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Cancer research has traditionally concentrated on chemical signals and the stiffness of the tissues surrounding tumors.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Human language, their research suggests, may be more closely connected to our fundamental need for safety than scientists have traditionally recognized.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The ten-member research team was led by Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, professors in UVM's College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
This potential connection could help researchers explore relationships between brain activity and symbolic communication, although further research would be needed to establish them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
After my six-month probation, I got a promotion, a raise, and an offer to permanently join the Flight Research Division’s Maneuver Loads Branch, whose research included keeping aircraft safe when they were in flight.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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During the crisis, funds’ collective assets relative to their promises to pensioners cratered from 93% to 63%, according to the Equable Institute, a nonprofit that researches pensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"More than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed to projects funded by MSS via CGTRI," adding that in some cases the researches would not be aware of the front company's role in their project.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The company researches so-called world models, which work differently than the popular AI systems that generate text and images.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
Your wife and her siblings are the “primary grievers,” says Joanne Cacciatore, a professor at Arizona State University who researches traumatic grief.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
I knew Mrs. Joe’s housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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Side effects, warnings: Creatine is “one of the most researched supplements,” Ansari says, and is safe, overall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The events provide the unique opportunity on the fair circuit to explore cutting-edge contemporary art alongside deeply researched presentations of historic work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Even so, this book—the first comprehensive Debs biography since Nick Salvatore’s Bancroft Prize-winning classic of 1982—is competently researched, colorful and occasionally moving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Endometriosis is one of the most common yet under researched causes of chronic pain," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
If she’d looked at a map, counted her money, researched average cab fares and highways and traffic conditions, those kids would have made it.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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I have spent nearly two decades researching how to control autonomous systems, and I co-founded a company, Config Dynamics, that works on the problem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
But he says it was only for researching roles, tidying up his CV and generating mock practise questions for video interviews.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
As these new subgenres started to come out in like 2018, I’ve been very passionate and researching that music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
MarketWatch: What surprised you most while researching the book?
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
It was past ten, and, in need of a break from hours of training and researching and fretting about Cain and Elena, she’d come into the gaming room.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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