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The same equation can describe both origami folds and tensegrity force balance, letting a symmetric design be transformed into an irregular one while preserving key mechanical properties. @princeton @PNASNews techxplore.com/news/2026-05-h…

Within 5 years of a child’s birth, 796 Georgia fathers died—and 60% of those deaths were preventable. Yet after age 20, fathers still had lower death rates than non-fathers. @northwesternu @JAMAPeds medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-h…

Two previously unknown plant molecules, making up just 0.4% of an extract, showed up to 25 times stronger antiviral activity than the extract itself against Ebola and SARS-CoV-2. phys.org/news/2026-04-h…

A 4,000-year-old Yakutian warrior’s Y chromosome still appears in living Siberian men—and its strongest survival is not near Yakutsk, but far east among Chukchi, Koryak, and Even peoples. sciencex.com/news/2026-05-p…

Among 4.3 million radio sources, more than 1,000 galaxies with faint extra “wings” turned up—382 X-shaped, 239 Z-shaped—and about 16% are so large they may be giant radio galaxies. @arxiv phys.org/news/2026-05-a…

In lab-grown UTI-causing E. coli, cranberry juice increased fosfomycin activity in 72% of strains and also curbed resistance-linked mutations—possibly by helping bacteria take up more of the drug. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-c…

After 11 years of warming soil by 3°C, grassland plots held nearly 24% more antibiotic resistance genes—and bacteria from those soils resisted 22 antibiotics more strongly. @nature phys.org/news/2026-04-t…

In most U.S. regions through 2050, the same dollars spent on wind or solar beat direct air capture on climate and public health, and at today’s performance grid-connected DAC can worsen pollution overall. techxplore.com/news/2026-05-r…

When 12-HETE was undetectable during pregnancy, children had 62% more asthma over 10 years—and omega-3 protection appeared only when 12-HETE was measurable. @uni_copenhagen @CellRepMed medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-m…

A nearby super-Earth appears dark, airless, and locked in an 11-hour orbit, with a dayside near 1000 K; its surface fits basaltic rock or even darkened regolith better than anything like Earth’s crust. @NatureAstronomy phys.org/news/2026-05-a…

After 11 years of warming soil by 3°C, grassland plots carried nearly 24% more antibiotic resistance genes, and bacteria from warmed soil resisted 22 antibiotics more strongly. @nature phys.org/news/2026-04-t…

Inside cow-stomach ciliates, a newly identified organelle appears to make hydrogen beside methanogens in the same cell, a close setup that may shape how much methane cows burp into the air. @sciencemagazine doi.org/hb2bp9 phys.org/news/2026-05-n…

Predators often outmatch prey in speed and power, yet in water they catch prey only about 1 in 10 attacks; a split-second reaction delay can let prey turn early enough to slip behind them. @UvA_Amsterdam @PNASNews doi.org/hbz76n phys.org/news/2026-05-b…

As charged water droplets evaporate on a frictionless surface, they can pause between stretching into a cone and suddenly firing microdroplet jets—hinting at finer control in nanoscale spraying. @oistedu @arxiv @PNASNews doi.org/hbz75x phys.org/news/2026-05-e…

Major depression during the peripartum period did not peak during pregnancy or later postpartum, but at the end of the first 2 weeks after birth: 8.3%, versus 6.2% during pregnancy. @uq_news @TheLancet doi.org/hbz72w medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-m…

A plastic embedded with dormant microbes stayed like a normal film until a 50 C nutrient trigger switched it on; in 6 days, two enzymes broke it into base units without forming microplastics. @ACSPublications doi.org/hb2bmt phys.org/news/2026-04-p…

In Mexico City, parts of the ground were measured sinking by more than 2 cm per month from orbit, and a 36-meter monument has had 14 steps added to its base as the surrounding land drops. @NASA phys.org/news/2026-04-u…

If alien signals are tightly beamed rather than broadcast in all directions, routine sky surveys might already have caught one by accident; none implies no civilization passed within 100 light-years for billions of years. @AAS_Publishing doi.org/hbz72h phys.org/news/2026-04-e…

Childhood depression and anxiety traced two genetic routes: inherited risk from the child, and parental genetic influences shaping home life. By adolescence, the child’s own genetic liability stood out more. @NatMentHealth doi.org/hb2bqn medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-f…

A single electron trapped above frozen neon showed noise 10–10,000 times lower than most semiconducting qubits; probing it away from its “sweet spot” helped expose just how quiet the surface is. @NatureElectron doi.org/hbz2zc phys.org/news/2026-04-q…