Wiring Map Insect Brain
Nature, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00709-7 Fruit fly ‘connectome’ will help researchers to study how the brain works, and could further understanding of neurological diseases.
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A research study has shed new light on how congenital muscular dystrophies such as Walker-Warburg syndrome progress, bringing hope for better understanding, early diagnosis and treatments of these fatal disorders.
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How do we tackle world hunger, hidden hunger and climate change? It's possible to address both world hunger and hidden hunger while reducing agricultural greenhouse emissions at the same time. And we can do it without having to double food production or radically changing our diets to keep up with a growing global population.
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A new biosensor offers scientists the first dynamic glimpses of manganese, an elusive metal ion that is essential for life.
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Scientists have devised a way of fabricating a complex structure, previously found only in nature, to open up new ways for manipulating and controlling light.
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Macquarie Island, around 1,500km southeast of Tasmania, is more than just a remote rocky outcrop. In fact, it's the only piece of land on the planet formed completely from ocean floor, which rises above the waves to form peaks that teem with penguins and other bird species, some of them found nowhere else on Earth.
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Macquarie Island, around 1,500km southeast of Tasmania, is more than just a remote rocky outcrop. In fact, it's the only piece of land on the planet formed completely from ocean floor, which rises above the waves to form peaks that teem with penguins and other bird species, some of them found nowhere else on Earth.
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The Hilton Hotel was Nairobi's first skyscraper. The iconic cylindrical tower was opened in 1969 by President Jomo Kenyatta, six years after Kenya's independence from Britain.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29704-8
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31181-y
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A leading evolutionary biologist who defended Darwin’s theory in books and in the courtroom, he was forced to retire amid charges of sexual harassment.
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Our northern neighbor has the second most tornadoes in the world each year. But until recently, scientists had no idea when and where many of them actually occurred.
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A new biosensor offers scientists the first dynamic glimpses of manganese, an elusive metal ion that is essential for life.
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Want a glimpse into the future of SFF? We look at some of the weird and wonderful standouts from The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022.
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Bubbles are fun for everyone. But, it turns out, they can also be little menaces.
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A group of psychologists, two from Northwestern University and the third from the University of Oregon, has found via online testing that IQ scores in the U.S. may be dropping for the first time in nearly a century. In their paper published in the journal Intelligence, Elizabeth Dworak, William Revelle and David Condon describe analyzing the results of online IQ tests taken by volunteers over the
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The wolf’s yellow eyes, sharp claws, and snapping teeth haunt our fairy tales and idioms, Erica Berry writes in her recent book, Wolfish . She asks why the animal has persisted as such a potent symbol of fear, arguing that this may color the way we see the world we share with animals and one another. By deconstructing stories such as “The Three Little Pigs” and “Little Red Riding Hood,” Lily Meye
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36974-3 Biosynthesis of complex polyketides by polyketide synthases often relies on trans-acting enzymes to modify the intermediates. Here, the authors elucidate how β-methylation enzymes identify their substrates. The recognition is imperfect, resulting in a doubly β-methylated virginiamycin derivative.
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Alternatively spliced exon regulates context-dependent MEF2D higher-order assembly during myogenesis
10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37017-7 Mef2D context-dependent higher-order assembly controls simultaneous interactions with the basal machinery and the myogenic factors to activate distinct gene expression programs for muscle lineage development.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers are exploring the effectiveness of enhanced weathering as a climate change solution.
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Earth's crust contains pockets of water, metal-rich brines, gas and molten rock, especially near volcanoes and other sites of geothermal activity. Knowing where these fluids are and their precise composition can help scientists assess volcanic hazards, harness geothermal energy and find useful metals, but mapping them is not an easy task.
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The Lanzhou-Xinjiang High-speed Railway (LXHSR) runs through four strong windy areas where land surfaces are all affected by the Gobi Desert. The threat from wind-blown sand/gravel by extremely strong winds in these areas endangers the safe operation of the railway.
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Neutrophils induce anti-inflammatory — or M2 — macrophages deep in their granulocyte core. The dense globular structures of granulomas in animals, particularly in the lungs, have been studied. Microbes and cancer cells may manipulate this permissive microenvironment to favor their survival. A lung granuloma model in guinea pigs demonstrates the specific accumulation of Neutrophil S100A9 deep in
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In the first step toward understanding how dogs — and perhaps humans — might adapt to intense environmental pressures such as exposure to radiation, heavy metals, or toxic chemicals, researchers found that two groups of dogs living within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone showed significant genetic differences between them. The results indicate that these are two distinct populations that rarely inte
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Researchers have found that children start to develop the basic skills that underlie map reading from the age of just four! The study involved 175 two to five-year-olds. It reveals that four-year-olds become able to use a scale model to find things in the real world.
