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Explore North America’s scientific prowess, where innovation meets tradition. From pioneering research in technology and medicine to influential environmental initiatives, discover how this continent’s diverse expertise is shaping the future of global science and driving impactful discoveries.
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Recent research highlights advances in cancer biology, space construction, particle physics, climate science, medicine, archaeology, quantum technology, and radioactive-water cleanup, while emphasizing remaining uncertainties.
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Mount Sinai researchers found the anterior hypothalamic nucleus scales stress responses in mice, and silencing its amygdala input erased the amplifying effect of prior stress.
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Morgridge Institute researchers rebuilt the Acanthamoeba genome annotation from 52 to 98 per cent accuracy, identifying roughly 300 mitochondrial proteins that are absent from humans.
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Virginia Tech researchers deleted the septin gene aspB from Aspergillus fumigatus, turning the antifungal caspofungin from merely growth-halting into lethal in laboratory and animal tests.
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NC State engineers drove ground eggshell into magnesium with a spinning steel mandrel, forming a calcium strengthening phase in one step and skipping mined ore.
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Across 11,500 US neighbourhoods over nine years, rising undocumented population shares tracked larger property crime declines, unchanged violent crime, and more robberies reported against residents.
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Recent research reveals AI unpredictability, cancer-treatment vulnerabilities, cash benefits reducing infant deaths, a potentially female British ruler, and stringent tests of relativity.
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Scientists report promising advances in early Alzheimer’s prediction, Martian volcanism, brain waste clearance, ozone monitoring, and fish vaccination technology.
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Across 565 species, worker and soldier ants proved to have completely overlapping antenna sizes despite soldiers carrying far larger heads and bodies than workers do.
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Asked to imitate or resist imitating an Australian speaker, 136 Americans did either on command, and their expectations about her accent overrode what they heard.
