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Specimens preserved for years can contain biological discoveries that become apparent only when newer analytical techniques are applied.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
The team applied a technique known as the radial velocity method, which was also used to discover the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Chandrasekaran applied there because he read in a college guidebook that students who work at the Harvard Lampoon often go on to careers in Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
She attributed this to having "largely resulted from precautionary measures taken to protect systems while security updates and mitigations are applied".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Having nowhere to go, she surrendered to impossible and applied for the job at our family’s store, where she was hired because Olka sewed like she did everything in life, with full intensity and effort.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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