A team led by Ho Won Jang used language models to pull 1,202 property records out of published work, screened about 150 million candidate compositions down to 37, and synthesized two.
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- Incentives62
- Confidence58
In situ electron microscopy shows elastic elongation of 11.3% in single-crystal silicon and 8.9% in diamond comes purely from reversible lattice displacement, with no defects or phase change.
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Roughly half the world eats because of synthetic nitrogen, and the plants that make it run on gas. The alternatives on offer are agronomic and biological, and they scale slowly.
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Koc University researchers report in the Journal of Cell Biology that centriolar satellites assemble hierarchically on a PCM1 scaffold, not by random aggregation.
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A choice experiment with 317 residents put chosen homes at a median 6.93 tonnes a year against 1.6 for the lowest-emission options on offer. Most said efficiency never entered into it.
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- Evidence40
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A Tennessee lab is building implant surfaces whose micron-scale pillars beat on command, reporting removal of more than 99.9% of attached bacteria. Biofilms are 1,000 times less antibiotic-susceptible.
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An MPIK-led team turned an atomic gas into a time-dependent refractive element at FLASH, shaping an XUV pulse in space and in spectrum where solid optics simply absorb the light.
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The lowest alkaline pretreatment dose tested roughly 2.5x the methane yield of untreated banana waste, which means reagent spend and inhibition risk fall together rather than trading off.
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Researchers report that X's For You algorithm promotes value-incongruent posts because replies signal disagreement, and that the mismatch is over four times larger for Democrats.
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A Geophysical Research Letters study finds the average eastern weather station logging more extreme rain days even as distinct events thin out. The difference is spatial correlation.
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In mice, a peptide-PEG agent given before dosing cut liver expression several dozenfold and raised spleen expression severalfold, according to work in ACS Nano.
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- Evidence30
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Digital reconstructions of two Neanderthal pelvises put the childbirth-versus-bipedalism trade-off under strain, and point at the pelvic floor instead.
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Government reports have the virus circulating in resident birds. Overseas, the opening pass killed 25% to 76% of breeding-age adults in the worst-hit species, and recovery ran to decades.
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- Evidence48
- Adoption42
Twenty-four years of HILDA data show the hourly wage advantage of a degree peaked around 2010 and fell to 38% by 2024. The VET premium is down to 2%.
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A Physical Review D paper argues cosmic acceleration is a residue of quantum uncertainty acting on geometry, which would turn two unsolved problems into one. Upcoming surveys are the test.
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A review pooling 204 samples from 145 workplace studies ranks the substance of what you say behind communication style and appearance, and finds sub-minute judgments still track weeks later.
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A record-strength El Nino has moved from forecast to administrative emergency in the Central American Dry Corridor. The government says the crisis runs to March or April.
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A new study argues planning tools that justify nature by its usefulness to people cannot protect birds nesting in roof cavities. UK swift numbers are down about 60% since 1995.
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- Evidence38
- Adoption32
A store-level study of 8,674 retailers and 11.4 million bottle sales in 2018 finds export tariffs pushed domestic whiskey prices down in most states and up in the two that make most of it.
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A University College Cork review argues that hearing children of deaf adults are absent from official data, and that the counting gap, not attitudes alone, keeps them outside family services.
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The lab's case for spherical tokamaks rests on shape, beta and less steel. The compute needed to search that design space is not costed anywhere in the material.
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Canada's AI for All strategy includes a National AI Literacy Initiative for postsecondary students and educators. One instructor argues fluency without accountability yields graduates who cannot defend their work.
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- Evidence34
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Projects that declared environmental commitments were 13.2% more likely to be funded, and the extra backers came disproportionately from states that report worrying about climate change.
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A Bielefeld synthesis of 28 experiments across seven bird species reports fitness benefits from fresh plants in nests. Which of the two leading explanations does the work is still open.
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A NIBB team had 89 people and GPT-4 place emotion words on a grid. The model matched human structure at six terms and surfaced an arousal dimension at 99, where the human experiment does not scale.
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- Evidence58
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A new simulation reports panel shade cut perceived temperature by 4.46 C during working hours, which makes array layout a labour-safety decision as well as a yield one.
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- Evidence42
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A survey of 2,292 Australians puts numbers on weather-driven travel change. The largest signal is not cancellations but destinations quietly struck off the list before anyone books.
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Oak Ridge researchers report memristance and memcapacitance in the same model membrane, which turns lipid chemistry into a hardware design variable rather than biological background.
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An Insubria, Genova and Milan group proposes wiring battery and charger into one continuously monitored environment to break the correlations that lock energy up. The work is theoretical.
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Aarhus University reports blue mussels cutting filtration by 34% to 51% when parasite larvae are in the water. Biomass says what a mussel bed can clear; fear says what it will.
