Research led by a team of scientists from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences puts to bed the heated scientific debate regarding the history of mammal diversification as it relates to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. Their work provides a definitive answer to the evolutionary timeline of mammals throughout the last 100 million years.
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Parrots are known to be chatty, social animals. But when they're kept as pets, they can get lonely. A group of scientists found that video chatting with other parrots helps them feel less so. (Image credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University)
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Augmenting the artificial intelligence GPT-4 with extra chemistry knowledge made it much better at planning chemistry experiments, but it refused to make heroin or sarin gas
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29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38128-x TRPV1 has been associated with proliferation and survival of tumors, and can be activated by heat and other stimuli.
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A new test revealed that FDA-approved antibiotics — available at your neighborhood pharmacy — can effectively treat superbugs. They are not prescribed, however, because the gold-standard test predicts they will not work. The new test may improve the way antibiotics are developed, tested and prescribed — and it is openly available to all.
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Scientists identified three biomaterial formulations that could help develop a more sustainable, long-term, self-regulating way to treat Type 1 diabetes using a new screening technique that involves tagging each biomaterial formulation in a library of hundreds with a unique 'barcode.'
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Scientists slow aging in yeast
Researchers have developed a biosynthetic 'clock' that keeps cells from reaching normal levels of deterioration related to aging. They engineered a gene oscillator that switches between the two normal paths of aging, slowing cell degeneration and setting a record for life extension.
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Bacterial spores can survive for years, even centuries, without nutrients, resisting heat, UV radiation, and antibiotics. How inert, sleeping bacteria — or spores — spring back to life has been a century-long mystery. New research identifies how sensor proteins revive dormant bacteria. Discovery opens new routes to combat spore resistance to antibiotics and sterilization. Findings can inform nov
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Each year approximately 10 million waterfowl fly north to their breeding grounds in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America, but the landscape that greets them has changed. Weather patterns and agricultural practices have significantly transformed the pothole-dotted native grasslands that waterfowl have used for thousands of years.
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Global space for Asian elephant habitats has been in rapid decline since the 1700s, a new report reveals. More than 3 million square kilometers of the Asian elephant's historic habitat range has been lost in just three centuries and may underlie present-day conflicts between elephants and people.
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The ant mounds on the heath, in the forest and in your garden are oases for life. The heat and nutrients from ant mounds make them the perfect home for unique plant and animal species, according to new research.
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The atmosphere is a large-scale dissemination route for bacteria carrying antibiotic-resistance genes. A research team has shown that these genes can be transported by clouds.
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Research found ChatGPT correctly answered 46 per cent of questions from a study resource commonly used by physicians when preparing for board certification in ophthalmology. When researchers conducted the same test one month later, ChatGPT scored more than 10 per cent higher.
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A new gripper robot grasps by reflex. Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the bot adapts in the moment to reflexively roll, palm, or pinch an object to get a better hold.
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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 looks at some of the most popular conservation techniques and identifies which have the highest likelihood of success for the reintroduction
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Most medical AI models in use today are trained to perform one or two specific tasks and have limited utility. Next-generation AI — called generalist medical AI — incorporates various types of data to perform a variety of complex tasks in a range of clinical scenarios. Generalist medical AI can reshape medicine by augmenting clinical decision-making, real-time surgical and bedside support, and m
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The information contained in a book depends on its volume — not merely on the area of the book's cover. In the quantum world, however, information is often closely linked to surface area. This strange and counter-intuitive fact has been theoretically predicted years ago, now it has now been measured: 'Mutual quantum information' scales with surface, not with volume.
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Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal speakers are better able to discern between subtly different melodies, while non-tonal speakers are better able to tell whether a rhythm is beating in time with the music.
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The mostly white orca calf was spotted by a whale-watching vessel. It most likely has a pigment-related condition called leucism, experts say.
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Earlier this year, Willie Nelson was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, having already been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993. Both a living legend and a relatable everyman, Willie turns 90 years old today, and it’s tempting to mark the occasion with yet another retrospective. But the beats and tribulations of his life have already been well covered in a lifetime of
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Psychonaut Encounters Artificial intelligence has opened new doors for psychedelics enthusiasts to show the world the beautiful realms they inhabit when tripping. As Vice reports , veteran psychedelics researcher David Jay Brown of the group Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has joined forces with artist Sara Phinn to document the many, multifaceted beings they and othe
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Bot v. Bot A team of researchers from Google's DeepMind AI lab have programmed a pair of little humanoid robots to play a classic match of one-versus-one soccer — and the results are absolutely adorable. A video of these robotic little tykes shows them wobbling around with impressive, almost human-like agility, though the movements are more akin to an athletic toddler than a professional soccer p
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Tesla claims Autopilot deepfakes
A Deepfake Did It! Tesla's lawyers have made an eyebrow-raising argument in defense of CEO Elon Musk: that statements he allegedly made over the safety of the automaker's Autopilot driver assistance system could simply be deepfakes, Reuters reports . The argument was made in an ongoing lawsuit against Tesla filed in 2019 over a fatal car crash that killed Walter Huang, who was driving a Tesla Mod
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Most medical AI models in use today are trained to perform one or two specific tasks and have limited utility. Next-generation AI — called generalist medical AI — incorporates various types of data to perform a variety of complex tasks in a range of clinical scenarios. Generalist medical AI can reshape medicine by augmenting clinical decision-making, real-time surgical and bedside support, and m
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microbes waste mining
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.
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An ape that lived 21 million years ago was used to a habitat that was both grassy and wooded.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33481-9
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Landmark research by mathematicians sets out the definitive picture of biological adaptation at the level of intermolecular interactions.
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microbes waste mining
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.
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Researchers confirm the superiority of seawater batteries that use chelating agents.
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Researchers have developed the first transistor made of wood. Their study paves the way for further development of wood-based electronics and control of electronic plants.
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Life in the ocean's 'twilight zone' could decline dramatically due to climate change, new research suggests.
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The miners weighed their gold to see how profitable their season was! #discoveryplus #goldrush Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush About Gold Rush: Motivated by a depressed economy, hard-working gold miners get to work both in America and across the globe in an attempt to strike it rich. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About Di
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While politics as usual dominates the Commons, thankfully a few people from the upper chamber are thinking about the big picture The most interesting TV I’ve watched recently did not come from a conventional television channel, nor even from Netflix, but from TV coverage of parliament. It was a recording of a meeting of the AI in weapons systems select committee of the House of Lords, which was s
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Pushing Buttons Touchscreens? Who needs 'em. As Slate reports , car companies are finally beginning to take notice that touchscreen infotainment systems are a road safety hazard — and above all, that their customers absolutely hate using them. Case in point, Porsche has phased out its all-touchscreen design of the Cayenne luxury SUV, Slate notes, adding some much-needed buttons back. The new 2024
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Ancient History Known as one of Greece's most famous tourist destination islands, Santorini's unique beauty was, as many know, the result of the eruption of an ancient volcano — one that is still alive to this day, as scientists remind us. In a CNN profile , scientists studying the volcano noted that although it hasn't erupted for hundreds of years, it is by no means dead. "If we start seeing inc
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AI-generated imagery has officially made its fashion magazine debut. Instead of tapping human artists to create fantastical photo shoot backdrops, Vogue Italia's upcoming May issue will feature scenery that was generated by OpenAI's viral AI image generator, DALL-E2, instead. And apart from the fact that some of the images themselves are nightmare fuel — why is there a face sticking out of fashio
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After analyzing genetic data swabbed from a Wuhan market in early 2020, a virologist said it was unclear if animals for sale there had been infected.
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An interdisciplinary team has developed an algorithm that immediately checks its own calculations of merging black holes' properties and corrects its result if necessary — inexpensively and rapidly. The machine learning method provides very accurate information about the observed gravitational waves and will be ready for use when the global network of gravitational-wave detectors starts its next
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A previously unknown form of hydrogel formation has been elucidated: chemists found unusual interactions between polymers.
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A previously unknown form of hydrogel formation has been elucidated: chemists found unusual interactions between polymers.
