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Her work focuses on identifying changes in the brain that occur before Alzheimer's symptoms develop and finding ways to intervene early.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
“The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America” looks beyond clichés about buying half a continent to the more complex reality of the protracted struggle to occupy and develop that acquisition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
These advantages could make it easier to develop a widely accessible treatment if future clinical trials confirm that sulforaphane is effective against Friedreich ataxia.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
His consummate professionalism, and apparent ability to develop into the complete player with age, means this can never be discounted.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Every other mammal that went to sea—seals, sea cows, dolphins—had to evolve for aeons to develop specialised organs and a hydrodynamic body.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The polar vortex develops every autumn as temperatures fall in the Arctic.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
“There is a scenario where AI, as it gains intelligence, also develops consciousness. But this is not inevitable,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The findings indicate that a tree's internal sense of its own shape helps regulate this process, determining where tension wood develops to correct its posture.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
For now, the discovery provides something fundamental: a clearer explanation of how the human eye develops its remarkable ability to see fine details.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Resistance, therefore, is something that develops in a population after time measured in several or many generations.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Around mid-March, he said, a hole developed in his fractured lower right leg and a bone began protruding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
To investigate this process, the researchers modified a stellar evolution computer program called STARS, originally developed at the University of Cambridge.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
The Arctic is not yet as cold as it becomes later in winter, with the polar vortex itself having only recently developed.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Before the vaccine was developed in the early 1960s, measles killed hundreds of children each year in the US.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Among Colored people there developed an adage: “You have to be twice as good in order to be thought of as half as good” as your White counterparts.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Notably, this association remained apparent regardless of participants' genetic risk of developing dementia.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Melt has become enough of a problem that administrators are developing strategies on how to fight it year-round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
"You can imagine the effect it has on a developing brain, being in that environment for years at a time."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Biondich is, for now, moving forward with the Sanctuary name, even developing an app that will bring augmented reality monsters to the venue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026
My left sock was developing a hole in the toe.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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