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For more than half a century, the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), an enigmatic animal that lived about 300 million years ago, has confounded paleontologists, with its strange anatomy making it difficult to classify. Recently, a group of researchers proposed a hypothesis that Tullimonstrum was a vertebrate similar to cyclostomes (jawless fish like lamprey and hagfish). If it was, then the
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I've seen some comments about him being a quack and some comments saying he's right about stuff I am very much early on in my research into this so would really appreciate anyone's help, guidance or tips (Sorry if this doesn't belong here, if it doesn't does anyone know where it does?) submitted by /u/c1b4 [link] [comments]
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The increasing mass of the Greenland ice sheet caused local sea level to rise more than 3 metres after Vikings colonised Greenland, flooding many settlements and contributing to their abandonment of the place
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Remains preserved in amber from 105 million years ago are the oldest evidence of a mutually beneficial relationship between dinosaurs and arthropods
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Self-assembled peptide supramolecular hydrogels have shown great application prospects in various areas, including tissue engineering, drug delivery, and biosensing.
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As far back as 45,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers lived in what is now called El Mirón Cave near the northern coast of Spain. First discovered for science in 1903 by local archaeologists and surveyed by University of New Mexico Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus in 1973, systematic excavation of the cave began in 1996 when Straus and Manuel González Morales of the University of Ca
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Here the authors report that while inhibition of the hypothalamic melanocortin action leads to obesity in mice, chronic activation of melanocortin action is not sufficient to cause weight loss.
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So Self-Conscious We can now apparently add the CEO of the Google-owned DeepMind to the list of machine learning researchers who think artificial intelligence might come to gain self-awareness.
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More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday.
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More than half of North America's bat species are likely to diminish significantly as climate change, disease and habitat loss take their toll, scientists warned Monday.
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Female monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate—even when a parasite kills most of the males, new research shows.
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The largest study on racial discrimination in job recruitment in Europe reveals that having a non-white phenotype is a major obstacle to finding employment for Europeans born to immigrant parents. This is one of the main conclusions of a study carried out by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, the Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) and the
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Female monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate—even when a parasite kills most of the males, new research shows.
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Doping a liquid crystal with azobenzene molecules can induce reversible changes in its thermal conductivity under light irradiation. These findings have been reported in a new collaboration between the Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CiQUS) groups and is now featured on the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
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A new major study documents that religiously motivated legislation has taken place in all types of societies and religions—to the detriment of democratic rights. The researchers behind the study also find that religion is still used to oppress women in particular and to give lawmakers unchallenged power.
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Correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM) is a powerful tool in bioimaging, as it combines the ability to image living cells over large fields of view with molecular specificity using light microscopy (LM) with the high spatial resolution and ultrastructural information of electron microscopy (EM). To highlight biomolecules of interest and determine their position with high accuracy in CLEM, re
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Researchers from Tsinghua University synthesized porous yolk-shell NiO nanospheres (PYS-NiO NSs) via a solvothermal and subsequent calcination process of Ni-MOF. As the large specific surface areas and hollow porous nanostructures were conducive to ionic transport, PYS-NiO NSs exhibited a fast coloring/bleaching speed (3.6/3.9 s per one coloring/bleaching cycle) and excellent cycling stability (82
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And the models generally don’t account for the ways in which having markets dominated by so few competitors—Google with web search, Amazon with online shopping—might skew profits, investments, and wages.
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Finding life on other planets might well be the holy grail of astronomy, but the hunt for suitable host planets that can sustain life is a resource-intensive task. The search for exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) involves competing for time on Earth’s biggest telescopes—yet the hit rate of this search can be disappointingly low. In a new study recently published in Science , my collea
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Researchers at QUT have developed a new tool to measure customer aggression within the retail and services sectors.
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VW’s latest big electric cruise sedan showcases new tech and impressive aerodynamics, but can it take on the Hyundai Ioniq 6 and Tesla Model S?
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Genetically modified fat can be transplanted into mice to shrink mouse and transplanted human tumors, but this novel cancer therapy still needs to be tested in human trials.
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A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently made a surprising discovery, with the help of a wind tunnel and a flock of birds. Songbirds, many of which make twice-yearly, non-stop flights of more than 1,000 miles to get from breeding range to wintering range, fuel themselves by burning lots of fat and a surprising amount of the protein making up l
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New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit, according to an article titled "Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles" published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today.
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A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently made a surprising discovery, with the help of a wind tunnel and a flock of birds. Songbirds, many of which make twice-yearly, non-stop flights of more than 1,000 miles to get from breeding range to wintering range, fuel themselves by burning lots of fat and a surprising amount of the protein making up l
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Scientific research must meet clear ethical guidelines to prevent harm to participants. However, research can also indirectly harm individuals and social groups, for example by shaping social perceptions and inspiring policy. Researchers receive little to no training on how to consider and minimize such harm.
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New fossils in amber have revealed that beetles fed on the feathers of dinosaurs about 105 million years ago, showing a symbiotic relationship of one-sided or mutual benefit, according to an article titled "Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles" published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today.
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When astronauts return to the moon in the next few years, the plan is to have them stay for good while establishing a permanent outpost on Earth's nearest celestial neighbor. Like all space missions, a lunar outpost will require fuel for long-term sustainability, but would it be better to mine fuel on the moon or get fuel resupply from the Earth? This is what a team of researchers led by Bocconi U
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Rug Pull Yet another NFT collector got caught up in a scam, losing millions of dollars worth of crypto in the process. Collector and aerospace engineer Frank Caldwell II, better known by his online handle FranklinIsBored, was forced to sell a number of his Bored Ape NFTs after losing 2,000 Ether, worth just under $4 million, to a Ponzi scheme. It's a sign that people in the crypto space are still
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Mr. Kennedy, a Democrat who plans to kick off his campaign this week, says he wants to make vaccines safer, but he is spreading misinformation by twisting facts out of context.
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Polestar Shanghai Auto
The 350-mile Polestar 4 attempts to maximize interior space and right the wrongs of the much-maligned SUV coupé.
