A cross-disciplinary set of studies spotlights how novelty, expectations, and scale can skew perception and enable progress, from commuter behavior and review bias to antidepressant efficacy and prevention claims. Systems-level gains, including an eightfold increase in antimatter production and network-based insights into wildlife crime, expand experimental and enforcement possibilities while new findings in protist taxonomy and lunar origins recalibrate scientific models.
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