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A late-stage clinical trial found that, when combined with an SMN2-targeting drug, Isembyld caused young patients’ motor skills to improve after a year.
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An E.U. AG recommended annulling part of a directive that requires drugmakers to finance 80% of the costs of wastewater treatment.
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New research shows how artificial intelligence, combined with advanced experimental science, can help find "hidden" and unexplored proteins in the human body and reveal what they actually do, according to a new study pub…
Researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) have characterized the structural and functional properties of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 sublineage BA.3.2.2 by studying RE.2.2, the…
Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have taken a new approach in the search for enzymes capable of breaking down some of the most difficult types of plastic to recycle. They collecte…
Loose fibers from functional clothing, discarded PET bottles or abandoned packaging: When such plastic materials enter the environment, they often persist there for a long time. UV radiation, precipitation and ozone caus…
Research teams from INRAE, the University of Clermont Auvergne and the CNRS have reconstructed 10 ancient genomes (paleogenomes) that are the common ancestors of 84 botanical species of agronomic interest. Their work mak…
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How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, t…
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By reproducing elements of human bone marrow on a chip, scientists have created a new tool that will help them gain new insights into how immune cells develop and function. The post Bone Marrow-on-a-Chip Model Offers New…
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A study by Politecnico di Milano and the University of Insubria (Varese and Como) has been published in PLOS Digital Health. The study involved more than 700 children from primary and lower secondary school. The particip…
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A vast sheet of volcanic rock in the Andes has preserved clues to a buried landscape that existed 22 million years ago, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.
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Researchers at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT), Ningbo, have developed a graph-based approach that directly extracts concise, accurate constitutive equations from solid-material experimental data. The study, pu…
Two galaxies merge at a furious rate in this Aug. 25, 2026, image of the II Zw 096 system. This and several other images of both visually and scientifically interesting galaxies were released by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Obse…
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Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 2:45 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 16, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaw…
Scientists are working closely with art historians to uncover scientific documentation in historic paintings.
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The science from every Moon rock sample, lunar dataset, and discovery produced through NASA’s Artemis program will be shared by the agency with the global scientific community. That commitment is upheld by all 71 countri…
Researchers used DNA sequencing to map mutations in normal tissue from cancer patients undergoing different types of treatment. They found significant differences in the genetic mutations in healthy tissue, depending on …
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Author(s): Y. Cai, L. Wang, N. B. Zhang, Y. W. Shi, B. X. Bie, M. X. Tang, Y. J. Deng, L. Lu, and S. N. Luo An ultrafast x-ray diffraction measurement establishes a unified model for B1−B2 transition in KCl which can be …
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arXiv:2609.10558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A new kinetic equation and Lagrangian of a massive and charged spin-one vector boson is outlined in this paper. Those quantities are derived by exploiting directly the Lore…
arXiv:2609.10560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate a particular case of the extended exponential infrared f(T) teleparallel gravity, in which the geometric sector naturally produces an effective dark-energy d…
arXiv:2609.10564v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent machine learning weather prediction (MLWP) models have demonstrated remarkable forecasting skill on global reanalysis-based benchmarks. However, their performance re…
arXiv:2609.10567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration reported an evidence for dynamical dark energy model using baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from DES…
arXiv:2609.10568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO) is normally built on a structure that contains a Hilbert space, ladder operators, and a Born rule. Here we derive it from counting. We…
arXiv:2609.10569v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The existence of three fermion generations remains one of the unexplained structural features of the Standard Model. This article reviews an algebraic framework in which an…
arXiv:2609.10570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We develop a covariant Hamiltonian formalism in which evolution is measured along the proper-time flow of an observer congruence, replacing the external coordinate-time der…
arXiv:2609.10571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalized trace dynamics (GTD) is a deterministic dynamics of aikyons (atoms of space-time-matter) whose near-equilibrium statistical mechanics yields quantum dynamics, w…
arXiv:2609.10573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate an interacting dark sector scenario in which a deviation from the standard dilution law of cold dark matter is parametrized by a perturbative correction $\ep…
arXiv:2609.10574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion functions in unimodular gravity induce a dynamical effective cosmological constant, providing an appealing framework in light of recent DESI observations. In this…
arXiv:2609.10575v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we build a general framework for constraining interacting scalar fields with cosmological observations, applicable to a broad family of scalar--field potentia…
arXiv:2609.10577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In 1911 Einstein suggested that photons which pass close to the Sun are deflected by its effective mass which would apparently shift the positions of stars by up to one arc…
arXiv:2609.10582v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dark Energy Survey has shown that the emission light curve widths $\Delta t_{\rm em}$ of supernovae increase to $\Delta t_{\rm obs}$, obeying $\Delta t_{\rm obs}/\Delta t_{…
arXiv:2609.10591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We explore two scenarios of $f(Q,\mathcal{L}_m)$ gravity: linear and non-linear gravity models. The dynamical system analysis identifies two critical points for each of the…
arXiv:2609.10566v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The pulling illusion induced by asymmetric vibration stimuli has attracted attention for its potential applications in rehabilitation and sensory assessment. However, the u…
arXiv:2609.10581v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Motivated by the pulsed control and resulting evolution of harmful biological populations, we develop and analyze an ordinary differential equation model of an n-dimensiona…
arXiv:2609.10644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational RNA structure pipelines generate many candidate conformations for the same sequence. Reliable evaluation therefore requires more than recognising plausible ge…
arXiv:2609.10831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Longitudinal single cell atlases now capture matched pre treatment and post treatment states from responders and non responders, presenting an opportunity to mechanisticall…
arXiv:2609.10870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether human motor and brain lateralization arises from fundamentally distinct neural architectures or emerges from conserved network dynamics remains a central question a…