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Computer simulations show grazing cattle and sheep naturally carve the staircase-like terracettes that stripe hillsides worldwide, challenging a gravity-only explanation.
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A USC study mapping macrophages across mouse tissues finds shared aging signatures alongside organ-specific and sex-specific differences in immune decline.
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A 41-researcher consortium published open protocols to standardize virtual reality research, arguing VR can help behavioral science overcome its reproducibility challenges.
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Elephants’ oversized middle-ear bones give them powerful bone-conduction hearing, potentially amplified 30-fold by voluntarily closing their ear canals, a new study finds.
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India’s national immunization program cut child mortality substantially but had mixed effects on schooling, a Notre Dame study of nearly 900,000 children found.
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A blood test for p-tau217 predicted cognitive impairment risk up to a decade early in a six-cohort study of nearly 2,700 older adults.
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A two-decade study finds dementia prevalence has risen sharply across Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico, while holding steady in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
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A University of Michigan study finds South Korea’s robot umpire system erased a bias that once favored star batters, while star pitchers saw no such shift.
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Rockefeller University researchers reveal the epigenetic modifier MLL4 has a surprising second role as a direct p53 co-activator, helping explain its opposing effects across cancers.
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A long-term study finds using screens to calm toddlers shapes their cognitive development differently depending on parents’ mental health, pointing to broader family support needs.
