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Hurricane Simon passed about 50 km off Mexico's Pacific coast on Oct. 11 as a Category 4 storm with winds near 210 km/h, NASA reported. The Sierra Madre appeared to shrink its wind field, while news reports described flooding in Manzanillo.
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Several biodegradable plastics broke down fully in soil within about a year while conventional plastic barely changed, Konstanz researchers report. The team also reports an enzyme that breaks down certain polyesters and penicillin.
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Curtin-led astronomers report that black holes differing in mass by millions of times appear to launch jets at the same stage of their feeding cycle. If the pattern holds, delayed radio flares after stellar disruptions could be timed from the feeding rate.
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NIMS researchers found vortices in an ultrathin superconductor move over 1,000 times more easily along one-atom-high steps than across them. Temperature and magnetic field tune the effect, and MANA says it could eventually help build lower-energy superconducting electronics.
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NASA and NSIDC put Antarctic sea ice's 2026 winter peak at 17.59 million square kilometers, the third lowest on record. Whether the ice is in lasting decline after the 2012-2014 record highs is still open, NASA Earth Observatory says.
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Engineered granulocyte-monocyte progenitors from a USC team slowed blood cancers and solid tumors in mice, according to a study in Cell. A self-renewing source of such cells could ease manufacturing, but every result described so far comes from mice.
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Timothy Koeth's team reports in PNAS Nexus that Germany's last test reactor needed far more uranium and heavy water than the Nazi program had. Its reading of surviving uranium cubes and wartime documents challenges Werner Heisenberg's account.
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Neurons in the hippocampus of anesthetized epilepsy-surgery patients carried information about word types and upcoming words, Baylor researchers report in Nature. The result bears on whether language processing needs consciousness, though the recordings show what neurons encode and leave comprehension open.
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John Innes Centre researchers engineered plant immune receptors to recognize several fungal threats at once, aimed at rice blast. Blast destroys enough rice a year to feed about 60 million people, the centre says. The receptor work itself is still experimental.
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Arctic sea ice hit its 2026 minimum on September 12 at about 4.6 million square kilometers, tied for 10th lowest on record. NASA Earth Observatory says the remaining ice is thinner and younger, and scientists still warn of a nearly ice-free summer before 2050.
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Researchers with an Australian Research Council centre put Australia's Indigenous population before 1788 at a median 2.22 million. They also estimate 2.06 million excess deaths by 1861, a 93% fall that depends on a modeled baseline.
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Ice baths below 15C can cut soreness within a day but may limit long-term muscle gains with regular use, a Conversation article says. Its summary names sleep, eating well and time as the most effective recovery methods.
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UC Santa Cruz researchers say the peptide P3, long thought harmless, can form clumps faster than amyloid beta and may damage brain cells. The claim comes from a commentary that highlights research, so P3's role in Alzheimer's disease is still a hypothesis.
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Nanjing University researchers found that Chang'e-6 far-side rocks point to a similar mantle under both hemispheres and a different crust. They infer heat-driven magma-ocean circulation after tidal locking as the cause.
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Penn State researchers found guinea fowl raised with leg weights later carried the load at no added energy cost, while untrained birds used 23% more. The comparison is controlled and the groups are small, so it supports a narrow causal claim about leg loading in one species.
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Cedars-Sinai researchers identify PD-L2 as a protein that may help senescent cells escape immune clearance, based on mouse experiments. The human evidence so far is an association, and the authors say safety and benefit in people still have to be tested.
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Cornell researchers report the first genetically confirmed Marfan syndrome in domestic cats, in two brothers with two altered copies of FBN1. The variant left some gene function intact, and the team says that helps explain why both reached adulthood.
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Paleontologists at IIT Roorkee estimate Vasuki indicus, a 47-million-year-old Gujarat snake, at 10.9 to 15.2 meters from 27 vertebrae. Titanoboa's roughly 13 meters falls between the two methods' ranges, so which snake was longer is open.
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IISc researchers used machine learning to expand a copper-catalyst CO2 network from 152 reactions to 9,389. The larger network predicted about 40 times more conversion and matched experiments on methanol and carbon monoxide as major products.
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Researchers have named Musango matusadonaensis, a 210-million-year-old Zimbabwean dinosaur, and say Zimbabwe's dinosaurs include species unique to the region. The authors suspect ancient climate explains the split and say they are still working out why.
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