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Flip open any neuroscience textbook and the depiction of a neuron will be roughly the same: a blobby, amoebalike cell body shooting out a long, thick strand.

Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new polymer design that appears to rewrite the textbook on polymer engineering.

The 2024 election was an almost textbook example of a referendum where a discontent public, angry at the incumbents about “the economy” and the general direction of the country and its future, voted for change.

Better that than to learn phrases from a textbook — something she declines to use.

“This is textbook extortion,” the lawyers added.