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In a proof-of-concept study, machine learning reproduced 76 years of Parallel Ice Sheet Model output for Antarctica in about 1.5 hours instead of 58, though it missed one abrupt shift the simulator captured.
A network meta-analysis of 59 randomized trials and 3,743 patients found that Baduanjin, Tai Chi and related practices beat conventional care on movement, balance and mood, yet only one head-to-head comparison reached statistical significance and the evidence was rated moderate to low quality throughout.
The brief fix to a Frontiers study on spotting the fingerprints of six large language models in Japanese text alters the author block only: no data, methods, or conclusions were changed, and none are reported in the notice itself.
Ohio State pathologists retuned the software behind routine tumor RNA panels and found that a 230-gene panel sorted 32 hard-to-classify tumors about as well as sequencing the whole transcriptome, though the two disagreed on finer disease-state patterns.
Across 93 Malaysian primary schools in Indigenous settlement areas, 342 teachers rated their principals' practices, and only the belongingness dimension significantly predicted student outcomes, though the whole model explained just 18.8 percent of the variance.
Interviews with 10 Chicago-area birthing parents who chose termination or hospice birth after a severe fetal heart diagnosis found they valued blunt, neutral counseling, and wished it had covered family life and finances, not just surgical odds.
In fruit fly clock neurons, the neuropeptide sNPF that promotes nighttime sleep reaches its target only when released from the cell body late at night, not from the axon terminals, according to a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed.
A survey of 431 people at Jordanian mental health clinics, built around a new 20-item questionnaire, found perceived challenges scoring higher than perceived importance, though the tool still needs confirmatory testing.
A Swiss and Belgian team screened 3,723 papers on how feedback works in health professions education and found only one that explicitly described "feedforward," the practice of naming concrete next steps; all 14 included studies looked at medical students, so the findings may not carry to nursing or physiotherapy.
A new arXiv preprint proposes a protocol that hides which database entry a client wants from the server holding it, though the work is theoretical and awaits peer review.
Three mathematicians report that among the infinitely many ways this geometric flow can lose smoothness, a single self-similar shape survives small disturbances, a result proved with computer assistance, restricted to a symmetric class of perturbations, and not yet peer reviewed.
In a study of Orang Asli adults across Peninsular Malaysia, current lifestyle was linked to shifts in 1,428 immune genes versus 223 for childhood conditions, though this bioRxiv preprint has not yet been peer reviewed.
In a survey of 306 older Korean Americans in low-income Los Angeles senior housing, sleep quality accounted for roughly 24 percent of the association between incontinence and depressive symptoms, though the one-time snapshot cannot establish cause.
An international team describes eight new fungal genera and 28 new species from tombstones, dead leaves, quarantine-intercepted limes and a cornea in India, part of an annual effort to close a gap of roughly three million undescribed fungi.
A cross-sectional study of 436 people over 60 in Kumarapalayam, Tamil Nadu, found worse hearing among those living within 100 metres of powerlooms, though its snapshot design cannot prove the noise caused the damage.
A review of targeted PET imaging argues that tracers aimed at specific tumor molecules outperform the standard sugar-based scan, though most of the strongest evidence so far comes from animal work and small early-phase trials.
The notice from Frontiers in Microbiology contains no new data and no change to the study of dark septate endophytic fungi in sandy eastern Inner Mongolia; the only thing wrong was the name and number of the grant that paid for it.
In a cohort of 324 three- to five-year-olds, girls carrying the premutation were about three times as likely to have parent-reported sleep problems, though the finding rests entirely on parent questionnaires.
Ultrasound scans of 77 bycaught turtles found high gas loads within an hour of surfacing and much lower loads hours later, in a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed.
In 16 novices who each sat through up to 24 lab meditation sessions with EEG caps on, front and back alpha rhythms pushed subjective mindfulness in opposite directions, though the sample is small and the effects are correlational.