Public research university in College Station, Texas, with major programs in engineering, veterinary medicine, agriculture, and the sciences.
Copenhagen PhD candidate Mario Rodríguez Mestre questions whether Anthropic's Claude independently found an enzyme family his team has studied since 2022. Credit for the find is unsettled, and the case shows how little a scientist can check once unpublished work has gone into a commercial chatbot.
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US researchers have dropped the 15-point IQ-reading gap from dyslexia's definition in its first update since 2002, published in the Annals of Dyslexia. Whether more struggling readers get help now depends on schools, long reliant on IQ tests, following an advisory text.
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Researchers pooling 122 cognitive test batteries rank fluid reasoning and comprehension knowledge among the most consistent predictors of math skill. That gives math screening two abilities to check, and a co-author says early number sense matters just as much.
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Texas A&M researchers say adults aged 45 to 65 on 10 grams of creatine a day gained about 2.4 pounds of lean tissue in 12 weeks without a workout program. The creatine-versus-placebo comparison was randomized, but a three-month study of healthy middle-aged people cannot yet show whether the supplement preserves muscle into old age.
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Texas A&M simulations show that ions inside a zinc-based metal-organic framework make it easier for electrons to move through the material. The coupling matters for adaptive, neuron-like analog hardware, but the study maps a mechanism in one material and builds no device.
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Texas A&M's Rebecca Schlegel and colleagues, after 15 years of studies, report that people judge experiences that feel easy as more authentic. Her own wording keeps discovery and adds construction, a smaller claim than the phys.org headline's 'not hidden essence'.
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Texas A&M researchers found that work spilling into home life predicted anxiety and depression in 119 Texas principals, while stressor counts did not. Because the survey linked the two without testing a remedy, it tells districts which pressures to examine first and leaves open whether easing them would help.
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El Niño's wind shear has helped hold the 2026 Atlantic to seven named storms and no hurricanes while the eastern Pacific logged eight hurricanes. Both oceans draw on tropical waves born over Africa, and this year those waves fared very differently on either side of Central America.
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Texas A&M researchers built the first detailed aardwolf chromosome map and found 12 of the cat's 19 chromosomes match single aardwolf chromosomes. The map also gives researchers a guide for ordering an aardwolf genome that is still split into about 5,600 fragments.
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A woman buried face down in a Henan cemetery had her nasal bones cut back to half the bridge and lived, and the team that found her among 300 burials argues the grave itself points to punishment.
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Chinese law codes prescribed cutting off a livestock thief's nose, and the texts record thousands of cases. A skull from a Henan cemetery, healed and remodelled around a wide nasal opening, suggests one of those sentences was carried out.
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A Texas A&M team surveyed 308 full-time workers every week through the 2024 primaries and found that weeks heavy with political news the worker took as negative came with more anxiety and lower engagement, each worker measured against their own typical week.
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Advanced CO2-reduction catalysts are usually made 50 to 100 milligrams at a time, which is a large part of why they stay on the bench. A 75-gram single synthesis is several hundred times that, and the durability test has not been run.
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The project's blood metabolite patterns separated pet dogs that died sooner from those that died later, and the risky and protective molecules resemble the human ones. That makes dogs a plausible test bed for aging biology, with causation still unproven.
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The Nature paper puts PVC in a solvent with aluminum trichloride and alpha olefins for three hours and pulls out polyalphaolefin, a genuine result that still leaves the yield and the fate of the chlorine unstated.
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Engineers have published spacing and holding strategies for spacecraft waiting their turn at lunar Gateway, well ahead of the landers and cargo craft that will have to fly them.
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Forecasters see this El Nino peaking well above the 2015 event and pushing 2027 to roughly 1.76C above preindustrial. That is a decade of trend warming delivered in one year.
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A new WHO burden estimate covering 14 parasitic diseases finds nematodes alone caused 143 million foodborne cases, with two disease groups accounting for nearly the whole total.
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The reserve fell below 300 million barrels for the first time since the 1980s, and the argument is no longer about willingness to release oil. It is about salt.
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