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The faba bean genome, which at 13 billion bases is more than four times the size of the human genome, has been sequenced. This is an extraordinary technical achievement and crucial to efforts to breed beans with optimum nutritional content and sustainability of production.
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Researchers have uncovered new evidence of western pygmy possums interacting with native flowers, providing an eDNA study to simultaneously detect mammal, insect and bird DNA on flowers.
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The accumulation of the metabolite fumarate in the mitochondrion, the powerhouse of a cell, can cause inflammation associated with diseases such as cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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Research into the ability of a wildfire to improve the health of a forest uncovered a Goldilocks effect — unless a blaze falls in a narrow severity range, neither too hot nor too cold, it isn't very good at helping forest landscapes return to their historical, more fire-tolerant conditions.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/world/asteroid-collision-risk-2046-nasa-scn/index.html A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, according to NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The asteroid has a 1 in 625 chance of striking Earth, based on data pro
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Medicare FBI Device
New bad guy alert: according to an FBI indictment , Florida woman Laura Perryman, the former CEO of a health-tech company called Stimwave, was arrested on Thursday "in connection with a scheme to create and sell a non-functioning dummy medical device for implantation into patients suffering from chronic pain," Vice reports , accusations that Perryman's lawyer has since denied. In other words, the
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Researchers led by Wu Tao from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Jiang Chen from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research reanalyzed properties of extremely eccentric planetary system HD 76920b through detailed asteroseismic analysis of its host star HD 76920.
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A research study has shed new light on how congenital muscular dystrophies such as Walker-Warburg syndrome progress, bringing hope for better understanding, early diagnosis and treatments of these fatal disorders.
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NPL, in collaboration with London Biofoundry and BiologIC Technologies Ltd, have released an analysis on existing and emerging DNA Synthesis technologies in Nature Reviews Chemistry, featuring the work on the front cover.
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A researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored how the gender gap has evolved in two American academies: the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in the election of academics in psychology, economics and mathematics over a 60-year period. For the past 20 years, women have been given priority in being admitted to these two academ
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Nearly 130,000 people in the Greater Horn of Africa are "staring death in the eyes" from catastrophic hunger, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday.
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Tropical storm Freddy is on track to break the record as the longest-lasting cyclone of its kind, the United Nations said Friday, as the killer storm was set to hit Mozambique once again.
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What does an in-flight meal look like when you're traveling to Mars? Designer Phnam Bagley envisions a future where astronauts have nourishing, flavorful food reminiscent of home — a giant leap from their current staple of "goop-in-a-bag." Learn more about her team's gourmet creations for galactic travel and how these innovations can improve life here on Earth.
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NPL, in collaboration with London Biofoundry and BiologIC Technologies Ltd, have released an analysis on existing and emerging DNA Synthesis technologies in Nature Reviews Chemistry, featuring the work on the front cover.
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It’s obvious to many of us — whether we’re an only child or not — that siblings are often different from each other. Judy Dunn, emeritus professor of developmental psychology at Kings College London, and Robert Plomin, professor of behavioral genetics at the same institution, were among the first scholars to start empirically questioning why this happens. Drawing from differences they noticed in D
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Godrej Agrovet Oil
A skin and hair product that uses a yeast oil with properties similar to palm oil aims to help reduce deforestation tied to palm oil production
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An artificial intelligence in the game Justice Online will let players customise characters to look like anything they want, including celebrities or dog people, just by typing in instructions – and the tech could make it to other games too
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30690-0 Inactivation and spike protein denaturation of novel coronavirus variants by Cu x O/TiO 2 nano-photocatalysts
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31025-9
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31206-6
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Surrounded by miles of dried land and what remains of his famished livestock, Daniel Lepaine is a worried man. Dozens of his goats in Ngong, a town in southern Kenya, have died after three years of harrowing drought in the east and Horn of Africa. The rest are on the verge of starvation as rain continues to fail.
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Researchers have developed and demonstrated an efficient and scalable technique that allows them to manufacture soft polymer materials in a dozen different structures, or "morphologies," from ribbons and nanoscale sheets to rods and branched particles. The technique allows users to finely tune the morphology of the materials at the micro- and nano-scale. The paper, "Fluid Flow Templating of Polyme
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Some corals live to be hundreds, and even thousands, of years old. They were born with genes that were successful back in their parent's generation, so how can these old corals still be successful now? Especially in a changing climate? It's possible that the generation and the filtering of mutations that occur in different parts of a big coral act as a proving ground for adaptive genetics for the
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37012-y Newcastle disease virus (NDV) belongs to Paramyxoviridae and encodes a large protein (L) and phosphoprotein (P) for viral RNA synthesis. Here the authors present cryo-EM structures of the L-P complex, and propose a model of how RNA initiation/elongation alternates during viral RNA synthesis.
