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Dam Removals Are Bringing Fish Back Across the Northeastern United StatesStriking down one tiny barrier at a time
Ben Goldfarb for Smithsonian Magazine on how removing small, obsolete dams across the Northeast is letting herring and other fish return—even when the West’s big dam demolitions get the headlines.
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MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
What began as an MIT class project became an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors: the path from student prototype to regulated medical device, and what the team learned along the way.
6 min · 1,273 words
Can New Technologies Finally Replace Animal Testing?
Brandon Keim reports for IEEE Spectrum on new approach methodologies such as organ-on-a-chip devices, stem-cell-derived tissues, organoids and AI models that aim to replace animal testing in drug development, how researchers are proving they work, and the regulatory and cultural shifts needed for wider adoption.
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How Delhi Cut Electricity Loss from 50 to 5 PercentHere’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix
IEEE Spectrum's Mini Shaji Thomas recounts how Delhi slashed electricity losses from about 50% to 5%—the privatization, metering, and grid-operations reforms that turned candlelit kitchens into reliable power.
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Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
IEEE Spectrum covers a smart contact lens that aims to measure serotonin as a stress biomarker, part of a broader push toward continuous body-chemistry sensing.
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Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
Elise Cutts for Quanta Magazine explores how biological systems may not rely on quantum physics, yet often obey quantumlike mathematics—interference, contextuality, and what that means for modeling life.
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How Zambia Approved an HIV Drug in 12 Days
How Zambia’s medicines regulator authorized an HIV drug in 12 days—and what that says about the access gap when medicines sit where the disease is not.
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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy as you age
Linguist Karen Stollznow surveys evidence that bilingualism and later-life language learning support cognitive reserve, even though adult acquisition looks different from childhood learning.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
Jason Bittel reports on a small spotted tiger cat from Bolivia—identified through sanctuary work and genetics—that may signal a broader wave of newly recognized small-cat species.
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How strong is the strong interaction?
In CERN Courier, Harvey Meyer recounts the decades of lattice QCD work behind the recent determination of the strong coupling constant to five parts per mille using only low-energy hadron inputs, and explains why the result is a clean test of the Standard Model against collider measurements.
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Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.Comb jellies illuminate early nervous systems and bioluminescence
Marlowe Starling reports how comb jellies (ctenophores) help biologists probe the earliest animal nervous systems, membrane chemistry, and bioluminescence—organisms as distant from us as we are from jellyfish.
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Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope's Little Red Dots
Charlie Wood explains the debate over James Webb's mysterious little red dots: whether they are standard supermassive black holes or black hole stars—colossal hydrogen shells powered by hidden black holes—and what that would mean for how the first big black holes formed.
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