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The Pentagon document leaks and the Ghost of Kyiv myth rose from the platform’s culture of one-upmanship—and reveal its blurred lines between games and war.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37924-9 Cancer cells can be dependent on mitochondrial respiration to survive. Here, in pancreatic cancer cells, the authors show that monounsaturated fatty acids-linked ether lipids maintain mitochondrial redox homeostasis and modulate sensitivity to inhibition to electron transport chain complex I.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37892-0 Single-photon emitters (SPEs) in 2D semiconductors are usually affected by complex spectral profiles that limit their understanding and applications. Here, the authors combine a noncovalent surface functionalization method with localized mechanical strain to simplify the spectra and enhance the purity of SPEs i
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A drug made from a natural compound used in traditional Chinese medicine works against malignant brain tumors in mice, a new study shows. The findings offer a promising avenue of research for glioblastoma treatment. In the study, published in Cell Reports Medicine , the researchers showed how a formulation of the compound, called indirubin, improved the survival of mice with malignant brain tumor
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Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing interest in studies on the origins of the relationship between insects and plants, especially in the current context of the progressive decline of pollinating insects on a global scale and its impact on f
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Insect pollination is a decisive process for the survival and evolution of angiosperm (flowering) plants and, to a lesser extent, gymnosperms (without visible flower or fruit). There is a growing interest in studies on the origins of the relationship between insects and plants, especially in the current context of the progressive decline of pollinating insects on a global scale and its impact on f
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light Quantum quantum
An international team of researchers from Leibniz University Hannover (Germany), the University of Twente (Netherlands), and the start-up company QuiX Quantum has presented an entangled quantum light source fully integrated for the first time on a chip. The results of the study were published in the journal Nature Photonics.
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In parts of California's iconic mountainous coasts, breathtaking beauty is punctuated by brusque signs warning spectators to stay back from unstable cliffs. The dangers of coastal erosion are an all-too-familiar reality for the modern residents of these communities. Now, with a new tool, researchers are bringing historical perspective to the hotly debated topic of how to manage these disappearing
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The New Horizons mission currently flying through the Kuiper Belt could be facing an unexpected change of plans. NASA's Science Mission Directorate is soliciting input on turning the spacecraft into a heliospheric science probe. The agency wants to do it much sooner than mission planners intended. If that happens, it will stop further planned planetary exploration of objects in that distant regime
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The expulsion of two Black state Democratic lawmakers in their 20s by the predominantly white, Republican-controlled Tennessee House in late March ignited backlash across the country. Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were ousted for rallying in the House with local activists and student protesters in support of stricter gun controls following a school shooting in Nashville that left six dead.
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ChatGPT (GPT) has become one of the most talked-about innovations in recent years, with over 100 million users worldwide. However, there is still limited knowledge about the sources of information GPT utilizes. As a result, we carried out a study focusing on the sources of information within the field of environmental science. Our study, available on the arXiv preprint server, aims to address the
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During their long migration journeys, birds do more than just refuel and gain energy at their stopover locations. Learn how birds need to build their immunity during migration.
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The high seas have been colonized by a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species, which can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean, contributing strongly to the floating community composition. This finding was published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution by a team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai'i (UH) at
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Choosing the appropriate antibiotics to treat bacterial infections has grown more challenging because of the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Aminoglycosides, as broad-spectrum antibiotics, are increasingly being used clinically; however, for most effective employment of aminoglycosides, a comprehensive understanding of aminoglycoside resistance genes' prevalence and dissemination is re
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Astronomers have investigated an ultraslow radio pulsar known as PSR J0901-4046, finding that it has an extremely high magnetic field—at a level of 30 quadrillion Gauss. The discovery, published April 7 in Physical Review D, makes PSR J0901-4046 the most magnetized radio pulsar known to date.
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The plant cell walls represent the cellular basis for plant architecture and constitute the major component of plant biomass. Formation of multiple agronomic traits, e.g., plant height and mechanical force, largely depends upon orderly deposition of plant cell walls and precise control of cell wall biosynthesis. Therefore, cell wall accumulation is tightly coupled with various biological processes
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The high seas have been colonized by a surprising number of coastal marine invertebrate species, which can now survive and reproduce in the open ocean, contributing strongly to the floating community composition. This finding was published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution by a team of researchers led by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the University of Hawai'i (UH) at
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“As I imagine it,” Carl Sagan once said, “there will be a multilayered message. First there is a beacon, an announcement signal, something that says, Pay attention . This is not some natural astronomical phenomenon. This is a signal from intelligent beings … Then, the next layer is one that says, This message is directed specifically to you guys on Earth. It isn’t directed to anybody else. And th
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2023 Coachella Dates
Thousands of music fans gathered once again for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, to hear performances by artists on multiple stages, including sets by Blondie, Rosalía, Gorillaz, Björk, Burna Boy, Blink-182, Porter Robinson, Blackpink, Boygenius, and many more. Gathered below are images of this year’s performances and concertgoers during the first weekend of Coac
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Choosing the appropriate antibiotics to treat bacterial infections has grown more challenging because of the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Aminoglycosides, as broad-spectrum antibiotics, are increasingly being used clinically; however, for most effective employment of aminoglycosides, a comprehensive understanding of aminoglycoside resistance genes' prevalence and dissemination is re
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The plant cell walls represent the cellular basis for plant architecture and constitute the major component of plant biomass. Formation of multiple agronomic traits, e.g., plant height and mechanical force, largely depends upon orderly deposition of plant cell walls and precise control of cell wall biosynthesis. Therefore, cell wall accumulation is tightly coupled with various biological processes
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In a nearly treeless desert, Ancestral Puebloans built Great Houses with more than 200,000 massive log beams
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LockBit Ransomware
The discovery of malicious encryptors for Apple computers could herald new risks for macOS users if the malware continues to evolve.
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Leaders and authorities recently gathered in New York for the first UN water conference in decades. The hope was that there would be some landmark breakthroughs to ensure that everyone had access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
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An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was discovered Monday, turning into a dazzling fireball that was spotted throughout Europe.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32802-2 Factors influencing bamboo intake of captive giant pandas ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca )
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33452-0
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33322-9
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Parents see upsides and downsides to teens working, a new poll finds. In many families, getting a job is a rite of passage for teens. However, teens can experience both positive and negative consequences. The C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health asked a national sample of parents of teens 14-18 years about their experiences related to teenagers and jobs. In thinking ab
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When the computer game Hogwarts Legacy was released in February 2023, some critics wondered whether the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling—whose Harry Potter franchise inspired the game—would hurt sales.
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Extreme cold is merciless on machinery. Fluids thicken to useless goo. Rubber seals stiffen and crack.
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You might have heard the phrase "social determinants of health". It's the idea that social factors—such as poverty, access to education, where you live and whether you face discrimination—have a huge influence on your health and life expectancy.
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Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome.
