Udenrigsministeriet har defineret korruption som »misbrug af betroet magt for egen vindings skyld«. Uundgåeligt er det begrebet, der trænger sig på, når man læser Ingeniørens nylige afsløring af, hvordan Trafikstyrelsen, udviklingsselskabet By & Havn og det ellers meget anerkendte private konsulentfirma DHI har håndteret en undersøgelse, der uvildigt skulle undersøge propeffekten af Lynetteholm. I

Topological superconductors are superconducting materials with unique characteristics, including the appearance of so-called in-gap Majorana states. These bound states can serve as qubits, making topological superconductors particularly promising for the creation of quantum computing technologies.

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Estoniafilmarna överklagar till HD Utdrag: “Den femdelade dokumentären ‘Estonia – fyndet som ändrar allt’ vann 2020 Stora Journalistpriset i kategorin ‘Årets avslöjande’. Dokumentären har samtidigt varit hårt kritiserad. Kritiker som … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och Folkbildning .

Researchers at the UK’s annual River Restoration conference say that policy-makers and the general public are largely unaware that most of the UK's rivers aren't in their natural state, with huge impacts on biodiversity

Industrien advarer mod et PFAS-forbud i grønne teknologier, mens eksperter peger på, at et forbud vil presse på for at finde mere bæredygtige alternativer.

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Computer simulations of a human brain under the influence of LSD show that entropy increases the most in regions responsible for processing vision and integrating sensory information

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Fåglar och groddjur trivs tillsammans, men fåglar och fiskar har en mer komplicerad relation. För att ta hänsyn till alla arter kan separata våtmarker vara lösningen, menar forskare. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

People who spoke two languages daily in their youth tended to score higher on memory tests later in life, the researchers found.

Researchers may have discovered the first example of a frog that pollinates flowering plants.

When Ravi Yekkanti puts on his headset to go to work, he never knows what the day spent in virtual reality will bring. Who might he meet? Will a child’s voice accost him with a racist remark? Will a cartoon try to grab his genitals? He adjusts the extraterrestrial-looking goggles haloing his head as he sits at the desk in his office in Hyderabad, India, and prepares to immerse himself in an “offi

This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here . Feces are good for so much more than flushing. Yes, our waste contains the stuff that our bodies are generally trying to get rid of. But it can also provide insight into our gut microbiomes and how they influence our health. And we’re getting closer to un

The identities of a pharaoh and a nonroyal person in an "impossible" statue may have finally been deciphered.

Der endte kun med at være ét konditionsmæssigt tilbud, da Vejdirektoratet sendte lynladestandere ved ikonisk rasteplads i udbud.

A lot of the focus on genAI's implications on the job market seem to focus on how it'll eliminate or devalue certain professions. But what kind of new roles could generative AI augment or create ? You know, aside from prompt engineers who are astoundingly good at getting Midjourney to depict a human being with five, non-webbed fingers. submitted by /u/BorgesBorgesBorges60 [link] [comments]

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Fredag sender vi live fra studiet med et kig ind i fremtiden for skibsfart, fly og lastbiler.

Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38132-1 Transcriptional dysregulation contributes to tumor progression. Here the authors show that transcriptional complex NELF interacts with SLUG, and co-opts KAT2B, to promote the expression of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stemness-associated genes in breast cancer.

Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37889-9 The authors unveil the many-particle processes underpinning the formation of bound charge transfer excitons at the interface of hBN-encapsulated lateral MoSe2-WSe2 heterostructures. The excitons can be tuned via interface (i.e. high quality lateral junction) and dielectric (i.e. hBN encapsulation) engineering.

Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38191-4 The authors present a method for super-resolution quantum microscopy at the Heisenberg limit by using pairs of entangled photons with balanced pathlengths. They improve the spatial resolution, imaging speed, and contrast-to-noise ratio in practice while providing a theoretical interpretation of the super-resolu

Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38164-7 Artificial molecular machines have captured the imagination of researchers, given their clear potential to mimic and influence human life. Here, the authors use a DNA cube framework for the design of a dice device at the nanoscale to reproduce probabilistic events in different situations such as equal probabili

Trods succes med at flyve hjertestartere og blodprøver med droner indstilles projekterne. De danske myndigheder har nemlig ingen planer om automatisk trafikstyring.

The professional body for anaesthetists in the UK has produced hypnosis recordings for patients to listen to as they wait for their operation, and other hospitals worldwide use similar techniques

In a clamorous bazaar, hot-blooded Pakistani men seek a cold-blooded cure for their sexual ills—freshly rendered lizard fat, marinated in scorpion oil and garnished with filaments of a fiery red spice.

In a clamorous bazaar, hot-blooded Pakistani men seek a cold-blooded cure for their sexual ills—freshly rendered lizard fat, marinated in scorpion oil and garnished with filaments of a fiery red spice.

This is creepy.

War-ravaged Libya is better known for its oil wealth than its forests, but environmentalists hope to save its remaining green spaces from logging, development and the impacts of climate change.

People leave jobs all the time, whether they're laid off, fired, or just quit. But how do their departures affect coworkers left behind? According to a new study from the UBC Sauder School of Business, those exits can lead many others to call it quits.

A sea anemone found off Japan does not just live on a species of crab, but actually grows its host’s shell like a home extension Deep in the Kumano Sea off the south-eastern coast of Japan, hermit crabs crawl around sporting what look like pearly pink flowers on their shells. But these are not floral arrangements – they are members of a newly discovered species of sea anemone, Stylobates calcifer

In “Good Girls,” Hadley Freeman draws on her own experience with the disorder as well as interviews with experts and former patients to shed light on a disease that has long resisted explanation and treatment. “No one actually has any definite answers about who develops anorexia and why,” Freeman writes.

These high-end cans look fantastic and sound great, but they don’t have noise canceling or advanced EQ.

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"It shows a possible way forward."

An observation of Anzac Day in Australia, classic car racing in England, an ongoing drought in Spain, an ultramarathon held in the Moroccan desert, rising floodwaters in California, a robotic humanoid companion in Italy, a cycling race through Belgium, superbloom flowers in California, and much more

Schneider Shorts 28.04.2023 – old American papers in need of fixing, young russian and Iranian researchers in need of helping, French whistleblowers in need of punishing, Austrian anti-aging supplements in need of advertising, with an anti-aging pimp on cocaine, depressive fish in China, cured Israeli soldiers, and finally, retractions in full, in part and not at all.

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Even as a little kid (I’m a 2005 born) I noticed 50s nostalgia (my parents are 1970s born so I saw back to the future a lot and remember the 50s nostalgia in the original. I also remember hearing about happy days and just kind of having a romanticized view of the 50s even though I’m a racial minority.) And, of course, as someone who basically grew up in the 2010s (feels so weird to say) I remembe

Att läsa skönlitteratur är ett sätt för blivande läkare att samla på sig människoöden. Att diskutera dem med sina kursare leder ofta till aha-upplevelser. Vi intervjuar litteraturvetaren Katarina Bernhardsson från Lunds universitet om medicinsk humaniora som numera ingår i läkarutbildningen.

Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38088-2 Pancreatic cancer patients have previously been noted to have a change in medication history prior to diagnosis. Here, the authors utilise two large population cohorts to show associations between recent medication changes and risk of a subsequent pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38125-0 A challenge in diagnostics is integrating different data modalities to characterize physiological state. Here, the authors show, using the heart as a model system, that cross-modal autoencoders can integrate and translate modalities to improve diagnostics and identify associated genetic variants.

Humans with condition can have disturbed sleep, and similar symptoms in dogs indicate cognitive decline is under way From loud snores to twitching paws, dogs often appear to have a penchant for a good snooze. But researchers have said elderly canines with dementia appear to spend less time slumbering than those with healthy brains – mirroring patterns seen in humans. It has long been known that p

Amani Meaidi vandt Ph.d. Cup sidste år for sin forskning i kvinder med kraftig menstruation. Hun er stadig drevet af at forbedre lægevidenskaben.

In people with Alzheimer's, the earliest symptoms are commonly disruptions in sleep rhythms. These include daytime sleepiness, showing agitation or confusion around dusk, staying awake longer, and waking up often at night. These changes are thought to result from damage to sleep-regulating areas in the brain. Alzheimer patients tend to spend less time in both REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, in whi

Trafikselskabet anbefaler, at Region Hovedstaden og Region Sjælland fremrykker indkøb af batteritog i stedet for at ombygge nuværende dieseltogsæt til at kunne køre med biobrændstof.

PFAS-forbruget forventes at stige i takt med den grønne omstilling, som et PFAS-forbud risikerer at sænke farten på.

Researchers have developed a chemical process that can disassemble the epoxy composite of wind turbine blades and simultaneously extract intact glass fibers as well as one of the epoxy resin's original building blocks in a high quality. The recovered materials could potentially be used in the production of new blades.

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Something we've never seen before.

You have to see through this.

The European Space Agency's first para-astronaut experiences weightlessness on a "vomit comet".

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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. More than six months after the FDA announced a shortage of the ADHD drug Adderall and its generic variations, many Americans who rely on the medication continue struggling to obtain it. This supply cri

An unthinkable calamity.

Ett nytt värmerekord väcker oro i forskarvärlden. Aldrig sedan mätningarna började för drygt 40 år sedan har havsytans genomsnittstemperatur varit så hög som i april. – En riktig överraskning, och mycket oroande. Det kan vara ett kortvarigt extremvärde eller början på något mycket mer allvarligt, säger oceanografen Mike Meredith till The Guardian.

Astronomers had already detected one unlikely ring around Quaoar, a small object far beyond Neptune’s orbit. Now they have found a second ring.

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The chants of his name defined a decade: “Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!” Jerry Springer died today at 79. His most obvious legacy will be the syndicated talk show that bore his name—one that embodied the frenetic voyeurism of the American ’90s. Sex, affairs, secret children, incest, love triangles, love trapezoids, more sex, people wrestling and sparring and throwing chairs at one another: The Jerry Sprin

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In Spain, 11% of women over the age of 16 have experienced physical violence by their partner or ex-partner at some point in their lives. Sexual violence has been suffered by 8.9%, and 31.9% have reported being subjected to psychological violence. An overwhelming percentage of these women (more than 80% in all three categories) say that the episodes happened more than once.

Crop yield can be maximized when the best genetic variety and most effective crop management practices are used for cultivation. Scientists have developed various machine learning models to predict the factors that produce the greatest yield in specific crop plants. However, traditional models cannot accommodate high levels of variation in parameters or large data inputs.

Crop yield can be maximized when the best genetic variety and most effective crop management practices are used for cultivation. Scientists have developed various machine learning models to predict the factors that produce the greatest yield in specific crop plants. However, traditional models cannot accommodate high levels of variation in parameters or large data inputs.

Recently, Science China Earth Sciences published a paper about the transformation of organic matter by microorganisms under anoxic/hypoxic conditions. With the intensification of water eutrophication and global warming, hypoxia occurs frequently in coastal waters. In this study, the researchers performed an experiment to investigate changes in microbial community and the molecular characteristics

Membrane separation technology has been widely recognized as a more advantageous technology owing to its high treatment efficiency, low footprint, reliable effluent quality. However, its further sustainable growth has been hampered due to membrane fouling. Although great efforts have been made in the recent decades to improve the antifouling performance via various modification strategies, but the

The sedimentary history of the pull-apart basin faithfully records the strike-slip process of the faults that control the development of the pull-apart basins. The Banquan Basin is the largest and most typical pull-apart basin along the surface rupture zone of the 1668 Tancheng M8½ earthquake where the TLFZ shows the strongest seismic activity.

One good winter cannot erase the climate-change-exacerbated megadrought plaguing the Colorado River Basin, source of water for 40 million Americans.

As the proverb goes, it takes a village to raise a child. It can also take a village to make progress in science and medicine.

Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered in snow, in the past, however, the location was not like this. The research, led by Brazilian paleobotanist Dr. Joseline Manfroi, along with her collaborators, proves that Antarctica was disturbed by frequent forest fires that were directly assoc

Some farmers hope this year's federal Farm Bill brings more attention to the benefits of – and barriers to – precision agriculture technology. (Image credit: Stephen Fowler/Georgia Public Broadcasting)

For our weekly dose of wonder, NPR learns about glorious sounds chicken make at a very important moment in their lives — when they're laying an egg.

As the proverb goes, it takes a village to raise a child. It can also take a village to make progress in science and medicine.

Balto had a varied ancestry, sharing genes with Siberian huskies, Greenland sledge dogs, Vietnamese village dogs and Tibetan mastiffs

California blackworms gather together in tangled-up balls to preserve moisture during droughts, but they can rapidly separate when they perceive danger thanks to a special helical wriggle

Ali Hussein Julood's father told the BBC his son's life was sacrificed for record profits.

See Spot Speak As if robotic dogs weren't creepy enough. A team of programmers just equipped a Boston Dynamics robot dog with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Text-to-Speech voice modulation, allowing it to literally speak to them and answer their questions. In a video posted to Twitter , machine learning engineer Santiago Valdarrama showcased how he and a colleague programmed a Spot robot dog to ve

'Scary Barbie' is an incredibly bright cosmic object that has been burning for two years, and it has yet to sputter out.

Researchers created a mathematical model showing how worms can untangle themselves from each other.

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) boron sheets—borophenes—have drawn great interest from materials scientists because of their similarity to graphene. However, understanding of how the material can be stable in the 2D form is still lacking, mainly due to boron's unique electron-deficient nature.

Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered in snow, in the past, however, the location was not like this. The research, led by Brazilian paleobotanist Dr. Joseline Manfroi, along with her collaborators, proves that Antarctica was disturbed by frequent forest fires that were directly assoc

In agriculture and medicine, isothiourea compounds play an important role as an important synthetic intermediate. As well as being potent inhibitors of biological targets, isothioureas can be used as organocatalysts or ligands in transition metal catalysis.

Most of us are annoyed by ants in our gardens. There are so many of them. And if you leave food out on your garden table, even for just a couple of minutes, the table will be swarming with ants when you return.

A few things happened when SpaceX’s uncrewed experimental rocket blasted off and then exploded mid-flight last week. The engineers who’d designed it let out a deep sigh, maybe a couple of groans. The Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates rocket launches, began a standard investigation into what happened. Elon Musk congratulated his staff on a good start. And in a small nearby city, ash

Most of us are annoyed by ants in our gardens. There are so many of them. And if you leave food out on your garden table, even for just a couple of minutes, the table will be swarming with ants when you return.

A research team led by Prof. Hyeon Taeghwan at the Center for Nanoparticle Research within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in Seoul, South Korea has developed a new photocatalytic platform for the mass production of hydrogen.

Imagine walking through a field on a hot, dry summer day. There is nobody around and the world is blissfully quiet – at least, you think it is. If only you could hear sounds at ultrasonic frequency, you would in fact hear loud “screaming” coming from all around you. You would hear the surrounding plants […]

Most crystalline materials are polycrystals, such as metals. They are composed of many small crystalline grains with different lattice orientations. The interface between two crystalline grains, i.e., the grain boundary, is a thin layer of disordered particles about one or two particles thick.

New research published in PeerJ by Rebecca Helm and colleagues at Georgetown University demonstrates why it is important that methods of assessment and evaluation of ecosystem impacts of novel high seas activities account for uncertainty, using The Ocean Cleanup (TOC) as a model.

Thanks to numerous bottles of mezcal, tequila worms contributed to advancements in the field of lepidoptery.

Editor’s Note: Read Kenan Orhan’s new short story “ The Renovation .” “ The Renovation ” is a new story by Kenan Orhan . To mark the story’s publication, Orhan and Oliver Munday , the associate creative director of the magazine, discussed the story over email. Their conversation has been lightly edited for clarity. Oliver Munday: Your new story, “The Renovation,” opens with an absurdist premise:

Editor’s Note: Read an interview with Kenan Orhan about his writing process. I didn’t know by what accident the builders had managed it, but instead of a remodeled bathroom attached to my bedroom, they had installed Silivri Prison. No mistaking it. After the laborers had packed up their tools and cleaned up their mess (they had almost superstitiously prevented me from checking on their progress),

Most Gen Z young people are characterized as ambitious and forward-thinking, believing all things are possible. But what if you are a teen whose father is, or has been, in prison? How does that affect your outlook on life? How does that affect your optimism in regard to going to college and completing your degree?

The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming.

Director's Cut In a recent panel interview with Collider , Joe Russo, who has directed big Marvel movies like "Avengers: Endgame" alongside his brother, shared some of his thoughts on how AI might impact the film industry, giving it about two years before AI can create a fully-fledged movie. "We're in a world where the entire generation has a facile expertise in [AI], and is also not afraid of it

Thanks to great technological advances, the genetic material of living beings can now be sequenced at a rapid rate. Comparisons of genomes, whether of closely related or completely different species, reveal particularly interesting findings. In this way, information can be obtained on phylogenetic relationships, the formation of characteristics or on adaptive abilities.

The American beech, Fagus grandifolia, is a North American staple and the dominant species in many northeastern forests. In 2012, a new disease was first spotted, infecting trees in northeastern Ohio. The worst afflicted had dark banding on their leaves, which emerged crumpled and leathery in the spring. Not until 2018 would experts discover the nematode pest, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii, overwi

Thanks to great technological advances, the genetic material of living beings can now be sequenced at a rapid rate. Comparisons of genomes, whether of closely related or completely different species, reveal particularly interesting findings. In this way, information can be obtained on phylogenetic relationships, the formation of characteristics or on adaptive abilities.

The American beech, Fagus grandifolia, is a North American staple and the dominant species in many northeastern forests. In 2012, a new disease was first spotted, infecting trees in northeastern Ohio. The worst afflicted had dark banding on their leaves, which emerged crumpled and leathery in the spring. Not until 2018 would experts discover the nematode pest, Litylenchus crenatae mccannii, overwi

A team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have revealed the first crystal structures of the receptor-binding domain of botulinum neurotoxin E (BoNT/E) in complex with its human neuronal receptors, synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A). This structure and other findings in the new study could be harnessed to engineer new BoNT/E variants with modified specificities toward di

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A team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have revealed the first crystal structures of the receptor-binding domain of botulinum neurotoxin E (BoNT/E) in complex with its human neuronal receptors, synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2A (SV2A). This structure and other findings in the new study could be harnessed to engineer new BoNT/E variants with modified specificities toward di

Johnny He The former director of a cancer research center faked data and presented others’ published data and text as his own in four grant applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and one research record, according to a U.S. government watchdog. Johnny J. He , a professor of microbiology and immunology at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS) in Chicago,

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Microalgae in sediments signal what happened in the environment thousands of years ago, illuminating the range of future climate-change impacts.

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What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

The streaming service doesn’t quite have Netflix’s back catalog, but it has a solid lineup.

What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind as what has been added during our evolutionary history, according to a new study led by researchers at Yale and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Hair styling can be a potent form of self-expression, whether it features dramatic updos, intricate braids or crazy colors. Beyond being a reflection of our personality, these strands contain compounds that could one day appear in bandages, sunscreens or other products. Researchers reporting in ACS Omega have now designed a simple, green process to extract both keratin and melanin from human hair

Scripps Research scientists have developed a new strategy for identifying small molecules that can change the function of proteins, offering a promising path for discovering targeted drugs. In collaboration with scientists at other institutions, the group used their new approach to find small molecules that can alter the activity of proteins involved in cancer.

Scientists have demonstrated nanowire networks can exhibit both short- and long-term memory like the human brain.

Managing the benefits of nature-based solutions across climate, biodiversity and society is of critical importance for meeting targets for climate neutrality and biodiversity restoration targets. Recent studies call for research into the interplay between biodiversity, climate adaptation and mitigation as well as environmental justice outcomes.

Throughout the world, we are witnessing not just a decline in the numbers of individual insects, but also a collapse of insect diversity. Major causes of this worrying trend are land-use intensification in the form of greater utilization for agriculture and building development as well as climate change and the spread of invasive animal species as a result of human trade.

Women and people far from corporate headquarters often need help to get recognition for their ideas. One way to help is to put all ideas on equal footing through a "blinding" strategy.

