Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild plants in Eurasia. According to a new international study published in Plant Disease, the ancestors of modern tymoviruses…
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Scientists trace crop viruses back to the last Ice Age
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Elevated heart failure risk identified in adults with prediabetes, hypertension and subclinical heart injury or stress
A new study from researchers led by Johns Hopkins Medicine reports substantial new evidence that elevated blood biomarkers of subclinical heart injury or stress—heart muscle damage without symptoms of a heart attack—are linked to an increased…
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Chinese acupuncture meets nanotechnology for controllable, sustained pain relief
A magnetoelectric hydrogel loaded with iron oxide and barium titanate core-shell nanoparticles can be deposited at acupuncture points using a custom spiral-grooved needle. Once in place, an external magnetic field drives the nanoparticles to…
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Triassic Crocodile Relative May Have Learned to Walk on Two Legs
Fossils from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the United States, reveal that Sonselasuchus cedrus, a species of shuvosaurid that lived about 215 million years ago (Triassic period), likely began life walking…
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Mapping 3D-super-enhancers with machine learning to pinpoint regulators of cell identity
Scientists usually study the molecular machinery that controls gene expression from the perspective of a linear, two-dimensional genome—even though DNA and its bound proteins function in three dimensions (3D). To better understand how key…
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Cancer patients want to participate in difficult decisions
“Patients do not want to be shielded from difficult treatment decisions,” says Associate Professor Jannicke Rabben at Norway’s University of Agder (UiA). “Even patients who say that the doctor knows best often want to be involved when the…
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Deep-frozen brain region restarts electrical activity after thawing
Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Uniklinikum Erlangen have succeeded in preserving brain tissue through extreme deep freezing. After thawing, the neurons begin exchanging electrical signals again. The…
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Can tomorrow's grid handle extremes? New simulations test renewables far faster
As power grids add more renewable energy and large-scale battery storage, utilities face a growing challenge: how to stress-test tomorrow’s electricity systems before investing billions to build them. Wind, solar and battery-backed grids behave…
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Real-Time ISS Tracker Shows Off The Goods
What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to anyone with an interest in electronic or mechanical devices. Which is…
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Testing Apple’s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new “performance” cores
If you’re interested in a slightly wider-ranging review of the new MacBook Pros, I’ll point you toward reviews of the M1, M3, and M4 generation models, as well as the one for the low-end 14-inch MacBook Pro with the…
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