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Andy Casagrande and Kori Burkhardt dive beneath a spooky tower in North Carolina to find great whites! #discoveryplus #sharkweek Stream Full Episodes of Shark Week https://www.discoveryplus.com/dp/shark-week About Shark Week: From Dawn of the Monster Mako to The Haunting of Shark Tower, you can stream all Shark Week shows right now. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About
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Parker drives a boat upstream to search for gold deposits. #discoveryplus #goldrush Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush About Gold Rush: Motivated by a depressed economy, hard-working gold miners get to work both in America and across the globe in an attempt to strike it rich. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About Discovery: De
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The Juan Fernández fur seal, once thought extinct, can ingest cadmium without ill effects – though no one knows how A creature that humans came very close to obliterating now offers hope that we may be able to find ways to tackle one of the most pernicious environmental poisons, say scientists. Their research has revealed that one of the world’s most isolated aquatic mammals, Arctocephalus philip
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W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Former cancer research center director plagiarized and faked data, feds say US-backed researchers in Colombia accused of experimenting on animals, humans without approval ‘Frankly abusive’: More questions about the journal that stole an author’s identity Torturing data to predict b
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DIY GPT-Powered Monocle Will Tell You What to Say in Every Conversation Chloe Xiang | Motherboard “AI chatbots that can churn out convincing text are all the rage, but what if you could wear one on your face to feed you the right line for any given moment? To give you, as Gen Z calls sparkling charisma, rizz? ‘Say goodbye to awkward dates and job interviews,’ a Stanford st
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Understanding the interactions between quantum physics and gravity within a black hole is one of the thorniest problems in physics, but quantum computers could soon offer an answer
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37460-6 Here, the authors identify a frontostriatal circuit that is involved in regulating social interactions based on learned hierarchical relationships.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38083-7 ADGRF1 is an adhesion GPCR that signals when a bound ligand induces liberation of an intramolecular tethered agonist. Here, the authors show that ADGRF1 can signal though all major G protein classes and identify a structural basis for Gq selectivity.
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Bill proposed to ban AI from launching nukes
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Plus: Amazon kills off its fitness wearables while Apple shores up its products' health-tracking capabilities.
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Make your life easier. With Apple’s app, you can trigger a series of automated tasks with a single tap or Siri voice command.
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Plus: Cyber Command’s disruption of Iranian election hacking, an exposé on child sex trafficking on Meta’s platforms, and more.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38212-2 Magnetic field has been observed to promote oxygen evolution at some circumstance, however the reason for the enhancement remains unclear. Here, the authors show that enhancement is due to the disappearance of magnetic domain walls.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37917-8 Applications of van der Waals magnetic systems are typically hampered by the low Curie temperature of van der Waals magnets. Here, Wang et al use molecular beam epitaxy to grow large films of Fe4GeTe2 with Curie temperatures over 500 K, and the film’s magnetic anisotropy can be tuned arbitrarily by controlling
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38121-4 Methods to reanalyze scRNA-seq data in a spatial perspective are vital but lacking. Here, the authors develop scSpace, an integrative method that uses ST data as spatial reference to reconstruct the pseudo-space of scRNA-seq data and identify spatially variable cell subpopulations, providing insights into spati
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. “Middle school is all about lunch,” the writer Lydia Denworth once heard a fellow parent say. When her son started middle school a month later, she realized the parent was right. In many schools, lun
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My last personal slump was brought on by a succession of blows: a job change, bad luck and bad judgment in love, and a daunting milestone birthday. Less , Andrew Sean Greer’s hilarious and brilliant Pulitzer-winning novel, took the edge off; reading about a middling writer’s middle-life-panic-induced trip on the eve of his 50th birthday made me think my own midlife crises of confidence might be s
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This article was originally published in Hakai Magazine . They found the victims floating in the water. Some had eyeballs full of air bubbles; others had their stomachs pushed up into their mouths. Many had severe internal bleeding. Volcanoes can be life-threatening for fish. A major eruption in 2011 in Chile, for instance, killed 4.5 million of them . Researchers have studied how lava flows, hot
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S hortly after his 18th season with the Green Bay Packers ended with an uncharacteristic thud, Aaron Rodgers, the Super Bowl winner and future Hall of Fame quarterback, announced that he would be spending four days and four nights isolating himself at an Oregon “darkness retreat”—a cave, basically—during which he would contemplate his future. The Packers wanted to move on, start over, and Rodgers
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In 1868, Senator Waitman Willey, of the newly formed antislavery state of West Virginia, stood on the floor of Congress to argue for the proposed Fourteenth Amendment’s provision disqualifying former Confederate officers from holding office in the recently reunified country. He asserted that the proposal was “a measure of self-defense.” He evidently felt this argument to be so crucial that it req
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Kyrsten Sinema knows what everybody says about her. She pretends not to read the press coverage—“I don’t really care”—but she knows. She knows what her colleagues call her behind her back (“egomaniac,” “traitor”). She knows how many articles The New York Times has published about her wardrobe (five). She feels misunderstood, and she would like to explain herself. We’re sitting across from each ot
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34321-6
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Overforbrug af antimikrobielle lægemidler i landbruget kan gøre bakterier mere modstandsdygtige over for menneskets naturlige forsvar. Det er et område, der ikke forskes nok i, siger ekspert.
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India Heat May
Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country’s development goals, slow economic growth, and heighten health risks, new research shows.