Hair styling can be a potent form of self-expression, whether it features dramatic updos, intricate braids or crazy colors. Beyond being a reflection of our personality, these strands contain compounds that could one day appear in bandages, sunscreens or other products. Researchers reporting in ACS Omega have now designed a simple, green process to extract both keratin and melanin from human hair

Scripps Research scientists have developed a new strategy for identifying small molecules that can change the function of proteins, offering a promising path for discovering targeted drugs. In collaboration with scientists at other institutions, the group used their new approach to find small molecules that can alter the activity of proteins involved in cancer.

Throughout the world, we are witnessing not just a decline in the numbers of individual insects, but also a collapse of insect diversity. Major causes of this worrying trend are land-use intensification in the form of greater utilization for agriculture and building development as well as climate change and the spread of invasive animal species as a result of human trade.

This month, a local TV-news station in Arizona ran an unsettling report: A mother named Jennifer DeStefano says that she picked up the phone to the sound of her 15-year-old crying out for her, and was asked to pay a $1 million ransom for her daughter’s return. In reality, the teen had not been kidnapped, and was safe; DeStefano believes someone used AI to create a replica of her daughter’s voice

I magine you’re in the heart of New York City—for example, on the steps of Madison Square Garden. One of the very first things you would notice there, no matter the time of day or the weather, would be the pungent aroma of burning reefer. This would also be the case if you found yourself at the entrance to the Q train at Union Square, or at a chessboard in Washington Square Park, or under some sc

Extremely Quiet Luxury If you haven't seen Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Coachella fit yet, maybe stop scrolling. Save yourself. It's scarring. Bezos and his girlfriend, alive girl Lauren Sánchez, took to the influencer-laden festival scene last weekend, flanked by their couple friends , momager Kris Jenner and her boyfriend, Corey Gamble. You'd think that with a current net worth of $114 billion ,

A water treaty has survived three wars between India and Pakistan. Now the agreement is in trouble, but some say a new is treaty needed for both political and environmental reasons. (Image credit: Diaa Hadid/NPR)

By surgically attaching electrodes to octopuses, researchers have been able to peer inside the cephalopods’ minds for the very first time.

Researchers identified patterns of brain wiring that seem to be linked to a person's risk of having multiple psychiatric disorders.

Scientists used high-resolution radar satellites and discovered a ‘mind boggling’ 19,000 volcanoes.

The first complete image of a black hole and its jet has captured a never-before-seen view of how the cosmic monster traps and spits out matter.

A new look at eight skeletons from two Pictish cemeteries reveals that the enigmatic Picts weren't from afar, as medieval historians suggested, but that they had local roots.

Researchers have examined the genomes of 240 mammal species. The project reveals when mammals evolved, how some developed the ability to hibernate, and clues that may help explain humans' brains. (Image credit: Getty Images)

From using mechanical trees to dimming the sun, researchers are getting creative to fight climate change.

When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it's probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it's tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, has recorded magnetic field data as its 10.6 m-long magnetometer boom deployed.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01446-7 The Zoonomia Project is helping to pinpoint genes responsible for animal brain size and for human disease.

Species persistence can be influenced by the amount, type, and distribution of diversity across the genome, suggesting a potential relationship between historical demography and resilience. In this study, we surveyed genetic variation across single …

We examined transposable element (TE) content of 248 placental mammal genome assemblies, the largest de novo TE curation effort in eukaryotes to date. We found that although mammals resemble one another in total TE content and diversity, they show …

Human accelerated regions (HARs) are conserved genomic loci that evolved at an accelerated rate in the human lineage and may underlie human-specific traits. We generated HARs and chimpanzee accelerated regions with an automated pipeline and an alignment …

Conserved genomic sequences disrupted in humans may underlie uniquely human phenotypic traits. We identified and characterized 10,032 human-specific conserved deletions (hCONDELs). These short (average 2.56 base pairs) deletions are enriched for human …

Annotating coding genes and inferring orthologs are two classical challenges in genomics and evolutionary biology that have traditionally been approached separately, limiting scalability. We present TOGA (Tool to infer Orthologs from Genome Alignments), a …

Thousands of genomic regions have been associated with heritable human diseases, but attempts to elucidate biological mechanisms are impeded by an inability to discern which genomic positions are functionally important. Evolutionary constraint is a …

Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect fitness and alter disease risk. At least 332 million bases (~10.7%) in the …

The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of genetic variation across an alignment of 241 placental mammal genome assemblies, …

Protein-coding differences between species often fail to explain phenotypic diversity, suggesting the involvement of genomic elements that regulate gene expression such as enhancers. Identifying associations between enhancers and phenotypes is challenging …

We reconstruct the phenotype of Balto, the heroic sled dog renowned for transporting diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, using evolutionary constraint estimates from the Zoonomia alignment of 240 mammals and 682 genomes from dogs and wolves of …

Understanding the regulatory landscape of the human genome is a long-standing objective of modern biology. Using the reference-free alignment across 241 mammalian genomes produced by the Zoonomia Consortium, we charted evolutionary trajectories for 0.92 …

The NCI director and surgical oncologist would fill a 16-month vacancy

PLANETARY SCIENCE Mars’s moon may be its kin Researchers have long believed that Mars’s two moons, Deimos and Phobos, are captured asteroids. But the first close-up images of Deimos, taken by the United Arab Emirates’s $200 million Hope spacecraft, suggest the 12-kilometer-wide body instead formed from the same material as Mars, researchers revealed this week at the annual meeting of the Europe…

A collection of mammalian genomes provides insights into human biology and evolution

Diverse mammal genomes open a new portal to hidden aspects of evolutionary history

HomeScienceVol. 380, No. 6643ZoonomiaBack To Vol. 380, No. 6643 Full accessIntroduction to Special Issue Share on ZoonomiaSacha VignieriAuthors Info & AffiliationsScience27 Apr 2023Vol 380, Issue 6643pp. 356-357 NEXT ARTICLEGenomics expands the mammalverseNext ContentsInformation & AuthorsMetrics & CitationsView OptionsReferencesMediaTablesShareThe 240 mammals sequenced through the Zoonomia pro…

Police confront protesters who object to Turkey’s handling and storage of earthquake debris.

An analysis of research papers finds differences in article production and recognition for women scientists

If our goal is to increase science literacy and trust in science, we may need to reimagine science curriculum

Policy must support generation of evidence on safety and effectiveness

Students and administrators can benefit from new analytics

Reprogramming cellular dynamics is used to study and delay the onset of aging in yeast

Efficient learning algorithms are implemented in a silicon photonic neural network chip

California blackworms serve as a template for the topological design of active matter

Increasingly hot topics in both science and journalism are diversifying the practitioners of these professions and examining what is meant by “objectivity” in this improved world. Bringing wider experiences and perspectives to the laboratory or the …

Two yeast strains mixed in a brewing cellar 400 years ago

Merging supermassive binaries could be revealed through variations in optical and radio emissions

Experts split on whether group comparisons, which could perpetuate discrimination, should be done

Plan to expand irrigation draws fierce criticism

GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future

It doesn't just slice and dice.

As the Arctic warms and loses sea ice, trans-Arctic shipping has increased, reducing travel time and costs for international trade. However, a new study finds that the Arctic Ocean is getting foggier as ice disappears, reducing visibility and causing costly delays as ships slow to avoid hitting dangerous sea ice.

The written word is said to reflect one's emotions and attitude. By analyzing text, we can make educated guesses about an author's feelings. People who write in a good mood may use words that exude a pleasant fragrance, akin to a rose. Conversely, when they write while feeling upset or angry, their words may seem prickly, like thorns. Could an artificial intelligence (AI) program that accesses vas

In the run-up to the 2020 election, people appear to have become better at spotting misinformation online, according to a study that found a decline in clicks on unreliable websites. According to prior research, some 44.3% of Americans visited websites during the 2016 US election that repeatedly made false or misleading information. During the 2020 election, that number dropped by nearly half to

The genomes of monkeys, bats, whales and many other mammals are helping scientists tackle big questions about physiology, evolution and one very famous sled dog.

Over a decade, scientists compared the genomes of 240 mammals to see how humans are the same — and different.

Here’s what you need to know about getting your next vaccine

For millennia, humans have used knots for all kinds of reasons—to tie rope, braid hair, or weave fabrics. But there are organisms that are better at tying knots and far superior—and faster—at untangling them.

Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted over the years to find the genes underlying common human traits, from eye color to intelligence and physical and mental illnesses.

Solving a riddle that has confounded biologists since bacterial spores—inert, sleeping bacteria— were first described more than 150 years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered a new kind of cellular sensor that allows spores to detect the presence of nutrients in their environment and quickly spring back to life.

Over the past 100 million years, mammals have adapted to nearly every environment on Earth. Scientists with the Zoonomia Project have been cataloging the diversity in mammalian genomes by comparing DNA sequences from 240 species that exist today, from the aardvark and the African savanna elephant to the yellow-spotted rock hyrax and the zebu.

Contrary to what is stated in biology textbooks, the growth of fish doesn't slow down when and because they start spawning. In fact, their growth accelerates after they reproduce, according to a new article published in Science.

A team of scientists led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and University of California, Santa Cruz has discovered that animals' genomic information can help predict which mammal species are more likely to face extinction.

More than a million years ago, large chunks of the human genome were rearranged—a chance event during egg or sperm formation that led to the deletion, duplication, or reversal of sections of DNA. Those structural variants, researchers have now discovered, likely set off a cascade of other rapid changes in human DNA that may underlie uniquely human features, particularly the brain.

CRISPR claimed scientific fame for its ability to quickly and accurately edit genes. But, at the core, CRISPR systems are immune systems that help bacteria protect themselves from viruses by targeting and destroying viral DNA and RNA. A new study published in Science reveals a previously unrecognized player in one such system—a membrane protein that enhances anti-viral defense—simultaneously broad

Human lifespan is related to the aging of our individual cells. Three years ago a group of University of California San Diego researchers deciphered essential mechanisms behind the aging process. After identifying two distinct directions that cells follow during aging, the researchers genetically manipulated these processes to extend the lifespan of cells.

The sled dog Balto has been celebrated in books and movies for his role in delivering desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Now, his DNA has enabled scientists to explore the genetics of 1920s sled dogs in Alaska and understand how they compare to modern dogs.

