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Phys.org / Growing a mix of plants in fields can save farmers money and help the environment
Farmers have increasingly sown a single type of grass in their fields over the past 100 years, and then added chemical fertilizer to increase their harvest. But new research suggests that there are alternatives that are cheaper ...
Tech Xplore / EU 2035 combustion-engine ban review: What's at stake
The European Commission is expected to announce on Tuesday measures relaxing a 2035 ban on new gasoline and diesel car sales.
Phys.org / Seven in ten women in public life report online violence; increase in offline harm experienced by women journalists
Online violence is spilling offline: 4 in 10 women journalists, activists, influencers, and defenders of human rights report experiencing offline attacks connected to digital abuse.
Tech Xplore / Instacart is charging different prices to different customers in a dangerous AI experiment, report says
The grocery delivery service Instacart is using artificial intelligence to experiment with prices and charge some shoppers more than others for the same items, a new study found.
Phys.org / More loons are filling Maine's lakes with their ghostlike calls
Loons are on the mend in Maine, filling more of the state's lakes and ponds with their haunting calls, although conservationists say the birds aren't out of the woods yet.
Medical Xpress / South Carolina places 254 in quarantine as measles cases surge
South Carolina health officials say a measles outbreak is growing amid holiday travel and low vaccination rates, and they warn the spread could continue for weeks.
Phys.org / England's synthetic phonics approach is not working for children who struggle to read
Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.
Medical Xpress / Why do we wake up shortly before our alarm goes off? It's not by chance
You've probably experienced it—your alarm is set for 6:30 a.m., yet somehow your eyes snap open a few minutes before it goes off. There's no sound, no external cue, just the body somehow knowing it's time.
Tech Xplore / Making clean energy investments more successful with forecasting tools
Governments and companies constantly face decisions about how to allocate finite amounts of money to clean energy technologies that can make a difference to the world's climate, its economies, and to society as a whole. The ...
Medical Xpress / In search for autism's causes, look at genes, not vaccines, researchers say
Earlier this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that the search for autism's cause—a question that has kept researchers busy for the better part of six decades—would be over in just ...
Phys.org / Neutrino observatories show promise for detecting light dark matter
Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of the universe's mass. Over the past decades, many physicists worldwide have been trying to detect ...
Phys.org / Einstein's theory comes wrapped up with a bow: Astronomers spot star 'wobbling' around black hole
The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in the night sky. Their study, presented in Science Advances, reports on the very first observations ...
