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Public research university in Illinois with strong engineering, science, and agricultural programs, hosting labs across many scientific disciplines.
Illinois biologist Caitlin Bloomer's nationwide search found an 86.6 mm Tennessee bottlebrush crayfish, the largest specimen it identified. The measurements hint at a common size ceiling, with muscle or shell limits offered as a possible cause.
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Nvidia shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China in the first half of 2026 for a 34% share, against Huawei's 572,000 and 28%, Crypto Briefing reported. The shares fit the case that export controls pushed buyers to local chips, though shipment counts cannot show why.
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Argonne and Illinois researchers coupled spin waves to a superconducting resonator in a layered device. The hybrid mode travels in one direction, a preference spin waves show under certain conditions.
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Georgia Tech opened its Nexus AI supercomputer to researchers nationwide, with 90 percent of capacity allocated through NSF-coordinated peer review. For a lab that cannot host a machine of that size, the way in is a proposal to reviewers.
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University of Illinois researchers stored multiple photons for more than a microsecond in an erbium-doped thin-film lithium niobate chip. The crystal is already made at wafer scale, so the open work is in the device, where the team says retrieval efficiency and storage time must improve.
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University of Illinois researchers project suitable habitat for New Mexico's introduced gemsbok could reach southern Washington and Montana by 2100. The model maps where the antelope could live, so the risk to cattle forage depends on whether herds can get there.
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University of Illinois physicists report the first direct evidence that pair density waves in uranium ditelluride persist above its superconducting transition. If that holds, Cooper pairs in this metal form before it superconducts, unlike in conventional superconductors.
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Illinois sociologist Ilana Redstone argues in Theory and Society that US sociology treats systemic racism as the default explanation for racial disparities. Her case rests on legal history and a few cited studies, so her own account of how the field got there has not yet been tested.
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Illinois researchers paired super-resolution imaging with machine learning to track grass diversity and C3-C4 balance at one site over 25,000 years. That makes a plentiful fossil countable by type, though the evidence so far rests on one sediment record.
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Illinois physicists report the first direct evidence that pair density waves in uranium ditelluride outlive superconductivity, as a 2007 theory predicted. If the result holds, electrons in this metal pair up before superconductivity sets in, though so far the evidence covers only one material.
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Illinois and NASA researchers imaged two spacecraft ablators decomposing in 3D at up to 900 C, using X-ray tomography at Berkeley Lab. Modellers now have a real decomposition sequence to test against, though the heating stayed at least 750 C below reentry surface temperatures.
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Biologists with calipers went through museum drawers to compile some of the first upper size thresholds for the group. None of the environmental variables the team tested predicted which animals got big.
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The Salk Institute has $18 million from the Bezos Earth Fund to measure in four states' fields what its lab work estimated at one metric ton of carbon dioxide per hectare a year, with the first results due this fall.
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Fertilizer quality only becomes visible in the plant months after purchase, so farmers lean on the seller's reputation as a stand-in. Illinois researchers put annual dealer entry at 33% and exit at 17% in Tanzania's Morogoro region.
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The four-unit protein can come apart directly when conditions turn acidic, and a screen of more than 100 variants suggests some brain-amyloidosis mutations reach that route at normal blood pH. Whether tafamidis blocks it was not tested.
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The demonstration is photopumped, so nobody is specifying it into a lidar module yet. The buried silicon dioxide pattern it lases through is the part that could let one wafer carry several photonic-crystal designs.
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Illinois chemists ran the reaction at room temperature in 20 minutes with no added catalyst. The harder question is what the new molecule is worth against the mill boiler that currently burns the feedstock.
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The state's smallest winter wheat crop in six decades followed a freeze and then 32C two days later. Projections keyed to mean warming cannot represent that ordering, which is why volatility needs separate accounting.
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A University of Illinois team reports systolic pressure and inflammatory markers improving within eight to 12 weeks, though the comparison carrying that finding runs between trials rather than inside any one of them.
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Parents in a 201-family study rated their own internalised oppression while their teenagers rated the messages that actually reached them, a split that rules out one reporting artifact and still leaves the direction of the effect open.
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