Chemists have crystallised a uranium Fischer-type carbyne with a uranium-carbon distance of 2.379 angstroms, a bond long sought in f-element chemistry. Their analysis finds bonding related to, but distinct from, that of the transition-metal carbynes known since 1973.
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University of Manchester researchers made a pressure-sensitive paint that reacts to heat 25% less than the industry benchmark. Wind tunnel teams testing above Mach 5 still have to correct for temperature, only by a smaller amount.
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University of Manchester chemists made a gold molecule that glows red for pressure and temperature and blue for temperature alone. Comparing the two colors lets wind-tunnel paint correct its own pressure readings without a separate temperature sensor.
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Ketterle's group at MIT calculated that the quantum memory the proposed beam relied on is about ten trillion times too brief. They also found that because neutrinos are fermions, its trace suppresses the next emission instead of seeding it.
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The 20-watt brain frames the ambition of brain-inspired hardware. The working examples are event cameras tracking debris in orbit and a low-power processor sold by Australia's BrainChip, running alongside GPUs.
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A study in Land Use Policy finds exposure concentrated in southwest China and across the Huang-Huai-Hai and Northeast China plains, and it maps where farmland and its road links meet heavy rain without estimating losses.
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Manchester and Durham researchers had 390 people rate comfort messages without knowing who wrote them, and the AI text scored higher for anger and fear. Human messages carrying the same practical advice were judged just as supportive.
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Most stars change too slowly for anyone to watch. Sakurai's Object has moved through a whole stage of stellar death in three decades, and the new measurement says it is recovering more gradually than some models predicted.
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Screening the Coulomb interaction killed superconductivity in magic-angle graphene outright, which is strong evidence that the electrons do the pairing. It killed the correlated insulators too, narrowing the mechanism debate but not settling it.
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Manchester's correlates are sharp about which pupils get suspended and quiet about sequence, because the survey answers and the suspension records come from the same academic year, which leaves belonging as plausibly a casualty as a cause.
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The first millimetre imaging of Betelgeuse since the 2020 dimming shows an inner atmosphere growing lopsided, and whether its newly found companion shaped that pattern depends on an orbital geometry the team has yet to measure.
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Tyndall Centre modelling for Friends of the Earth puts the overshoot at 21 to 50 percent before Heathrow enters the sum, and the width of that range shows how much of the expansion case rides on plants nobody has built.
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Praearcturus gigas carried pincers longer than 16 centimetres and hunted 415 million years ago, before trees and before the high-oxygen atmosphere palaeontologists usually invoke to explain giant arthropods.
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The Manchester and Alberta authors argue that easier polish for one founder means harder differentiation for all of them, and they are careful to call their 26,000-pitch exercise an illustration of that argument rather than a test of it.
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A decade-long Manchester, Spain and Chile collaboration reports that the clotting protein builds flat multilayers at an air interface, not a single tilting layer. Downstream assumptions inherit the error.
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Deborah Cohen's "Bad Influence" argues that engagement-ranked content now shapes what patients expect from care. Her remedy sits with the reader, not the ranking system.
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