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08/05/2026

Thousands of skeletal human remains have been discovered with their brain tissue unexpectedly intact. Now, a team of scientists may have finally figured out why.

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Antibiotic resistance gene acquisition by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Achromobacter from transiently infecting bacteria drives rapid and extreme resistance to the antibiotic tobramycin during chronic lung infection within patients.

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Poison appears to have caused mutation that helps insects home in on mates in noisy cities

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Americans are living longer than ever. Yale Law School's Samuel Moyn argues that's had an unexpected consequence: a massive transfer of political power and wealth to older Americans, at the expense of the young.

In his new book, "Gerontocracy in America," Moyn backs that argument with data and proposes some striking remedies: bit.ly/4bhMwtX

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A study in Communications Medicine explores whether psilocybin-assisted therapy could help U.S. military Veterans with severe, treatment-resistant PTSD and found participants showed major symptom improvements after two psilocybin sessions and therapy.

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Big news! ‼️ The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Boston University $20 million to help create a national network of cloud labs, artificial intelligence-infused research facilities that can remotely run science and engineering studies. The network will allow researchers from anywhere in the country to request complex experiments and tests that they don’t have the equipment or expertise to do themselves.

The network will be made up of 20 individual labs, or nodes, around the United States, each specializing in different areas of research, from materials science to chemistry. The BU-based lab will focus on biotechnology and engineering biological systems and will have the capacity to host studies exploring topics such as new vaccines, DNA sequencing, and genetic engineering.

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