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A British and Japanese team reports that tau filaments taken from the brains of people who had Alzheimer's disease or corticobasal degeneration, injected into the brains of ordinary mice, made the…
When light bends azobenzene from its straight shape into its kinked one, the molecule's first move is a twist about the two carbon-nitrogen bonds that attach its rings to the bridge at its center.…
The World Health Organization released new Global Health Estimates on Oct. 2, covering 2000 to 2023. WHO puts global life expectancy at 73.3 years at the end of that period, a tenth of a year below…
A group at the University of Oxford has published a way to map the contacts a disease risk variant makes with nearby genes, one copy of each chromosome at a time and down to single DNA letters. The…
Bangladesh's health directorate and its national epidemiology institute have published the national tally for what they describe as the country's largest recorded measles outbreak. Nationwide…
Ask how much current a superconductor can carry and the most honest answer is a number about its flaws. Push the current up and thin tubes of magnetic field, called vortices, tear loose from the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the Autus Size-Adjustable Valve on October 1, 2026, a pulmonary heart valve for children with congenital pulmonary valve disease that is designed to be…
A UK-led group reported on October 1, 2026, that bat coronaviruses able to use the widest range of animal receptors all sit in the same branch of the family as SARS-CoV-2, and that those are also the…
Two children sit across a marble game. One of them takes a turn and runs into trouble: a box that will not open, or a container that tips its marbles onto the floor. The other child has already been…
Researchers reported Oct. 1 in Scientific Reports that the situation a group of elephants is in can be worked out from the sound of several of them rumbling over one another, not only from calls made…
Siyu Liu, Douglas R. Higgs and colleagues at the University of Oxford have found the DNA switches that keep an embryonic blood gene shut off after early pregnancy, and report that disabling two of…
A Google DeepMind team has hidden a mark inside proteins designed by artificial intelligence, so that the molecule itself shows a machine made it. The system, called SynthIDBio, appeared in Nature on…