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Volcanoes Send Tiny Warning Signals Before Eruptions. These Scientists Are Decoding Them The team behind

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How coffee reshapes the gut-brain axis and lifts mood—even without caffeine New research from APC Microbiome Ireland, a research center at University College Cork, has comprehensively explored the mechanisms behind coffee's positive effects on the gut–brain axis for the first...

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Exoplanets Without Lots of Water Can't Maintain Their Carbon Cycles Water is critical to life because cells need liquid to function. That's why scientists focus on finding and studying exoplanets in habitable zones. But even if they're in habitable zones, exoplanets n...

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Mars rover detects never-before-seen organic compounds in new experiment The Curiosity Mars rover detected many organic compounds, including ones not seen before on the red planet, such as nitrogen- and sulfur-bearing molecules similar to the building blocks of life on Ear...

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The 'dumb machine' promising a clean energy breakthrough A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work?

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Scientists discover hidden “master switch” driving skin cancer growth and immune escape A key protein, HOXD13, helps melanoma tumors grow and evade the immune system by boosting blood supply and blocking cancer-fighting T cells. Disabling it shrinks tumors and reopens the door for the im...

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95% success rate: This new trick lures termites straight to their death Scientists at UC Riverside have found a clever new way to outsmart termites—by turning their own instincts against them. Using a natural pine scent called pinene, which smells like food to termites, r...

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Robust flu protection may rely on B cells that are long-lived residents in the lungs Deep in the lungs, resident memory B cells stand guard against influenza reinfection—but whether they remain there may depend on how strongly they are signaled through their own receptors. New researc...

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How mRNA cancer vaccines still destroy tumors when a key immune cell is missing The advent of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the Nobel Prize–winning technology is being adapted to fight cancer, with mRNA vaccines in clin...

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Novel diabetic wound treatment turns cells into manufacturers Diabetes affects more than 40 million people in the United States, according to the American Diabetes Association. For many, the chronic condition means a lifetime of pain as worsening circulation lea...

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Serotonin spikes may worsen tinnitus by directly activating the brain's auditory circuit The same neurotransmitter commonly leveraged to relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety also may exacerbate a vexing condition known as tinnitus, according to new research published in the Proceedi...

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Identifying which breast lesions will progress to cancer can help avoid overtreatment A discovery by the Transformation and Metastasis Group of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) opens a path towards identifying precancerous breast lesions that will develop into tumors....

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Why some brains with Alzheimer's stay sharp Researchers at the University of California San Diego have uncovered new insights into one of Alzheimer's disease's most puzzling questions: why some older adults remain mentally sharp despite having ...

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Giving a voice to vocal fold regeneration—uncovering a new map of stem-like cells The larynx, also known as the voice box, is home to the vocal folds and is the reason people can talk and sing while manipulating pitch and volume. The vocal folds are covered with mucosa, or mucous m...

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They really didn't go into as much detail as they should have.

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Preventing cirrhosis is the most effective way to reduce liver cancer deaths, say experts A new update from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) urges stronger prevention efforts and better early-detection tools for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the leading cause of cancer-...

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Gut 'microbial fingerprints' predict melanoma recurrence with up to 94% accuracy The specific mix of bacteria living in a person's gut can predict the chances that melanoma will recur after surgery and immunotherapy, which helps immune cells target cancer cells. This is according ...

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Multiplexed PET paves the way towards biologically individualized radiotherapy – Physics World PET scans that simultaneously image more than one radiotracer could revolutionize oncology

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Scientists unveil how heat-loving enzyme could help improve plastic recycling Cutinases are fungal enzymes that naturally degrade plant cuticles and show promise for recycling plastics. However, they must balance structural rigidity to withstand high temperatures with flexibili...

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Water simulation of famous quantum effect reveals unexpected wave patterns A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has simulated and extended a famous quantum phenomenon , the Aharonov–Bohm effect, using a si...

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Good morning Stella! Hopefully one day they will all be gone...

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Primary breast tumors already harbor cells with metastatic potential This work, published in Nature Communications, opens new avenues for identifying tumors with a high risk of developing metastases and may improve the classification of breast cancer patients.

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How tiny cave shrimps power the underworld of the Yucatan Beneath Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a network of flooded anchialine caves hosts a remarkable ecosystem driven by tiny Typhlatya shrimp. Rather than relying on sunlight, this underground food web d...

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Fake medicine yields surprisingly real results for older adults' memory and stress You do not have to be tricked to experience the placebo effect. A recent study reveals that older adults who knowingly took fake sugar pills still saw real improvements in their short-term memory, phy...

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Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.

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Disclosing autism to AI chatbots prompts overly cautious, stereotypical advice Large language models often tell autistic users to avoid socializing and romance. While some users appreciate the protective tone, others feel the technology relies on restrictive stereotypes that lim...

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Believing in a "chemical imbalance" might keep patients on antidepressants longer Patients who believe their depression stems from a chemical imbalance tend to take antidepressants twice as long and are less likely to attempt quitting, suggesting that biological messaging heavily i...

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Scientists Discover 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Baby in a Cave With the Body of a One-Year-Old Buried for over 50,000 years, this tiny Neanderthal fossil is now at the center of a surprising scientific puzzle.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has Discovered 11,000 New Asteroids, and It's Barely Even Started! Rubin’s largest asteroid haul yet, gathered before the Legacy Survey of Space and Time even begins, is just the “tip of the iceberg”

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