gas—constantly seeps from the ocean floor and can rise into the atmosphere. Now, an international ...

Global sea-level change has now been measured by satellites for more than 30 years, and a comparison with climate projections ...

Air pollution from oil and gas is causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues across the ...

In the natural world, animals rely on perceiving a range of signals to survive—and for insects, olfactory cues are ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have created a new catalyst that can partly renew itself while working, opening ...

Phytoplankton—microscopic algae that form the base of ocean food webs—have long been viewed as transient players in the ...