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Researchers describe a real-world study of acoramidis use in adults with ATTR heart disease

ACO-REAL is an ongoing, prospective study designed to collect real-world information about acoramidis use in adults with transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) in routine clinical practice. The study plans to enroll about 2,000 adults across 21 European countries and follow them for around 12 months. It aims to document patient characteristics, treatment patterns, and safety outcomes rather than test effectiveness in a controlled way.

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Climate & Environment

Marine protected areas may miss key connections if people and nature are assessed separately

Marine protected areas rely on protecting “connectivity”—how marine life and impacts move across space. A new systematic review finds that research on these links has grown, but MPA assessment often still treats nature and people separately, with limited attention to how they affect each other.

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Biology

Bioactive gauze uses an enzyme to break wound biofilms without killing bacteria

A team engineered a bioactive wound dressing by attaching an enzyme to clinically relevant gauze. In a murine infection model using Acinetobacter baumannii, the enzyme disrupted biofilm structure, improved immune cell access, and accelerated wound healing without directly killing the bacteria.

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Health & Medicine

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Review examines why low blood sugar can happen after stomach surgery for gastric cancer

This narrative review discusses postgastrectomy hypoglycemia (PGH), a low-blood-sugar complication that can occur after stomach surgery for gastric cancer. It summarizes possible mechanisms, including hormone-related effects, and describes how continuous glucose monitoring may reveal symptoms that are not always obvious. The review emphasizes that medication evidence specifically for PGH is limited, so overall conclusions are cautious.

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Society & Economics

Paris Agreement may not cover human rights duties in climate action, legal analysis argues

A legal article argues that meeting the Paris Agreement targets alone does not discharge countries’ wider human rights obligations in the climate crisis. It maintains that general international law principles—such as preventing significant environmental harm—still apply alongside the climate treaty.

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Biology

New ribosome method finds thousands of tiny protein-coding regions in mouse embryos

A Nature Communications study describes Ribo-ITP, a ribosome-based method designed to find previously hard-to-detect protein-coding regions (translons) using far less starting material. Using samples such as microdissected mouse brain tissue and single early embryos, the researchers report discovering thousands of translons and test whether they can drive protein production.

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AI & Computing

Four optical computing cores hit 65 TOPS and boost MNIST accuracy

Researchers built a four-core optical computing chip that processed tasks across 124 channels in parallel, reaching a speed of 65 TOPS. Using the chip in an optoelectronic convolutional neural network, they reported 95.08% accuracy on MNIST, a 9.20% improvement over a single-core version.

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Biology

Your everyday thoughts may track how fair and generous you are

People often think about other people, but it has been unclear whether these ongoing thoughts change with different social situations and reflect traits like generosity. In a study of 320 participants, researchers found a small set of recurring thought patterns that varied by social context and related to fairness preferences.

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Engineering & Technology

Foot traffic in Fukuoka shifts with weather and COVID rules, study finds

A study using computer vision to track pedestrians in a busy shopping district in Fukuoka, Japan, found that walking speed changes with both temperature and COVID emergency restrictions. The effects varied by time of day and by why people were walking, with night-time pedestrians showing more varied responses and a younger nighttime population during emergency periods.

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Physics & Space

Turning one infrared photon into visible colors faster in sodium yttrium sulphide

Researchers report a way to convert single infrared photons into targeted visible colors more efficiently and with much faster response. In NaYS2:Ho3+, they selectively enhance upconversion emissions by 2–3 orders of magnitude and cut response time from 30 ms to 54 μs, then demonstrate rapid, narrowband photodetection for low-threshold CO2 sensing.

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Climate & Environment

Progress on sustainability is uneven—and often comes with tradeoffs

A global analysis of sustainability trends from 2000 to 2019 found that progress is rarely uniform within countries. Most places experienced decline in at least one area, and improvements in one dimension often paired with setbacks in another.

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Society & Economics

Ethiopian students’ phone anxiety links to mental strain, policy brief finds

A policy brief highlights “nomophobia”—anxiety about being unable to use a smartphone—as a concern for secondary students in Ethiopia. It points to evidence linking problematic smartphone use with anxiety, depressive symptoms, sleep problems, and weaker school engagement, and recommends school and national actions.

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Engineering & Technology

Transformer windings fail most as South Africa’s load shedding rises

Load shedding in South Africa has been accompanied by a rise in power transformer failures, according to a new systematic review. The review finds transformer windings are the most common failure point, and it discusses how knowledge-based fault diagnosis is being considered—while noting limited proof of real-world scale-up.

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Society & Economics

Tennessee high schools’ test scores didn’t fully bounce back—and funding patterns shifted

Tennessee public high schools saw uneven learning loss after COVID-19, with ACT composite scores falling from 20.2 in 2019 to 19.1 in 2021 and only reaching 19.3 by 2024–2025. A new analysis of 322 schools finds that pre-pandemic achievement and economic disadvantage predicted both the size of learning loss and how completely schools recovered.

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Climate & Environment

Magnetic particles pull “forever chemicals” from water, even in messy mixtures

A new study reports that specially coated magnetic iron particles can remove multiple kinds of “forever chemicals” (PFAS) from water. The researchers say the particles worked in several real-world water sources and could be reused, cutting PFAS levels by up to 95.4% under the tested conditions.

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