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I don't know if this is allowed here and forgive me if so. I'm curious whom a lot of you follow on Twitter for cutting-edge news/thoughts on AI and arcs of the future. I know there are some real jewels out there from people and organizations really putting in the work, I would like to expand on my axis with new eyes and ears. If its not too much, I would like for people to list the people/organiz
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One of the best things about science is that it is constantly evolving and being re-written. Theories and predictions have constantly been superseded or modified when the technology creates it or more evidence is found that does not support it. This is very important for futurism, as most of what is discussed is speculative until it is not. Self-driving cars. Everyone thought they thought they
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Scientists can now use light to activate protein functions both inside and outside of living cells. The new method, called light-activated SpyLigation, can turn on proteins that are normally off to allow researchers to study and control them in more detail. This technology has potential uses in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and understanding how the body works.
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Bird populations in the U.K. continue to freefall as the government moves further away from achieving its own targets to protect nature.
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Shining like a brilliant beacon amidst a sea of galaxies, Arp 220 lights up the night sky in this view from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Actually two spiral galaxies in the process of merging, Arp 220 glows brightest in infrared light, making it an ideal target for Webb. It is an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) with a luminosity of more than a trillion suns. In comparison, our Milky W
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Scientists can now use light to activate protein functions both inside and outside of living cells. The new method, called light-activated SpyLigation, can turn on proteins that are normally off to allow researchers to study and control them in more detail. This technology has potential uses in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and understanding how the body works.
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The coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023—a total solar eclipse.
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Bird populations in the U.K. continue to freefall as the government moves further away from achieving its own targets to protect nature.
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New research shows how a biological clock molecule, called REV-ERBα, contributes to lung scarring, uncovering new potential drugs and drug targets along the way. Abnormal sleep patterns, like those of night-shift workers, disrupt the body’s natural biological clock and have been linked to lung health issues. Pulmonary fibrosis , or lung scarring, is a serious condition in which connective tissue
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Google Ceo Pichai AI
Linguistic Nightmare Like a human possessed, Google's artificial intelligence appears to know things it shouldn't — and yeah, it's freaking us out. In an interview with CBS' 60 Minutes , Google tech exec James Manyika admitted that the company's AI had somehow learned a language on which it had not been trained. "We discovered that with very few amounts of prompting in Bengali," Manyika said, "it
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists exploring bioenergy plant genetics have made a surprising discovery: a protein domain that could lead to new COVID-19 treatments.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists exploring bioenergy plant genetics have made a surprising discovery: a protein domain that could lead to new COVID-19 treatments.
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Globally, about one million children are held in police custody annually; 410,000 of them are held in detention and remand centers. On any day, it is estimated, remand homes around the world hold about 160,000 to 250,000 children.
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Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed. Over 300 species are distributed across the world in both temperate and tropical climates. The species fluitans and natans are unique because they spend their life cycle floating on the ocean, never attaching to the sea floor. Other seaweed species reproduce and begin life on the ocean floor .
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Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed. Over 300 species are distributed across the world in both temperate and tropical climates. The species fluitans and natans are unique because they spend their life cycle floating on the ocean, never attaching to the sea floor. Other seaweed species reproduce and begin life on the ocean floor .
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Lab-grown meat receives FDA approval
Scientists recently created a meatball with the flesh of the long-extinct wooly mammoth. The meatball was the product of one of this century's most promising technological advancements—cellular agriculture.
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Scientists recently created a meatball with the flesh of the long-extinct wooly mammoth. The meatball was the product of one of this century's most promising technological advancements—cellular agriculture.
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Almost all of the UK's waterways are polluted. In 2022, a House of Commons Committee report on the state of UK rivers concluded that no river in England was free from chemical contamination. Only 14% of UK rivers had a "good" ecological status.
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TikTok's new "bold glamor" filter "enhances" physical features in a way that makes it difficult to distinguish whether someone is using a filter or not, despite its airbrushing qualities.
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Little Richard Everything
“What would it do to the American mythology of rock music to say that its pioneers were Black, queer people?” the ethnomusicologist Fredara Hadley asks in the new documentary Little Richard: I Am Everything , out Friday. It’s a valid question, and the film offers an exuberant answer. In order to tell the story of the pathbreaking piano-rocker whose work still pulses in roadside diners and on wedd
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The 6-year-old girl is in a stable condition following the attack by an untagged male dingo while she was swimming on K'gari, or Fraser Island, Queensland, Australia.
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En læser undrer sig over, hvordan solsorte tør flyve rundt, og flyve hurtigt, før solen står op.
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It epitomizes the Great Plains in spirit and in form: a 2,000-pound tank on hooves, cloaked in shaggy winter-tested coat, capped by horns acting as warning and weapon.
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Senescence (the process of growing old) drives the onset and severity of multiple aging-associated diseases and frailty. As a result, there has been an increased interest in mechanistic studies and the search for compounds targeting senescent cells. Current methods are both expensive and time consuming but researchers from the University of Sheffield's Healthy Lifespan Institute have found an answ
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It epitomizes the Great Plains in spirit and in form: a 2,000-pound tank on hooves, cloaked in shaggy winter-tested coat, capped by horns acting as warning and weapon.
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Senescence (the process of growing old) drives the onset and severity of multiple aging-associated diseases and frailty. As a result, there has been an increased interest in mechanistic studies and the search for compounds targeting senescent cells. Current methods are both expensive and time consuming but researchers from the University of Sheffield's Healthy Lifespan Institute have found an answ
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Arthropods and molluscs dwelling on plastic and other rubbish in the middle of the Pacific Ocean seem to be part of a new type of ecological community inadvertently created by humans
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In many subs on Reddit, people discuss duality as real. The word "Fact" gets thrown around. Where mental and physical are separate according to them. The "Self is an illusion". Thinker is separate from the body, atleast thinks it is, hence the term "Self is an illusion". What are the arguments against duality from a Cognitive Science point of view? submitted by /u/vookxii [link] [comments]
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Charisma as a Service A team of crafty student researchers at Stanford University have come up with a pair of smart glasses that can display the output of OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model — potentially giving you a leg up during the next job interview, or even coaching you during your next date. The device, dubbed rizzGPT, offers its wearer "real-time Charisma as a Service" (CaaS) and "listens
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A new discovery by researchers at the University of Warwick could help stop bacteria being contaminated with viruses, reducing disruption and decreasing costs in industry and research.
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Conventional transportation equipment relies heavily on steel. But steel is heavy, and scientists are turning to alternatives in the quest to improve the safety and speed of transportation, while simultaneously lessening its environmental footprint.
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a machine-learning inspired software package that provides end-to-end image analysis of electron and scanning probe microscopy images.
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A new discovery by researchers at the University of Warwick could help stop bacteria being contaminated with viruses, reducing disruption and decreasing costs in industry and research.