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Some corals live to be hundreds, and even thousands, of years old. They were born with genes that were successful back in their parent's generation, so how can these old corals still be successful now? Especially in a changing climate? It's possible that the generation and the filtering of mutations that occur in different parts of a big coral act as a proving ground for adaptive genetics for the
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An exponential increase in the amount of stored information is making the development of new optoelectronic devices increasingly important. Recently, photonic crystals have emerged as an alternative to overcome the limitations of conventional photonic devices thanks to their ability to control photons freely in microscopic space. A research team at POSTECH has developed a photonic dispersion solve
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Models for how heavy elements are produced within stars have become more accurate thanks to measurements by RIKEN nuclear physicists of the probabilities that 20 neutron-rich nuclei will shed neutrons.
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Self-testing is a promising method to infer the physics underlying specific quantum experiments using only collected measurements. While this method can be used to examine bipartite pure entangled states, so far it could only be applied to limited kinds of quantum states involving an arbitrary number of systems.
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Föräldrar kan numera dela på barnbidraget, men många avstår från möjligheten – även om paret går skilda vägar. Det visar en rapport. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the galaxy GS-9209 had its star-forming power abruptly "quenched" by mysterious forces after millions of years of productivity.
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The vaginal microbiome is made up of around 300 species of bacteria. But its links to health are still being uncovered.
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Microsoft AI GPT-4
OK… A German Microsoft executive has, for some reason, claimed that OpenAI's next large language model (LLM) will drop imminently. "We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities — for example, videos," claimed Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun during a digital kickoff event yesterday, per German tech news site Heise
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A wiring map diagrams more than half a million neuronal connections in the first complete connectome of Drosophila and holds clues about which brain architectures best support learning.
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Once in a while, a person can take an abstract concept that’s seemingly too vague for formal study and offer an elegant formal definition. Claude Shannon did it with information, and Andrey Kolmogorov did it with randomness. For the past few years, researchers have been trying to do the same for the concept of fairness in machine learning. Unfortunately, this has been trickier. Not only is the…
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COVID-19 19 Vaccine
Concerns about the health effects of COVID-19 are a key variable in determining vaccine hesitancy, a study finds. The study also finds that an individual’s tendency to plan for the future plays a surprising role in people’s vaccine hesitancy. At issue is a psychological trait called proactive coping that refers to a person’s tendency to think about and plan for the future. “We found that the peop
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A new technique that combines underused satellite and radar data in weather models may improve predictions, researchers report. Tens of thousands of thunderstorms may rumble around the world each day, but accurately predicting the time and location where they will form remains a challenge. “Thunderstorms are so ubiquitous it’s hard to count how many you get in Pennsylvania, or the United States o
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Recently, on a YouTube channel, I said something terrible , but I don’t know what it was. The main subject of discussion—my reporting on the power of online gurus —was not intrinsically offensive. It might have been something about the comedian turned provocateur Russell Brand’s previous heroin addiction, or child-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. I know it wasn’t the word Nazi , because we
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Pop quiz: Which of the following Shakespeare works is about race? (A) Hamlet , (B) Othello , (C) Romeo and Juliet , (D) the sonnets. If you answered B, you’re not alone. Many of us have been taught that Othello is Shakespeare’s primary race play, because, of course, it focuses on a Black character. You might also recall that Shakespeare wrote a few other plays with nonwhite characters: the Prince
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H ere’s what I think about Spare , by Prince Harry. I think it’s a very interesting book, a feat of psychosensory downloading by the master ghostwriter J. R. Moehringer. But it should have been called Spike . “The Spare”—as in, not the heir—is what members of the Royal Family have allegedly dubbed the brooding prince. “Spike,” however, is his nickname, or his most resonant one. It’s the one used
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In work published in Science, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ulf Peschel reports on measurements on a sequence of pulses that travel thousands of kilometers through glass fibers that are only a few microns thin. The researchers were surprised by the results.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31171-0
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Despite impressive progress, today’s AI models are very inefficient learners , taking huge amounts of time and data to solve problems humans pick up almost instantaneously. A new approach could drastically speed things up by getting AI to read instruction manuals before attempting a challenge. One of the most promising approaches to creating AI that can solve a diverse range of problems is reinfo
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An analysis extending from southern Portugal to northern Norway highlights the importance of temperature in determining where fish species are found. The study, "Sea temperature is the primary driver of recent and predicted fish community structure across Northeast Atlantic shelf seas," is published in Global Change Biology.
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Insect pests which attack crops have extraordinary powers to develop resistance to greener pesticides and a new way to manage resistance risks is needed, according to analysis by University of Stirling scientists.
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An analysis extending from southern Portugal to northern Norway highlights the importance of temperature in determining where fish species are found. The study, "Sea temperature is the primary driver of recent and predicted fish community structure across Northeast Atlantic shelf seas," is published in Global Change Biology.
