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A receptor-like mechanosensitive protein governs preprophase band positioning for asymmetric cell divisions and SC morphogenesis
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A chemical theory for molecules at electrochemical interfaces
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Predicting how strongly a drug binds its target, a fast physics-based method
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Brain’s energy hotspots drive cognition and may explain susceptibility to dementia
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How China's steel industry can reach zero emissions.
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High-severity fire now dominant in California forests
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People prefer to negotiate with women, even when outcomes are identical and gender is unknown
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Discovery of a new way that plants control wood formation
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Humanized neural cells propagate variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease prions linked to BSE
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A tiny cue changes a planarian’s day
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Why land prices matter for China's solar power future
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Ancient Mediterranean oaks reveal the hidden legacy of the Black Death
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TFPI2 makes glioblastoma more vulnerable to NK cells
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Predicting mosquito populations using climate and urban landscape information
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A Surprising Connection between Pascal's Matrix and Point Counting on Elliptic Curves
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Global pollination deficits in crops have decreased over time
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Epigenetic duo melts tumors’ fibrotic armor, restoring therapy and immune attack.
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Pharmacological target of cannabidiol
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A Path to Smaller Cells: Lessons from Evolution in the Laboratory
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Shared spatial and temporal principles govern connectome dynamics across timescales
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The dynamic mesoscale sink and source niches for eukaryotic phytoplankton in a subtropical gyre
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Invisible in the Water, Devastating in the Lungs
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Conceptual priorities shape individual gaze patterns during naturalistic visual attention
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People can't tell the difference between humans and LLMs in a Turing test
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Taking the urban pulse: diagnosing cities like human patients reveals hidden rhythms.
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Dysfunction of inter-organelle communication in the pathogenesis of tauopathy
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A large-scale framework for estimating soil carbon, nitrogen, pH, and salinity dynamics for 1985–2023
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Mating makes cholesterol matter for male fruit fly lifespan
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How Yeast Cells Cope with a Toxic Chemical from Plastic Waste
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A Key RNA Processing Protein Controls Plant Biological Clocks and Immunity
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Detecting changes in seasonal flu transmission over time
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Fashion looks more diverse than 25 years ago, but the 'ideal' body has not changed.
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Grandmothers pay the price: How becoming a grandparent influences health and employment
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Damselflies boost color saturation by using pigments and changing how light moves through materials
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When does a watched quantum system return? A topological clock
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Female dolphins use social knowledge to navigate their relationships with males