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Experimental tests and computational simulations of a scaled-down specimen of a real steel truss bridge identify and characterize the latent resistance mechanisms following critical failures, demonstrating how loads supported by failed components can be redistributed and enable structure resilience.

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DNA2 enables growth by restricting recombination-restarted replication

DNA2 suppresses recombination-restarted replication and checkpoint activation at stalled forks, and its loss triggers recombination-dependent synthesis, checkpoint signalling and cell-cycle exit, highlighting its essential role in proliferation and growth failure in primordial dwarfism.

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A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour

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A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture?

These nations are wooing PhD students amid US funding uncertainties

Can researchers stop AI making up citations?

A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage

Daily briefing: A polo-team’s worth of cloned CRISPR horses

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AI chatbots are already biasing research — we must establish guidelines for their use now

A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture?

Global geopolitics should not stall science — 5 ways to push back

These nations are wooing PhD students amid US funding uncertainties

‘LinkedIn is like air to me’: the scientists who’ve cracked professional networking

My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same way

Can a bold ‘social contract’ make data sharing more palatable?

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Bug bites convince UK doctor to support mosquito research centre

Head start: fossil clues about how bodies evolved from two-fold to five-fold symmetry

Protests are infectious: mapping rural unrest in Revolutionary France

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Damaged bridges flex and twist to prevent collapse

The diversity of microbial enzymes that turn a pollutant into an inert gas

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Depriving brain tumours of an amino acid could enhance chemotherapy

Compression causes cancer cells to start spreading

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Cas9 senses CRISPR RNA abundance to regulate CRISPR spacer acquisition

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