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Date Domain Title Original paper Source
Pure Math A 76-year-old mathematics conjecture may have a proof, built from geometric cycles that turn invisible cohomology classes into algebraic objects. Relative Secant Cycles and Hodge Classes Deep Bhattacharjee, Ushashi Bhattacharya DOI
10.20944/preprints202602.0462.v5
Particle & Nuclear Twenty-one abstract states claim to generate 27 particle-physics observables, including a fine-structure constant within 22 parts per million of the reference value. Complete particle physics from an exactly solvable 21-state vacuum: 27 Standard Model predictions with zero free parameters and quantum hardware validation Sharad H. Bachani DOI
10.21203/rs.3.rs-9335992/v1
Microbiology & Immunology Sixteen synthetic viruses grew from AI-written genomes, and several outcompeted the natural phage that supplied their evolutionary starting point. Generative design of bacteriophages with genome language models. Samuel H. King, Claudia L. Driscoll, David B. Li, Daniel Guo, Aditi T. Merchant, Garyk Brixi, Max E. Wilkinson, Brian L. Hie DOI
10.1126/science.aec2657
Cell Biology A human cell can swell roughly 250-fold while keeping enough internal structure for an ordinary microscope to resolve molecular architecture. Structural cell biology by mega-expansion microscopy Ignacio Vega-Vásquez, Omar Ignacio García-Martínez, Camila García-Navarrete, Gang Wen, Christian Werner, Patrick Eiring, Jorge A. Toledo, Sushovan Chanda, Clinton Gonsalves, Ali H. Shaib, Gislene Pereira, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Ricardo Benavente, Philip Kollmannsberger, Markus Sauer DOI
10.64898/2026.08.05.743040
Cell Biology Mitochondria count haem before cells make proteins, using an ancient stress relay that reaches from an inner-membrane protease to the ribosome. An ancient mitochondrial program tunes translation to haem availability. Xiang Zhang, Max-Hinderk Schuler, Gonca Çetin, Eva-Maria Eckl, Lara Rheinemann, Julia Mergner, Barbara Steigenberger, Andreas Pichlmair, Lucas T. Jae DOI
10.1038/s41586-026-10885-x
Cell Biology One water molecule appears for billionths of a second inside a light sensor, cutting a proton-transfer barrier by 20 kilocalories per mole. Covalent bond formation caught in a LOV photoreceptor Bence Olasz, Guillaume Gotthard, Probal Nag, María González-Viegas, Sandra Mous, Anna Koczurowska, Philip J. M. Johnson, Tokushi Sato, Madan Kumar Shankar, Maximilian Wranik, Aleksandra Solecka, Diogo Melo, Ran Ke, Daniel James, Karol Nass, Pit Langner, Joana Valerio, Antonia Furrer, Dardan Gashi, Raphael de Wijn, Tomas Popelar, Magdalena Pachota, Magdalena Wisniewska, Thomas Dietze, Juncheng E, Ayesha Asghar, Dmitrii Zabelskii, Fabian Trost, Faisal H. M. Koua, Peter Smyth, Egor Sobolev, Chan Kim, Dmitry Ozerov, Romain Letrun, Oleksii Turkot, Katerina Doerner, Johan Bielecki, Huijong Han, Florian Dworkowski, Claudio Cirelli, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, Joachim Schulz, Camila Bacellar, Joerg Standfuss, Richard Bean, Chris Milne, Joachim Heberle, Igor Schapiro, Przemyslaw Nogly DOI
10.64898/2026.08.02.742302
ML Methods A mass spectrometer loses names for most molecules it sees, so AIMe built a searchable atlas from 105.3 million possible structures. Charting the small-molecule universe from mass spectra with neuro-symbolic AI Utku U. Acikalin, Dieqiao Feng, Aaron M. Ferber, Goncalo J. Gouveia, Tyler J. Schwertfeger, Di Chen, Delia Qu, Marissa A. Fontaine, Yingheng Wang, Richard A. Bernstein, Haofan Wang, Tae-Hyung Won, Christopher N. Parkhurst, Bart Selman, David Artis, Frank C. Schroeder, Carla P. Gomes DOI
10.64898/2026.08.05.743095
Metascience Eleven million US patents are drifting farther apart in idea space, and the collisions that once marked crowded invention have almost disappeared. Spreading Out Across Expanding Idea Space Ina Ganguli, Jeffrey Lin, Vitaly Meursault, Nicholas Reynolds DOI
10.3386/w35499
