axis

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What makes this especially frustrating from a neuroscience perspective is that the gut-brain axis is one of the most pharmacologically sensitive systems in the body.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026

A key issue centered on the neutral axis, the line of gray tones that runs from black to white.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

It is the latest sign of the growing cooperation between Rome and Berlin, which is putting a question mark on the traditional France-Germany axis.

From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026

From then, family gatherings dwindled, public appearances were mostly separate, and the Pawar name, once seen as a single axis of power, fractured into two rival camps.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

Its rise is infinite: any number on the y axis starting at zero and going on forever.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell