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When do infections lead to long COVID? Scientists close in on triggers and treatments for post-viral syndromes 0
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- September 8, 2026
In 2004, Amy Proal got an infection that changed her life. “I was in my pre-med, last year of college, and totally tanked,” she says. “No one could tell me what it was, everybody said my blood work was fine — sent to a psychiatrist, the usual story.” She started reading papers from her sickbed
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Anxious or outgoing? Huge study links ‘Big Five’ personality traits to genetic variants 0
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- September 8, 2026
Personality plays into how people think, feel, behave and interact with their environment.Credit: PeopleImages/Getty A study of more than one million people has uncovered around 1,200 genetic variants that are associated with personality traits, and is by far the largest effort of its kind. The researchers found that common genetic variants account for a small
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Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality – Nature 0
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- September 8, 2026
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA Ted Schwaba, Lindsay S. Ackerman & Josephine C. M. Fealy Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States Margaret L. Clapp Sullivan Department of Biological Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Wonuola A. Akingbuwa, Eco J. C. de
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Satellite images before Nepal disaster showed warning signs 0
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- September 8, 2026
The flash flood destroyed many buildings and left villages covered in mud and debris.Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP via Getty The high-altitude collapse of rock and ice that triggered a catastrophic flash flood near the Nepal–Tibet border on 26 August has so far claimed more than 1,000 lives. More than 4,000 people remain missing. Manoochehr Shirzaei, a
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Atmospheric CH4 plateau sustained by NOx emission rise and southward shift – Nature 0
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- September 7, 2026
Lan, X., Thoning, K. W. & Dlugokencky, E. J. Trends in globally averaged CH4, N2O, and SF6 determined from NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory measurements. https://doi.org/10.15138/P8XG-AA10 (NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, 2026). Kirschke, S. et al. Three decades of global methane sources and sinks. Nat. Geosci. 6, 813–823 (2013). Article ADS CAS Google Scholar Intergovernmental Panel on
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Rewiring the ribosome to translate proteins encoded in its own RNA – Nature 0
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- September 7, 2026
Wolf, Y. I. & Koonin, E. V. On the origin of the translation system and the genetic code in the RNA world by means of natural selection, exaptation, and subfunctionalization. Biol. Direct 2, 14 (2007). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Shine, J. & Dalgarno, L. The 3′-terminal sequence of Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA:
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