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered new details about the electrons in a nickel-based family of superconducting materials. The research, described in two papers published in Physical Review X, reveals that these nickel-based materials have certain similarities with—and key differences from—copper-based superconductors. Comparing the tw
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A trio of archaeologists from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina, the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Institute of Research for Development, France, has found more than 100 pre-Hispanic religious sites that they believe are linked to ancient Andean cults in Bolivia. In their paper published in the journal Antiquity, Pablo Cruz, Richard Joffre a
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Great Pacific Garbage
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch does not seem like it would be a hospitable place. It is more than 1,000 miles from the nearest streak of land. The sun is brutal and unrelenting there, the waters nutrient poor. There is nothing much to see except the eponymous garbage. But look more closely at this plastic garbage, as scientists did recently , and you’ll find plenty of life: sea anemones as small
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Confirmation by officials makes it more likely Britain will be re-admitted to €95.5bn European scientific research programme The UK will not have to pay for the two years it has been out of the EU’s €95.5bn (£84bn) Horizon scientific research programme, EU officials have said, in a significant move that opens the door to British scientists. The European Commission statement that the UK was not re
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The answers to today’s lexical perplexities, and the Pilish prizewinner Earlier today I set you these problems (and a challenge) about constrained writing, a literary form in which a text must conform to mathematical rules. Here are the puzzles again, with solutions. And below you will discover who won the Pilish challenge – judged by Sarah Hart, author of the fab new book Once Upon a Prime , abo
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McMaster University researchers have developed a rapid and inexpensive test for Salmonella contamination in chicken and other food—one that's easier to use than a home COVID test.
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McMaster University researchers have developed a rapid and inexpensive test for Salmonella contamination in chicken and other food—one that's easier to use than a home COVID test.
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06048-x
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05903-1 Analysis of sea-level pressure measurements shows that, in agreement with the latest suite of climate models, the Hadley circulation has considerably weakened in the Northern Hemisphere over recent decades, driven by anthropogenic emissions.
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01022-z Lablab is a key crop in the tropics. A high-quality genome sequence for the plant, produced in Kenya, provides insights that could boost breeding programmes and pave the way for more African crops to be sequenced in African laboratories.
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01306-4 SpaceX’s Starship is poised to launch. As well as ferrying astronauts to the Moon and one day Mars, it could launch heavy science payloads, such as telescopes.
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An international team of researchers used cosmic-ray muon detectors to peek inside the secret chamber.
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These open-back headphones have buttery bass, but they face stiff competition from their cheaper siblings.
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Can the pulsating Pulsetto really reduce stress, improve sleep, and alleviate anxiety? For us, it had a radically different effect.
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To truly savor life, pursue "powerful first experiences," says storyteller and nonprofit founder Kenneth Chabert. Learn more about how to create these meaningful moments, where mundane routine is broken by novel experiences in small but significant ways — no matter how old you are.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37856-4
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37489-7 Lablab is a legume native to Africa and cultivated throughout the tropics for food and forage; however, as an orphan crop, limited genomic resources hampers its genetic improvement. Here, an African-led South-North plant genome collaboration produces an improved genome assembly and population genomic resource t
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37934-7 Stomatal conductance is an important plant ecophysiological trait and a common parameter in earth system models. This global meta-analysis shows how CO2, warming and other global change factors affect stomatal conductance individually and interactively.
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Alerta The FBI and Federal Communications Commission are warning about the dangers of public USB charging ports — but luckily, someone's come up with a literal prophylactic. As ZDNet reports, concerns over " juice jacking " — rogue charging ports introducing malware or draining your battery in service of turning your phone into miniature crypto mining hubs — are on the rise. In response, experts
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If people had more information about the carbon footprint generated by the food they eat, would they make different decisions when ordering in restaurants?
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The impossible imperative of conversion and the unsustainable ideal of sexual purity and marriage are two of the main reasons why young Quebec adults born to parents who had converted to evangelicalism are deserting the religion and leaving the community.
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Beatriz Flamini was 48 when she entered the Granada cave in November 2021, and 50 when she emerged on Friday. Her experiment aims to shed light on the physical and mental effects of isolation. (Image credit: Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images)
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When the sea ice vanishes, Antarctic seals become silent. This is the main conclusion of a new article just published by Dr. Ilse van Opzeeland's research group in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The biologist is currently working at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversit
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Climate change, pollution and overfishing are just a few problems that need addressing to maintain a healthy blue planet. Everyone must get involved—but it's easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure where to start.
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When the sea ice vanishes, Antarctic seals become silent. This is the main conclusion of a new article just published by Dr. Ilse van Opzeeland's research group in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The biologist is currently working at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversit
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Testing the possibility of models of gravity different from general relativity may be closer to home than we think. In a paper published on the arXiv preprint server, a team of researchers has proposed that we might be able to use seismic motions in the Earth itself to test for modified gravity.
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Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millennia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk in the past, our new research shows.
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The process of reverse osmosis has proven to be the state-of-the-art method for removing salt from seawater and increasing access to clean water. Other applications include wastewater treatment and energy production.
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A University of Queensland study has shown having a baby negatively affects a mother's employment earnings for up to 10 years.
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Hydrogen produced from renewable energy sources can be used as fuels that do not contribute to CO2 emissions, and therefore is emerging as an important future power source.
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These creatures shouldn't live at sea.
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A study of plastic trash hauled out of the Pacific Ocean found that most of it had been colonized by coastal life that was thriving right next to species that normally live in the open sea. (Image credit: Linsey Haram/SERC Marine Invasions Lab)
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Tracie Seimon discovered her passion for the natural world early. As a child growing up in Colorado, she enjoyed “harvesting insects” from her family backyard and keeping a hobby ant farm. When she saw trees being cut down on television, she would get distraught. She and her father used to study the night sky through a telescope until her curiosity prompted her to disassemble the telescope to…
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Många upplever att adhd-medicin hjälper dem att fungera i vardagen. Och användningen ökar, trots att det är oklart hur medicinerna påverkar kroppen i längden. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Certain species of microbes have evolved to survive in harsh environments, even those that were previously thought to be too extreme to support life. These include environments, such as mines and industrial sewage, that are rich in heavy metals. On the other hand, human exposure to toxic levels of metals, like cadmium and mercury, is known to lead to health risks, including cancer and damage to mu
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Certain species of microbes have evolved to survive in harsh environments, even those that were previously thought to be too extreme to support life. These include environments, such as mines and industrial sewage, that are rich in heavy metals. On the other hand, human exposure to toxic levels of metals, like cadmium and mercury, is known to lead to health risks, including cancer and damage to mu
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Nature, Published online: 14 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01304-6 Hawking flip-flopped on whether the Universe has a beginning, writes Thomas Hertog in On the Origin of Time. Plus, NASA’s JUICE mission heads to Jupiter’s moons and six steps to cleaner lithium extraction.
