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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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Engineers transfected stem cells with two microRNAs, one for bone and one for vessels, then placed the resulting clusters one at a time. Lab and mouse work is reported; outcome figures are not.
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Osaka researchers found CD4 cytotoxic T lymphocytes rise from 4 percent to 17.6 percent of circulating T cells across the oldest age brackets. Outside immunologists want function, not just counts.
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IBM says infrastructure, not qubit counts, stood between error-prone chips and a fault-tolerant machine. Its modular cryostats and 1-metre superconducting cables are the commitment behind the 2029 date.
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An NUS and Tsinghua team says official US flood records may omit about 11 million residents and 4.1 million buildings. Insurers and planners are budgeting against that gap.
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A prototype taxonomy published in Nature Climate Change links measurable climate drivers to specific risks and adaptation options. Its own numbers show most of the work happens at regional scale.
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Nagoya University and FUJIFILM report longer-lasting expression from capped circular RNA in a new lipid nanoparticle. The mouse data are directional; the duration numbers are not public yet.
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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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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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New Mexico Tech researchers report in Reviews of Geophysics that the Telegrapher's Equations reproduce the return stroke's full waveform from a handful of physical parameters.
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A 21-million-Kelvin halo at redshift 3.25 already holds a mature cluster's share of normal matter, before the epoch when such gas was expected to start warming.
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Mindgard says opening a cloned project in Cursor on Windows silently executes any git.exe planted in the repo root. It went full disclosure after months of no response.
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A Paris start-up says its AI agent turns plain English into running quantum simulations. Three test cases, one of them a deliberate failure, is the whole evidence base so far.
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A Dongguk University team reports in Cell that a promoter borrowed from the Lgr4 gene drives expression in mice under a 2.0 millitesla, 60 hertz field, and returns to baseline in 24 hours.
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A Nature study of 62 psychedelic-naive adults reports that the feeling of dissolved self-world boundaries tracks integration between self-referential and sensory networks.
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A Nature study reports that mouse organoids make cortical cell types but not the clock that sequences them, and that a third of progenitors get locked into a single fate.
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A PNAS study argues high proliferation can lower rates of early abnormal growth, and moon jellyfish experiments track the prediction. The reported evidence is directional, not quantified.
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A new grading method scores models on satellite radiation trends rather than past surface temperatures, and the ones previously discounted come out on top.
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Spiesberger and Terray report in Physical Review E that interference between a direct call and its surface echo moves the energy peak, biasing pipelines that assume 1,500 m/s.
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One vector incursion froze cattle movement, then pet transport. Thousands of Texas shelter animals are stuck in place, and shelter directors say euthanasia is the release valve.
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The vendor reports 10-plus CVEs and up to 200,000 exposed instances, and says Anthropic declined to change the protocol, describing the behaviour as expected.
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A lipid nanoparticle that carries antigen mRNA, STING mRNA and a delayed-release activator addresses the reason cGAS-STING adjuvants keep failing: the agonist shuts down antigen translation.
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A STAT opinion piece argues the measurable shift in medical AI is not benchmark wins over physicians but the removal of the safety text that used to route people to care.
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Almost 220,000 tonnes of plastic coats subsea pipelines and umbilicals on the UK shelf. Leave the kit in place, the authors say, and about 120,000 tonnes stays to abrade.
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A freeze-dried Td vaccine matched two standard comparators in a 60-person UK trial after a year out of the fridge. Regulators currently allow such excursions for 3 to 4 days.
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An Illinois study of 61,000 US workers finds week-to-week swings in hours track with worsening health. Men stay in the job and get sicker; women cut hours or leave.
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Oxford researchers compared honeybee tissue with pollen from 99 UK plant species and found most a poor amino acid match. Excess histidine made bees eat less, not more.
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Liver samples from 102 caracal deaths show anticoagulant rodenticides accumulating in an apex predator, most of them the potent second-generation compounds still sold over the counter.
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