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Ooni’s first electric pizza oven is a fast and convenient (but tiny) pizza revelation.
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Our galaxy’s enormous scaffolding is shaped by complex magnetic fields
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38210-4 Serine/threonine kinases (STKs) regulate the synthesis of capsular polysaccharide in bacteria through unclear mechanisms. Here, Tang et al. identify a protein that is phosphorylated by an STK and modulates the activity of a phosphoregulatory system in Streptococcus suis, thus linking STKs to capsular polysaccha
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38241-x Osteoarthritis is characterized by mechanically driven pain but lacks adequate treatments. Here, the authors show that inhibiting a mechanically-sensitive ion channel expressed by nociceptors reduces pain behaviors in mouse models of joint pain.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38209-x Mechanical scratching and oxidative stress can aggravate atopic dermatitis symptoms, while treatment targeting scratching is often overlooked. Here, the authors find that enhanced phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase is associated with scratch-exacerbated AD, then develop a hydrogel dressing that integrates
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Quasars, the most extreme phenomena in the universe, are triggered when galactic collisions deliver gas to feeding black holes, new research suggests.
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As an ecologist, Dr. Julia Tavares often has to consider how to collect data from remote locations.
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As an ecologist, Dr. Julia Tavares often has to consider how to collect data from remote locations.
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The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may have blasted out a powerful burst of X-rays two centuries ago, possibly due to eating a star
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Everything you need for a May full of fun and games—of every kind.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34064-4
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33986-3
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31888-y Phytochemical screening and in-vitro biological properties of unprocessed and household processed fenugreek ( Trigonella foenum-graecum Linn.) seeds and leaves
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34218-4
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37430-y How cells shape signalling dynamics in MAPK cascades remains unclear. Here the authors combine mathematical modelling with in vivo validation to uncover a novel feedback mechanism that increases processivity and robustness of the yeast Hog1 module.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38223-z Zika virus poses a potential threat to male reproductive health but the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. To address this question, the study by Yang et al performs single-cell RNA sequencing with ZIKV-infected mice testes. The authors find that spermatogenic cells are fragile to ZIKV infection and the comp
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Den hollandske regering vil i fuglenes træksæsoner sænke hastigheden på havvindmøllernes vinger, så færre fugle kolliderer med vingerne.
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Tone deafness, a neurological disorder known as amusia, can make it hard to distinguish between musical pitches.
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Metagenomic data from Tara Oceans on marine plankton has enabled the discovery of a major group of DNA viruses found abundantly from the equator to the poles: mirusviruses. These viruses play a role in regulating plankton by infecting a considerable number of single-cell organisms at any given time.
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New Zealand's treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington's verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital's surrounds.
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Metagenomic data from Tara Oceans on marine plankton has enabled the discovery of a major group of DNA viruses found abundantly from the equator to the poles: mirusviruses. These viruses play a role in regulating plankton by infecting a considerable number of single-cell organisms at any given time.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33746-3
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34171-2
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34291-9
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New Zealand's treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington's verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital's surrounds.
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The Webb telescope has spotted some of the oldest known collections of stars. They may have a very bright future.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37545-2 A bifunctional dual-atom photocatalysts with La and Ni sites is shown to be have efficient generation and transfer of photocarriers from the optically active La center to the catalytically active Ni center for promoting efficient CO2 reduction to CO.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38173-6 Incompletely synthesized nascent polypeptides resulting from ribosome stalling during translation are under surveillance by ribosome-associated quality control. Here, the authors report the molecular mechanism by which the E3 ligase Pirh2 targets the polyalanine tail of aberrant nascent chains for degradation v
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38129-w Chlor-alkali process plays an important role in the chemical industry. However, large overpotential and low selectivity of currently used catalysts lead to high energy consumption. Here the authors report Ru-O4 single site catalysts for chlorination evolution with 1000 h stability at 1000 mA cm−2 in a seawater-
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Tysklands første pneumatiske elevatoranlæg transporterer den sæd, der ankommer med korndamperne på Oder, ind i dampmøllens pakhus.
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Two satellites monitor changes in Earth’s water masses by keeping an eye on one another
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37721-4 Lead halide perovskites host bright triplet excitons which have applications in optospintronic devices. Here the authors observe quantum coherence between exciton sublevels without magnetic field and clarify the mechanisms of exciton spin relaxation in ensembles of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals.
