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A star’s destruction exposes a supermassive black hole far from its galaxy’s core
A tidal-disruption flare detected in a galaxy’s outskirts has revealed a roughly million-solar-mass black hole that may be a relic of past galactic mergers.
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Malaria Parasites Turn DNA-Replication Scarcity Into Faster Growth
A new study finds that Plasmodium falciparum nuclei multiply out of step because they compete for shared DNA-replication resources, a strategy that may make parasite growth more efficient.
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Sustained stretching reorganises keratin and releases cell nuclei
A new study finds that prolonged stretching can drive epithelial cells to reorganise keratin into tissue-spanning bundles, ultimately displacing nuclei from their surrounding filament networks.
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Kittiwake experiment exposes a trade-off between survival and future breeding
A field experiment in Alaska shows that black-legged kittiwakes facing higher breeding costs shifted their migration in ways linked to better breeding the following year, but lower apparent survival.
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Shorter eating windows show tentative cognitive benefit in older women
A small six-month trial suggests that time-restricted eating alongside calorie reduction may modestly improve planning and problem-solving in older women, but the conference finding needs confirmation in larger peer-reviewed studies.