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Although abnormal tau phosphorylation is a well known feature of Alzheimer's disease, the study shows that controlled, low level phosphorylation is a normal and essential part of healthy brain function.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

Electrolytes are electrically charged minerals like sodium, potassium and magnesium that are important for muscle function and hydration balance, and they’re found in many different kinds of food.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026

The AI labels would function similarly to the explicit-content warnings on streaming tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The main function of air conditioning is to cool the temperature inside a building.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

It is the clergyman’s function to help—at least with advice—those who wished to help themselves.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Max has been compared to China's WeChat, combining social media and messaging functions with access to government services, a digital ID card system, banking and payments.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Its closest resemblance is to Wain’s 2014 romantic comedy parody, “They Came Together,” which, despite having no shortage of memorable one-liners, functions best as a whole.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

They also showed that pregnancy affects how the brain functions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

“The state’s capacity to respond is very limited. There are a lot of volunteers essentially assuming the functions of the state.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

For a bread mold to grow successfully in minimal media, then, it needed all its metabolic, molecule-building functions to be intact.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In another lawsuit, he claimed an arcade rigged its claw machines against players, alleging it functioned as “a casino for children.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

They were also building out an empire, and that empire functioned by top-down tyrannical rule.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2026

The conflict has functioned as an accelerated stress test, compressing years of operational learning into months and validating or refuting assumptions about real-world system performance.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

What they saw functioned as a needed corrective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Their generosity over the years could fill up this entire book, but their lives functioned differently from those of my parents.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

The goal was to require video game publishers to keep games playable or at least in a reasonably functioning state even after the company had moved on.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

What remains that haven’t been scavenged have decomposed to the point where DNA analysis is difficult and all but useless in Gaza, where there are no functioning laboratories able to test and compare samples.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

It influences everything from the enzymes that keep your cells functioning to the reactions that occur inside batteries.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

Crimeans say basic services like kindergartens, trash collection and ATMs have stopped functioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Exposure to these artistic forms develops the inner core of a child, introduces new dimensions of possibilities, and shows the brain a new way of functioning and understanding.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin