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The bolding changed where the eyes landed on the longer words and produced no measurable change in anything else, and more readers rated ordinary unbolded text the easiest to read than picked either bolded version.
Sep 14, 2026
At one percent cigarette-butt waste, RMIT's lab bricks kept substantial compressive strength while using about a tenth less firing energy. Higher loadings brought much larger trade-offs.
Sep 14, 2026
Orbital infrared data and thermal models indicate that deep shade in one prominent lunar pit stays near 17°C, but the estimate is indirect and does not apply to every pit.
Sep 14, 2026
Hong Kong's provisional 2025 life expectancy is 88.7 years for women and 83.3 for men. Low smoking-related mortality explains a large measured share of its advantage, while urban design remains a plausible factor.
Sep 13, 2026
Voyager 2’s 2026 Big Bang power swap cut demand by nearly 10 watts, preserving its magnetometer, plasma wave and cosmic ray instruments for at least another year.
Sep 13, 2026
A museum series of Sorex unguiculatus from Tomakomai confirms Dehnel's winter braincase shrink in an Asian shrew, and adds a reverse pattern in the snout that the authors did not find in the jaw.
Sep 12, 2026
The Pacific coral-eating seastar now has a 14-site methylation clock built from tank-reared animals aged one to three and a half years.
Sep 12, 2026
The difference is real and the size of it is not settled: measured against the best of the study's three control batches, the advantage shrinks from 27 percentage points to five.
Sep 12, 2026
A mineral fingerprint taken without cutting the stones points the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge to Brimham Rocks, and a compatible fingerprint turns up in a battle cross probably carved in the fifteenth century.
Sep 12, 2026