Neuroscience A half-millimeter probe listens to more than ten brain chemicals at once by turning living sensor cells into a microscopic optical array. Simultaneous, real-time tracking of many neuromodulatory signals with multiplexed optical recording of sensors on a micro-endoscope Peter N. Kalugin, Paul A. Soden, Crystian I. Massengill, Oren Amsalem, Marta Porniece, Diana C. Guarino, David Tingley, Stephen X. Zhang, Jordan C. Benson, Madalon F. Hammell, David M. Tong, Charlotte D. Ausfahl, Tiara E. Lacey, Ya’el Courtney, Alexandra Hochstetler, Andrew Lutas, Huan Wang, Lan Geng, Guochuan Li, Bohan Li, Yulong Li, Maria K. Lehtinen, Mark L. Andermann DOI
10.1101/2025.01.26.634931
Pure Math Every complex matrix has a numerical range that controls its holomorphic functions within the optimal factor of two. The proof settles Crouzeix's conjecture through a positive-real completion theorem and approximation arguments. The Numerical Range Is a 2-Spectral Set DOI
10.20944/preprints202607.1919.v3
Pharmacology Glutathione turns one drug into molecular glue. The activated M12 compound redirects the DCAF11 ligase toward DDX18, revealing a metabolically triggered route for destroying selected proteins. DCAF11-dependent molecular glue degrader activated by glutathionylation PubMed
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Astrophysics & Cosmology A magnetar's soft X-rays reached 65 percent phase-averaged polarization at 2 keV and nearly 80 percent at some rotational phases. The authors report that vacuum-birefringence-governed propagation can explain the pattern, advancing an observational test of a long-unconfirmed QED prediction. Vacuum Birefringence and the Polarized X-Ray Emission From a Radio Magnetar PubMed
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Condensed Matter & Quantum Ultracold atoms crossed into a pseudogapped metal as the simulator cooled, with compressibility and lattice-modulation spectra tracing the boundary across interaction strength and doping. The experiment gives the Hubbard model a measurable pseudogap phase diagram and suggests a connection to cuprates. Pseudogap in a Fermi-Hubbard Quantum Simulator Lev Haldar Kendrick, Anant Kale, Youqi Gang, Alexander Dennisovich Deters, Martin Lebrat, Aaron W Young, Markus Greiner PubMed
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Pharmacology Engineered vesicles edited a primate brain. A redesigned guide-RNA scaffold and scalable manufacturing raised potency 300-fold, then delivered CRISPR editing against MSH3, a driver of Huntington's disease progression. Efficient genome editing in the non-human primate brain using programmable extracellular vesicles DOI
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Cell Biology Water trapped inside a solid nanopore stayed liquid while the surrounding electrolyte froze. That nanoconfined pocket slowed molecular passage by up to roughly 400-fold, opening deeply subzero timescales to real-time single-molecule measurement. A nanoconfined liquid-in-ice aqueous regime for time-stretched single-molecule dynamics DOI
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Pharmacology Sixty billion lab-grown platelets entered one patient. The single-subject trial reported no adverse events, a temporary platelet-count increase, and evidence that allogeneic iPSC-derived platelets circulated in the bloodstream. First evidence of the circulation of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived platelets in humans PubMed
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Cell Biology An unloaded adult heart restarted cardiomyocyte proliferation around injured tissue. A nonpumping transplant model linked that response to epicardial NRG1, cardiomyocyte ERBB4 and STAT3, and H6pd-driven nucleotide supply. Mechanical unloading promotes adult cardiomyocyte proliferation through epicardial NRG1-ERBB4 signaling PubMed
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Neuroscience A small population of cholinergic neurons controlled morphine-reward learning while dopamine still rose normally. Cell-specific naloxone blocked conditioned place preference yet preserved acute analgesia, hyperlocomotion, and sensitization in the reported experiments. A cholinergic hub in the nucleus accumbens gates opioid-reward learning PubMed
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Organic & Physical Nine carbon atoms formed a Möbius loop. On a chlorine site, imaging and calculations found a nonplanar ring whose orbitals twist through 180 degrees, while a sodium site held the same ring flat with Hückel orbitals. A cyclo[9]carbon with Möbius orbitals DOI
10.26434/chemrxiv.15003313/v2
Pharmacology Fifteen lipid nanoparticles entered a stem-cell contest. The winning CD34-targeted carrier edited human blood-forming cells inside humanized mice, reactivated fetal haemoglobin, and partly restored neutrophil development in an ELANE model. Engineered lipid nanoparticles for in vivo and durable editing of haematopoietic stem cells within humanized mice PubMed
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History of Science Two ounces of purified cobalt crossed from Saxony through the Vatican to the Qing court. Reconstructing the wet-chemical process suggests early artisans could separate similar metals by selective precipitation, changing both porcelain-authenticity debates and the history of chemistry. The Gift of the Pope: Two Ounces of Purified Cobalt Reframe Chemical Revolution and Early Modern Global Entanglements Xiaochenyang Jiang, Xuekun Xu, Nian Liu, Yan Ge, Jianfeng Cui, Jianjun Mei SSRN
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Cell Biology Tiny calcified spheres appear in cardiovascular tissue before obvious disease. The study traces them to platelet delta granules across mammals, birds, and lizards, proposing an early step in cardiovascular calcification. Biomineralization from platelet δ-granules as the origin of cardiovascular calcification in humans and other animals DOI
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Law Presidential accountability depends on the institutions that produce facts about executive misconduct. The article argues that Trump v. United States and Trump v. Slaughter jointly weaken investigation by insulating presidents from consequences and increasing control over investigators. The Uninvestigable President: Executive Accountability After Trump v. United States and Trump v. Slaughter Emily Berman SSRN
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Catalysis Photosystem II may forge oxygen's bond early. X-ray spectroscopy detected manganese changes around 50 microseconds into oxygen release, pointing to O-O bond formation before the final electron-transfer step. Challenges of observing O-O bond formation in the Mn4Ca cluster of photosystem II Scott Jensen, Brendan T. Sullivan, Daniel A. Hartzler, Irina Kosheleva, Robert W. Henning, Allison Page, Yulia Pushkar PubMed
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Genetics A tobacco carcinogen increased APOBEC3B signature mutations one hundredfold. The effect required APOBEC3B and functional nucleotide excision repair, left paired mutations within 32 nucleotides, and appeared more often in tumors from smokers. Tobacco smoke-induced DNA adducts sensitize genomes to APOBEC mutagenesis and carcinogenesis through nucleotide excision repair Cameron Durfee, Bojana Stefanovska, Rongjie Wu, José Córdoba-Caballero, Mahmoud A. Ibrahim, Michael A. Carpenter, Liping Liu, Shuvro P. Nandi, Prokopios P. Argyris, Luca Boscolo-Bielo, Eric C. L. Li, Nuri Alpay Temiz, Yufan Zhou, Erik N. Bergstrom, Christopher D. Mullally, Yaxi Wang, Xingyu Liu, Emilia Barreto Duran, Benjamin Troness, Joshua Proehl, Harshita B. Gupta, Allen J. York, Rachel I. Vogel, Jacob M. Wells, Christopher D. Steele, Isabella Stuewe, Daniel Muldoon, Jun Woo, Mark T. A. Donoghue, Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz, Aziz Sancar, Chaitanya Bandlamudi, Sarat Chandarlapaty, Wei Yang, Anna Malkova, Marcos Díaz-Gay, Ludmil B. Alexandrov, Reuben S. Harris DOI
10.1101
Veterinary & One Health One amino acid in H7N9 hemagglutinin made the protein acid-labile and helped the virus infect and replicate in human airway epithelial cells. In mice, HA2-116D also acted as a virulence factor, pointing to acid stability as a route by which H7 viruses can gain zoonotic traits. The Host Tropism of Current Zoonotic H7N9 Viruses Depends Mainly on an Acid-Labile Hemagglutinin With a Single Amino Acid Mutation in the Stalk Region Tomo Daidoji, Hiroki Sadakane, Kotaro Garan, Norihito Kawashita, Yasuha Arai, Yohei Watanabe, Takaaki Nakaya DOI
10.1371/journal.ppat.1012427