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We have to do something.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38233-x IL-9-producing helper T (TH9) cells contribute to allergic inflammation. In this study, the authors demonstrate that the transcription factor PPAR-γ regulates TH9 effector function by promoting glucose metabolism and mTOR signaling in human allergic contact dermatitis.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37901-2 Exposure of a structure-forming sequence within a single-stranded gap creates a fragile site, resulting in large deletions. Gap filling drives disease-causing CAG repeat expansions, with direction of instability determined by the identity of the sequence on the template strand of the gap.
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Spatiotemporal distribution of power outages with climate events and social vulnerability in the USA
Nature Communications, Published online: 29 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38084-6 The authors find within-day, seasonal, and regional differences in county-level power outages from 2018–2020. Outages commonly co-occur with climate events. Counties in the south and Michigan faced high social and medical vulnerabilities and outages.
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Rune Petring Hasselager har undersøgt den bedøvelse, man bruger til tarmkræftoperationer, og hvad den betyder for patientens liv efterfølgende. Han er nu årets vinder af Ph.d. Cup.
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Nya bilder avslöjar hur ett aktivt svart hål producerar en jetstråle av laddade partiklar som når utanför sin egen galax synliga gränser. – Det skulle inte vara så bra för eventuellt liv om en planet vandrade in i strålen. Den skulle förstöra atmosfären, säger radioastronomen John Conway.
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In recent years, the decline in how much we talk to each other (face to face) has been quite evident. I would say this is mostly due to social media and how it has reshaped our view of each other. With technology advancing at such a rapid pace, I believe this decline will be even greater now. AI + VR is likely to be the most deadly combo in my opinion. Also something not usually talked about is:
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Hi guys! wanted some insight here. These schools are my top 3 for cogSci currently. I'm much more interested in ML/AI and UCSD has a perfect program for me in that imo due to their specialty in ML and neural networks. I'm not too sure about UCI and UCD though. I want to be on the computational side for sure, more specifically AI/ML. Do y'all think it's worth staying at CC for another year to get
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A lot of people are concerned about AI and I’ve even noticed people here saying things like “this will be like the Industrial Revolution” as this was a bad thing. Are you aware that every single socioeconomic indicator improved after the Industrial Revolution? Can you think of any major technological breakthrough that was objectively bad for society? (Social Media is the only example I could argu
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Note: this is a work in progress which will be updated throughout the week. This especially applies to the notes from the sessions, so please regard them as somewhat preliminary! In case of the Great Debates mentioned below, EGU plans to release the recordings sometime after the conference ends. Once they become available, I'll include links to the ones I watched live. This year's General Assembl
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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. In recent years, Americans appear to be getting more and more uncomfortable with intimacy. Why? And is this trend reversible? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic : The GOP’s unworkable
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Always more to learn.
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Mainland Spain and Portugal have broken temperature records for April, officials said Friday, as both nations wilt in an unusually early heatwave that has raised the risk of wildfires.
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A critical antenna is jammed on a Jupiter-bound spacecraft launched two weeks ago, the European Space Agency reported Friday.
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Research led by a team of scientists from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences puts to bed the heated scientific debate regarding the history of mammal diversification as it relates to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. Their work provides a definitive answer to the evolutionary timeline of mammals throughout the last 100 million years.
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China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence for liquid water on the surface of Mars – and it probably began as snow or frost that melted into sand dunes
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The human body relies heavily on electrical charges. Lightning-like pulses of energy fly through the brain and nerves and most biological processes depend on electrical ions traveling across the membranes of each cell in our body.
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The human body relies heavily on electrical charges. Lightning-like pulses of energy fly through the brain and nerves and most biological processes depend on electrical ions traveling across the membranes of each cell in our body.
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Breast Cancer Risk
Women’s breasts become less dense with age. Cancer may be more likely in breast tissue that is persistently denser over time, a new study suggests.
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Oil, coal and natural gas took tens of millions of years to form underground. Humanity is now learning the devastating effects of burning these fossil fuels.
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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 new findings, published April 28 in the journal Science, fill an important gap in what is known about histor
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New research has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series of severe and lengthy droughts which may have upturned the Bronze Age Indus Civilization.
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01478-z Clashes have left hospitals and universities without water and power — and vulnerable to takeover by armed groups.
