substance
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A mushroom long consumed by communities in Asia may contain a substance capable of revealing new information about the human brain and how it creates conscious experience.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Public health officials in San Francisco said the substance was being marketed and sold as “cat’s claw” or uncaria tomentosa without disclosing the MGM-15 ingredient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Note, however, that these are matters of procedure rather than substance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
It was a positive step forward and internally there is a hope it will lead to more appearances, although there needs to be more substance.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The guns arrived in narrow tin boxes and were packed in Cosmoline, a brownish substance the consistency of lard that had to be stripped away.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Optical spectrometers work by analyzing light to reveal information about the substances it interacts with.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Rather than rapidly releasing radioactive substances, the particles appear capable of retaining fission products within their structures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Such an approach could avoid one of the major difficulties in developing neurological treatments: getting drugs across the blood-brain barrier, which prevents many substances from entering brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
These bacteria produce natural substances that help them attack other microbes and use them as a source of food.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Some scientists are working very hard to find out ways of testing substances without using any animals at all.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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