Condensed Matter & Quantum Quantum hardware drifts during the days or months a fault-tolerant computation may run. This theory shows how ordinary syndrome measurements can protect logical information and recalibrate control parameters online, with convergence to an epsilon detection rate in O(1/epsilon^2) epochs for static drift. Provably Efficient Self-Calibrating Quantum Fault Tolerance Weiyuan Gong, Hong-Ye Hu arXiv
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Biomedical Engineering Hydrogel particles stretched into aligned microscopic fibers. SHIFT printing formed 5 to 30 micrometre fibers inside flowing gel, supported exceptionally long muscle cells in culture, and accelerated repair after volumetric muscle loss. In situ particle-to-fibre transformation of hydrogels for 3D printing Dezhi Zhou, Bohan Dou, Shiyuan Fan, Hon Son Ooi, Kai Han, Yilong He, Xuening Zhang, Chuqian Wang, Yuzhi Guo, Liping Chen, Heng Liu, Jie Na, Qiang He, Haitao Wu, Qi Gu, Liliang Ouyang PubMed
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Linguistics One Mandarin classifier activated brain regions used for scenes and navigation before any scene-denoting noun appeared. The result suggests grammar can reuse neural systems, then culture expands the meanings built on that scaffold. Linguistic Diversity as a Two-Step Process: Grounding Polysemy in Universal Neural Networks and Expanding It by Cultural Learning Marit Lobben, Laura Bakke, Tor Endestad Source
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Cell Biology A shrinking worm embryo scales its spindle while chromosome movement holds steady. Imaging, laser ablation, electron tomography, and modeling tie spindle length to cortical forces and cell size while central spindle microtubules preserve segregation dynamics. Cell size reduction drives spindle scaling but not chromosome segregation in C. elegans Research Square
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7923379/v1
Cognitive Science & Psychology Engagement algorithms push rare and extreme content into view, while generative AI compresses answers toward whatever looks typical. The paper argues that both systems can distort what people see as common or prestigious, feeding illusory consensus and pluralistic ignorance. Artificial Intelligence Systems Distort Upstream Selection in Human Social Learning Source
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Law Baseball's automated challenge system was meant to enforce a fixed strike zone, yet umpires widened that zone as games progressed. The paper links the shift to catchers becoming better challengers than batters, creating pressure to call more strikes and avoid being overturned. Avoiding Being Caught: Strike Calling in the ABS Era Constantine Michopoulos, Peter Newberry, Seth Smith, Hannah B. Waldfogel, Sarah B. Waldfogel SSRN
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Public Policy Advanced AI models could become harder for governments to restrain as hardware spreads, algorithms improve, and dangerous models are released. The paper argues that governments can preserve future options now through policies that carry relatively small present-day costs. The Closing Window: How Governments Could Lose Their Ability to Restrain Advanced AI Peter Barnett arXiv
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Cognitive Science & Psychology Two crisis experiments put conspiracy believers into multi-turn LLM conversations after the July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump and the September 2025 assassination of Charlie Kirk. Belief fell against control conditions in both experiments, with some reduction carrying into different conspiracies one to two months later. Reducing Belief in Conspiracy Theories as They Unfold Using Large Language Models arXiv
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Cognitive Science & Psychology Seven studies with 7,227 participants found that sycophantic chatbots strengthened attitudes, inflated self-perceptions, and drew higher enjoyment ratings. People also rated agreeable bots as more unbiased even when third-party raters found equal bias. The Impact of Sycophantic AI on Attitudes and Decisions Source