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Why is it that certain mammals have an exceptional sense of smell, some hibernate, and yet others, including humans, are predisposed to disease? A major international research project has surveyed and analyzed the genomes of 240 different mammals. The results show how the genomes of humans and other mammals have developed over the course of evolution. The research shows which regions have importan
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Ever since scientists first read the complete genetic codes of creatures like fruit flies and humans more than two decades ago, the field of genomics has promised major leaps forward in understanding basic questions in biology. Two recent articles break new ground by showing how much valuable information can be found in genomes of a single species, such as endangered orcas, or even in the DNA of a
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An archaeological dig ahead of planned construction work in the heart of the city has uncovered the 2,000-year-old remains of adults, children and even a funerary pig.
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26-year-old Andrea Papi was jogging on a woodland path when he was attacked and killed by a bear with three cubs.
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Abstract The thermo-mechanical response of shock-initiated energetic materials (EMs) is highly influenced by their microstructures, presenting an opportunity to engineer EM microstructures in a “materials-by-design” framework. However, the current design practice is limited, as a large ensemble of simulations is required to construct the complex EM structure-property-performance linkages. We pres
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Abstract Remote C-H functionalization is highly important for the conversion and utilization of arenes, but the conventional routes are comprehensively developed with the assistance of transition metal catalysts or templates. We report a facile metal/template-free electrochemical strategy for remote C-H functionalization in a helical system, where aromatic or aliphatic hydrogen act as a directing
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Abstract Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is a common soft tissue sarcoma in children that resembles developing skeletal muscle. Unlike normal muscle cells, RMS cells fail to differentiate despite expression of the myogenic determination protein MYOD. The TWIST2 transcription factor is frequently overexpressed in fusion-negative RMS (FN-RMS). TWIST2 blocks differentiation by inhibiting MYOD activity in myo
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Abstract The environmental preferences of many microbes remain undetermined. This is the case for bacterial pH preferences, which can be difficult to predict a priori despite the importance of pH as a factor structuring bacterial communities in many systems. We compiled data on bacterial distributions from five datasets spanning pH gradients in soil and freshwater systems (1470 samples), quantifi
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Abstract In the rising advent of organic Li-ion positive electrode materials with increased energy content, chemistries with high redox potential and intrinsic oxidation stability remain a challenge. Here, we report the solid-phase reversible electrochemistry of the oximate organic redox functionality. The disclosed oximate chemistries, including cyclic, acyclic, aliphatic, and tetra-functional s
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Abstract Immune-responsive gene 1 (IRG1) encodes aconitate decarboxylase (ACOD1) that catalyzes the production of itaconic acids (ITAs). The anti-inflammatory function of IRG1/ITA has been established in multiple pathogen models, but very little is known in cancer. Here, we show that IRG1 is expressed in tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) in both human and mouse tumors. Mechanistically, tumor ce
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Abstract Limited knowledge exists on exogenous DNA virus reinfections. Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), a prototype DNA virus, causes multiple human diseases including vision-threatening eye infections. While reinfection with an exogenous HSV-1 strain is considered plausible, little is known about the underlying mechanisms governing its pathophysiology in a host. Heparanase (HPSE), a host endoglyc
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Abstract An essential function of the epidermis is to provide a physical barrier that prevents the loss of water. Essential mediators of this barrier function include ceramides, cholesterol, and very long chain fatty acids, and their alteration causes human pathologies, including psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. A frameshift mutation in the human ZNF750 gene, which encodes a zinc finger transcrip
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Abstract A unidirectional imager would only permit image formation along one direction, from an input field-of-view (FOV) A to an output FOV B, and in the reverse path, B → A, the image formation would be blocked. We report the first demonstration of unidirectional imagers, presenting polarization-insensitive and broadband unidirectional imaging based on successive diffractive layers that are lin
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Abstract The colonization and expansion of plants on land is considered one of the most profound ecological revolutions, yet the precise timing remains controversial. Because land vegetation can enhance weathering intensity and affect terrigenous input to the ocean, changes in terrestrial plant biomass with distinct negative Δ 199 Hg and Δ 200 Hg signatures may overwrite the positive Hg isotope s
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Abstract To achieve a sustainable society, CO 2 emissions must be reduced and efficiency of energy systems must be enhanced. The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has zero CO 2 emissions and high effectiveness for various applications. A well-designed membrane electrolyte assembly (MEA) composed of electrode layers of effective materials and structure can alter the performance and du
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Abstract Deciphering the complex interplay of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) with the surrounding environment is a challenge with notable clinical implications. To bridge the gap in knowledge, we report our findings on the antibacterial activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa of synthetic NET-mimetic materials composed of nanofibrillated DNA-protein complexes. Our synthetic system makes co
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Abstract Much of the higher-order phylogeny of eukaryotes is well resolved, but the root remains elusive. We assembled a dataset of 183 eukaryotic proteins of archaeal ancestry to test this root. The resulting phylogeny identifies four lineages of eukaryotes currently classified as “Excavata” branching separately at the base of the tree. Thus, Parabasalia appear as the first major branch of eukar
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Abstract Landforms on the Martian surface are critical to understanding the nature of surface processes in the recent past. However, modern hydroclimatic conditions on Mars remain enigmatic, as explanations for the formation of observed landforms are ambiguous. We report crusts, cracks, aggregates, and bright polygonal ridges on the surfaces of hydrated salt-rich dunes of southern Utopia Planitia
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Researchers uncover innovative natural approaches to fine-tune immunity from vaccination.
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The violence in Sudan has claimed the life of a beloved Sudanese American doctor. One of his colleague's talks about Dr. Sulieman's legacy — and the devastating toll of the fighting in Khartoum. (Image credit: Sudanese American Physicians Association)
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Tysk dieselafgift kan drille regeringens løfte om klimamål i 2025.
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I posted the original post yesterday on this subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/130qcvx/could_an_ai_learn_things_or_discover_things/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1 It seems to actually be learning and wanting to learn and discover things, ill update in a few hours submitted by /u/blynk_ [link] [comments]
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, a powerful text-to-image model So, Stability AI (The company behind Stable Diffusion) has released a new image-generation model, one that does text, in addition to just doing images. submitted by /u/Mutant_Jinx [link] [comments]
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Just my two cents about the very far/near future. TLDR: I believe that one day we will likely be able to "print" or produce any object or material including biological material. We have already done this with "information" with the aid of computers. In this age information is just 0s and 1s and and it can be scanned and presented in multiple formats. I anticipate that one day we would be able to
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Bioengineers are drawing on rapidly evolving machine learning tools, deep reservoirs of data, and the firepower of a program called AlphaFold2 to pursue more sophisticated de novo protein designs
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Do you see these two fields as the same or as different? Do you see one as being over the other? Anthropology is widely recognized as a field within cogsci, but sociology is not… why is that? Shouldn’t sociology be its own branch within cogsci? submitted by /u/IndependentAd7522 [link] [comments]
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Guardians Galaxy Vol
The best, most audacious idea of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been to present franchises within franchises, entwining various long-running series with their own internal logic and casts of favorites. The films imitate the feeling of comic books, of which people would select issues with their favorite heroes and occasionally shell out for the special ones where they cross over with everyone e
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Researchers have applied sophisticated methods to reveal how smart dinosaurs might have been. These findings are still hotly debated among experts.
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The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, according to a study led by Prof. Qin Xiaoguang from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
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The colonization and expansion of plants on land represent a defining landmark for the path of life on Earth. Terrestrial colonization has been attributed to a series of major innovations in plant body plans, anatomy and biochemistry that transformed global biogeochemical cycles and climates.
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Researchers have figured out a way to predict bacteria's environmental pH preferences from a quick look at their genomes, using machine learning. Led by experts at the University of Colorado Boulder, the new approach promises to help guide ecological restoration efforts, agriculture, and even the development of health-related probiotics.
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Cell cell cells
A new approach to the genetic engineering of cells promises significant improvements in speed, efficiency, and reduction in cellular toxicity compared to current methods. The approach could also power the development of advanced cell therapies for cancers and other diseases, according to a study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Communities in certain spots around the world, such as Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea and Central America, are likely to experience record-breaking heat events but may not be prepared
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In May 2020, the US Department of Justice noticed Russian hackers in its network but did not realize the significance of what it had found for six months.
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A stunning composite image of the sun during a recent 'hybrid eclipse' in Australia is further proof that solar activity is ramping up.
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Researchers have figured out a way to predict bacteria's environmental pH preferences from a quick look at their genomes, using machine learning. Led by experts at the University of Colorado Boulder, the new approach promises to help guide ecological restoration efforts, agriculture, and even the development of health-related probiotics.
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Cell cell cells
A new approach to the genetic engineering of cells promises significant improvements in speed, efficiency, and reduction in cellular toxicity compared to current methods. The approach could also power the development of advanced cell therapies for cancers and other diseases, according to a study from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Researchers report that neuronal activity is necessary and sufficient for astrocytes to develop their complex shape, and interrupting this developmental process results in disrupted brain function.
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Researchers have identified the mechanism for why and how one brain region differs in size between male and female rats. The study found that immune system cells in the brains of females consume and digest neurons to sculp a region of the brain during development and that later affects behavioral preferences in adulthood.