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Insect pests which attack crops have extraordinary powers to develop resistance to greener pesticides and a new way to manage resistance risks is needed, according to analysis by University of Stirling scientists.
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Research finds that northern and southern resident orcas hunt differently, which may help explain the decline of the southern population. In the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, scientists have been sounding the alarm about the plight of southern resident orcas. Annual counts show that population numbers, already precarious, have fallen back to mid-1970s levels. Most pregnancies end in mis
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If you were to travel back in time you’d find a mix of the familiar and strange on our planet
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Scientists led by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have developed a super-resolution microscope with a spatio-temporal precision of one nanometer per millisecond. An improved version of their recently introduced MINFLUX super-resolution microscopy allowed tiny movements of single proteins to be observed at an unprecedented level of detail: t
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Neonicotinoid insecticides used to control spotted lanternflies have the potential to harm pollinators, but the degree of risk depends on multiple factors, such as application timing, type of neonicotinoid, the species of tree being treated and pollinator species sensitivity.
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Scientists led by Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have developed a super-resolution microscope with a spatio-temporal precision of one nanometer per millisecond. An improved version of their recently introduced MINFLUX super-resolution microscopy allowed tiny movements of single proteins to be observed at an unprecedented level of detail: t
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Oscar Best Picture
From Everything Everywhere All at Once to Tár, almost every film up for the prestigious award is available to stream at home.
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Blair Adhesives is responsible for a lot of slime used in movies over the last 40 years. Mike heads to santa fe springs, CA to experience his own life long dream of getting slimed. #discoveryplus #dirtyjobs Stream Full Episodes of Dirty Jobs https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/dirty-jobs About Dirty Jobs: Host Mike Rowe offers an unflinching look at American men and women who make their living doi
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36842-0 Intercalation of protons in 2D materials plays a major role for several applications in energy storage and conversion. Here, the authors show that protons intercalated in Ti3C2Tx MXene interlayer during electrochemical cycling have a different hydration structure than protons in bulk water.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37027-5 Land-use diversity can theoretically have a significant impact on biodiversity at large spatial scales but the importance and generality of this environmental component are uncertain. This study shows that regional land-use diversity constitutes a key factor associated with bird regional taxonomic and functiona
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Children who threaten violence at school often have psychiatric diagnoses, learning disorders, and educational and treatment needs, report researchers. The research team investigated child and adolescent psychiatry threat assessment evaluations of 157 school-age youth (mean age: 13.4), referred to the Stony Brook University Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic (now called the Child and Adolesce
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Today Venus has a dry, oxygen-poor atmosphere. But recent studies have proposed that the early planet may have had liquid water and reflective clouds that could have sustained habitable conditions. Researchers at the University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, have built a new time-dependent model of Venus's atmospheric composition to explore these claims. Their findings have been p
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Neonicotinoid insecticides used to control spotted lanternflies have the potential to harm pollinators, but the degree of risk depends on multiple factors, such as application timing, type of neonicotinoid, the species of tree being treated and pollinator species sensitivity.
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Asteroid known as 2023 DW is 50 metres wide and has a 1-in-607 chance of striking Earth – but not for two decades at least Space experts predict a large asteroid could hit Earth just in time to ruin Valentine’s Day – in 2046. The 50-metre wide asteroid, known as 2023 DW, is forecast to take more than two decades to reach us, perhaps almost three. Continue reading…
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For many years, the Cave of the Malalmuerzo (“bad lunch”) near Granada, Spain, located near rocky farmland, stood open to the public. Local residents stooped under the low ceiling and wound their way through stalactites, and some made the belly-crawl to the deeper reaches of the cave and the early paintings there. They took home “some artifact […] ceramics, bits of bone, etc.,” writes a local busi
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Technically, every single object in the universe with mass or energy emits a gravitational field, and scientists have been able to measure the gravitational field of objects far smaller than a human. General Relativity Einstein revolutionized our understanding of gravity with his magnum opus, the general theory of relativity. The theory transformed our perspective of gravity from a simple property
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Michigan State University researcher Jian Hu has taken another important step in learning as much as possible about tiny protein machines that help shuttle metals into living cells.
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Near the small harbor of Estellencs at the northeast of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), a pebbly beach can be found at the base of an impressive scarp that threatens rockfall. Remains of plants, crustaceans, insects, and fish have been discovered in the gray-blue rock layers formed from sediments deposited 247 million years ago. Fossils in these rocks are of great interest since they offer a w
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A mystery about how a chemical compound found in nature could be synthesized in the lab may have been solved, scientists say—a breakthrough that could unlock new developments in medicine.
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Michigan State University researcher Jian Hu has taken another important step in learning as much as possible about tiny protein machines that help shuttle metals into living cells.
