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This figure displays the average CD5 index over time for six data sources and five different patent categories. The data sources are JSTOR (1,588,088 papers), the American Physical Society corpus (461,359 papers), Microsoft Academic Graph (random sample of 1,000,000 papers), and PubMed (1,563,211 papers). For reference, the Web of Science (22,479,429 papers) and PatentsView (2,926,923 patents) data sources are also included.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 12 August 2026 A mixture of proteins in snake blood can prevent the death of mice injected with an otherwise lethal dose of venom. Western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) blood contains proteins that can staunch bleeding and prevent tissue degradation. Credit: Rolf Nussbaumer/Nature Picture Library Globally, snakebites kill 80,000 to 140,000 people a
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Here we develop an integrated modelling framework to project PV waste generation across 32 global regions and to quantify the environmental and economic benefits of alternative recycling strategies that will inform policy design (Extended Data Fig. 1 and Supplementary Table 3). The framework consists of three interconnected components. First, material price trajectories are generated and