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Recent Examples of ticksPeople who find ticks are urged to submit them to state or university tick identification programs.—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
The winners will measure their edge in nanoseconds and act before others can react.
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Ashok Reddy,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
The project team led by researcher Chang Jun from CETC’s Southwest China Institute of Electronic Technology highlighted that hypersonic cooperative strike systems demand inter-platform time synchronization with accuracy better than 10 nanoseconds.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Aug. 2025
Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities.
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American Booksellers Association,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
And sleep-tracker rings that are worn on your finger use body temperature, body movement, heart rate, and heart rate variability (fluctuations in the time between heartbeats) to gauge sleep quality.
Though the movie is accessible to new fans, there are plenty of winks and nods for diehards who can understand what might seem, to the uninitiated, like cheesy moments—a cringeworthy English rap verse, a scene parodying the product placement in K-dramas—as self-aware jokes.
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Yvonne Kim,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
Olivier Rousteing, creative director, Balmain Creative director of Balmain since 2011, Rousteing has revitalized the house with his bold, opulent designs, blending modern glamour with winks to the legacy of founder Pierre Balmain.
As with any career as long as his, there have been moments when perhaps his aesthetic wasn’t so aligned with where fashion was going, but mention that and Roversi will gently put it to one side.
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Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
So, to observe them, astronomers rely on stellar occultations — moments when an object passes between them and a background star.
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