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A mystery about how a chemical compound found in nature could be synthesized in the lab may have been solved, scientists say—a breakthrough that could unlock new developments in medicine.
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Near the small harbor of Estellencs at the northeast of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain), a pebbly beach can be found at the base of an impressive scarp that threatens rockfall. Remains of plants, crustaceans, insects, and fish have been discovered in the gray-blue rock layers formed from sediments deposited 247 million years ago. Fossils in these rocks are of great interest since they offer a w
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Smoke from the catastrophic 2019–2020 fires in Australia unleashed ozone-eating chlorine molecules into the stratosphere
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31164-z
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A research team led by Prof. Yuan Shuguang from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Zhang Huawei from the South University of Science and Technology has revealed the molecular mechanism of pannexin 2 (Panx2) as an ATP membrane pore channel.
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A research team led by Prof. Yuan Shuguang from Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. Zhang Huawei from the South University of Science and Technology has revealed the molecular mechanism of pannexin 2 (Panx2) as an ATP membrane pore channel.
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Scientists Mice Two
(Credit: Sangharsh Lohakare/Unsplash) Same-sex reproduction has historically required donor cells, as is the case with egg implantation and some instances of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). Thanks to genetic engineering, however, this might not always be the case. Scientists in Japan have successfully created eggs using male cells, resulting in the birth of several mice that were produced without m
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Posttraumatisk stress kan påverka flyktingar under lång tid och försvåra integration. Det visar en studie som undersökt hur erfarenhet av tortyr förändrar hjärnans funktioner. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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The deep sea is one of the least well-known areas on Earth, comprising multiple vulnerable ecosystems that play critical roles in the carbon cycle. However, the deep sea is directly exposed to the effects of human-induced climate change and may now face additional challenges arising from efforts to counteract climate change artificially. These efforts have evolved into geoengineering solutions tha
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Vocal behaviors in animals are highly conserved, though specific vocalization features can vary within and between species. There are big questions about environmental influences, genetic inheritability, and social learning aspects around the evolution of these communications.
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This fast-folding escooter is reliable, but is not that big an upgrade over its previous—and cheaper—iteration.
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The Center for Humane Technology stoked conversation about the dangers of social media. Now it’s warning that artificial intelligence is as dangerous as nuclear weapons.
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The Daniels’ genre-bending epic is nominated for a whopping 11 Oscars, unheard-of for a movie full of sci-fi themes and everything bagels.
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the AI expert who says we should stop using AI so much Meredith Broussard is unusually well placed to dissect the ongoing hype around AI. She’s a data scientist and associate professor at New York University, and she’s been one of the leading researchers
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36989-w Polyketide synthases (PKSs) usually form C–C bonds in natural products biosynthesis. Here, the authors present cryo-EM structures of a PKS in complex with products, which provides insight into the mechanism of the unexpected C–N bond formation.
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The deep sea is one of the least well-known areas on Earth, comprising multiple vulnerable ecosystems that play critical roles in the carbon cycle. However, the deep sea is directly exposed to the effects of human-induced climate change and may now face additional challenges arising from efforts to counteract climate change artificially. These efforts have evolved into geoengineering solutions tha
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Vocal behaviors in animals are highly conserved, though specific vocalization features can vary within and between species. There are big questions about environmental influences, genetic inheritability, and social learning aspects around the evolution of these communications.
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Researchers at the Université de Lorraine in France and Tohoku University in Japan have demonstrated a sub-picosecond magnetization reversal in rare-earth-free archetypical spin valves. Their discovery was published in the journal Nature Materials on March 9, 2023.
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House Republicans have kicked off an investigation into how the pandemic began with witnesses who largely favor a lab origin
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Hashimoto's disease, or Hashimoto thyroiditis, is an autoimmune condition affecting the thyroid gland.
