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A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms — here’s what scientists know

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  A photonic time crystal is an optical system of which properties such as its refractive index are modulated strongly and rapidly over time. One has now been obtained all-optically by delivering an intense terahertz light wave onto a material with a specialized microstructure that hosts collective waves of electrons known as plasmons.
  
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A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms — here’s what scientists know

Trump wants MMR vaccine split up: the science behind why it’s a bad idea

A particle made of force: physicists say they’ve found mysterious ‘glueball’

Temporal uncoupling of radial glia lineage progression in cortical organoids

Daily briefing: AI agents sniff out decades-old errors in scientific literature

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A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms — here’s what scientists know

A particle made of force: physicists say they’ve found mysterious ‘glueball’

Ocean temperatures set to break all-time record: what’s next?

When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding

A ‘super’ El Niño could transform the Amazon. Is the world’s biggest rainforest doomed?

Why scientists should lead the shift away from AI mega data centres

The forgotten 20 million: why is the world neglecting Afghanistan’s girls and women?

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How the human brain can pursue two goals at the same time

Human brain stimulation engages different gene programs in different cell types

Ultrafast temporal engineering of optical properties using terahertz light

Intraspecific variation in tropical trees can drive resistance to drought

‘Little red dot’ gets its colour from gas — not dust

Bow shocks reveal how a dying star returns matter to interstellar space

No single rule explains how climate affects carbon storage in tropical forests

Agentic profiles for effective AI governance

Shared principles of human and bacterial antiviral immunity

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Lead carboxylates passivation for meter-scale perovskite solar modules

Glucose-responsive probiotics for glycaemic modulation in mice and monkeys

Temporal uncoupling of radial glia lineage progression in cortical organoids

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