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Changing astrocyte activity also affected how neurons behaved.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Cyclone Ditwah, the worst disaster since the 2004 Asian tsunami, killed 641 people and affected almost the entire country late last year.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

PowerWash Simulator has even been the subject of an Oxford University study, which looked at whether video games affected players' wellbeing.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

What’s also true is that 21st century markets can be affected by speculators’ attention, much as wheat crops can be affected by the attention of locust swarms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“There was a spill thirty years ago. The contamination must have affected Pond’s water.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young