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Sometime during the pandemic lockdowns, I began to nurture a fantasy: What if I were neighbors with all of my friends? Every day, as I took long walks through North Vancouver that were still nowhere near long enough to land me at a single pal’s doorstep, I would reflect on the potential joys of a physically closer network. Wouldn’t it be great to have someone who could join me on a stroll at a mo
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Editor’s Note: Read Mona Simpson’s new short story “ Second Life .” “ Second Life ” is a new story by Mona Simpson , adapted from her forthcoming novel, Commitment . To mark the story’s publication in The Atlantic , Simpson and Katherine Hu, an assistant editor for the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity. Katherine Hu: In your short sto
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Illustrations by Katherine Lam Editor’s Note: Read an interview with Mona Simpson about her writing process. D uring Donnie’s first week in the mixed unit (drugs and crazy), a girl threw a TV set out the window because she thought it was criticizing her. Donnie walked to the window to look. “Probably was,” he mumbled. He’d grown up with a mother who came alive when insulted. The guy sleeping acro
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Energy Paint Inspired
Plasmonic paint applied to the wings of metal butterflies (Credit: University of Central Florida) Every paint in the world today takes on a specific color due to the presence of pigment molecules. They absorb some wavelengths of light and reflect others, but University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda has devised an entirely new kind of paint inspired by butterfly wings. The so-calle
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Most firearm owners keep at least one firearm unlocked, with some viewing gun locks as an unnecessary obstacle to quick access in an emergency, a study finds. But when owners do lock their firearms, the researchers found that firearm owners are most likely to use gun safes. In a study published in JAMA Network Open , researchers surveyed a national sample of 2,152 English-speaking adult firearm o
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Scientists have identified the so-called worm at the bottom of some bottles of tequila. Mezcal is a distilled alcohol made from the boiled and fermented sap of agave plants . Most mezcal beverages—including all brands of tequila—are sold as pure distillates, but a few have an added stowaway bottled inside: worms. Called gusanos de maguey (Spanish for agave worms), these odd organic chasers aren’t
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Scientists have identified a mutant strain of clonal raider ants that look like miniature queens and evolved quickly because of a single "supergene" mutation.
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Gym Class is aiming to make VR fitness more social by bringing people together on the virtual court.
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The internet loves to poke fun at people who got it wrong, but those ridiculed forecasters might get the last laugh.
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This surprisingly touching game about a 16-year-old kaiju is the first time virtual reality has actually felt real to me.
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I don’t feel, but I can still kill. This happened sooner than I thought. Last June I wrote about Google employee, Blake Lemoine, who claimed that the LaMDA chatbot he was working on was probably sentient. I didn’t buy it then and I still don’t, but Lemoine is not backing away from his claims. In an interview on H3 he lays out his reasoning, and I don’t find it convincing. His basic point is that
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Nature, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00739-1 Chemist André Isaacs produces fun-loving social-media videos to bond with his Gen Z students and build an inclusive community.
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Nature, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00703-z Matthias Rillig’s foray into film-making has helped him to identify the research and management skills he needs to work on.
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Nature, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00738-2 After debunking many myths around male and female brains, Gina Rippon’s research interests now include gender gaps in science and why they persist, even in allegedly gender-equal societies.
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I'm a hardcore 'our world is drifting to destruction' techno-pessimist who is nonetheless in one of those 9%. The reason I feel that way is because AI is developing in a way not that it will result in a second class of artificial citizens or a unitary singular intelligence, but more like a hive intelligence. That is, instead of SkyNET or Star Trek's Data or Agent Smith, AI is a collection of amor
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Til august skal den danske ESA-astronaut Andreas Mogensen i rummet for anden gang, og i Transformator fortæller han om missionen, træningen og fartøjet. Ugens episode handler også om plastsortering og den globale opvarmning.
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Oscar Academy Hollywood
A s a film critic , I have complicated feelings about Oscar season, a baggy calendrical concept that now includes every month of the year, from the indie-film discoveries of the Sundance Film Festival in January to the awards voting by critics’ groups in December. The complaints about the Academy Awards are as well rehearsed as the acceptance speech of a surefire victor: The most deserving nomine
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Hello!! I’m a high school student who has been interested in neuroscience and cognitive science for a while, hoping to be able to develop my interest further. My school gave me an opportunity to read some books, so I thought it would be great to read books about cognitive science. However, all the books that I’ve come up with were 500+ pages long, which I doubt if I will be able to read with the
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31217-3
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30824-4
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Scientists have learned a great deal about how our solar system was born, but there are some things you can’t discern from studying the sun and planets as they exist today. In those cases, astronomers can look for younger sun-like stars in the cosmos to test their hypotheses. That’s where the protostar V883 Orionis comes in. Data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) shows
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Laserskanning kan ge en bättre bild av svenska skogars egenskaper, men kunskapen har inte utnyttjats. Det vill forskare ändra på. I en avhandling har ett nytt planeringsverktyg tagits fram för mer detaljerad skogsskötsel. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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ChatGPT AI
The technology behind OpenAI’s viral chatbot is set to become widely replicated, unleashing a tidal wave of bots.
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Japan Rocket Launch
Relativity Space’s attempt to reach orbit heralds the increasing use of 3D printing in the space sector.
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Celebrate everyone's favorite red-capped plumber with a discount on a special Nintendo Switch and classic games.
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Us HBO Finale March
Watercooler TV didn’t end with Game of Thrones. The success of HBO’s latest viral drama makes this obvious.