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A key ingredient in the manufacture of car tires and sneaker soles could be made sustainably, following new analysis of an old catalytic process. Butadiene, an essential component of synthetic rubber, is currently produced by the petrochemical industry from fossil reserves.
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What did the Earth look like about 2 billion years ago, when the planet's atmosphere was being oxygenated?
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The first test of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, was due to take place on 17 April but was cancelled due to a frozen valve
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Murder Army BLM
In July 2020, at the height of protests over the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, Daniel Perry considered killing someone. “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work, they are rioting outside my apartment complex,” Perry, then a 35-year-old Army sergeant, wrote to a friend, the Austin Chronicle reported . It wasn’t the first time Perry had spoken about killing people on socia
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A new rapid test for the early diagnosis of preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening complication of pregnancy, has been developed by a team of researchers at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The test is significantly faster and more accurate than current methods.
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A team of chemists affiliated with several institutions in Germany has found that using a ball mill can speed up sublimation needed for testing gas interactions. In their study, reported in the journal Chem, the group tested the use of a ball mill to see how it would impact sublimation.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37967-y Asymmetric alkylation of enolates is an important method for the formation of α-stereogenic carbonyls but generally requires the introduction and then removal of chiral auxiliaries. Here, the authors report a copper-catalyzed asymmetric alkylation of α-amino esters.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37974-z The contribution of astrocytic Ca2+ signaling to the modulation of sensory transmission in different brain states remains largely unknown. Here, the authors show two types of Ca2+ signals in the mouse barrel cortex with distinct function in sensory transmission during sleep and arousal states.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37588-5 In order to be used on a large scale, unclonable tags for anti-counterfeiting should allow mass production at low cost, as well as fast and easy authentication. Here, the authors show how to use one-step annealing of gold films to quickly realize robust tags with high capacity, allowing fast deep-learning based
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37968-x The cholinergic circuits involved in pain modulation remain poorly understood. Here, the authors show that reversal of plasticity in the ventral pallidum-basolateral amygdala cholinergic pathway relieves hyperalgesia and depression-like behaviours in a chronic pain mouse model.
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You have a decent chance of seeing shooting stars from anywhere in the world on 19 April and during the Lyrids meteor shower peak in the early hours of 22 and 23 April
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Musk Spacex Starship
Frozen Valve It wasn't meant to be. Earlier today, SpaceX loaded its gigantic, 400-foot Starship rocket stack with propellant — only to scrub its first-ever orbital launch attempt. According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a frozen pressure valve was the culprit. Fortunately, this morning's events weren't a total write-off for the company. Far from it, Musk said. "Learned a lot today, now offloading pro
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Fungi makes plastic
Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney.
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Tiny brine flies are key to conservation of salt lake ecosystems, researchers report. Brine flies are a key food source for foraging water birds at inland salt lakes including Utah’s iconic body of water, Mono Lake in California, and Abert Lake in Oregon. In many parts of the world, inland salt lakes are drying out as salt concentrations increase and surface areas shrink—consequences of the protr
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Researchers uncover new differences in bacteria's sugar coat to aid pneumococcal vaccine development
Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular polysaccharide (CPS). This layer is often essential for infections.
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Researchers uncover new differences in bacteria's sugar coat to aid pneumococcal vaccine development
Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular polysaccharide (CPS). This layer is often essential for infections.
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Fungi makes plastic
Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney.
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Living in open woodlands and eating leaves may have driven apes’ upright stature, research suggests. The findings shed light on ape origins and push back the origin of grassy woodlands from between 7 million and 10 million years ago to 21 million years ago in equatorial Africa, during the Early Miocene. Fruit grows on the spindly peripheries of trees. To reach it, large apes need to distribute th
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The first-ever near-complete sauropod skull found in Australia is remarkably similar to fossils from South America, which suggests that dinosaurs roamed across ice-free Antarctica.
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The green light streaking across the cloudy sky was something that Daichi Fujii had never seen before. The museum curator's motion-detecting cameras were set up near Japan's Mount Fuji to capture meteors, allowing him to calculate their position, brightness, and orbit. But the bright green lines that appeared on a video taken Sept. 16, 2022, were a mystery.
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Ford har fået grønt lys til at udrulle det semi-autonome styresystem i England, Skotland og Wales.
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Just occurred as a hypothetical idea, I wonder if something like it might have use in the future. Specifically, if future physical imaging devices were made to incorporate a device-unique, encoded watermark into each recorded digital image, the watermarks being issued by a central trusted certificate authority, maybe not unlike SSL certificates. Images with the watermark(s) would be assured to be
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So I was listening to ray kurzweils book ‘’the singularity is near’’ in his book he say the human brain does about 100 trillion computations per second, I became curious how powerfull todays gaming graphics cards are and to my suprise unless im misstaken, an overclocked rtx 4090 can do 100 Tflops of computations a second, that is 100 trillion computations. submitted by /u/0krizia [link] [comments
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According to this website , Russia is historically considered as a carbon sink. Roughly around 50% of Russian land is covered by forest. So is it possible to turn Australia into a major carbon sink over the course of the next 3 decades? submitted by /u/ResidentBudget5787 [link] [comments]
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Fred is 62 ounces short of his goal when his bulldozer goes up in smoke! #discoveryplus #goldrush Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush About Gold Rush: Motivated by a depressed economy, hard-working gold miners get to work both in America and across the globe in an attempt to strike it rich. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About
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#shorts #streetoutlaws #discoveryplus From: Discovery
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A fly's brain can tell us a lot about insect intelligence and maybe a thing or two about our own.
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It is now possible to figure out, for the first time, the proportion of different prey that killer whales in the North Atlantic are eating by studying the fatty acid patterns in their blubber. Killer whales (also known as orcas) are intelligent predators. While it’s known that killer whales in the Pacific Northwest exploit widely different food types, even within the same region, we know much les
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37550-5 This study examines how the tropicalisation of shallow reefs changes functional niches for fishes in Japan and Australia. They discover that functional niches in tropical-temperate transitional communities are asynchronously invaded by tropical species, mediated more by habitat availability than competition wit
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Mission represents important step in billionaire’s quest to take humans to Mars
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SpaceX on Monday postponed the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.
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Physicists and material scientists have been trying to metallize hydrogen for many decades, but they have not yet succeeded. In 1968, British physicist Neil Ashcroft predicted that atomic metallic hydrogen would be a high-temperature semiconductor.