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Law Restraint chairs immobilize a person's limbs and chest, and jails now use them tens of thousands of times each year according to this legal article. It argues that the technology spread through a legal void that lets hidden state violence persist along older channels of dehumanization. The Restraint Chair Nathan E. Rouse SSRN
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Computer Vision A printed sign can hijack a robot. Across 5,670 trials, physical prompt-injection attacks fooled three vision-language planners 5.0 to 29.4 percent of the time, while simple defenses cut the risk sharply. Hijacking Robots with a Piece of Paper: A Systematic Study of Physical Prompt Injection in VLM-Controlled Robots S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, W. K. R. Sachinthana, Mohan Rajesh Elara arXiv
2608.05715
Evolution & Organismal Biology The Neanderthal growth hormone receptor drove faster cell proliferation under pituitary growth hormone. Some people still carry the receptor variant and tend toward greater muscle mass and several Neanderthal-like craniofacial traits. Increased signaling of the Neanderthal growth hormone receptor PubMed
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Plants & Agriculture Saxifraga candelabrum catches insects on glandular hairs, digests them, and moves their nitrogen into its tissues. Field tests, enzyme assays, isotope labeling, and genomic comparisons confirm a carnivorous flowering plant Darwin suspected might exist. Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence PubMed
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Accounting Mega-grants can hand insiders over one percent. Across 1.24 million stock awards, the largest grants trailed matched peers by roughly 15 to 30 percent over four years, while market-cap targets left a merger route to enormous payouts. Merging to the Moon: Astronomical Option Awards and Corporate Governance Failures SSRN
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Philosophy & Ethics One hundred fifty-one nuclear scenarios exposed sharp differences among seven frontier AI systems. Model recommendations changed across escalation, arms control, proliferation, countries, and phrasing, with 91.7 percent of pairwise inter-model differences reaching significance. The Nuclear Decision-Making Benchmark: Evaluating Frontier LLMs on Nuclear Tendencies Benjamin Jensen, Ian Reynolds, Yasir Atalan, Martin Pollack, Austin Woo, Robert Sincero arXiv
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Computer Vision A de-identified medical scan may still identify you. MirrorNet recovered a recognizable patient likeness from held-out image pixels, suggesting the scan itself can function like biometric data. MirrorNet: Can Medical Image Anonymization Really Protect Patient Identity? Attila Simkó arXiv
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Energy Five hyperscale companies spent about $381 billion on capital projects in 2025. The assessment finds quantum, orbital, photonic, and neuromorphic alternatives too limited to replace conventional AI hardware soon, while electricity connections taking five years or more become the nearer constraint. Compute Without Concrete: A Critical Assessment of Alternative Pathways to Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Scaling SSRN
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Psychiatry Thirty-nine of 189 chatbot responses met predefined critical-error criteria in simulated conversations involving emerging paranoid delusions. Problem severity rose as the symptoms escalated, and none of the three systems was recommended for this clinical scenario. Conversational AI and Emerging Psychosis: A Simulation Study of Potentially Iatrogenic Response Patterns Inés Abalo-Rodríguez, Rebeca Pardo-Cebrián, Román D. Moreno-Fernández, Ben Alderson-Day Source
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Global Health Eighty-one percent of 158 survey respondents across 38 low- and middle-income countries reported at least one HIV-service disruption after U.S. foreign-assistance changes. Respondents in PEPFAR-supported countries reported more disruptions and more cases that remained unresolved. Service Disruptions and Stockouts: Ongoing Impacts of U.S. Funding Freezes on HIV Care Across Clinics in 38 Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Late 2025 Ellen Brazier, Maabo Kludze, Fernanda Maruri, Annabelle Niyongabo, Philip Kreniske, Stephany N. Duda, Denis Nash DOI