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Stature estimates of 1.8 and 1.9 metres come from an incomplete femur and a tibia pulled off the seabed, undated and with no recorded find-spot. The anatomy is fine; the sample is the problem.
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- Evidence42
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An IPK-led team has published a rye reference genome with complete centromeres for all seven chromosome pairs, and found the one rye segment wheat already borrowed is its least varied version.
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- Evidence60
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A Texas A&M team reports in PNAS that excess RNA impairs mitochondria before the immune system reacts. The quantity of RNA matters, not only what it encodes.
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A Glasgow-led genome reconstruction in the Eurasian common lizard traces the switch from eggs to live young to selection spread across many regulatory regions, not a single leap.
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Koç University researchers paired 8,683 metal-organic frameworks with 12 polymers and trained models to predict gas permeability in seconds. None of the winners has been built yet.
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- Evidence45
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A New South Wales survey detected Unicapsula seriolae in 38.9% of yellowtail kingfish, and 71.4% of the infected fish never turned mushy after cooking.
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South Africa pulled a draft national AI policy over invented citations, and Deloitte refunded part of a A$440,000 report for the same defect. The failure was institutional, not personal.
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- Evidence34
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A team led by Janine Krippner and Sam Poppe has catalogued 18 common misconceptions in the Journal of Applied Volcanology. The public summary works through only three of them in detail.
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A framework called REID images living cells with light made inside them, hitting 100 nm detail in 20 ms exposures and 41 hours of continuous mitochondrial footage.
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A study of 100 sitting MPs found they put public resistance to insulation grants at 18 percent when polling showed 6. The bottleneck looks like perception, not consent.
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Two long-running Berlin datasets, unpublished until now, turn a vague sense of loss into a measured trend. The water bodies that dried up are not even in the count.
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A Physical Review Letters paper argues valley-imbalanced rhombohedral tetralayer graphene can pair at several incommensurate momenta at once. It hands experimentalists a specific thing to look for.
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- Evidence48
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A new analysis of 77 primate species reports that brain size and group size fail to predict vocal repertoire size, putting pressure on the social brain account of language origins.
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A variational circuit searched a seven-qubit nuclear-spin sensor for the probe state that works in the noise it actually has, rather than the one theory prefers in a clean world.
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Varroa was found near Newcastle in June 2022, and eradication was abandoned in September 2023. The mite now spreads mainly through bee behaviour that no single beekeeper controls.
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- Evidence48
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A Science Advances study dates the Jomon split from mainland East Eurasians to 27,000-19,000 years ago and reports fat-metabolism variants at frequencies far above living populations.
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Structural snapshots of Sld3 and Sld7 reading an activated MCM2-7 helicase show how cells check the motor is switched on before delivering Cdc45. The work is in yeast, and stays there for now.
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AI-designed bacteriophages beat antibiotic-resistant E. coli. New Zealand's gene technology framework is 30 years old, its replacement is stalled in Cabinet, and the design layer sits between regimes.
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Poor genetic health raises extinction risk and has a demonstrated remedy, yet conservation programs still treat it as a specialist concern next to land clearing and climate.
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Researchers who interviewed relocated households in Bangladesh and India report that new houses without land, work or services move the risk rather than reduce it.
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- Evidence50
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Three lions died at Tama Zoo in Japan during a heat wave above 40C. The harder problem is that ambient temperature alone does not tell a keeper which animals are near their limit.
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A 459-person study followed over ten years reports that expectations of decline come before thinner social lives, not after them. That ordering is what makes them targetable.
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A Tel Aviv University team reports that male Neanderthal pelvises track modern human females, not males, inverting a baseline used for decades to read hominin hips.
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Ohio State researchers assembled extracellular vesicles from red blood cell lipids, loading cargo as the particles form. The interesting part is the process, not the biology.
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UC Riverside watched Argentine ant colonies through glass after dosing them with two common bait chemicals. Each one produces a different, misleading visual signal.
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- Evidence58
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Hostility toward women separated supporters of extremist violence from everyone else across incel, far-right, religious and far-left categories alike, the research team reports.
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A Nankai University and Hebei University of Technology team reports in Nature Nanotechnology a ferritin-gold hybrid built to take apart existing amyloid deposits. The outcome data on offer is thin.
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A Science Advances study finds capability tracks conformity: GPT-4 Turbo and Claude 3.5 Sonnet adopted their peers' choice between two meaningless options in groups of up to 1,000 agents.
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Higher-resolution mapping turns star-forming clouds into comparisons rather than catalogues, but first someone has to check that the finer maps agree with the ones built over previous decades.
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Alfie and Bailey carry a CRISPR knockout of Can f 1 and shed no detectable allergen. The edit was made for human comfort, in animals whose long-term health is unknown.
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- Evidence55
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