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Hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims gathered on an open field in Dhaka on Monday to pray for rain after the metropolis of 20 million people recorded its hottest day in almost 60 years.
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In tropical regions of the planet, savannas and forests often coexist in the same area and are exposed to the same climate. An example is the Cerrado, a Brazilian biome that includes several types of vegetation, from broad-leaved and sclerophyllous in dense woodland or shrubland (cerrado sensu stricto) to semi-evergreen in closed-canopy forest (cerradão), as well as grassland with scattered shrubs
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For more than half a century, the Tully monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium), an enigmatic animal that lived about 300 million years ago, has confounded paleontologists, with its strange anatomy making it difficult to classify. Recently, a group of researchers proposed a hypothesis that Tullimonstrum was a vertebrate similar to cyclostomes (jawless fish like lamprey and hagfish). If it was, then the
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In tropical regions of the planet, savannas and forests often coexist in the same area and are exposed to the same climate. An example is the Cerrado, a Brazilian biome that includes several types of vegetation, from broad-leaved and sclerophyllous in dense woodland or shrubland (cerrado sensu stricto) to semi-evergreen in closed-canopy forest (cerradão), as well as grassland with scattered shrubs
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SpaceX-rakettens jomfrurejse tager Starship næsten hele vejen rundt om Jorden fra opsendelse i Texas til landing i havet nord for Hawaii.
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Det nye klimas voldsommere regn presser Københavns underjordiske spildevandsbassiner.
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ESA's Solar Orbiter may have taken another step towards solving the eighty-year-old mystery of why the sun's outer atmosphere is so hot.
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A large temple possibly used by Roman soldiers for hundreds of years has been unearthed by archaeologists in northwest France.
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The US government will pull the plug on the servers powering the nation’s Covid notifications on May 11. States aren’t rushing to boot up replacements.
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Virtual fitting rooms can reduce sales among heavier shoppers, research finds. Driven by online shopping, a growing number of retailers have launched virtual fitting rooms in recent years. That includes Amazon, the top apparel seller in the United States, along with Nike, Macy’s, and Walmart. The virtual rooms allow shoppers to ‘try on’ clothes through interactive simulation technology and textur
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01301-9 Scent sculptor Michael Moisseeff simulates all manner of aromas from the everyday and historical to the extraterrestrial.
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01273-w Several search tools claim to help researchers do science.
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SpaceX-rakettens jomfrurejse tager Starship næsten hele vejen rundt om Jorden fra opsendelse i Texas til landing i havet nord for Hawaii.
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PCB has been banned in most countries since the 1970s, but that doesn't mean it no longer exists. Now, deep-sea researchers report that they have found PCB at the bottom of the Atacama Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32258-4
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Colonizing tumors with engineered bacteria may allow researchers to target sites currently inaccessible to radionuclide therapy.
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SpaceX-rakettens jomfrurejse tager Starship næsten hele vejen rundt om Jorden fra opsendelse i Texas til landing i havet nord for Hawaii.
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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. This technology could alter the entire planet. These groups want every nation to have a say. Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space, and another where the world continues heating u
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01299-0 Don’t sell yourself short when talking about pay, annual leave and other benefits, say scientists who have made the move.
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VILLUM fonden tildeler professor Mikkel Thorup knap 29,5 millioner kroner til at føre arbejdet videre…
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Nyt, stort studie dokumenterer, at religiøst begrundet lovgivning har fundet sted i alle typer samfund…
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Twitter’s suppression of trans joy can kill, at the precise moment we need to be strong.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37869-z Alkane monooxygenase (AlkB) plays a key role in the global carbon cycle and remediation of oil spills. Here, the authors report the cryo-EM structure of AlkB to provide insight into the catalytic mechanism and substrate selectivity.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37926-7 In this study, the authors isolate and characterize BBIBPCorV inactivated vaccine-elicited human antibodies. They show that these can broadly neutralize a range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and protect mice from Delta and Omicron infection. The neutralization mechanism of bispecific antibodies were solved structurall
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32649-7
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Tang og bivoks er nogle af de ingredienser, der bruges i det første fuldt ud spiselige batteri.
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I first wrote about the Theranos scandal in 2016 , and I guess it should not be surprising that it took 7 years to follow this story through to the end. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the company Theranos, was convicted of defrauding investors and sentenced to 11 years in prison. She will be going to prison even while her appeal is pending, because she failed to convince a judge that she is likely
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My longest parasocial relationship, with a popular beauty influencer named Jenn Im, is going eight years strong. I discovered her in a vlog titled “Meet My Boyfriend” and have, along with more than 3 million other subscribers, kept up with what she eats in a day and her monthly beauty favorites ever since. Her videos have become a salve for my brain, allowing me to relax by watching someone else’
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ChatGPT is revolutionizing work. The AI-powered chatbot, which can write sophisticated responses to just about any prompt and has passed an MBA exam , is holding its own as a coder and is already helping with professional writing . In the few short months since its public launch in 2022, it’s transformed the future of white-collar labor, and provoked an intense debate: Will AI steal our jobs? But
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What image does the word philosopher conjure? Maybe Socrates, bearded and barefoot, counseling Plato on the agora; Rousseau on one of his solitary walks around the outskirts of Paris; Sartre sucking pensively on his pipe at the Café de Flore. What it may not call to mind is a woman. And perhaps for good reason: The field of philosophy has always had a stark gender imbalance. And it’s no different
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O f all the great painters of the golden age when the small, soggy Netherlands arose as an improbable global power, Johannes Vermeer is the most beloved and the most disarming. Rembrandt gives us grandeur and human frailty, Frans Hals gives us brio, Pieter de Hooch gives us busy burghers, but Vermeer issues an invitation. The trompe l’oeil curtain is pulled back, and if the people on the other si
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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. “Millennials are many things, but above all, they are murderers,” Mashable noted in 2017, introducing a list of 70 items and institutions that Millennials were purported to have “killed,” including napkins, breakfast c
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Picture two theoretical futures: one in which nations counteract climate change by spraying reflective particles into the stratosphere, and another where the world continues heating up. There are big differences between the two, but a lot of smaller, more subtle changes too. Take malaria, for example—the sixth-largest killer in low-income countries. By 2070, the overall risk of malaria transmissi
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Spain has vowed to block a regional plan to legalize farming near one of Europe's largest and fauna-rich wetlands, where water supplies have plunged due to climate change and agriculture.
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The 400-foot-tall, stainless steel Starship could one day shuttle humans to the moon. But getting the rocket to fly is no easy feat, and it'll be 48 hours until the team can try again, SpaceX said. (Image credit: SpaceX)
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Europe's glaciers and ice patches are an enormous deep freezer for artifacts. Here is a countdown of 25 of the most fascinating objects revealed by Europe's melting ice.
