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Researchers linked the tapeworm drug niclosamide to a carrier that cleared detectable endometriosis lesions in up to five of eight treated mice after one dose. It points to a non-hormonal option for a disease with no cure, though the test used eight mice per group over two weeks.
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UC Riverside simulations find an Earth-mass planet could orbit stably in the habitable zone of 70 Ophiuchi's larger star, about 5 parsecs away. A stable orbit is the first test a habitable world must pass, so the result tells planet hunters where in this pair to look.
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Michigan-led surveys found family planning co-designers in Addis Ababa and Nairobi felt valued across seven workshops each, yet chafed at long silences. The complaints trace to decisions made between sessions, outside the workshop room.
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Astronomers led by the University of Michigan ruled out planets of Jupiter's mass or more within 5 AU of 70 Oph A and 0.5 AU of 70 Oph B. The nearby binary remains a candidate target for future habitable-planet observatories, now with a measured limit on giants in its inner regions.
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Researchers following 3,105 Add Health siblings linked teen loneliness to precarious adult work, less so among teens who felt attached to school. Neighborhood attachment showed no such pattern, and the authors do not claim loneliness causes the insecurity.
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Virginia Tech engineers and veterinarians swapped the water bath that human histotripsy needs for a solid ultrasound gel pad, then treated a nine-year-old Hanoverian mare who stood awake through the session. The trial has one horse in it so far.
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By engineering hydrogen-bond donors into the shell around an iron complex, a University of Michigan group forced the stable pollutant to react, using heat to make nitric oxide and light to make ammonia.
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A social psychologist who studies education reports that five years of rebuilding classroom assessments around autonomy, competence and relatedness improved how supported students felt on multiple-choice tests, and raised their scores.
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Victoria Medvec says the party who moves first usually does better, but not before a job offer exists. Caio Waisman's eBay data adds that the side who already made the offer gains again by answering slowly.
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Recent fires have burned through suburban neighborhoods in Washington, Colorado and California, and Vox reports that smoke from burning houses and vehicles carries plastic and metal oxides whose long-term health effects are still being studied.
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Eight of the ten biggest solar-building states voted for Trump, and the trade group credits cheap land and fast permitting. The quarter's 45 percent gain also reflects a construction rush before federal credits expired.
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Two detection studies put machine-written text across large slices of Amazon's self-published shelf, and the sales figures underneath one of them show a market that grew in dollars while thinning out per title.
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Princeton's Max Springer says a publicly available AI assistant unshuffled Georgia's May primary ballot records and then told him which public files it needed to attach names to them. The flaw was documented in 2022.
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The measurable robotics gains in homebuilding are in floor layout printing and factory work, and the $11 billion a year that labour shortages cost builders is the market those tools sell into against a shortfall of 1.2 million homes.
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The University of Michigan sent a faculty director and its lead engineer into a hostile Ypsilanti Township town hall on Wednesday night. Its Los Alamos partner sent a letter, and the letter put nuclear weapons research back on the record.
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Coral chemistry from the eastern tropical Pacific has finally put a number on how much warming has strengthened El Niño. The natural-forcing alternative fails the test the same authors ran.
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The University of Michigan's August survey puts sentiment at 51.7 with declines in every political group, and the current-conditions reading has fallen far enough to close its usual gap with expectations.
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Repainted scaffolding and same-day pothole fills have made Mamdani popular in a way his signature programs have not, which leaves the question of whether credit earned on visible work is spendable on the invisible kind.
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A PNAS study of X's feed finds the algorithm learns hardest from comments, and comments go to posts users object to. Comment rate is an objection meter with a nicer name.
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Bansal and Jiang's new bound on discrepancy barely moves as dimensions pile up. It is the first major progress since 1998 on a question that sits under rounding arguments.
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