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A newly reported mathematical result narrows the range of viable ways to extend particle physics, offering guidance for future experiments without yet constituting evidence for new particles or forces.
A UK natural-experiment study links lower sugar exposure from pregnancy through early childhood with a lower recorded risk of dementia decades later, but it cannot establish that sugar restriction alone caused the difference.
A long-running US trial follow-up has linked assignment to metformin with substantially lower odds of dementia, but the preliminary result is too uncertain to establish the diabetes drug as a dementia-prevention treatment.
A small Stanford-led study suggests that mapping each patient’s pain-related brain networks before stimulation may make an invasive treatment more precise, but the evidence remains preliminary.
Micron’s planned $10 billion Research Labs network in Boise signals a long-term bet that memory architecture, packaging and manufacturing science will be central to the next phase of AI computing.
A first-in-human trial suggests that a freeze-dried tetanus-diphtheria booster can remain stable at room temperature, but larger studies and regulatory review are still required before it can change vaccination programmes.
A small preprint links recent COVID-19 vaccination before glioblastoma surgery to longer survival, but it cannot yet show that vaccination caused the difference.
A placebo-controlled trial suggests that bedtime dronabinol can reduce PTSD-related nightmares, but it does not yet establish THC as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder as a whole.
A high-resolution study in mice suggests that a fear memory is built from distinct hippocampal cell groups recruited at different moments of learning, refining rather than overturning prevailing memory theory.
Lam Research’s plan to invest more than $3 billion in its global laboratory network signals a push to place development capacity closer to the customers and technologies shaping the next semiconductor cycle.
A RHIC experiment has linked spin correlations in short-lived hyperons to correlated strange-quark pairs in the quantum vacuum, opening a new experimental route into how the strong force makes most visible mass possible.
A new analysis links estrogen-only menopausal hormone therapy with fewer clinical and pathological signs of Alzheimer’s disease, but its retrospective design means it cannot establish prevention or guide treatment on its own.