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Greece's culture ministry compares the floors of two banquet halls found at Mieza in 2026 to those of the royal palace at Aigai. The comparison makes a royal link likelier at the school where scholars place Aristotle's tutoring of Alexander, though it cannot show he taught there.
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Fraunhofer IIS researchers found swab odors from 24 people differed between healthy volunteers and those with Parkinson's, cognitive impairment or COVID-19. The team calls it a proof of concept, and a needle-free test would first have to hold up in larger, age-matched groups outside the lab.
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Cychlorphine, a synthetic opioid first seen in the US in 2024, is linked to at least 55 deaths and has reached all four Census regions. Standard test strips and hospital urine screens cannot detect it, so the usual quick checks for opioids do not work on it.
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Researchers raised wasp spiders from opposite ends of Europe under identical lab conditions to ask whether the species' northward spread involves evolution and not only warmer weather, as British sightings arrive further north.
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The Nature Chemical Engineering study reports 1.84 volts, roughly three days of normal operation in simulated gastric fluid and complete breakdown within weeks, with a human trial of the medication-tracking capsule about two years out.
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Flinders University researchers pooled 22 air-sampling studies of toilet flushing and found aerosol concentration tracked flush volume and the load in the bowl, while the data on closing the lid stayed too thin to settle the question.
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The DNA damage behind skin cancer has a settled mechanism and a dose-response. The benefits attributed to sunlight rest on observational studies that vitamin D supplement trials have not confirmed, and guidance is beginning to split.
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Duke researchers imaged whole mouse ovaries and report in eLife that the rete ovarii keeps three distinct regions into adulthood, with cell-secreted proteins in its tubes and nerve fibers connected to one of them.
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The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory says 2026 set a record for objects retrieved from the park's geysers and hot springs. The count measures how much the geology crew got back out, not how much visitors dropped in.
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Researchers at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Durham University costed drinking, hygiene and food water against the Moon's polar ice. How long a settlement lasts turns almost entirely on which ice estimate goes into the model.
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Among 112,284 nurses and health professionals, decades of follow-up produced 278 gastric cancers. Low-calorie carbonated drinks showed no association with the disease, while total fructose intake tracked with more cases.
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The Marine Biological Association's case for the boom rests on underwater video, eggs, juveniles and 120 surveyed divers, while the shellfish landings that fell alongside it are so far timing rather than attributed cause.
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Matilda Holmes and colleagues aged livestock from 701 bone groups across 460 English sites and found the oldest cattle clustered between 900 and 1100, when grain output was rising and horses were about 5 percent of draft animals.
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The dose-graded signal holds across age, sex, weight, blood pressure and diabetes, but it was measured in blood rather than in anything anyone ate, and the two cohorts disagree by a factor of three on its size.
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The pooled analysis covers more than 100 million people and puts the steepest under-55 effect, a 174 percent increase, on amphetamines, which is the one drug for which the authors had no genetic data to test causation.
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An 8-year-old's death at Lake Claiborne is being read as evidence the organism is moving north. The case-count evidence cannot carry that, and the advisory problem is worse than the surveillance one.
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A first count of the pigment behind the world's oldest artificial mummies turns a burial rite into a procurement problem, and dents the idea that states come before technique.
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A San Jose State team says the fault under Santa Clara County is not decelerating. The rate, its uncertainty band, and the journal are all still missing.
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A study in Physical Review E finds surface reflections advance the loudest part of a call. Arrival times read early, and range estimates built on them come in short.
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Mat Santamouris says coatings, shading, ventilation and better ceiling fans could cut average urban temperatures by several degrees. That number is an estimate, not a measured result.
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