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To check that atomic weapons work, scientists run simulations of explosions using high-energy lasers—and Russia is building the strongest one of all.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37124-5
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A report has been seized upon to argue that lockdown had little effect on mental health – but the truth is more nuanced Imagine that your teenager was a star athlete, on track for a university athletics scholarship. But then they develop long Covid at the height of the pandemic, meaning they no longer had the lung capacity to run, let alone live independently. If that was your experience, you’re
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Preeclampsia is a common pregnancy disorder, but doctors lacked a decisive way to predict its severity until now
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PLUS. Den 18. august sidder Andreas Mogensen som pilot i Dragon Crew-fartøjet på vej til et halvt år på ISS. Lige nu træner han i Houstons gigantiske vandbassin.
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PLUS. Ved den årlige sirenetest i maj får alle danskere med en moderne mobil en testbesked ind.
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Nature, Published online: 09 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00733-7 Special neurons in the throats of mice reveal how the brain becomes aware of sickness. Plus, the mice with two biological fathers and how Australian wildfires shredded the ozone layer.
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Those exposed to more light in hours before sleep appear more likely to develop gestational diabetes, researchers suggest While reading until the small hours or scrolling under the covers are common bedtime habits, pregnant women might want to switch off sooner to reduce their risk of developing gestational diabetes, researchers have suggested. According to the Royal College of Obstetricians and
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We slammed a $330-million spaceship the size of a dairy cow into an asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Here’s what we’re learning about how our first step in planetary defense could save us in the future.
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We slammed a $330-million spaceship the size of a dairy cow into an asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Here’s what we’re learning about how our first step in planetary defense could save us in the future.
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A blend of deep scientific knowledge and nuanced narrative takes us from the sea to space to highlight Earth’s riches
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Carbon-plated running shoes may have some performance benefits, but overusing them could lead to injuries, research suggests.
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Gene Editing CRISPR
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here . I’ve spent the last few days thinking about how, when, and if we should use gene-editing tools to change the human genome. These are huge questions, and very emotive ones—especially when it comes to editing embryos. I watched scientists, ethicists, patien
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Runt en halv miljon svenskar medicinerar mot rubbad produktion av sköldkörtelhormon. Åtta av tio är kvinnor. Mikael Lantz, docent vid Lunds universitet och överläkare i endokrinologi vid Skånes universitetssjukhus, forskar om hur ultraljud kan effektivisera såväl diagnostik som behandling
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31167-w
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31186-7
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31107-8
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30758-x
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31034-8
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31228-0
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30339-y
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31155-0
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36682-y The postural control mechanism in fish is unclear. Here, authors show that larval zebrafish recover upright posture after roll tilts by a body bend that produces corrective rotational torque. They also reveal the associated neural circuits and muscles.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36725-4 Previous studies of magnetic Bose–Einstein condensates have been limited to magnetic materials with small spin numbers. Here the authors study the magnetic phase diagram of a S = 3/2 quantum antiferromagnet and show a double dome structure that is attributed to different types of condensates.
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Det finns en koppling mellan luftföroreningar och risken att drabbas av demens. En ny studie från Umeå visar att personer med en specifik genvariant löper extra stor risk om de utsätts för skadliga partiklar under lång tid. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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PLUS. Israelske Rail Vision har udviklet et nyt AI-baseret tog-sensorsystem, der skal øge sikkerheden og mindske forsinkelser. DSB finder ikke typen af systemer egnet til den danske jernbane endnu.
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PLUS. Et nyt jordbaseret anti-jammingsystem fra Boeing sikrer, at satellitsignaler ikke blokeres fra Jorden.
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Meredith Broussard is unusually well placed to dissect the ongoing hype around AI. She’s a data scientist and associate professor at New York University, and she’s been one of the leading researchers in the field of algorithmic bias for years. And though her own work leaves her buried in math problems, she’s spent the last few years thinking about problems that mathematics can’t solve. Her reflec
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My throat made strange gurgling noises, like a creaky floorboard. My body would get full of air When I was about four, I watched my two-year-old brother throw up into a basket of fries in a restaurant. He had a hypersensitive gag reflex, which meant vomiting was a common occurrence. I could never get that basket of fries out of my head. I developed a fear of vomiting called emetophobia, meaning I
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36875-5 Building synthetic protocells and prototissues hinges on the formation of biomimetic skeletal frameworks. Here, the authors harness simplicity to create complexity by assembling DNA subunits into structural frameworks which support membrane-based protocells and prototissues.
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Ben Wilson’s “Urban Jungle” is a surprisingly hopeful look at how urbanization has changed our relationship with the natural world, and what can be done to preserve urban ecosystems. Faced with climate change, Wilson contends, cities in search of solutions will invite nature back into urban areas.
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The fact that we did a decent job of protecting children at the start of the pandemic was used to claim that children didn't need protection at all. That's farcical. The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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For decades researchers have studied how heavy elements are produced in the cosmos – but there is still so much mystery to unravel, says astrophysicist Artemis Spyrou
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Pathways of N2O production by marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea determined from dual-isotope labeling
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023.