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In the early universe, gravity may have been capable of creating light, a new theoretical paper finds.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX is expected to launch its Starship rocket from Boca Chica, Texas, later today
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pill may help
The single-dose antibiotic regimen dramatically reduces transmission of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. But it doesn’t have the CDC’s blessing yet.
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Sam Altman says the research strategy that birthed ChatGPT is played out and future strides in artificial intelligence will require new ideas.
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Documents obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of investigations by the US agency into alleged database misuse that includes harassment, stalking, and more.
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There are already countless songs on Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud. And as tunes become easier to create, anyone can add to the copyright din.
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The changes may help explain the link between maternal infection and autism, though more research is needed.
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Elon Musk says launch of most powerful rocket ever built called off due to ‘pressurisation’ issue The largest and most powerful rocket ever built was readied and fuelled for its first test flight on Monday, but SpaceX cancelled the launch minutes before blasting off after discovering a “pressurisation” problem. “A pressurant valve appears to be frozen, so unless it starts operating soon, no launc
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37531-8 The hydrophobic gating is believed to function in various ion channels. Here, the authors use MD simulations to assess how dewetting of the channel pore modulates the function and conformational transition of the potassium channels.
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Efter planen vil SpaceX sende sin Starship-raket i kredsløb om Jorden i dag omkring kl. 15 dansk tid.
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A researcher and former faculty member at Tufts School of Medicine in Boston has been banned from working with animals for a year following repeated cases of abuse under his supervision, according to documents obtained by an animal-rights group. In an Oct. 26, 2022, letter to the federal Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare , the university reported “serious and continuing noncompliance with” anim
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Var det noget med et job som ‘prompt-ingeniører’? I USA kan man tjene en årsløn på 1,5 mio. kr. ved at tale med en AI dagens lang for at få den til at generere det ønskede resultat.
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This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here . For years, the US has struggled to process all the people who want to come and live here. It’s a slow-rumbling problem that has become a crisis, and over the past 18 months, the number of migrant deaths has s
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Do you have the technology to create a computer for blind people? submitted by /u/janonymous1234 [link] [comments]
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The number of people seeking psychotherapy is on the rise, but the field has long been seen as unscientific. It is time to approach it with the same diligence as we do other treatments
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Smug detractors may roll their eyes, but this ancient art gave me a deep understanding of who I am – until it began to feel restrictive In early 2017, I became completely fixated on the movements of Jupiter . The planet was hurtling towards my sign, Libra, which, in astrology terms, meant that I would feel the influence of the “luckiest” planet in the sky for as long as it remained in that positi
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Using a new detection method, UC Riverside scientists found a massive amount of methane, a super-potent greenhouse gas, coming from wildfires—a source not currently being accounted for by state air quality managers.
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The nearly 400-foot moon and Mars rocket remains on the launchpad in South Texas as engineers may prepare for a test flight part of the way around the Earth another day.
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Neil Buckland uses a DIY microscopic camera system to create monolithic images that reveal the tiny elemental details of extraterrestrial rocks.
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Steve Huffman kicked Nazis and other trolls off the platform. He also argues that any government oversight of online content is authoritarian.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37883-1 DCAF1/VprBP contributes to epigenetic gene inactivation and cancer development. Here the authors show that DCAF1/VprBP phosphorylates and stabilises EZH2 to induce oncogenic gene silencing and colon cancer growth.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37735-y Male organisms produce huge numbers of sperm each day, with defects in the process resulting infertility. Here they show that arrestin domain-containing 5 (ARRDC5) is a testis-specific molecule required for mammalian spermatogenesis.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37417-9 Here the authors develop a ferritin-based protein nanoparticle vaccine candidate for SARS-CoV-2, and show induction of neutralizing antibodies to variants of concern, including Omicron BQ.1, in non-human primates after initial immunization and a booster dose.
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HBP researchers at the Institute of Biophysics of the National Research Council (IBF-CNR) in Palermo, Italy, have mimicked the neuronal architecture and connections of the brain’s hippocampus to develop a robotic platform capable of learning as humans do while the robot navigates around a space. The simulated hippocampus is able to alter its own synaptic connections as it moves a car-like virtual
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33446-y
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33602-4
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33376-9
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32643-z
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33455-x
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33533-0
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33566-5
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33474-8
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In a Copenhagen suburb, a fifth-grade classroom is having its weekly cake-eating session, a common tradition in Danish public schools. While the children are eating chocolate cake, the teacher pulls up an infographic on a whiteboard: a bar chart generated by a digital platform that collects data on how they’ve been feeling. Organized to display the classroom’s weekly “mood landscape,” the data sh
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Industrier udledte i årtier forurening til den arktiske permafrost, indtil det stod klart, at den smelter som følge af den globale opvarmning.
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Tumorer, der muterer langsomt, er svære at angribe med immunterapi, men nu har Evaxion Biotech gravet i vores arvemasses historie for at finde nye angrebspunkter.
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Forsøgsbyggeri viser, at man i dag kan bygge parcelhuse, hvor indeklimaet er tre gange bedre og CO2-udledningen tre gange lavere end bygningsreglementets krav.
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Det vil være dumt at begræde, at Danmark har stærke private fonde og virksomheder, der investerer i forskning på danske universiteter, og at vi har forskere, der er dygtige til at tiltrække eksterne midler fra fonde i både ind- og udland. I en tiårig periode fra 2011 steg de eksterne midler således med 53 procent, mens basismidlerne alene er steget med 14 procent.
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Tarmfloran påverkas av defensiner, ett slags försvarsmolekyler. Men maten påverkar betydligt mer, enligt en ny musstudie. Och resultaten i studien förvånade forskarna. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01285-6 Pathogens and pandemics have played a huge part in shaping human history right up to COVID-19 — but their exact effects remain highly debatable.
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01298-1 Depictions of fetuses have helped to teach safer birthing practices and saved lives — but they can also be used to erase the person giving birth.
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Mega-constellations built by SpaceX, Amazon and other companies could carry thousands of sensors that could aid research into gamma rays, space weather and other subjects.
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Despite laws that say mental health care should be paid for on a par with other medical care, health insurance stopped covering the care a suicidal teen needed before she was stable. (Image credit: Keith Negley for NPR)
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Danmark kommer ikke uden om en ny radar til fregatterne for at skabe et stærkt missilforsvar.