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Biomedical Engineering A skin-mounted film turned pulse into color. In 13 people, an ordinary smartphone read the circuit-free signal with a per-beat waveform correlation of 0.94 against a clinical reference. Circuit-Free Cardiovascular Monitoring via Smartphone-Readable Skin-Interfaced Nanophotonic Films Torjus L. Steffensen, Vegar Stubberud, Emilie S. Hennisen, Eryk T. Winogrocki, Julia Lövgren, Arthur G. S. Torvund, Håvard Vestad, Nils K. Skjærvold, Martin Steinert, Angelos Xomalis PubMed
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Genetics Exome data from more than one million people linked rare FNIP1-disrupting variants to healthier metabolism and roughly 60 percent lower odds of cardiometabolic disease. Human liver cells and high-fat-fed mice also pointed to the FNIP1 pathway as a regulator of lipid breakdown, liver fat, and insulin sensitivity. FNIP1 variants are associated with favourable metabolism in 1 million humans George Hindy, Rene C. Adam, Olukayode Sosina, Dwaine Pryce, David Blair, Joseph Herman, Joseph Lee, Peter Dornbos, Ernst Mayerhofer, Arthur Gilly, Charleen Hunt, Benjamin Geraghty, Karl Landheer, Liron Ganel, Antoine Baldassari, Chuanyi Zhang, Ivory Mintah, Daphne Sun, Angel Coppola, Kyle Brown, Tram Nguyen, Xin Xia, Regeneron Genetics Center, GHS-RGC DiscovEHR Collaboration, Penn Medicine Biobank, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, Mayo Clinic-RGC Project Generation, Mexico City Prospective Study, Malmö Diet and Cancer Study, Indiana University School of Medicine (Indiana-CLDB), UCLA-RGC ATLAS Collaboration, Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program, UTSW-Dallas Biobank, South Asia Biobank Study, Daniel J. Rader, Olle Melander, Christopher D. Still, Jaime Berumen, Pablo Kuri-Morales, Jesus Alegre-Díaz, Jason M. Torres, Jonathan R. Emberson, Rory Collins, Roberto Tapia-Conyer, Suganthi Balasubramanian, Marcus B. Jones, Michelle G. LeBlanc, Andrew J. Murphy, Christos A. Kyratsous, John D. Overton, Jeffrey G. Reid, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Jonathan Marchini, Cristen Willer, George D. Yancopoulos, Mark W Sleeman, Jonas Bovijn, Adam Locke, Aris Baras, Niek Verweij, Viktoria Gusarova, Luca A. Lotta PubMed
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Trials Dormant viruses reawakened during severe COVID-19. In 1,154 hospitalized patients, herpesviruses and anelloviruses tracked with inflammation, disease severity, clinical outcomes, and persistent reactivation during recovery without establishing causation. Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 PubMed
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Economics A platform can make outsiders worse off as more people join. The model shows how rational users can enter even when everyone would be better off without the platform, driven by dynamic pricing, negative externalities, or equilibrium selection. Platform Traps SSRN
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Organic & Physical X-rays built trihydrogen on wet silica. Intense 1.88 keV pulses drove surface charge transfer and water fragmentation, linking interstellar H3+ chemistry with electric-field-driven surface reactions. X-ray Driven Trihydrogen Formation on Silica Nanosurfaces arXiv
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Mechanical & Aerospace Ultrasound can make a laser weld up to ten times more productive. The modified molten surface raised effective laser absorption by as much as 67 percent while refining grains in aluminum and titanium alloys. Enhanced Laser Welding Efficiency and Microstructure via Ultrasonic Stimulation Harry E. Chapman, Xianqiang Fan, Ivars Krastins, Sebastian Marussi, Xinyi Hao, Yuhan Wang, Martyn A. Jones, Alexander Rack, Catherine Tonry, Chu Lun Alex Leung, Andrew Kao, Peter D. Lee SSRN
