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From 31 August, Ralf Busch's group will remotely melt levitated droplets of nickel-niobium alloys aboard the ISS, chasing thermophysical numbers that anchor years of alloy design.
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MIT physicists report that two charge density waves in erbium tritelluride form by different mechanisms: one gradual, one nucleating in expanding pockets. Coexisting phases are not one knob.
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Direct measurements at the Beijing Meteorological Tower found trees supplied a tenth of VOC emissions but nearly half the reactivity that drives ozone, almost all of it isoprene.
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A new simulation reports panel shade cut perceived temperature by 4.46 C during working hours, which makes array layout a labour-safety decision as well as a yield one.
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A grave near Stonehenge was labelled male in 1801 and stayed that way for two centuries. Genomics says goldsmith, and woman, and says the discipline's default was inherited rather than found.
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A survey of 2,292 Australians puts numbers on weather-driven travel change. The largest signal is not cancellations but destinations quietly struck off the list before anyone books.
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Oak Ridge researchers report memristance and memcapacitance in the same model membrane, which turns lipid chemistry into a hardware design variable rather than biological background.
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A SETI Institute team has NASA funding to test whether Raman spectroscopy works from 30 to 50 km away, roughly 250 times farther than its own best demonstration.
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Centuries of study have not settled what actually transfers when objects rub. The experiments now trying to find out need acoustically levitated glass beads and hands-free collisions.
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An Insubria, Genova and Milan group proposes wiring battery and charger into one continuously monitored environment to break the correlations that lock energy up. The work is theoretical.
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Aarhus University reports blue mussels cutting filtration by 34% to 51% when parasite larvae are in the water. Biomass says what a mussel bed can clear; fear says what it will.
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A Science Tokyo team reports singlet exciton transport more than an order of magnitude past the 5-20 nm norm for organic semiconductors. The plasmonic bonus depends on how the fibers are laid down.
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A 168-country study in People and Nature argues that the regions colonial powers targeted hardest were the most species-rich, and that the resulting extraction economies still structure poverty.
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A Colgate University pair argue the nanohertz gravitational-wave background may be dominated by descendants of dark-matter-powered stars, which makes the signal an abundance limit on early seeds.
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Stature estimates of 1.8 and 1.9 metres come from an incomplete femur and a tibia pulled off the seabed, undated and with no recorded find-spot. The anatomy is fine; the sample is the problem.
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Anthropic will label Claude's text and files to satisfy the EU AI Act. That fixes provenance for one vendor's output and leaves the hard part of assessment policy where it was.
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Adversa.ai says Claude Code's folder-trust dialog stopped naming MCP servers in v2.1, while a repo-supplied config can still launch an unsandboxed process on one keypress.
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A KIMS-led team reports an antimony perovskite that responds to ammonia in 13 seconds at 100 ppm, plus a mechanism that is intercalation rather than surface adsorption.
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An IPK-led team has published a rye reference genome with complete centromeres for all seven chromosome pairs, and found the one rye segment wheat already borrowed is its least varied version.
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A Texas A&M team reports in PNAS that excess RNA impairs mitochondria before the immune system reacts. The quantity of RNA matters, not only what it encodes.
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A Science Advances paper says five ordinary human-associated microbes could stay alive in shadowed south-pole terrain. The expensive consequence is the baseline contamination survey it implies.
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Colobus congoensis is only the fifth new African monkey species described in 75 years. Locals have seen it a handful of times since 2008, which makes its status the harder question.
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A Glasgow-led genome reconstruction in the Eurasian common lizard traces the switch from eggs to live young to selection spread across many regulatory regions, not a single leap.
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Monash and Warwick researchers report a bacterial antibiotic starves the invasive hyphal form of glucose, pointing antifungal discovery at virulence rather than viability.
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Caltech's Endres and Alicea groups report the first direct measurement of Ising and tricritical Ising energy spectra in synthetic quantum matter, on chains of up to 35 strontium atoms.
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Bundibugyo virus has caused 5,021 cases and 2,378 deaths through August 16, reaching 1,000 cases in 40 days against 235 in 2018. The licensed Ebola vaccine was built for a different virus.
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EMBL Heidelberg reports in Nature that T7 phage phosphorylates nearly the whole E. coli proteome within minutes, disabling defence systems that work by different mechanisms.
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A Cavendish group reports in Physical Review Letters that many "magic states" buy no speedup, and that a 1945 distribution of Dirac's tells you which ones do.
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Whole-genome sequencing of brown bullheads from Lake Memphremagog found tumors that are clones of each other, not of their hosts. It is the fourth transmissible cancer known.
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S301 skims Sagittarius A* at about 8 percent of light speed. That proximity gives the GRAVITY+ team a direct spin measurement inside ten years, instead of decades of indirect modelling.
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