Although flu seasons can vary in disease severity, the virus mutates so unpredictably that pandemic flu seasons – like those in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009 – are a recurring possibility.
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Katrine L. Wallace,
The Conversation,
28 Apr. 2026
Measles mutates slowly enough that researchers can in many cases search for essentially the same strain when tracking its movements.
Kinks are critical in determining where a material deforms, appearing in situations such as metals bending permanently or DNA strands separating.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight.
Mercury’s clash with Neptune distorts the reality of a situation.
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USA TODAY,
USA Today,
3 June 2026
In this process, a sufficiently intense electromagnetic field distorts the atom’s potential barrier so strongly that an electron can effectively tunnel out through quantum mechanical effects.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
31 May 2026
Leaders who build these practices into how AI gets deployed now safeguard their organizations from a culture where AI supplants human reasoning rather than supports it, and from the performance costs that follow.
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Chris Rosenberg,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
The new tool – called Alexa for Shopping – supplants Rufus, the shopping assistant bot that summarized product reviews and suggested purchases.
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