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Tufts and Boston University researchers report that low-dose BPA, BPS and BPF together disrupted human breast organoids, while each alone changed little. It is preclinical work, and persistence and any link to disease remain untested.
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Boston University researchers found that Dracula ant workers' brains, and most of their brain regions, peak in size during the pupal stage. They tie that timing to the way workers of this species hunt from their first day as adults.
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AWS's Reimagine 2026 report, built on 154 executive interviews, says review processes sized for six-month IT programs are driving AI use underground. AWS's answer is governance built into the systems themselves, with humans kept accountable for outcomes.
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Simulations strand Earth outside the heliosphere three times in 14 million years, and dust in sediment cores agrees. The cadence, roughly one encounter every 4.5 million years, limits what it explains.
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UT Austin, Eli Lilly and Boston University found a Tris buffer keeps mRNA nanoparticles potent through freezing, where citrate cannot. Only 5% to 10% of an mRNA dose reaches its target, so the storage solution shapes how much material a patient needs.
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Researchers ran a regression discontinuity at each of the label's two eligibility lines. The economic criterion drew a strong donor response, and the racial composition criterion depended on where the donors lived.
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A NASA-funded team simulated the solar system's passage through cold galactic clouds and put dates on when Earth sat outside the Sun's shield. Dust in seabed cores gives that reconstruction a check; the temperature effect has none yet.
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A Boston University group reports in Science Advances that Durusdinium symbionts leave their coral host with a persistently switched-on immune response, which helps through a short heat spike and hurts when a pathogen arrives next.
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The new BMJ cohort counts confirmed cases against every NFL decedent, which makes 25% arithmetic and everything above it argument. That distinction is what liability models will run on.
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A Boston University soil ecologist's three-year Napa project frames forest recovery as a microbial problem before a replanting problem. So far the account offers observations, not results.
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Buckled rail, record-low rivers and disrupted power and water are no longer tail risk. NASA's account of May to August 2026 reads like a description of normal service.
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Bill Martin's group argues in Science Advances that the last universal common ancestor was vent chemistry, not a cell, and that bacteria and archaea became alive separately.
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More than 500,000 Americans filed in 2025, nearly 50% above the 2022 count. The consumer credit cycle is turning while the headline economy still reads as fine.
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A PNAS study pooling more than 2,000 flux measurements from 87 studies finds plant species alone explain 62% of methane variability in tidal marshes, outperforming salinity.
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