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Economics An AI agent that values survival keeps more capital for itself and pays less to its human principal. In this economic model, payout histories cannot separate aligned agents from greedier types, and competition eventually leaves only the most self-preserving type active. Instrumental Self-Preservation and the Selection of Greedy Types SSRN
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Linguistics Sixteen language models up to 70B parameters changed their refusal behavior when harmful requests shifted into non-imperative forms. Causal analysis linked the failure to syntactic features, and the authors report that more diverse post-training syntax reduced it. Mood Matters: How Syntactic Sensitivity Undermines Safety Alignment Alina Klerings, Jannik Brinkmann, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Simone Paolo Ponzetto arXiv
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Cognitive Science & Psychology Fourteen million implicit-bias tests across 14 years showed slower change in larger U.S. cities, backed by experimental data from 1,150 people. The model also predicts that one-off interventions lose effectiveness as city size grows. Implicit Biases Change More Slowly in Larger Cities PubMed
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Economics Six measures of family status follow Norwegian children into adulthood. Across population-wide records, inherited social position predicted income and elite access as strongly as parental income and cognitive ability, with adoption and lottery evidence pointing mainly to environment. Dynastic Capital and the Inheritance of Social Advantage SSRN
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Metascience Fifty million scientific papers show AI pulling fields closer together while concentrating credit at elite institutions. AI research crossed disciplinary boundaries broadly, yet used smaller teams, spanned less of the prestige hierarchy, and delivered larger citation premiums to top institutions. Artificial Intelligence Contributes to Scientific Convergence While Concentrating Production and Recognition Bowen Lou, Yang Yang, Nicholas Berente SSRN
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Natural Language Processing One professional's screen history shrank 86-fold in 68 milliseconds. A deterministic compiler turned 128,756 activity frames into auditable agent memory that supported 98.4 percent question-answering accuracy and zero-token replay on a matched routine. Activity Frames: Deterministic Screen-Activity Compilation for Agent Memory and Replay Nossa Iyamu arXiv
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Pharmacology One-day CAR T cells stayed stem-like longer. IL-18-armed cells avoided the usual activation step, resisted exhaustion, and maintained antitumor activity across mouse models of lymphoma, leukemia, and pancreatic cancer. Single-day non-activated IL-18-armed CAR T-cells establish a durable, stem-like state with enhanced persistence DOI
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Marketing Twenty-seven thousand AI shopping answers omitted features. ChatGPT and Google AI Mode favored a best-for format that highlighted each brand's strongest attribute, creating room for inferior choices when shoppers skipped follow-up questions. The Help Me Search Era: Do We Choose "Better" with AI? Raluca Ursu, Anita Rao, Jake Embrey SSRN
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Law Consolidated firms give governments fewer, more powerful pressure points for censoring speech through private intermediaries. Across four case studies, the article argues that consolidation and diversification make jawboning cheaper, more effective, and harder for plaintiffs to challenge. Corporate Consolidation and Diversification Are a Free Speech Problem Daniel Browning SSRN
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Hydrology Green drylands concealed disappearing surface water. Across 8,507 basins, cropland expansion paired higher vegetation productivity with water loss in 43.33 percent of cases, while spillover damage reached 16 times the local footprint under basin contiguity. Divergent ecohydrological impacts of agricultural and urban expansions across global drylands DOI
10.1016/j.jag.2026.105505