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The Wear Ends Up Somewhere
Researchers at Rush University Medical Center examined autopsied brain tissue from participants in the Rush Memory and Aging Project. Of 885 participants, 701 brain samples entered the final analysis: 229 people who had received total shoulder, knee or hip replacements, and 472 without, serving as controls. Cobalt concentration in brain tissue was 8.9 percent higher in the total hip replacement group than in the no-replacement group....
The Ceiling Was a Guess
For years the accepted upper limit for eukaryotic life, meaning any cell with a nucleus, sat at around 140 degrees Fahrenheit, or 60 Celsius, established by a few species of fungi and red algae. Researchers had gone further and proposed a mechanism: above roughly 62 Celsius the internal membranes surrounding a cell's organelles should become unstable, which would make that a fundamental ceiling rather than merely an observed one. In the...
Fifty-Four Issues Became Ninety
The fourth round of trade talks between Mexico and the United States will not happen next week. It may happen in October. Luis Rosendo Gutierrez, Mexico's deputy economy minister for foreign trade, blamed scheduling conflicts, including Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington and the upcoming G20 summit. Buried in the same set of remarks is the number that actually explains the delay. The negotiating agenda has expanded from 54 issues to nearly...
A Strategy Is Not a Signature
Beneficient announced on Wednesday that it has formulated and is implementing a comprehensive strategy to eliminate roughly $130 million of contested debt asserted by HCLP Nominees, along with the equity interests held by its former chief executive Brad Heppner and his affiliated entities. The shares rose 275 percent in premarket trading, touched $3.03 intraday, and closed near $1.60, at the bottom of the session. The proposal is substantial on...
Somebody Else Won the Contract
Palantir rose between 3.5 and 4.4 percent on Wednesday, closing at $191.79, up $6.80, after Rosenblatt's John McPeake reiterated a Buy rating and a $225 price target. The catalyst was the Federal Aviation Administration beginning limited operation of SMART, an AI-supported air traffic system, around three Washington-area airports. SMART stands for Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes and Trajectories, pulls roughly two hundred data streams...