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Briefing: Watching quantum behavior in action: MagnetoARPES reveals time-reversal symmetry breaking in a kagome superconductor

Strategic angle: Rice University researchers uncover new insights into superconductors using advanced quantum techniques.

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Briefing: AI Agents in Health Care: Rapid Spread and Validation Concerns

Strategic angle: Experts at HIMSS 2026 raise alarms over the lack of validation for AI agents in health care.

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Briefing: Opinion: I’m a medical student. RFK Jr. is right about medical school and preventive care

Strategic angle: In medical school, a student writes, she has learned to react first, focus on prevention later.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: STAT+: A top biotech VC quietly helped Epstein’s ‘great friend’ make a comeback

Strategic angle: Boris Nikolic’s career looked to be in tatters after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein came to light in 2019. But he has quietly made a comeback, with some help from…

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Briefing: Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Strategic angle: Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits.

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Briefing: Ultrasound Repellers Could Keep Hedgehogs Off Roads, Scientists Hope

Strategic angle: Study shows animals hear very high frequencies, making it possible to design a deterrent to cut deaths.

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Briefing: Sale of rat poisons could be restricted to protect Australian wildlife

Strategic angle: Regulator recommends rodenticides be removed from Bunnings and supermarkets shelves and sold only to licensed professionals.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: A massive asteroid hit the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami

Strategic angle: Scientists confirm the Silverpit Crater was formed by a 160-meter asteroid impact 43–46 million years ago.

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Briefing: Curiosity Blog, Sols 4825-4831: Exploring the Borderlands

Strategic angle: Curiosity is in the last stage of its exploration of the spiderweb-like boxwork unit.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: A Most Unusual Lake

Strategic angle: Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: Anduril to acquire space-tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions

Strategic angle: Deal adds ground-based telescope network and space surveillance data to defense tech company’s expanding space business.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: About Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools Project

Strategic angle: NASA’s Subsonic Vehicle Technologies and Tools (SVTT) project develops technologies for various aircraft speed regimes.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: Vegans develop complex skills to navigate an omnivorous society, new research shows

Strategic angle: Going vegan is a life-changing decision that requires navigating a society dominated by omnivorous choices.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: Study reveals how Ethiopia's hyenas combat climate change, save money for waste management and prevent disease

Strategic angle: Research shows spotted hyenas play a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions and managing waste in urban areas.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: ‘My lovely distraction’: live stream of kākāpō – world’s fattest parrot – and her chicks captivates New Zealand

Strategic angle: More than 100,000 people have tuned in to watch ‘kākāpō cam’, which captures a rare flightless bird sleeping, tidying her nest and fighting off intruders.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: Convergence in the canopy: Why the Gracixalus weii treefrog sounds like a songbird

Strategic angle: Exploring the unique vocalizations of the Gracixalus weii treefrog and its evolutionary significance.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles

Strategic angle: Researchers develop RidgeAlloy, a new aluminum alloy that transforms contaminated car-body scrap into durable vehicle components.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: How jagged moon dust could support future astronauts

Strategic angle: Lunar dust can be a pain—but it's also literally the ground we will have to traverse if we are ever to have a permanent human settlement on the moon.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: Could ultrasound help save hedgehogs?

Strategic angle: Researchers at the University of Oxford propose using ultrasound-repellers to reduce hedgehog deaths from vehicles.

Editorial Staff Mar 11

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Briefing: CCC: Net-zero will protect UK from fossil-fuel price shocks

Strategic angle: The cost of cutting UK emissions to net-zero is less than the cost of continuing reliance on fossil fuels.

Editorial Staff Mar 11