For example, when a credit card is fragmented into particles some 10 microns in diameter, there is a more than 200-fold increase in its surface area, says Wei Min, a chemist at Columbia University and one of the senior authors of the study.
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Payal Dhar,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2026
Without senior-level ownership, AI initiatives risk becoming fragmented, under-supervised or misaligned with broader business priorities.
The impasse dates back to summer 2023, when the City Council bifurcated the new collective bargaining agreement with the FOP.
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Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Sep. 2026
The screen is sometimes bifurcated between Carter’s livestream, which itself gets clogged with fan comments and emojis, and people watching it in Japan.
The building’s three lower floors, including a ground-floor shop, caved in before dawn in the district of Maltepe, on the Asian side of Istanbul, a city that is bisected by the Bosporus Strait.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Oct. 2026
That has severely disrupted daily life in Ukraine’s largest city, which, like much of the country, is bisected by the broad Dnipro River.
After Jones shined during his first start, the Gators’ quarterback decision will be scrutinized and dissected, fueling two weeks of endless conjecture leading up to the Georgia game.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 Oct. 2026
There is something fitting about seeing Deakins, whose work is so often studied and dissected by others, sitting among the audience, still looking and listening.
Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Aug. 2026
District 8 was cleaved from parts of Districts 1 and 4 and includes Hunter’s Creek, Lake Nona, Moss Park, Williamsburg and Wyndham Lakes.
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Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2026
Unlike Bedard’s other two injuries (fractured jaw in 2024 and a right shoulder injury last year), the Hawks could at least prepare to be without their current captain.
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Kalen Lumpkins,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Oct. 2026
With attentions fractured in modern life, Gibney hopes there is some benefit in synthesizing information into a narrative.
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