particles
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The study, published in Aging Cell, focused on gut luminal exosomes, microscopic particles that cells use to communicate by carrying proteins and genetic material throughout the body.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
First, hantavirus is a family of viruses that typically spreads to humans from rodent droppings or urine such as when someone inhales particles near infected rodents.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Xanadu is betting on photonic quantum computing, which uses light particles to carry and process information.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
High-energy particles from the Sun and deep space can also trigger computer errors that force spacecraft into "safe mode," temporarily shutting down nonessential systems until engineers resolve the issue.
From Science Daily • May 15, 2026
It would often, he acknowledged, be impossible to choose between competing explanations because one could not see what was actually happening within the invisible world of particles out of which our visible world was constructed.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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