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Recent Examples of fibersBifidobacterium boosts the immune system, balances inflammation, regulates metabolism and helps to digest certain carbohydrates and dietary fibers.—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025 Only in stories can Charlotte weave her fibers into the form of human script.—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025 The fibers in shirts and jackets will further smudge the glass.—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025 Naadam launched in 2013, immediately generating attention based on its mission of sourcing cashmere fibers directly from Mongolian herding communities — thereby cutting out the middlemen and paying suppliers more.—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2025 Select a pillowcase made of silk, satin, or bamboo fibers.—Sherri Gordon, Health, 1 Oct. 2025 The same is true about synthetic fibers.—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2025 Supima cotton, known for its softness and durability due to its extra-long staple fibers, intrigued Haan because of its reputation for exceptional quality.—Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025 The cornea is a perfect alternating stack of tiny fibers that is so regular that light goes right through it, and the cells of the lens have lost nearly all their internal structures (organelles), leaving only a soup of almost identical proteins that don’t interfere much with the passage of light.—Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Having established a genome for every eukaryotic creature, researchers will gain deep new insights into the connections among the threads in Earth’s web of life, and into how evolution proceeded for its myriad life forms.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
Also starring Denis O'Hare, Zachary Quinto, Sandra Bernhard, Isaac Powell, and Patti LuPone, NYC interrogates many thematic threads, but none more so than the illusion of control.
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James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
But Edison’s bulb was just one piece of a much more complicated system that included an efficient dynamo – the powerful machine that generated electricity – plus a network of underground wires and new types of lamps.
Farther out, the counter-jet about 6,000 light-years from the black hole appears as two filaments connected by a hotspot, forming a faint C-shape that's consistent with radio observations, the researchers note in the study.
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Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
2 Oct. 2025
These filaments have long been observed in real clusters like Perseus but never before reproduced in a simulation.
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