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Physicists cooled cesium atoms into single-file chains and found indirect evidence of Bethe strings, bound clusters of at least six atoms. Co-author Hanns-Christoph Nägerl says the fit to theory is not proof and does not expect the strings to be long-lived.
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Max Planck researchers report in Nature Communications that cultured chicken myoblasts fuse at hot spots of mechanical stress. The finding adds a physical variable to a field that has focused on molecular signals. It comes from cells in a dish.
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Catherine Demers and colleagues report a 5% hippocampal difference in infants whose mothers received psychotherapy for prenatal depression, versus usual care. Randomization covers the therapy-to-brain step only; the tie to infant emotion is an association.
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University of Osaka researchers distinguished L- and D-amino acids at the single-molecule level with over 80 percent accuracy. The gold nanogap chip, published in Nature Communications, is far smaller than current instruments but is not yet a scanner.
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University of Miami researchers identified previously unknown viruses that bridge viruses and encapsulin compartments in cells, Phys.org reported. The Nature Communications paper reports evidence that the two lineages evolved from one another repeatedly over millions of years. That contests the theory that encapsulins simply descended from viruses.
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NIFS-centered researchers measured four highly charged ions and report lutetium's nucleus is slightly smaller than ytterbium's. Earlier evaluations had odd-proton lutetium as the larger nucleus, an anomaly left unexplained for years.
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Pitt chemists report that seeding coupled-cluster calculations with a Kohn-Sham density gets nearly the same accuracy in minutes to hours. The release says this could improve machine-learning training data but describes no test of that.
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UC Irvine and JPL glaciologists project up to 30 mm of Thwaites sea-level rise by 2100, twice earlier estimates, even with no added warming. Replacing the grounding line with a grounding zone made the model's reconstruction of past change four times more pronounced.
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Bristol-led researchers found select models among 27 stayed consistent with almost 600 California earthquakes of M3.95 or greater. These are probabilistic forecasts, and lead author José Bayona says the test supports operational use.
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Yao and colleagues say a hybrid-attention model built on dendritic computation supports a 50M context window with lower compute, in Nature Communications. They offer it as part of a challenge to the view that neuroscience plays only a minor role in recent AI.
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A 2021 Nature Communications study found El Niño years cut landslide exposure in Colombia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology calls the current event near-record. A blog post on Eos cautions that this year's rainfall response may differ.
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In 23 mice, Leibniz Institute researchers found learning reorganizes dendritic inhibitory synapses and stabilizes those at the axon start. The work is observation and modeling, so the idea that the split protects memory remains a hypothesis.
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PolyU researchers report heavy cyclone rainfall extending inland about 3.8 km per decade along Northern Hemisphere coasts. The team ties the shift to warming nearshore seas and says planners should revisit inland flood zoning.
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Stony Brook researchers rebuilt the first nearly complete caenagnathid skull and infer from its jaw that the 12-kilogram animal mashed soft fruit. The diet is inferred from one species, so it does not yet cover the wider toothless group.
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Hebrew University researchers stored a bit in one superconducting vortex that runs at about five times the Landauer limit. It works only near 4 Kelvin, so any use is confined to cryogenic hardware.
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IISc researchers used machine learning to expand a copper-catalyst CO2 network from 152 reactions to 9,389. The larger network predicted about 40 times more conversion and matched experiments on methanol and carbon monoxide as major products.
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Max Planck researchers report that swapping UUU C for UUC C almost completely abolished ribosome frameshifting on N1-methylpseudouridine mRNA. Vaccine and therapeutic designers get a sequence-level fix, backed so far by mechanistic experiments.
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A team led by the University of Exeter and City St George's found that Candida auris cells surviving antifungal drugs had copied their entire genome. The authors say that could lead to new ways to tackle a fungus on the WHO critical priority list.
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TU Darmstadt researchers have explained how their lab-built G12 riboswitch senses doxycycline and switches genes on or off in yeast and human cells. The Nature Communications paper could let a well-tolerated antibiotic act as an external control for gene expression.
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University of Vienna researchers report an ancient DNA reshuffling that brought separate gene regions into contact in coleoid cephalopods. The Nature Communications paper proposes the new contacts may have helped drive their unusually complex nervous systems.
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