The World Health Organization's draft drinking water guidance for the two most well-studied per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exhibit a "striking and inappropriate disregard of the best available science," according to former directors of the U.S. EPA's Office of Science and Technology and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).

For millennia, humans have used knots for all kinds of reasons—to tie rope, braid hair, or weave fabrics. But there are organisms that are better at tying knots and far superior—and faster—at untangling them.

Hundreds of scientific studies have been conducted over the years to find the genes underlying common human traits, from eye color to intelligence and physical and mental illnesses.

Solving a riddle that has confounded biologists since bacterial spores—inert, sleeping bacteria— were first described more than 150 years ago, researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered a new kind of cellular sensor that allows spores to detect the presence of nutrients in their environment and quickly spring back to life.

Over the past 100 million years, mammals have adapted to nearly every environment on Earth. Scientists with the Zoonomia Project have been cataloging the diversity in mammalian genomes by comparing DNA sequences from 240 species that exist today, from the aardvark and the African savanna elephant to the yellow-spotted rock hyrax and the zebu.

Contrary to what is stated in biology textbooks, the growth of fish doesn't slow down when and because they start spawning. In fact, their growth accelerates after they reproduce, according to a new article published in Science.

A team of scientists led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and University of California, Santa Cruz has discovered that animals' genomic information can help predict which mammal species are more likely to face extinction.

More than a million years ago, large chunks of the human genome were rearranged—a chance event during egg or sperm formation that led to the deletion, duplication, or reversal of sections of DNA. Those structural variants, researchers have now discovered, likely set off a cascade of other rapid changes in human DNA that may underlie uniquely human features, particularly the brain.

CRISPR claimed scientific fame for its ability to quickly and accurately edit genes. But, at the core, CRISPR systems are immune systems that help bacteria protect themselves from viruses by targeting and destroying viral DNA and RNA. A new study published in Science reveals a previously unrecognized player in one such system—a membrane protein that enhances anti-viral defense—simultaneously broad

Human lifespan is related to the aging of our individual cells. Three years ago a group of University of California San Diego researchers deciphered essential mechanisms behind the aging process. After identifying two distinct directions that cells follow during aging, the researchers genetically manipulated these processes to extend the lifespan of cells.

The sled dog Balto has been celebrated in books and movies for his role in delivering desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Now, his DNA has enabled scientists to explore the genetics of 1920s sled dogs in Alaska and understand how they compare to modern dogs.

New research has been released into the potential for coal seam gas (CSG) activity in Queensland to affect human health.

The Picts of Scotland who have long intrigued and have been ascribed exotic origins in fact descended from indigenous Iron Age society and were genetically most similar to people living today in Scotland, Wales, North Ireland and Northumbria. Adeline Morez of Liverpool John Moores University and Linus Girdland-Flink of the University of Aberdeen report these findings in a new study published April

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I'm curious what the future of wildlife will be like, everyone is wondering, if AI will replace humans in the future, will humans merge with machines, will humans colonize space, but very rarely do I see anyone asking the question, what about nature? Has man, in pursuit of technological development, forgotten that not only his species lives on earth? What do you think, will human use future techn

With the advent of AI, white collar jobs would decline. Only few professions such as doctor, lawyer, cops, and administrators would have significance. Though almost all countries would raise drone armies, no country would dare to leave everything to robots and drones. Agriculture, prostitution, and trading would continue as these industries suffice basic needs of humans. Only difference would be

The title. Last I remember they were polling people on when the covid vaccine was going to be released and I think the crowd got it right. Did I lose track of where that platform went or did it cease to exist? Is there an explanation why? It's such an interesting concept. submitted by /u/FoxyRoxyMoxy [link] [comments]

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More than a month after heavy storms eroded a section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, work crews are still scrambling to complete repairs and shore up flood defenses in the face of a weeklong heat wave that threatens to trigger widespread snowmelt in the Sierra Nevada.

Moon Morale The UAE's hopes and dreams of a Moon landing lay in its glorious Rashid mini rover — so it's too bad it ended up unceremoniously smashing into the lunar surface . It's a disappointing outcome to what could've been a historic mission, but scientists at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai don't seem too beat up about it, choosing to look at the bright side of things. "

Digital Dog-sters New York recently deployed a robot dog to the scene of a catastrophe to uncover a body— and according to the city's unpopular mayor , this dystopian factoid is good, actually. In a press conference , New York City Mayor Eric Adams hailed the FDNY's Boston Dynamics-developed and Dalmatian-painted "Digidog," which last week uncovered the one person who died in a Lower Manhattan ga

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Scientific Reports, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33135-w High bending strength at 1800 °C exceeding 1 GPa in TiB 2 -B 4 C composite

A new resource launched this week aims to build a complete picture of action being taken along the South Coast to help combat the effects of climate change.

Some modern Alaska Natives still live almost exactly where their ancestors did some 3,000 years ago, according to ancient genetic data analyses. The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America. Others settled in areas much closer to their place

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38116-1 The dynein motor complex has a variety of important functions in both dividing and non-dividing cells. Here, Gallisà et al. describe a mode of regulation of dynein based on the phosphorylation of its adaptor BICD2 by the kinase PLK1, and how this is central for the regulation of centrosome position in G2 and M.

A new resource launched this week aims to build a complete picture of action being taken along the South Coast to help combat the effects of climate change.

Climate change is raising the risk of extreme weather, causing food shortages and threatening the existence of myriad species—and if that weren't enough, it's now prompting pirates to plague the world's oceans and seas.

Detailed microscale images of the inside of a hedgehog spine have revealed that the internal structure looks similar to the inside of a citrus fruit, which may explain their strength and flexibility.

Protists, a broad class of generally single-celled organisms that includes algae and amoebae, have long been regarded as a "catch-all" category for diverse microorganisms. Because of their diversity and prevalence, protists play vital roles in virtually every ecosystem on earth. But until recently, one of those roles was poorly understood.

The impact of the fall armyworm pest on maize crops and communities in sub-Saharan Africa were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new CABI-led research published as a Current Opinion article in the journal Environmental Sustainability.

A historic Aberdeen garden could play an important role in the development of urban green spaces, following a study that showed how different types of vegetation can be used to best manage these vital areas.

A team of engineers and materials scientists affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., has developed a new way to depolymerize plastics using electrified spatiotemporal heating. In their paper, published in the journal Nature, the group describes the new process and its efficiency. Nature has also published a Research Briefing in the same journal issue outlining the work done by the team.

Protists, a broad class of generally single-celled organisms that includes algae and amoebae, have long been regarded as a "catch-all" category for diverse microorganisms. Because of their diversity and prevalence, protists play vital roles in virtually every ecosystem on earth. But until recently, one of those roles was poorly understood.

The impact of the fall armyworm pest on maize crops and communities in sub-Saharan Africa were worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new CABI-led research published as a Current Opinion article in the journal Environmental Sustainability.

Soybean (Glycine max) is an important economic crop, providing 28.7% of the world's vegetable oil and 70.7% of its protein meal. Seed weight is usually associated with seed size and is one of the most important agronomic traits determining yield. However, understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of soybean seed size/weight control is very limited.

Powder thermal diffusion alloying is an important surface strengthening method that can fabricate an anticorrosion coating on magnesium alloys.

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies offer the opportunity to understand regulatory mechanisms at single-cell resolution. Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) provide a crucial blueprint of regulatory mechanisms in cellular systems and thus play a central role in biological research. It is therefore imperative to develop an accurate tool for inferring GRNs from scRNA-seq data.

Human lives have been revolutionized since lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) were successfully commercialized. However, modern portable electronics have increased energy demands and thus require batteries with high energy density. Directly using Li metal as an anode is considered a promising strategy due to its ultra-high capacity (3860 mA h g-1) and low negative electrochemical potential (- 3.04 V ver

More than ever before, humans seem to be inundated with stories. They pour out of our screens and social-media feeds, our books, and, of course, ourselves. The urge to create narratives in order to make sense of reality is matched only by the need to escape reality by the same means. Amid this abundance, fairy tales have found renewed popularity in recent years. Best-selling authors such as Maris

All large explosive eruptions aren't the same and neither is their impact on the Earth's climate in their aftermath.

Providing insight into the practice of animal mummification in Egypt, the research also reveals the potential of a new technique for assessing ancient artifacts.

Soybean (Glycine max) is an important economic crop, providing 28.7% of the world's vegetable oil and 70.7% of its protein meal. Seed weight is usually associated with seed size and is one of the most important agronomic traits determining yield. However, understanding of the genetic and molecular basis of soybean seed size/weight control is very limited.

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies offer the opportunity to understand regulatory mechanisms at single-cell resolution. Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) provide a crucial blueprint of regulatory mechanisms in cellular systems and thus play a central role in biological research. It is therefore imperative to develop an accurate tool for inferring GRNs from scRNA-seq data.

Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have helped advance a new low-cost way to monitor changes in the world's murky marine environments.

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Earlier this month the company sought to remove videos of a YouTuber playing a new Zelda mod. It’s a move that goes against the spirit of interactivity that fuels the medium.

The security issues raised by ChatGPT and similar tech are just beginning to emerge, but Rob Joyce says it’s time to prepare for what comes next.

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a hybrid imaging technique that combines optical illumination with ultrasound detection for high-resolution imaging of deep tissues. Utilizing the photoacoustic (PA) effect, PAT provides a distinct advantage with scalable resolution, higher imaging depth, and high contrast imaging. It uses nanosecond laser pulses to illuminate the tissue of interest, enabling thei

Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have helped advance a new low-cost way to monitor changes in the world's murky marine environments.

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) folds into complex structures, which allow it to interact specifically with other molecules in the cell. In HIV-1, minute differences in RNA folding can be crucial in determining whether viral RNA is "packaged" and thus leads to viral replication.

More than half of Americans believe that moving in with a significant other before tying the knot is a good idea—that cohabitation before marriage or even engagement can increase their changes of a happy and successful marriage.

In a recent paper, "Boundary Vector Cells in the Goldfish Central Telencephalon Encode Spatial Information," published in PLOS One, researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and the Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure in France, studied the cognitive activity of goldfish navigating a fish tank.

Models based on the principles of statistical physics can provide useful insights into how languages change through contact between speakers of different languages. In particular, the analysis reveals how unusual linguistic forms are more likely to be replaced by more regular ones over time.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01444-9 Models show that death rates must decline faster to meet Cancer Moonshot goals to cut deaths in half in 25 years.

Energy efficient LEDs (light emitting diodes) have begun to replace many types of lighting both indoor and outdoor. A key reason for the rise of LEDs has been materials research that greatly improved the quality and intensity of light achievable with these devices. But those materials must be handled with very high levels of precision, including surfaces that are as defect-free as possible.

In a recent paper, "Boundary Vector Cells in the Goldfish Central Telencephalon Encode Spatial Information," published in PLOS One, researchers at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and the Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure in France, studied the cognitive activity of goldfish navigating a fish tank.

An international team of researchers led by Prof. Ma Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to have greater arthropod diversity.

Five new species of frogs, including one with camouflage that makes it look like bird droppings, have been described by Australian scientists.

Neurodegeneration in brain cells may be happening when the natural cellular cleaning process malfunctions due to falling levels of a niacin-related coenzyme and leaves cells starved of energy, new research shows.

Allocating land for people to use is one of the most powerful tools a government can have. A newly published study by an MIT scholar now identifies the extent to which state land distribution can be a politically charged act.

When two black holes merge, they emit gravitational waves that race through space and time at the speed of light. When these reach Earth, large detectors in the United States (LIGO), Italy (Virgo) and Japan (KAGRA) can detect the signals. By comparing against theoretical predictions, scientists can then determine the black holes' properties: masses, spins, orientation, position in the sky and dist

An international team of researchers led by Prof. Ma Keping from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has shown that forests with higher tree species richness tend to have greater arthropod diversity.

A team of researchers, led by University of Texas at Dallas scientists, has developed a new technique to grow exceptionally large, high-quality crystals that could help make advanced electronics, such as spintronic and magnetic optoelectronic devices, a reality.

Ion-transport membranes are vital components of clean-energy technologies, such as CO2 electrolyzers, water electrolyzers, fuel cells, redox flow batteries and ion-capture electrodialysis. These membranes must screen out specific substances to prevent crossover while efficiently conducting specific ions.

Three new Roman fortified camps have been identified across northern Arabia by a remote sensing survey by the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology. Their paper, published in the journal Antiquity, reports the discovery may be evidence of a probable undocumented military campaign across south east Jordan into Saudi Arabia.

Five new species of frogs, including one with camouflage that makes it look like bird droppings, have been described by Australian scientists.

Neurodegeneration in brain cells may be happening when the natural cellular cleaning process malfunctions due to falling levels of a niacin-related coenzyme and leaves cells starved of energy, new research shows.

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center-led team has developed a scale to measure trustworthiness in biomedical research among minority populations—a landmark tool for researchers to use to improve their own trustworthiness, and thus participation in research.

New research by University of Michigan astronomers presents the most detailed known images of the inner region of a planet-forming disk.

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution to urban areas, more so than other freight or passenger trains, according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis.

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As freshwater scarcity affects millions worldwide, scientists and engineers have looked for new ways of filtering unwanted metals and minerals out of water while retaining those elements for re-use elsewhere.

Ukraine is facing a depopulation crisis that was being felt by ordinary Ukrainians even before the Russian invasion, according to new research by the University of Southampton.

A team of researchers at the IUPUI School of Science have developed an innovative use of Artificial Intelligence to discover new species of insects.

Research from experts at City, University of London's Department of Sociology and Criminology suggests that although women students feel largely safe while on campus, universities have a responsibility that extends beyond campus and encompasses surrounding areas and commuter routes into and out of study areas.

In a review of more than three decades' worth of studies that examine support for, or opposition to, policies with racial equity implications, a Cornell-led research group found that more research on messaging that includes the voices of historically marginalized people is necessary in the push toward equity.

Studies show that some species may require breeding in captivity within the next 200 years to avoid extinction. This reality places heavy importance on the reintroduction practices used to successfully transfer species from captivity to the wild. A new study from George Mason University looks at some of the most popular conservation techniques and identifies which have the highest likelihood of su

New research by Virginia Tech scientists shows that sections of the Chesapeake Bay are sinking at rates of nearly a quarter an inch—or 7 millimeters—a year. Further, up-to-date knowledge of where the ground in the Chesapeake Bay area is sinking and by how much is not included in the official planning maps that authorities use to assess the local flooding risk from rising sea levels, the researcher

Forty years after her father stored them away, a woman discovered 32 identical iron ingots that Vikings may have used as a form of currency.

A team of researchers at the IUPUI School of Science have developed an innovative use of Artificial Intelligence to discover new species of insects.

Future Proofing Facing an influx of ChatGPT imitators, OpenAI is looking to specifically trademark the "GPT" part of its name, TechCrunch reports . It's an eyebrow-raising decision, given the company's non-profit and open source — hence "Open" — roots. The initialism-turned-suffix, which stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, has quickly become synonymous with AI chatbots looking to capit

Scientists found parallels between the neural circuitry that guides locomotion in sea slugs and in more complex animals like mammals.

Typically T cells of the immune system respond to a specific feature (antigen) of a microbe, thereby generating protective immunity. Scientists have discovered an exception to this rule. Namely, a group of divergent bacterial pathogens, including pneumococci, all share a small highly conserved protein sequence, which is both presented and recognized by human T cells in a conserved population-wide

Researchers have identified a previously unknown group of bacteria, called UBA868, as key players in the energy cycle of the deep ocean. They are significantly involved in the biogeochemical cycle in the marine layer between 200 and 1000 meters.

DNA analysis has revealed that a single-celled alga has a strange conglomeration of different organisms living inside it

Studies show that some species may require breeding in captivity within the next 200 years to avoid extinction. This reality places heavy importance on the reintroduction practices used to successfully transfer species from captivity to the wild. A new study from George Mason University looks at some of the most popular conservation techniques and identifies which have the highest likelihood of su

Researchers from Sebastian Zoll's group at IOCB Prague determined the first cryo-EM structures of a surface receptor of the human-infective parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in complex with human complement factor C3 in different conformations. This provides the structural basis to understand how the parasite escapes the immune response at an early stage of infection.

Researchers from Sebastian Zoll's group at IOCB Prague determined the first cryo-EM structures of a surface receptor of the human-infective parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in complex with human complement factor C3 in different conformations. This provides the structural basis to understand how the parasite escapes the immune response at an early stage of infection.

The Zhurong Mars rover never woke up from a planned hibernation, and the head of the mission team has now revealed why.

Researchers have found that undernourished bold jumping spiders begin to lose light-sensitive photoreceptors.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01454-7 The failure of the ispace lunar lander highlights the challenges, in particular for nascent private companies.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01445-8 Machine-generated data sets have the potential to improve privacy and representation in artificial intelligence, if researchers can find the right balance between accuracy and fakery.

Scientists identified a species of Subdoligranulum that may drive disease.

Medication delivered by a novel gel cured 100% of mice with an aggressive brain cancer, a striking result that offers new hope for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma, one of the deadliest and most common brain tumors in humans.

A programmer is building chatbots with opposing political views to make a point about biased AI. He’s also planning a centrist bot to bridge the divide.

A team led by bioinformatics experts Andreas Keller and Fabian Kern from Saarland University together with researchers at Stanford University have gained new insights into manifestations of aging at the molecular level. They found that the process of reading genetic information does not run as smoothly in older individuals as it does in younger ones.

When a cell is getting ready to divide, it needs to duplicate its DNA, which is divided among its chromosomes, and arrange the chromosomes so that each new cell gets one complete set. If the chromosomes get sorted incorrectly, the resulting cells with the wrong number or set can become dysfunctional, or even cancerous.

Using the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), an international team of astronomers has detected millihertz quasi-periodic oscillations from a low-mass X-ray binary known as 4U 1730–22. The finding was reported in a paper published March 29 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The relentless hype surrounding generative AI in the past few months has been accompanied by equally loud anguish over the supposed perils — just look at the open letter calling for a pause in AI experiments. This tumult risks blinding us to more immediate risks — think sustainability and bias — and clouds our ability to appreciate the real value of these systems: not as generalist chatbots, but

A team led by bioinformatics experts Andreas Keller and Fabian Kern from Saarland University together with researchers at Stanford University have gained new insights into manifestations of aging at the molecular level. They found that the process of reading genetic information does not run as smoothly in older individuals as it does in younger ones.

To firmaer, der specialiserer sig i tyngdekraftbatterier, melder om stigende interesse, blandt andet for at udnytte seks forladte miner i USA og Tyskland.

Sebastian blev præsenteret for en dims til en påskefrokost, som han gerne vil have hjælp til at få identificeret.

Misguided introduction of alien predator saw partula snails driven from their habitat – but zoos have reared new populations When French Polynesia was overrun by the invasive African giant land snail , another alien species, the predatory rosy wolf snail, was introduced to solve the problem. Unfortunately the rosy wolf snail devoured tiny, endemic partula snails instead, hunting down the scent of

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Blue Skies Twitter users are clamoring to get an invite to former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's decentralized Twitter alternative Bluesky. A quick search reveals countless accounts giving away or begging for invites. The app, now available on both Android and iOS , is only accepting new users via either a waitlist or a gifted invite code from a friend who's already on the platform. And the hype surro

This 13-sided shape is the first to cover an infinite plane in a pattern that never repeats.

When a cell is getting ready to divide, it needs to duplicate its DNA, which is divided among its chromosomes, and arrange the chromosomes so that each new cell gets one complete set. If the chromosomes get sorted incorrectly, the resulting cells with the wrong number or set can become dysfunctional, or even cancerous.

The atmosphere is a large-scale dissemination route for bacteria carrying antibiotic-resistance genes. A research team from Université Laval and Université Clermont Auvergne has shown that these genes can be transported by clouds.

California sea lions have managed to maintain—and, in the case of males, increase—their average body size as their population grows and competition for food becomes fiercer. This is in contrast to other marine mammals, whose average body size tends to decrease as their numbers increase.

One of the outstanding challenges in the field of condensed matter physics is finding computationally efficient and simultaneously accurate methods to describe interacting electron systems for crystalline materials.

Two massive touching stars in a neighboring galaxy are on course to become black holes that will eventually crash together, generating waves in the fabric of space-time, according to a new study by researchers at UCL (University College London) and the University of Potsdam.

Tiny pores in the cell nucleus play an essential role for healthy aging by protecting and preserving the genetic material. A team from the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main and the Synthetic Biophysics of Protein Disorder group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has literally filled a hole in the understanding of the struc

Once upon a time, in what is now Wyoming, the predecessors of birds, alligators, and dinosaurs roamed the range. A lizard-like creature with a beak that ate plants around 232 million years ago has been described in a paper published in the journal Diversity.

The atmosphere is a large-scale dissemination route for bacteria carrying antibiotic-resistance genes. A research team from Université Laval and Université Clermont Auvergne has shown that these genes can be transported by clouds.

California sea lions have managed to maintain—and, in the case of males, increase—their average body size as their population grows and competition for food becomes fiercer. This is in contrast to other marine mammals, whose average body size tends to decrease as their numbers increase.

Tiny pores in the cell nucleus play an essential role for healthy aging by protecting and preserving the genetic material. A team from the Department of Theoretical Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt am Main and the Synthetic Biophysics of Protein Disorder group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has literally filled a hole in the understanding of the struc

Once upon a time, in what is now Wyoming, the predecessors of birds, alligators, and dinosaurs roamed the range. A lizard-like creature with a beak that ate plants around 232 million years ago has been described in a paper published in the journal Diversity.

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A study of wild house mice has shown that the social environment experienced by males during sexual development can influence the sperm quality of their sons.

More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant's historic habitat range has been lost in just three centuries, a new report from an international scientific team led by a University of California San Diego researcher reveals. This dramatic decline may underlie present-day conflicts between elephants and people, the authors argue.

Our bodies comprise different tissues and organs, which are composed of many cells that must adhere to form functional higher order structures. This adherence is facilitated by specialized proteins called cell–cell adhesion molecules, which extend from neighboring cells and link to each other.

A flexible, wearable electronic tattoo could provide a major boost in the fight against heart disease, the leading cause of death in the US. Researchers developed an ultrathin, lightweight electronic tattoo, or e-tattoo, that attaches to the chest for continuous, mobile heart monitoring outside of a clinical setting. It includes two sensors that together provide a clear picture of heart health, g

On tiny farms they’re testing creative ideas to stay ahead of the cascading threats — heat and drought, cyclones and floods — transforming their world.

A study of wild house mice has shown that the social environment experienced by males during sexual development can influence the sperm quality of their sons.

Camera traps at two dens in Kenya have captured evidence of porcupines and warthogs occupying dens at the same time as their predators, spotted hyenas

More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant's historic habitat range has been lost in just three centuries, a new report from an international scientific team led by a University of California San Diego researcher reveals. This dramatic decline may underlie present-day conflicts between elephants and people, the authors argue.

Many people use hydrogels without knowing it. As superabsorbents in nappies, for example, hydrogels absorb a lot of liquid. In the process, the initially dry material becomes jelly-like, but it does not wet. Some people place the swellable material on their eyeballs—soft contact lenses are also just hydrogels. The same goes for jelly and other everyday materials.

Our bodies comprise different tissues and organs, which are composed of many cells that must adhere to form functional higher order structures. This adherence is facilitated by specialized proteins called cell–cell adhesion molecules, which extend from neighboring cells and link to each other.

A team of metallurgists and materials scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH has uncovered the reason for the sluggishness that occurs when attempting to use hydrogen instead of coke to make steel. In their study, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group isolated the problem and offer solutions for producing steel with reduced carbon emissions.

Starship Fire SpaceX's explosive orbital test launch of its massive Starship spacecraft left a significant mark on its surroundings. The launch left a massive crater in the company's launchpad, spitting up vast amounts of concrete and blanketing miles of South Texas' shoreline with particulate matter. Now it turns out that the test launch even lit 3.5 acres, including land belonging to the neighb

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38057-9 The potential for enhanced sediment delivery to the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta exists, but it alone is insufficient to sustain the system. The delta may be resilient to climate change, but only in the absence of dam construction and water diversions.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38029-z Here the authors demonstrate that remodelling of perturbed replication forks by the exonuclease EXD2 modulates pathway choice within the Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres mechanism and identify potentially clinically important synthetic lethal interactions in ALT cancer cells.

Early last year, entrepreneur Luke Iseman says, he released a pair of sulfur dioxide–filled weather balloons from Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, in the hope that they’d burst miles above Earth. It was a trivial act in itself, involving far less of the gas than a commercial airliner releases. But the launch was imbued with meaning, and it pushed the simmering debate over extreme climate inter

Claw Viper vs. Hypershock full fight! #discoveryplus #battlebots Stream Full Episodes of BattleBots https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/battlebots About BattleBots: Next-generation robots from all over the globe trade blows to reign supreme. The series highlights the design and build of each robot, bot-builder backstories and the pursuit of the BattleBots championship. Subscribe to Discovery: http

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Since almost two centuries ago—not long after it was identified bubbling up in a creek in western New York—the flammable below-ground substance composed of methane and other hydrocarbons has been called "natural gas" in the U.S.

When a powerful storm flooded neighborhoods in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in April with what preliminary reports show was 25 inches of rain in 24 hours, few people were prepared. Even hurricanes rarely drop that much rain in one area that fast. Residents could do little to stop the floodwater as it spread over their yards and into their homes.

Electrification is a key part of the transition to renewable energy, and phasing out combustion engine vehicles will be a significant piece of that transition. Despite subsidies and tax breaks around electric vehicles in the US, the cars haven’t taken over a large percentage of market share yet, perhaps because their sticker price is still higher than that of gas-powered cars. Zooming out to the

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01415-0 Extremely white pigment stems from a peculiar arrangement of reflective molecules.

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A 2021 paper has got physicists discussing whether our inability to use classical physics to describe reality on a quantum scale is a human failing – and what proof is necessary to show that the world really is quantum mechanical, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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In a small study, intravenous mistletoe extract shows promise as a cancer therapy. While the phase I trial was meant to evaluate the drug’s safety, the researchers also documented improved quality of life and some disease control among study participants with advanced and treatment-resistant cancers. Mistletoe extract has been widely used to support cancer therapy and improve quality of life, but

A new report documents the difficult post-layoff job search and working conditions of hundreds of California fossil fuel workers in the aftermath of the 2020 closure of the Marathon Martinez oil refinery in Contra Costa County, California. The report , from the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center, is case study of the perils and needs of workers in the nation’s changing energy landsca

Is there a recipe for recreating a dinosaur's appearance? Experts reveal how they know what dinosaurs really looked like.

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Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38137-w Earthquake rupture speeds significantly impact seismic hazards. Here, authors report laboratory earthquake experiments reproducing early and stable subEshelby supershear ruptures, and unlocking the correlation between rupture speed and driving load.

Anomalies In mostly overlooked testimony, a ranking Pentagon official explained to Congress just how strange the military's UFO videos can be. As Fox News reports , Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told a Senate subcommittee that although the Defense Department hasn't yet found "credible evidence" of extraterrestrial life, there were still

Machine learning models are incredibly powerful tools. They extract deeply hidden patterns in large data sets that our limited human brains can’t parse. These complex algorithms, then, need to be incomprehensible “black boxes,” because a model that we could crack open and understand would be useless. Right? That’s all wrong, at least according to Cynthia Rudin, who studies interpretable machine..

Methanol is a potential feedstock for biomanufacturing since it's easily obtained in an environmentally friendly manner. But it is still challenging to construct a microbial cell factory for methanol-based bioproduction due to the toxicity of methanol and its complex cellular metabolism.

Small amounts of nanometer-thin metal-organic layers efficiently protect red blood cells during freezing and thawing, as a team of researchers writing in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition has discovered. The nanolayers, made from metal-organic frameworks based on the metal hafnium, prevent ice crystal formation at very low concentrations. This effective novel cryoprotection mode

Methanol is a potential feedstock for biomanufacturing since it's easily obtained in an environmentally friendly manner. But it is still challenging to construct a microbial cell factory for methanol-based bioproduction due to the toxicity of methanol and its complex cellular metabolism.

A "window to evolution" has opened after mathematicians uncovered the universal explanatory framework for how molecules interact with one another to adapt to new and variable conditions while maintaining tight control over key survival properties.

Artificial intelligence can generate poems and essays, create responsive game characters, analyze vast amounts of data and detect patterns that the human eye might miss. Imagine what AI could do for drug discovery, traditionally a time-consuming, expensive process from the bench to the bedside.

In the summer of 2022, over 20,000 excess deaths across Spain, France, Germany and Great Britain were suggested to have been linked to extremely hot weather. In the context of global warming where climate models point to the fact that extreme heat waves are likely to increase both in frequency and magnitude, preventive measures and adequate communication of dangerous conditions take on special rel

Iron oxide nanoparticles are often used in medical technology as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging or as transport agents for drugs in the bloodstream, for example in tumor therapy. For these applications, the nanoparticles have to be biocompatible and superparamagnetic. Thus, they must be strongly magnetizable in a magnetic field and also must lose their magnetization when the magnet

Ammonia (NH3) is one of the most widely produced chemicals in the world, with production at more than 187 million tons in 2020. About 85% of it is used to produce nitrogenous fertilizers, while the rest is used for refining petroleum, manufacturing a wide range of other chemicals, and creating synthetic fibers such as nylon. However, all this comes at a high energy cost.

The plan will keep Voyager 2's science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space.

A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed "collectively induced transparency" (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies.

The real problem with space is there’s not enough of it—at least not when it comes to places to put people. With billionaires funding their own space programs and investors pouring cash into new start-ups aimed at building a true space economy, millions of humans may end up working and living away from Earth in a century or two. If that happens, all of those people will need somewhere to live. Bu

The potential ban against the social media app is a troubling sign that US legislators are adopting a techno-nationalist stance all too similar to China’s.

The momentum brought to Cornish learning during the pandemic needs to be used as a springboard to encourage more people to take up the language, an expert has said.

Researchers at Tokyo Tech have discovered hidden chemical order of the Mo and Nb atoms in disordered Ba7Nb4MoO20, by combining state-of-the-art techniques, including resonant X-ray diffraction and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. This study provides valuable insights into how a material's properties, such as ionic conduction, can be heavily influenced by its hidden chemical order. These res

Looking at the most-streamed movies or television shows on any given streaming service, it would be easy to assume that serial killers lurk behind every corner. The stories of Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy and the Boston Strangler still loom large––even if the likelihood that you'll encounter another Zodiac Killer has never been lower.

A new paper provides insights on one of the most important factors in the Southern Oceanic carbon cycle, the "biological pump," where carbon is utilized by organisms at the surface and transferred to ocean depths, away from contact with the atmosphere. The study, authored by scientists from NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was published in PNAS

Selvom elbilernes udbredelse gavner klimaet, er det »på høje tid at bremse op« for at kigge på den skade på mennesker og miljø, som de påfører, mener ekspert i moderne slaveri.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01414-1 The famed thought experiment, which posits that a cat can be alive and dead at the same time, is confirmed with classical evidence.

We've all heard that we should "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" to save the planet, but what about applying any of the "three R's" to space?

Parental leave for fathers can decrease sexist attitudes and gender bias, according to new research. The researchers, including Jonathan Homola, an assistant professor of political science at Rice University, were interested in how parental leave for nontraditional caregivers affects individuals’ deeply ingrained attitudes about stereotypical gender roles and sexism—which can have adverse consequ

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High-frequency light is useful. The higher the frequency of light, the shorter its wavelength—and the shorter the wavelength, the smaller the objects and details the light can be used to see.

Ammonia has been in the news because of its suitability as a hydrogen carrier and fuel, in addition to being a vital ingredient in fertiliser. Existing distribution networks and the ease of turning ammonia gas into a liquid make ammonia a cost-effective way to transport renewable energy. For a given volume, ammonia—a molecule made up of three hydrogen atoms and one nitrogen atom—carries about 50%

On November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGTP, making the latest generation of AI technologies widely available. In the few months since then, we have seen Italy ban ChatGTP over privacy concerns, leading technology luminaries calling for a pause on AI systems development, and even prominent researchers saying we should be prepared to launch airstrikes on data centres associated with

Temperatures reach 38.8C in southern Spain today as heat from Africa brings summer early.

A new study shows most melatonin products are inaccurately labelled. The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .

Den canadiske virksomhed Flying Whales skal bruge Honeywells generatorer som energikilde på deres 200 meter lange hybridluftskibe, der blandt andet skal fragte gods til ufremkommelige områder.

China is using "smart" technology to try to improve its safety record in coal mines, as part of a push by the National Energy Administration to bolster output and stem frequent accidents and collapses.

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An unusually early heatwave in drought-hit Spain is set to peak on Thursday and Friday with temperatures expected to break April records in the south of the country.

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. K indness and niceness , though both excellent personal qualities, are not the same thing. The former is to be good to others; the latter is about being pleasant. They don’t even have to go together. Some say, for example, that New Yorkers are kind but not nice (“Your tire is flat, you moron—han

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has spent two decades taking some very fancy vacations with the immensely rich conservative donor Harlan Crow, who also allows Thomas’s mother to live rent-free on property he bought for a very generous price from Thomas almost a decade ago. Those revelations arrived in reports from ProPublica, Slate , and CNN over the past two weeks. Other outlets had previo

O f the roughly 1,000 people who have been charged for their participation in the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, nearly a quarter were indicted alongside a relative or romantic partner. All sorts of other close personal relationships run through the indictments: the two roommates from Ohio who have known each other since they were kids, the three high-school buddies from North Carolina,

A bout a decade ago, the social psychologist Sara Konrath led a study that yielded some disturbing results. As a researcher at Indiana University, she’d already found that narcissism rates seemed to be increasing among Americans, and empathy decreasing; that was a combination that didn’t bode well, she feared, for the quality of people’s relationships. So she decided to look more deeply into the

Large swathes of the world's oceans are warm. Unusually warm. The heat this year is likely to break records. Since mid-March, the global average sea surface temperature is over 21℃—the highest since satellite records began.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38160-x DNA polymerase 1 (POLD1) has an important role in DNA damage repair and is frequently upregulated in cancer. Here, the authors report a non-canonical role of POLD1 wherein it stabilises MYC protein, creating a positive feedback loop with POLD1 expression and driving bladder cancer progression and metastasis.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38118-z The cell interior is organized by diverse membrane-less condensates. Here, the authors reveal that the densities of certain condensates are surprisingly low, similar to the surrounding protoplasm and driven by cellular RNA as well as the crowded milieu.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38156-7 Fear of missing neonatal sepsis has led to early in life antibiotic administration, even without culture-proven sepsis. Here, the authors discuss the potential impact on antimicrobial resistance, and chronic disease later in life, due to effect on the developing microbiome, suggesting a factual based approach i

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. America’s first IVF baby is pitching a way to pick the DNA of your kids Elizabeth Carr is head of commercial development at Genomic Prediction, a genetic testing startup that says it will assess embryos created in IVF clinics for their future chance of common

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01417-y An aerial system can image objects submerged in either still or moving water.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01416-z Insights from mudskippers suggest that blinking is an adaptation to emerging from the sea.

I’m really excited about the recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and their potential as powerful tools. I am also concerned about unintended consequences. As with any really powerful tool, there is the potential for abuse and also disruption. But I also think that the recent calls to pause or shutdown AI development, or concerns that AI may become conscious , are misguided and ver

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A four-legged robot has been designed to imitate the bouncing and lunging motion of a seal on land, but struggles to turn while moving forwards

Artificial intelligence can be a font of inspiration. Here’s how to use OpenAI’s AI chatbot the next time you’re spitballing ideas.

This week on Gadget Lab, we dive into the market for male grooming products, scrotum deodorizers, and scented salves that target the nether regions.

Livet i Junseles skogar rymmer både matjakt, vandringar, död och nykomlingar. Forskare har följt en grupp älgar för att studera deras liv och beteenden under ett år. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

Researchers may be a step closer to identifying dark matter after studying unusual cases of gravitational lensing caused by "dark matter halos" surrounding distant galaxies.

A brain mechanism that enables us to carry out tasks to achieve a certain reward may get disrupted when a jackpot prize is in sight

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37335-w Despite advances in additive manufacturing of piezoceramics, resultant transducers generally suffer from high porosity, weak piezoelectric responses, and limited geometry. Here, authors report the design and printing of fully packaged freeform ultrasonic transducers capable of traveling inside mm-sized channels

No matter what happens with generative AI, its disruptive forces are already beginning to play a role in the fast-approaching US presidential race.

Magneter, der fastgør Phillipsmaskiner til behandling af søvnapnø, kan udgøre en fare for hjertepatienter med implanterede pacemakere og hjertestartere. Regionerne kontakter nu alle danske patienter.

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01440-z Jean Fan and her team launched a digital campaign using YouTube, GitHub and blogs to make a computational-biology tool accessible to all. Here’s what they learnt.

Vissa måste få fortsätta köra bil som de alltid gjort, annars är det orättvist. Ungefär så lyder argument ofta när politiker diskuterar omställningen till ett fossilfritt samhälle ur rättvisesynvinkel. Och det är inte särskilt konstruktivt. Det menar SLU-forskare som har synat riksdagsdebatter. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

Selvom elbilernes udbredelse gavner klimaet, er det »på høje tid at bremse op« for at kigge på den skade på mennesker og miljø, som de påfører, mener ekspert i moderne slaveri.

Condensed matter is a huge field of physics that gets less attention than it deserves. We must show people its subtle magic if we are to draw in a diverse set of researchers for the next generation, says Felix Flicker

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38098-0 Cell-free genetically encoded biosensors have been developed to detect small molecules and nucleic acids, but they have yet to be reliably engineered to detect proteins. Here the authors develop an automated platform to convert protein-binding RNA aptamers into riboswitch sensors that operate within low-cost ce

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JPMorgan Chase & Co unveiled ChatGPT artificial intelligence model to decode Federal Reserve System (FRS) messages and identify potential trading signals. The company’s economists have developed a special Hawk-Dove index for forecasting and uploaded to the neural network database all the speeches of the heads of the Fed and central bankers over the past 25 years. Although the application of artif

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Japan's Hakuto-R lander may have crashed on the moon, but the spacecraft still sent back valuable images.

How we saw the world

Den nye cyber-værnepligt er vellykket, lyder det fra de unge selv. Men i modsætning til andre værnepligtige er der ikke mange muligheder for at fortsætte ned ad samme spor.

There's already a huge demand for existing weight-loss drugs, so the new medication is highly anticipated. Obesity affects an estimated 650 million adults globally. (Image credit: Eli Lilly & co.)

Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01432-z Hillary Wilson contends that medicine needs more-diverse artwork from illustrators who bring varied perspectives.

On January 16, inspectors from an environmental agency in western Colombia made some troubling findings . At a U.S.-funded facility supposed to be doing cutting-edge malaria research, researchers were keeping dozens of monkeys in dirty cages in poorly ventilated, over-lit enclosures. Several animals were smeared with feces. Some looked sick, and one was missing an eye. A fetid smell hung in the a

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. We’re gathered here today to commemorate the demise of a towering figure in the energy world: nuclear power in Germany. Born: June 16, 1961 . Died: April 15, 2023. Just a decade ago, Germany was using nuclear power to meet about a quarter of its electricity

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Scientific Reports, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33256-2 Provenance and deposition of a lithified volcanic-rich layer (VRL-5.5) at 5.5 Ma from Central Apennines (Italy)

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Scientific Reports, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34138-3 Immunomodulatory effects of trans -anethole-treated Staphylococcus aureus Newman strain

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Nästan fyra av tio förstföderskor har besvär med smärta vid samlag mer än ett år efter förlossningen, enligt forskning från Umeå universitet. Kvinnor uppger också att de får för lite förståelse i vården. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37988-7 African Trypanosomes have developed elaborate immune evasion mechanisms. Here, the authors present the cryoelectron microscopy structures of a trypanosome surface receptor with human complement C3 and C3b, revealing several modes of complement interaction.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38194-1 Bioaerosol can cause the spread of disease, but current removal systems are easily blocked and often cannot deactivate the bioaerosol. Here, the authors report a method for bioaerosol removal and deactivation using a bioinspired photocatalyst capable of capturing airborne bacteria.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37781-6 Combining geological evidence and modelling, Crichton and others find life in the ocean Twilight Zone (200 m to 1000 m depth) is vulnerable to warming due to lower food supply. High emissions may lead to severe depletion and extinction in this habitat

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38006-6 High-performance relaxor ferroelectrics have been widely used in industry. Here the authors show that the enhanced electromechanical response is related to the pseudo ergodicity of nonergodic relaxor ferroelectrics under periodic electric field.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38100-9 Low activity currently prevents the wider use of DNA enzymes (DNAzymes). Here the authors report the chemical evolution of a DNAzyme with high catalytic activity under near physiological conditions: the enzyme achieves ~65 turnovers in 30 minutes.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37568-9 The response to checkpoint immunotherapy within bladder cancer patients is highly variable. Here, the authors use RNA-seq, ATAC-seq and digital spatial profiling of pre- and post-treatment samples from the PURE01 trial to identify subtypes associated with treatment response.

The wreck of a Japanese transport ship that sank in 1942 with more than 1,000 Allied prisoners-of-war on board has been discovered near the Philippines.

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Cyanobakterier i Östersjön har dåligt rykte, men nu nyanseras bilden. De är nämligen huvudföda för djurplankton som är viktiga för fiskebeståndet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

A new study offers an alternative to earlier explanations for why moths and other bugs are attracted to artificial sources of illumination.

A brain mechanism that enables us to carry out tasks to achieve a certain reward may get disrupted when a jackpot prize is in sight

Life in the ocean's "twilight zone" could decline dramatically due to climate change, new research suggests. The twilight zone (200m to 1,000m deep) gets very little light but is home to a wide variety of organisms and billions of tonnes of organic matter.

An ominous shadow in the turquoise Caribbean waters off Venezuela comes from a deadly intruder—a soft coral that experts say has caused one of the most destructive habitat invasions on record anywhere.

An ominous shadow in the turquoise Caribbean waters off Venezuela comes from a deadly intruder—a soft coral that experts say has caused one of the most destructive habitat invasions on record anywhere.

Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Thursday cancelled a law he created just two months ago to protect critically endangered Mekong dolphins as the mammals continue to die from illegal fishing activities.

A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday from an international team of climate scientists.

Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Thursday cancelled a law he created just two months ago to protect critically endangered Mekong dolphins as the mammals continue to die from illegal fishing activities.

The US company Orbit Fab is aiming to produce the go-to "gas stations" in space, its CEO tells AFP, hoping its refueling technology will make the surging satellite industry more sustainable—and profitable.

Forskere fra AU og Teknologisk Institut har udviklet kemisk proces, der nedbryder epoxy og trækker glasfibre ud af nedslidte vindmøllevinger i en kvalitet, der kan genanvendes til nye vinger.

Elizabeth Carr is head of commercial development at Genomic Prediction, a New Jersey genetic testing startup that says it will assess embryos created in IVF clinics for their future chance of common diseases and then rank them, so parents can pick the one with the best future. It’s a controversial area that has some critics anguishing over the prospect of consumer eugenics. The American College o

It might not be alone, either.

Man talar ibland om att forskning är som att lägga pussel. Ett av dessa gigantiska forskningspussel är kroppens proteiner – närmare 90 000 pusselbitar att hålla reda på. Lunds universitets magasin träffar tre proteinprofessorer för att bena ut varför de är så entusiastiska över proteinerna och hur de arbetar för att få ordning på proteiner som krånglar i kroppen.

In our government/NGO section this week, Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab report Discourses of Climate Delay in the Campaign Against Offshore Wind: A Case Study from Rhode Island applies earlier work by Lamb (Discourses of Climate Delay) and Cook (FLICC taxonomy) to put the bright lights on a organization attempting to fossilize energy supplies, finding archetypal examples of both s

Preliminary studies indicate that monthly cash payments to families — implemented as part of the short-lived 2021 expansion of the child tax credit — helped keep millions of kids out of poverty. My collaborative research suggests the policy may have also saved some of them from abuse.

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A new paper in FEMS Yeast Research reveals the possible origin story of lager beers. Using historical records and contemporary phylogenomics research, investigators here show where lagers likely first originated: at the court brewery (Hofbräuhaus) of Maximilian the Great, elector of Bavaria, in Munich in 1602.

A new paper in FEMS Yeast Research reveals the possible origin story of lager beers. Using historical records and contemporary phylogenomics research, investigators here show where lagers likely first originated: at the court brewery (Hofbräuhaus) of Maximilian the Great, elector of Bavaria, in Munich in 1602.

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Researchers have developed a new mining technique which uses microbes to recover metals and store carbon in the waste produced by mining. Adopting this technique of reusing mining waste, called tailings, could transform the mining industry and create a greener and more sustainable future.

Climate change is here, and scientists continue to discover new ways that the world around us is changing. In a new study published in the May issue of the Journal of Hydrology, DRI researchers show that altered weather patterns are impacting stream flows across the country, with implications for flooding, drought, and ecosystems.

The findings starkly show the misery that the burning of fossil fuels, mostly by rich countries, inflicts on societies that emit almost nothing by comparison.

Look what I made mom!

Worst drought in four decades has led to crop failures, animal deaths and left more than 4mn people in need of assistance

The UK's major pension firms vote against BP's chair after the company cut its climate ambitions.

This could help us figure out what's causing them.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38039-x Ebrahimi and Samanta review the key advances in the chemical and structural modification of proteins that have enabled their rise as indispensable tools in medicine and outline emerging protein engineering strategies that can potentially unlock structures with improved therapeutic properties.

Nature Communications, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38054-y Here, the authors devise a synthesis strategy to optimize the stability and thermoelectric performance of Cu2Se-based materials. They obtain a maximum ZT value of ~2.82 at 1000 K on Cu2Se-BiCuSeO-graphene composites.

Very high HDL cholesterol levels almost double your risk of heart problems.

The environmental law charity ClientEarth and 13 other groups headed into a Flemish court this week in an effort to stop Ineos building a petrochemical plant that would be the biggest project of its kind in Europe for 30 years. Madeleine Finlay hears from correspondent Sandra Laville about how plastics are made, the environmental and health impacts of the process and what needs to be done to get

The environmental law charity ClientEarth and 13 other groups headed into a Flemish court this week in an effort to stop Ineos building a petrochemical plant that would be the biggest project of its kind in Europe for 30 years. Madeleine Finlay hears from correspondent Sandra Laville about how plastics are made, the environmental and health impacts of the process and what needs to be done to get a

It really is everywhere.

Nature, Published online: 26 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01426-x The BCG injection failed to prevent COVID-19 in a large trial, contrary to preliminary evidence.

Astronomers have found one huge star eating another, but the smaller star is predicted to eventually become a black hole and go on to feed off its companion

Forskere fra Pacific Northwest National Laboratory har udviklet en metode til at genanvende aluminiumsskrot mere klima- og energivenligt. Det kan være med til at sænke prisen på det eftertragtede metal og i sidste ende øge særligt elbilers rækkevidde.

Kina jagter hastigheder på over 1.000 km/t med teknologi, som Elon Musk vakte til live.

Scientists have unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of quasars — the brightest, most powerful objects in the Universe — by discovering that they are ignited by galaxies colliding.

A coil-powered robot fish could make underwater exploration more accessible.

Investigators have created computer-generated models to bridge the gap between 'test tube' data about neurons and the function of those cells in the living brain. Their study could help in the development of treatments for neurological diseases and disorders that target specific neuron types based on their roles.

Who chose whom?

Astronomers have observed, in one image, the shadow of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87) and the powerful jet expelled from it. Thanks to this new image, astronomers can better understand how black holes can launch such energetic jets.

Scientists found that blood markers of two saturated fatty acids along with certain omega-6, -7 and -9 fatty acids correlated with better scores on tests of memory and were associated with larger brain structures in the frontal, temporal, parietal and insular cortices.

Engineers designed a nanoparticle sensor that could enable early diagnosis of cancer with a simple urine test. The sensors, which can detect many cancerous proteins, could also be used to distinguish the type of a tumor or how it is responding to treatment.

Engineers designed a nanoparticle sensor that could enable early diagnosis of cancer with a simple urine test. The sensors, which can detect many cancerous proteins, could also be used to distinguish the type of a tumor or how it is responding to treatment.

Oh the stories it could tell us.

New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our lives.

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be converted into useful hydrocarbons by electrolysis. The design of the electrolysis cell is crucial in this process. The so-called zero-gap cell is particularly suitable for industrial processes. But there are still problems: The cathodes clog up quickly.

What's good for the Black-backed Woodpecker is good for restoration of burned California forests. The birds' unique relationship with fire underpins the latest research into improved post-fire management. A study describes a new tool that factors in how fires burn into forest management decisions and turns science into action for wildlife conservation.

A more realistic look at what a hot summer can bring to a nearby pond, and new respect for the blinding speed global warming is bringing.

New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our lives.

The previously hidden and diverse underwater acoustic world in British ponds has been uncovered by a team of researchers.

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide can be converted into useful hydrocarbons by electrolysis. The design of the electrolysis cell is crucial in this process. The so-called zero-gap cell is particularly suitable for industrial processes. But there are still problems: The cathodes clog up quickly.

A new study has shown that overuse of antimicrobials in livestock production can drive the evolution of bacteria more resistant to the first line of the human immune response. Bacteria that had evolved resistance to colistin, an antimicrobial widely used in farming, also showed resistance to compounds that are key components of human and animal immune systems. The results indicate that farmed pigs

A new study shows that horses living in big enclosures and in groups of at least three horses are better at following directional indications from humans than horses kept in individual paddocks. The results also indicate that familiarity to the human providing the indications does not matter for the horses.

Just too powerful.

A study takes a closer look at the neurobiology of psychedelic experiences caused by nitrous oxide, ketamine and LSD.

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