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Researchers who let supernova debris spread unevenly matched the element ratios of odd Milky Way halo stars as well as or better than a hypernova model did. That undercuts the chemical case for hypernovas, though MIT's Anna Frebel says they remain plausible.
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Natural History Museum and Oxford researchers matched the timing of more than 6,000 Nigerian Lassa cases using rainfall and nearly 30 years of rodent data. Because the model runs on weather and rodent ecology, health authorities could use it to anticipate when the risk of spillover to people climbs each season.
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UCL researchers tracked 90 skilled adult readers and found Bionic Reading's bolded word starts moved their eyes but did not make them read faster. That leaves the speed claim unsupported for fluent adults, while readers with dyslexia and long-term use fell outside the test.
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Cambridge psychiatrist Peter Jones saw a patient's hallucinations resist antipsychotics and then fade after plasma exchange for autoimmune encephalitis. The case supports antibody tests in some psychosis, but the evidence for wider screening is still one case and a 12-patient series.
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The Austrian Academy of Science built Apollo with Mistral and Sail Reply on roughly 600 million words of historical Greek, and made it free to academics through a chatbot. A scholar still picks the word that goes into the record.
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Recordings from 422 neurons in two mouse visual areas, and a network model fitted to them, indicate that reciprocal loops sustain activity the two areas share and let mismatched activity decay within a fraction of a second.
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DTU's mAxialtrode packs a light-guiding core and eight liquid channels into a fiber thinner than half a millimetre. It worked in mice, and its developers say routine clinical use needs much more testing and regulatory approval.
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The number comes from carbon-oxygen bonds in two teeth of a museum's best tyrannosaur, released for sampling only after UCLA spent a decade shrinking how much enamel the method destroys. Eagle expected roughly that value.
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A review of 25 randomised trials spanning mean ages 8 to 78 puts the immediate cognitive effect of a two-minute movement break at a Hedges' g of 0.24. The larger figures in the review are comparisons between sets of trials.
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Because the recordings come from identified single cells, the number of neurons feeding a reconstruction is something the experimenter controls, and the output can be laid beside the movie the mouse actually watched.
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Definium Therapeutics says more than 200 adults with moderate or severe generalised anxiety improved three months after a single dose of LSD, and a UCL researcher expects FDA approval within a year or two.
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A UCL-led team simulated hundreds of ancient landscapes to see which ones could have been buried by the Lauca Caldera's ignimbrite in northern Chile. Only low-relief terrain could. That bounds local uplift near an inch a century.
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Forty-eight healthy volunteers took a forearm injection of UV-killed E. coli, and half of them received a drug that stops the body degrading its own epoxy-oxylipins. Pain resolved faster and inflammation-linked monocytes fell.
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Coverage is the achievement in this Nature paper: cardiovascular, digestive and nervous activity recorded on one clock, in an animal chosen because you can see through it, which is also why the result is about a fish larva.
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A preprint from University College London's Lewis Pinault and colleagues argues the airless Moon has archived interstellar dust for billions of years, and puts the sample needed to test that idea at one cubic meter of regolith.
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Sanger Institute researchers sequenced healthy esophageal lining from 70 patients treated for esophageal cancer and found that a few weeks of chemoradiotherapy left significantly more normal cells carrying cancer-related mutations.
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Planktonic foraminifera coil left or right, and sometimes every ocean switches at once. The explanation offered in 1959 was temperature; genetics undercut it, and the newest proposal is an evolutionary sweep.
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Mothers logged their medicine use every two weeks, which helps with recall bias, and the ovary finding reappeared in a second Copenhagen dataset. Whether it means anything for adult fertility is unknown.
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A team from King's College London and UCL puts the harm in ordinary product behaviour, sycophancy trained in through RLHF plus a session whose state the user writes, and argues mitigation should not wait for a label.
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A UCL micro-bladder with cycling urine pushed uropathogenic E. coli inside the bladder lining, where an antibiotic that looks reliable in standard tests fell short and a phage cocktail cut the hidden reservoirs it left behind.
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