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Phys.org / Yeast survives after all 300 known spliceosomal introns are removed

Spliceosomal introns are noncoding DNA sequences located between exons in many eukaryotic protein-coding genes. Most are removed post-transcriptionally by RNA splicing and do not encode proteins, but they have been implicated ...

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Phys.org / Fields medal awarded to four young mathematicians

The Fields Medal, known as the Nobel Prize for mathematics, was awarded Thursday to four people—two Chinese citizens, one American and one Canadian.

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Phys.org / Portugal's ancient giant bears shrank over thousands of years and humans may be to blame

About 22,000 years ago, a giant brown bear lumbered across what is now Portugal. The creature weighed around 385 kg (about 850 pounds), making it one of the largest of its kind ever found, towering over the Iberian brown ...

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Phys.org / New physics-based metric improves estimates of climate-driven cooling demand

New research led by atmospheric scientists at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa found that the century-old yardstick used across many industries to estimate air-conditioning and refrigeration energy demand—called cooling ...

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Medical Xpress / Brain immunity may undergo a major midlife overhaul linked to neuroinflammation

A new study indicates that the immune cell landscape of the hippocampus, a brain region critical for learning and memory, rapidly undergoes substantial remodeling beginning in midlife. This previously unrecognized shift suggests ...

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Medical Xpress / Social inequalities shape childhood mortality from leukemia in Brazil

Why do children with lymphoid leukemia face markedly different mortality rates depending on where they live in Brazil? In a collaboration between researchers at LMU and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), trends ...

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Phys.org / Who holds power? Puerto Ricans' distrust runs deep

Puerto Ricans share deep skepticism toward elected officials and a widespread sense of limited self-governance, according to a new study from the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and the University of ...

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Phys.org / Quantum Newton's cradle set to level up computing

Sending quantum information through a chain of qubits, like energy through a Newton's cradle, could be the key to faster operations and take quantum computing to the next level.

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Phys.org / A new 'golden age' of mathematics may be dawning, thanks to AI and human ingenuity

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the "unit distance conjecture" had just been resolved by generative AI.

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Medical Xpress / Dormant pigment cells found in vitiligo patches may offer treatment target

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys melanocytes, the cells that produce the skin pigment melanin. Once the melanocytes are gone, the skin turns white, leading to the characteristic ...

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Phys.org / Nanopores can activate human T cells without biochemical signals

Immune cells protect and heal the human body. In medicine, they are specifically activated through biochemical reactions to treat certain diseases. Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, ETH Zurich, Humboldt University ...

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Tech Xplore / AI extracts hidden material rules from microscopic data to predict large-scale behavior

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed artificial intelligence (AI) methods that learn the large-scale behavior of complex materials from microscopic data. By automatically identifying ...

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