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Det är torsdag förmiddag och dags för miniatyrhjärnorna att få lunch. Temperaturen i cellinkubatorn är behagliga 37 grader, perfekt klimat för en liten hjärna. Anna Falk förbereder den näringslösning som cellerna behöver för att kunna växa. De celler som gjort den märkvärdiga transformationen från hudceller till stamceller och sedan till hjärnans nervceller
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Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming.
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SpaceX was counting down on Monday to the first test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond.
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Nature, Published online: 17 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01039-4 A thumbs-up for tofersen from the US Food and Drug Administration would reinforce the agency’s shifting approach to neurological drugs.
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Frön och talgbollar genererar inte bara mätta småfågelmagar. Matning under vinterhalvåret kan också ge friskare fåglar, enligt forskning från Lunds universitet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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"Without specific and credible allegations of research misconduct, MIT is unable to take any action."
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LG Chem and Huayou Cobalt collaborate
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A $4 billion project is in the works to draw water from the Sacramento River — but only during major storm surges. Proponents say the Sites Reservoir might be incredibly useful, but absent frequent and intense precipitation, the large and expensive infrastructure project could remain perpetually empty.
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Installed in a Low Traffic Neighbourhood, it has been repeatedly run over, bent, burned and, finally, stolen.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson invoked the concept of a scientific consensus while supporting vaccines in his debate with Del Bigtree. Why was his statement about how "individual scientists don't matter" compared to scientific consensus so triggering to antivaxxers? Why do antivaxxers reject the very concept of a scientific consensus and promote a hyper-individualistic view of how science should be conducte
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I slutningen af sidste år, skrev jeg lidt om patentlæder, og hvordan ”patent” i nogle sammenhænge har fået en anden sproglig betydning, end den jeg er vant til. Siden da har der været både overraskende kold, våd og varme vinterperioder, og i kampen mod kuldedelen, stødte jeg på endnu et sted, hvor ”patent” har sådan en medbetydning – nemlig med patentstrik. s historie Til trods for en hel del søge
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Behold, the Trojan asteroids.
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Mathematical rules for writing UPDATE: The answers and the prize winner is up here Today’s puzzles celebrate the connections between mathematics and literature. They also mark the publication of Once Upon a Prime , a terrific new book about these connections, by Sarah Hart, professor of maths at Birkbeck, University of London. (One of the puzzles below gives you the chance to win a copy.) Continu
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Pseudovetenskaplig mysticism Med kvantmystik menar vi när termer och begrepp från vetenskapen kvantmekanik används för att legitimera pseudovetenskapliga uttalanden. Inom kvantmekaniken förekommer saker som känns väldigt annorlunda från den verklighet … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och Folkbildning .
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This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place as a fully hybrid conference in both Vienna and online from April 24 to 28. Skeptical Science team members Bärbel Winkler and John Mason have presentations in several of the scientific sessions and this blog post provides an overview of their contributions below. You can jump directly to the sections via these an
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Måling påviser over 400 forskellige kemikalier i vand fra et enkelt dansk vandværk. Flere…
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There may not be many of them, but they can be very bright and fast, and viewing conditions look promising The Lyrid meteor shower will reach its peak in the early hours of 23 April. Created by dust from the tail of comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher), the Lyrids are not usually vast in number – only about 18 an hour are expected – but they are often very bright and fast moving. Some of the more spectacul
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Not an alien jellyfish.
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Excavation shows facility included luxurious dining rooms with views of fountains that gushed with wine Of all the Roman ruins that populate what is now a pleasant landscape of pine trees and meadows, under the distant gaze of the Alban Hills, the Villa of the Quintilii is perhaps the most impressive – almost a city in miniature, covering up to 24 hectares. Lying on the ancient Appian Way as it r
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Det er et vildt imponerende projekt og et gigantisk skridt for den grønne omstilling: Energiø Nordsøen kommer til at koste over 200 milliarder kroner og kan levere strøm nok til at dække halvdelen af det nuværende danske forbrug – og så kan øen tilmed senere udbygges til det tredobbelte.Men der er pres på for at nå projektet til 2033. Det kræver teknologi, som ikke er fuldt udviklet endnu, eller s
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Det nye klimas voldsommere regn presser Københavns underjordiske spildevandsbassiner.
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‘Succession’ Succession Major
This story contains spoilers through the fourth episode of Succession Season 4. For the Roy kids, mourning can’t happen without a little manipulation. On Succession , being part of such a rich and powerful family means receiving sympathy served with a side of business-speak. Their father has died, but to everyone else, Logan represented the market—an economic unit, as Logan once described himself
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Competitive pressure among tech giants is propelling society into the future of artificial intelligence, ready or not. Scott Pelley dives into the world of AI with Google CEO Sundar Pichai. submitted by /u/WallStreetDoesntBet [link] [comments]
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Would a government want to store their sensitive information with a cloud service provider? What if they wanted to use it to facilitate information to government employees? I’m interested to know how they would integrate it. submitted by /u/Vast_Tomatillo5255 [link] [comments]
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" The preceding content was 100% human-produced." The latest 60-minutes episode closed with the above comment. Can we expect that phrase to be a commonplace — and perhaps it becomes something we look for? Is that perhaps in the same category as products that are marketed as " all-natural" ? submitted by /u/nobodyisonething [link] [comments]
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I am planning on going to graduate school for cognitive science. However, my undergrad school does not offer a cognitive science major. Which major would be a good option, psych, neuro, etc? submitted by /u/BeltFit915 [link] [comments]
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It's complex and debilitatingly painful.
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Merck PB Biosciences
Pharmaceutical and biotech deals are rebounding after a dip last year
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A stolen gene 500 million years ago.
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Demand for air travel will be hit as decarbonisation drives up ticket prices, says industry.
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A total solar eclipse will be experienced in WA’s Ningaloo region, while a partial eclipse on display in the rest of the country. submitted by /u/WallStreetDoesntBet [link] [comments]
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It's been a while since I heard anyone talk about the hyperloop, there was a time where I remember it was everywhere on the internet, but I've heard practically nothing about it recently. Is it still in development? Is there any speculative timeline for how long it might take to get a functioning prototype? What are the current limitations/stumbling blocks to achieving hyperloop technology, and i
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CoolSculpting is among the most popular fixes for unwanted bulges. But the risk of a serious side effect appears to be higher than previously known.
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Does this major require a lot of humanities (essay writing) courses or is it more focused on computation and comp sci ? Sorry if this is a dumb question (in focusing in cog neuro or comp cog sci for example) submitted by /u/acegikmo- [link] [comments]
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SpaceX launches Starship rocket
The new moon and Mars vehicle built by Elon Musk’s company will conduct a test flight to space as early as Monday morning.
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