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UT Austin researchers link exercise on more days to more deep sleep, with 10 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity associated. The Fitbit data come from students, so the finding is an association in young adults and cause is untested.
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Peter Cappelli and Y. Jasmine Wu found remote work wearing down help between colleagues in interviews with about 760 employees of a financial firm. The cost lands on newcomers with no one to call, outside the individual deliverables supervisors were told to watch.
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UT Austin geologists dated zircons from Oklahoma's Ames crater to about 370 million years ago, nearly 100 million years younger than believed. That pulls the buried crater out of the Ordovician impact cluster some researchers cited as evidence of a debris ring around the ancient Earth.
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Nanjing University's Long Yang and coauthors argue in Nature Cities that cities alter their own storms through heat, building roughness and aerosols. They add that green roofs and sponge-city schemes built against floods and heat can feed back on local rainfall as well.
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Wharton's Peter Cappelli and Jasmine Wu interviewed 760 staff at a global financial services firm and found remote and hybrid work cut colleague contact. The evidence comes from one firm, but it gives managers who treat hybrid work as settled a reason to re-examine what it costs in collaboration and training.
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UT Austin researchers dated shocked zircons from Oklahoma's Ames crater to about 370 million years ago, nearly 100 million years younger than believed. That takes Ames out of the Ordovician impact cluster behind the idea of a debris ring around Earth.
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UT Austin, Eli Lilly and Boston University found a Tris buffer keeps mRNA nanoparticles potent through freezing, where citrate cannot. Only 5% to 10% of an mRNA dose reaches its target, so the storage solution shapes how much material a patient needs.
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Asgard archaea have been known since 2015 from DNA in North Atlantic sediment, and only six stable cultures have reached the literature. Growing them takes years, so one unpublished culture travelled from Montana to Texas by car.
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Quanta put a simple question to the mathematicians extending what has been billed as a grand unified theory of mathematics. The cause of their disagreement is structural. A sweeping claim rests on very technical individual results, in a discipline that declines to interpret what it cannot prove.
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A Nature cohort of 1,154 hospitalized patients ties lingering anellovirus activity to physical disability, which puts the sampling schedule, not the cytokine panel, at the center of trial design.
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