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30 December 2025

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Is Your Brain Flushing Properly? The Glymphatic System Alzheimer's Disease Connection

Is Your Brain Flushing Properly? The Glymphatic System Alzheimer's Disease Connection

Researchers found that when the brain's waste-clearance system slows down, vital connections between neurons are lost. This damage appears worse in patients with existing amyloid plaques or inflammation.

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Chemistry & Material Science

A Solvent Swap Pushes Perovskite Solar Cells to Record Efficiency

By replacing the standard industrial solvent with a more acidic alternative, researchers have stabilised the 'healing' layers on solar films. The resulting cells achieved a certified efficiency of 26.88% and endured 1,000 hours of operation with minimal degradation.

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Neuroscience

The Mother's Voice: How Early Neural Signals Forecast Autism and Language Development

Researchers used neuroimaging to observe how 6-month-old infants respond to maternal speech. The data reveals that babies with an elevated likelihood of autism show weaker connectivity between reward and language centres. These neural patterns offer early indicators for future speech acquisition.

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Physics & Astronomy

Physics-guided deep learning: Escaping the electromagnetic bottleneck

Researchers have developed a self-supervised forward solver that drastically accelerates the training of inverse electromagnetic problems. By embedding Maxwell’s equations directly into the loss function, the model achieves high accuracy without the computational drag of traditional methods.

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Neuroscience

The Surface-In Effect: Multiple Sclerosis MRI Imaging Maps the Path of Decay

Researchers utilised advanced imaging to map white matter damage radiating from the brain's ventricles. They found that this "surface-in" gradient correlates with permanent tissue destruction and choroid plexus enlargement.

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Neuroscience

Blocking the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Could Limit Stroke Damage

Researchers found that a specific protein sensor worsens brain injury when blood flow is restricted. By genetically removing or chemically blocking this receptor in mice, the study reduced neuronal death and preserved the blood-brain barrier.

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Medicine & Health

Reclaiming the River: Two-Spirit health and climate change in Deshkan Ziibi

A critical analysis focuses on the Deshkan Ziibi (Thames River) to reveal how colonial land theft and environmental degradation uniquely harm Two-Spirit individuals. The study argues that Indigenous 'kincentric' worldviews offer overlooked solutions to the planetary crisis.

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Medicine & Health

92.5% Accuracy Achieved in AI-assisted Uroflowmetry Validation

A deep neural network has successfully automated the analysis of urinary flow with 92.5% accuracy, significantly outperforming other machine learning models. The study confirms that automated frameworks can eliminate the subjectivity inherent in manual interpretation while strongly correlating flow metrics with symptom severity.

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Environmental Science

Evaluating Covered Pits for Livestock Manure Management in Arid Zones

A 90-day field trial suggests that covered composting pits significantly improve soil moisture and nitrate retention compared to open pits. However, the short study duration limits conclusions regarding long-term soil fertility stability in arid environments.

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