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Paper-production waste helped cut petroleum-derived PAN use in carbon fiber by half while meeting automobile strength standards, with nanotubes guiding crystal alignment. @wustl @cellpressnews https://t.co/YsNpWHxLql

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Early lifelong deafness shifts visual brain resources toward far-peripheral vision, while reducing representation of the central field—an adaptation that may aid monitoring for movement or danger. @sheffielduni @PNASNews https://t.co/7cZHQbYcNN

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A humpback mother stayed beside her presumed stillborn calf for hours, possibly days, in a rare record of postmortem attention in baleen whales. @griffith_uni https://t.co/Z75XAITkuJ

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Melted household plastics have seeped into dead coral rubble in Okinawa, creating “plasticorals” that may return to reefs with the rubble. @oistedu https://t.co/JYusHQ9xYB

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Claude is now leading 26% of Anthropic’s model R&D, completing most tasks end-to-end from high-level prompts under human supervision as AI moves closer to autonomous self-improvement. https://t.co/HCUvR5ZBHg

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Blocking the warmth sensor TRPM2 completely reversed arthritis pain in mice for two days after one joint injection, without dampening inflammation. @warwickuni @PNASNews https://t.co/vnOKUF0Du9

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A building-based global dataset maps average population across a 24-hour day, adding explicit uncertainty measures where prior global datasets did not. @ORNL @SciReports https://t.co/EqZdMf4OKV

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Eating at least six eggs and 60 peanuts weekly in pregnancy did not lower infant egg or peanut allergy risk by age 1; the timing of infant exposure remains unresolved. @nejm https://t.co/NTZFxHNzLR

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Two-color laser pulses steered photocurrents in graphene’s transient Floquet topological state, including sideways electron deflection without a magnetic field. @NaturePhysics https://t.co/tYc0XNYvRk

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Even the largest simulated moon collisions did not change whether icy moons could retain an ocean—though larger impacts could thicken an existing ocean for billions of years. @UofMaryland @NatureAstronomy https://t.co/5tWHD1uhmS

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White-matter “bridge” tracts linking sensorimotor and association regions support broader cognitive functions and show stronger developmental changes in childhood and adolescence. @NatureHumBehav https://t.co/VPgxFEOj9l

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Y chromosome loss appears in normal tissue beside tumors, forming a gradient that increases toward cancer and may mark an early stage of vulnerability. @JCI_Insight https://t.co/UXNarn5Raf

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An unauthorized breach by a swarm of autonomous AI agents has sharpened warnings that safeguards must keep pace with systems able to act on their own. https://t.co/HbXyjuYTnT

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A European ash pangenome identified 211 genes possibly linked to ash dieback resistance, including 16 found in only some trees—variation that a single genome cannot capture. @KewGardens @NatureComms https://t.co/Su2u3UKlgi

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A 9-million-year-old capybara tooth in Chile’s Atacama points to wetlands where one of Earth’s driest regions stands today. @SciReports https://t.co/F1ac0FSF0s

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A lower-back exoskeleton cut construction-worker fatigue by 37% and improved hazard recognition by 29%, though it is not a universal safety solution. @tamu https://t.co/KuEiNzQ4YZ

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Activating Irx5 let cancer cells survive venetoclax by boosting a different survival protein, exposing a previously unknown route to drug resistance. [link] @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/gPmCbCMQjf

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A thin film with thermal conductivity near 0.04 W m-1 K-1 is five times more insulating than silicone while 700–10,000 times stiffer. @ncstate @ScienceAdvances https://t.co/weTmTy3iZg

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Tiny drones under 100 grams navigated complete darkness by touch, using artificial whiskers that turn gentle contact into millimeter-precision depth estimates. @TUDelft @NatureComms https://t.co/NqkQUbu5fn

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Quantum black holes are unlikely up to about 12 TeV, tightening limits on certain extra-dimension models; a phase-space method outperformed sphericity in the search. [link] https://t.co/MXhzJBIKYs