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Math is “changing certainly quite dramatically” because of AI, Jayawardhana said, calling it “a precursor to what’s coming to other fields.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

As these precursor cells mature, they must build new cellular structures, produce fats, and activate genes that allow them to specialize in storing energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

This week's "pre-COP" meetings in the Fijian city of Nadi are a precursor to the larger UN-sponsored global climate summit -- known as COP31 -- to be held in Turkey next month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

For years, the U.S. pushed China to crack down on the precursor producers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Chiefdoms characteristically have an ideology, precursor to an institutionalized religion, that buttresses the chief’s authority.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Directed by Henry Winkler and co-starring Lee Majors as Mountain Dan, it may be one of the earliest precursors to the Hallmark holiday-style movies.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The rover has found chemical traces left behind by this wetter period, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

“The use of the books at issue to train Claude and its precursors was exceedingly transformative and was a fair use,” Alsup noted in his earlier judgment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

They are now looking to expand their own production of guncotton, and assessing alternative natural precursors to make it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

As for Chinese writing, first attested around 1300 B.C. but with possible earlier precursors, it too has unique local signs and some unique principles, and most scholars assume that it evolved independently.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond