Around ten years after the Paris climate agreement was adopted, the world is again at a crucial moment. In 2015, 195 countries committed to hold global warming “well below 2 °C” and to “pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 °C” to…
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Defending endangered trees against climate change and hungry goats
“Socotra, the Yemeni island that I’m from, has the world’s last dragon’s blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari) forest. We have other threatened plants too, including cucumber trees (Dendrosicyos socotranus) and Boswellia spp., also known as…
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Technology is changing how we write — and how we think about writing
Tools of the Scribe: How Writing Systems, Technology, and Human Factors Interact to Affect the Act of Writing Brian Roark et al. Springer (2025)
The world’s oldest writing system still in use, that of Chinese characters, dates from about 1200
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A DNA-based nanodevice senses purinergic signaling and drives an immune switch for resolving inflammation
Eltzschig, H. K., Sitkovsky, M. V. & Robson, S. C. Purinergic Signaling during Inflammation. N. Engl. J. Med. 367, 2322–2333 (2012).
Cekic, C. & Linden, J. Purinergic regulation of the immune…
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Proposing and solving olympiad geometry with guided tree search
Representing geometry problems
Although Hilbert27 and Tarski28 introduced modifications to address ‘incompleteness’ in axiomatic geometry, Lean’s axiomatic geometry system remains under active development and lacks a diagrammatic sketchpad,…
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Quantum spinning effect observed in a levitating magnet
Nature, Published online: 26 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00208-5
A supercooled microscopic ferromagnet proves the existence of gyroscopic magnetic behaviour that has been long sought by physicists.
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In silico modeling of anterior foregut endoderm differentiation towards lung epithelial progenitors
Hawkins, F. et al. Prospective isolation of nkx2-1–expressing human lung progenitors derived from pluripotent stem cells. J. Clin. Investig. 127, 2277–2294 (2017).
McCauley, K. B. et al….
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A multi-level annotated sensor dataset of gait freezing manifestations and severity in Parkinson’s disease
de Lau, L. M. L. & Breteler, M. M. B. Epidemiology of Parkinson’s disease. Lancet Neurol. 5, 525–535, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(06)70471-9 (2006).
Kalia, L. V. & Lang, A. E….
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Estimating the economic damage caused by climate change to Korean aquaculture
Lam, V. W., Cheung, W. W., Reygondeau, G. & Sumaila, U. R. Projected change in global fisheries revenues under climate change. Sci. Rep. 6, 32607 (2016).
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