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Recent Examples of supersystemThis supersystem uses superconductors to move people, cargo, and energy.—IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
The connection, Drew and his colleagues determined, is the vertebral venous plexus, a network of veins that connects the abdomen to the spine in mice and humans alike.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
In one study, participants who breathed nasally, a route known to cool the brain via the vertebral venous plexus, showed zero incidence of contagious yawning.
During this time, circus families blossomed all over Mexico, aided by the appearance of the steamship and railway systems, as the circus historian Julio Revolledo Cárdenas would detail in a 2018 article for the Fédération Mondiale du Cirque.
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Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
This is Part 3 in a series of columns about the viability of the American university system.
That kind of depth of view is the only way astronomers can get a true picture of the cosmic web.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
Throughout their first five albums, the band has spun a web, not unlike the orb weavers of their native Virginia, that marries country, rock, honky-tonk grit and Appalachian soul with rowdy barroom energy.
The buttons along the earcups are also more distinct, and the microphone grilles have been redesigned from the usual mesh cavities to larger holes that appear to punch directly through the earcup chassis.
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Jess Weatherbed,
The Verge,
18 May 2026
Fleetwood had played good golf leading up to the PGA Championship, but the set up and his game just didn’t mesh.
With dozens of restaurants and bars in the complex there’s everything from burgers and pizza by the pool to artful Italian plates.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 May 2026
Fruit extracts clarify excess oil and buildup, while a cooling mint complex and menthol deliver a refreshing tingle, leaving your scalp feeling clean, balanced, and freshly reset.
As a result, mathematical truths do not make up a unified whole of equally indubitable truths; instead, their status as knowledge varies gradually from doubtless facts to increasingly uncertain hypotheses.