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One important piece of the puzzle involves microglia, specialized immune cells that serve as the brain's maintenance and defense system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Executives were trying to solve a puzzle: They could see some clients in Chicago’s affluent North Shore suburbs weren’t buying from the downtown Chicago store.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the wartime missive written in code, creating a puzzle that went unsolved for more than 200 years -- until AI cracked it in a matter of hours.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“He was the first piece of the puzzle that allowed us to begin writing,” says Ambrossi.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Like Brie wants Teddy to do— instead of learning to write his name before he’s ready or needing to put every piece of a puzzle in the right place.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The “American Idol” alum took to social media on Saturday to call out Art of Play, a high-end “curiosity shop” that sells puzzles, games and other whimsical goods, for her negative experience during a visit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Come early to mingle with the cast, in character, of course, who may or may not need your help in deciphering some puzzles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Why Neornithes endured while other birds and dinosaurs vanished remains one of paleontology's enduring puzzles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

He says Google, a unit of Alphabet, long ago shifted its bot-detection technology away from relying primarily on visual puzzles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

When not sleeping or studying, Thetans were fond of video games, constructing and solving elaborate puzzles, playing, inventing, and reimagining board games, and pretending to kill one another as part of live-action Mafia games.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

Not long ago, ordering a nonalcoholic beer at Oktoberfest could draw puzzled looks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Their migration has long fascinated scientists, who have puzzled over how they found their way on a journey they only ever make once.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The resurgence of totalizing ideologies among the young has a lot of smart people puzzled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Mars' innermost moon, Phobos, has puzzled planetary scientists for decades.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Margaret, who was not privy to all the complexities of the situation, seemed puzzled by this sudden outcry for baking expertise.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

The new research suggests that many of these puzzling patterns can instead be explained by one basic process: collisions between neighboring floes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The puzzling part is how strong the genetic case looks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Attacks on military and defence targets are not new, although previous acts of sabotage linked to Russia include more puzzling targets - such as an Ikea store and a Polish paint store.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Computer models are helping scientists explain a puzzling pattern of deformation beneath the East African Rift System.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

It sometimes took him a while to figure out Crane-man’s riddles, but he preferred puzzling over them to being told what they meant.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park