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University of Kentucky researchers found essential-oil cockroach sprays killed over 96% on direct contact, but most dried residues killed under 10%. The Scientific Reports study aged residues on ceramic tile and pine wood for up to a month.
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Cambridge archaeologists attribute a 15 mm hole in the Shanidar A Neanderthal's shoulder blade to a wooden spear about 75,000 years ago. Whether the thrust was a hunting accident or violence between people cannot be known, the authors write.
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Researchers report that three drowned peat reefs off Mozambique, with peat up to 5,000 years old, host marine life comparable to a nearby coral reef. The paper says the peat's present-day carbon role is unresolved, and three sites in one archipelago cannot show how many such reefs exist.
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Kenyan researchers report C. auris resistant to all four major antifungal classes in a 28-year-old surgical patient. The authors argue it evolved resistance independently of the 2022 case, and Gizmodo notes that containment still stops outbreaks.
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Wang, He, Liang and colleagues report a two-stage model that cuts accident-count MAE 18.4% against StemGNN and reaches 87% accuracy on injury severity. The severity stage labels crashes that have already happened, so the 87% is a triage figure, not a forecast.
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Hosei University researchers report that E. coli detects glucose-6-phosphate released by Bifidobacterium through its Uhp sensor. They suggest the signal works only if the two species live within 40 micrometres of each other.
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Two of 57 rocks collected from the Escanaba Trough combusted without an outside flame in a lab, according to a Scientific Reports study. The authors write that no engineering controls exist yet for mining modern seafloor sulfides.
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Cornell researchers report the first genetically confirmed Marfan syndrome in domestic cats, in two brothers with two altered copies of FBN1. The variant left some gene function intact, and the team says that helps explain why both reached adulthood.
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Paleontologists at IIT Roorkee estimate Vasuki indicus, a 47-million-year-old Gujarat snake, at 10.9 to 15.2 meters from 27 vertebrae. Titanoboa's roughly 13 meters falls between the two methods' ranges, so which snake was longer is open.
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Two Hawaiian reef corals both showed lab bleaching thresholds above NOAA's 4-degree-heating-week level, Florida Atlantic University researchers report. A tolerance score from one coral population cannot be assumed to hold for another species or bay.
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Surrey and APHA researchers trained a model that classified 99.6% of rabies cell-culture samples correctly, according to a Scientific Reports study. The authors present it as support for hand-read microscopy, with a brain-tissue version still in development.
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NYU Abu Dhabi researchers say a forecast built only from past sea ice records predicts Arctic extent up to nine months ahead. Its September error was comparable to 34 seasonal models, and the team offers it as a baseline that more complex forecasts should beat.
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USGS researchers say two of 57 seafloor sulfide rocks from the Escanaba Trough heated past 100 C on their own in the lab. The agency says the hazard deserves attention before anyone mines these deposits, on evidence so far limited to processed samples from a single trough.
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Researchers mapping Nepal's mountain rivers count about 294,000 people living in flood-prone valleys below the Himalayas, and say the number is still rising. Roughly 108,000 of them are downstream of glacial lakes that can breach and flush water down the valleys all at once.
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UNSW researchers found that ribose raised the boron released from an Indian hydrothermal crust by about 60%, ScienceAlert reported. The team proposes that this boron in turn keeps ribose from degrading to tar, a link the reported experiments do not directly measure.
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Tübingen researchers named Bathynomus tuebingoborikensis, a giant isopod kept unrecognized in their university's paleontology collection since the 1980s. Working from that one dried animal, the team traces the genus to the Miocene Gulf of Mexico more than 15 million years ago.
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Researchers found a 9-million-year-old molar from a water-dependent capybara relative in Chile's Atacama Desert. It adds to evidence that the desert had wet intervals long after its hyperarid core began forming in the Eocene.
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Modelling of Scotland's Seagreen wind farm in Scientific Reports finds turbine foundations cool summer sea surfaces by about 0.1 to 0.3 degrees Celsius. How big that effect gets depends on season, tide and water layering, so the study recommends timing monitoring for strongly stratified periods.
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Fujita Health University researchers recorded busier bowel sounds for one to two minutes after 21 healthy adults walked 20 minutes on a treadmill. The finding suggests one way physical activity could lower constipation risk, a link that until now has rested on who exercises and who gets constipated.
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Scientists at SUNY Brockport, UVM and Oregon State found lake trout embryos in Lake Champlain gained thiamine by hatching while paired lab embryos gained none. The study measured vitamin levels, not survival, so it has not yet tested whether wild hatchlings escape the deficiency seen in hatcheries.
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