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Speed skating in the Netherlands, a teddy-bear clinic in Belgium, a newfound sphinx statue in Egypt, an International Women’s Day march in Chile, carpet weaving in Afghanistan, Holi celebrations in India, skijoring in Colorado, a cow-look-alike competition for cats in Thailand, and much more
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Schneider Shorts 10.03.2023 – two science bigwigs caught with unaffected conclusions, return of superconductive fraud in Nature, other examples of who's trustworthy and who isn't, what Stanford president knew, some retractions, MDPI fighting papermills, a German journal can't stop papermilling, and finally, who blew up Nord Stream pipelines?
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37085-9 3D printing allows preparation of versatile polymer materials for device applications, but properties are often fixed following printing. Here, the authors report a photo-printable dynamic covalent network that allows modification of properties following printing.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36958-3 Here the author study Self-trapped exciton emission for multiphoton excited luminescence in ZnO nanoparticle which until now have not been explored. They provide a reason for the emission enhancement and apply these materials in optical imaging for a proof of concept.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37053-3 Discovering ancient mantle plumes is challenging. By combining electrical conductivity with mineral physics modelling, this work finds a remnant of an ancient plume trapped in the mantle transition zone and sheds new light on mantle plume physics.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36999-8 Raspha et al. apply proteomics and different microscopy approaches to investigate the role of ubiquitination in the lifecycle progression of Plasmodium berghei. They describe the location and function of proteins linked to the conserved SKP1/Culin1/FBXO1 complex (SCF) – a member of the cullinRING E3 ligases (CR
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36908-z Waning protective efficacy of mRNA-based booster vaccinations has been observed against newly emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. In this work, Pavot et al. formulate a monovalent Beta vaccine and demonstrate durable cross-neutralising antibody responses in non-human primates, against a spectrum of variant
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PLUS. Danske eksperter rejser tvivl om nye tyske oplysninger, der udpeger seks personer i en 15 meter lang sejlbåd som ansvarlige.
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PLUS. Der er enighed om, hvordan bygninger sikres optimalt mod jordskælv. Men det er kostbart.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37020-y mRNA delivery has shown great potential in the treatment of various diseases. Here, the authors develop a lantern-shaped flexible origami for nanolization of single mRNA molecules and demonstrate efficient delivery of Smad4 mRNA, achieving suppression of colorectal cancer tumour growth.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 10 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37019-5 Triadic interactions are higher-order interactions relevant to many real complex systems. The authors develop a percolation theory for networks with triadic interactions and identify basic mechanisms for observing dynamical changes of the giant component such as the ones occurring in neuronal and climate networ
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The US government may approve the Alaska drilling site soon – but its opponents are going viral.
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The FBI’s latest Internet Crime Report highlights the stunning rise of investment-themed crimes over the past 18 months.
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Customizing Catalysts
Chemists at Hokkaido University and the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD) have developed the first high-performance catalyst specifically designed and optimized for solid-state, mechanochemical synthesis.
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A new web project, UnProductive Solutions , launched this week. UnPro poses as an international holding company that develops digital technologies designed to challenge the capitalist logic of hyper-efficiency. The project offers a critical perspective on tech and its impact on humans by proposing products and platforms that honor the irrationality of human emotions and the pleasures of idleness
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Nature, Published online: 09 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00740-8 US president takes aim at China with proposal to invest big in manufacturing and clean energy.
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Hi I'm building a aiwizard.ai directory / review / tutorial site for AI tools. All tools listed on aiwizard are manually tested & reviewed. Users get step by step tutorials and reviews containing the most important content, such as features, pricing, refund policy etc. Will build search functionality in near future when more tools are listed. All feedback appreciated, Thank you submitted by
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Fox News will likely never face any real consequences for the biggest scandal in the history of American media. But will Republican voters finally understand who really looks down on them? First, here
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A world-leading seed conservation program led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is celebrating a major milestone today in its efforts to preserve rare, threatened, and important wild plants. As of March 1, the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) has banked more than 2.4 billion individual seeds representing a total of 40,020 different species of wild plants.
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A world-leading seed conservation program led by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is celebrating a major milestone today in its efforts to preserve rare, threatened, and important wild plants. As of March 1, the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) has banked more than 2.4 billion individual seeds representing a total of 40,020 different species of wild plants.
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New research reveals how members of Generation Z perceive online "personal brands" as a crucial tool to gain more advantage in job markets.
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Spotify TikTok Like SS
The world’s most popular music streamer is putting more focus on video and previews. But it’s not clear that’s what listeners want.
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Researchers have mapped the more than 500,000 connections in the intricate brain of a fruit fly larva. This map, they say, could help scientists figure out how learning changes the human brain, too. (Image credit: Ed Reschke/Getty Images)
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