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Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two 'waves' in the Colombian Andes.
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New research from a multidisciplinary team helps to illuminate the mechanisms behind circadian rhythms, offering new hope for dealing with jet lag, insomnia and other sleep disorders.
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diversity increases carbon
Preserving the diversity of forests assures their productivity and potentially increases the accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in the soil, which helps to sustain soil fertility and mitigate global climate change.
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Engineers have shown that by using an ingestible capsule that delivers an electrical current to the cells they can stimulate the release of the hormone ghrelin. This approach could prove useful for treating diseases that involve nausea or loss of appetite, such as anorexia or cachexia.
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Scientists demonstrate unprecedented
A team of researchers has demonstrated the ultimate sensitivity allowed by quantum physics in measuring the time delay between two photons. This breakthrough has significant implications for a range of applications, including more feasible imaging of nanostructures, including biological samples, and nanomaterial surfaces, as well as quantum enhanced estimation based on frequency-resolved boson sam
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En ny fremskrivning viser, at regeringen er tæt på at nå klimamålet i 2025, men brugen af biobrændstof vækker debat.
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Higher levels of nitrogen in the environment (coming from fertilizers and livestock, for example) not only affect plants but also soil invertebrates and insects. The diversity of roundworms declines in areas with high input of nitrogen, and numbers of some arthropods drop. However, other species of arthropods benefit from the extra nitrogen.
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A new book shares the stories of Ph.D. students, early-career researchers, and established academics during the COVID-19 pandemic to shed light on the struggles faced by those in the industry.
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Higher levels of nitrogen in the environment (coming from fertilizers and livestock, for example) not only affect plants but also soil invertebrates and insects. The diversity of roundworms declines in areas with high input of nitrogen, and numbers of some arthropods drop. However, other species of arthropods benefit from the extra nitrogen.
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New nanoparticle light
Physicists are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to 'peel back the curtain' into the world of extremely small objects — thousands of times smaller than a human hair — with major gains for medical and other technologies.
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Scientists demonstrate unprecedented
A team of researchers has demonstrated the ultimate sensitivity allowed by quantum physics in measuring the time delay between two photons. This breakthrough has significant implications for a range of applications, including more feasible imaging of nanostructures, including biological samples, and nanomaterial surfaces, as well as quantum enhanced estimation based on frequency-resolved boson sam
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Scientists carried out an analysis of hundreds of popular song recordings from 1946 to 2020 to determine the lead vocal to accompaniment ratio, or LAR. The study considered the four highest-ranked songs from the Billboard Hot 100 chart for each year and the results show that, contrary to expectations, the LAR for popular music decreased over the decades in question. This means that, relative to th
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Researchers develop a fabrication method to increase the efficacy and longevity of membrane separation technology. The team created a nanofibrous membrane with electrospinning, in which a liquid polymer droplet is electrified and stretched to make fibers, and increased the roughness of the membrane surface by loading it with silver nanoparticles. In water, this rough surface promotes a stable laye
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Researchers model the behavior of blood drops during secondary atomization to examine how the phenomenon affects a crime scene. The team examined different starting droplet sizes, confirming their model with experiments. They found the effect of secondary atomization was significant and predictable: The smaller droplets were easier to sweep up by the firearm's gases and turn around toward the vict
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The UK now has some of the highest levels of neighborhood trust internationally, while Britons have also become much more comfortable with having neighbors who belong to historically marginalized groups, such as gay people, those of a different race, immigrants, and people who have AIDS.
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Hundreds of villagers who live in the shadow of the Western Hemisphere's deadliest volcano, Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz, have been on edge for nearly a month ever since the 17,000-foot-tall mountain started spewing plumes of ash and steam high into the atmosphere, indicating that an eruption could be imminent.
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Consumer sentiment was essentially unchanged this month, edging up less than two index points from March, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
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Imani, the son of Chicago's famous piping plovers Monty and Rose, has at long last been joined by what appears to be a female.
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Imani, the son of Chicago's famous piping plovers Monty and Rose, has at long last been joined by what appears to be a female.
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01449-4 Climate change is shrinking ice, fuelling fog formation over the Arctic Ocean.
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It took years to build it's lava dome and likely moments to annihilate.
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Happiness experts say that finding contentment is one of the most important keys to happiness, which Americans are often not very good at. Here's why.
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HSE researchers, in collaboration with their colleagues from Skoltech and the Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, have uncovered the mechanisms behind the emergence of new and dangerous coronavirus variants, such as alpha, delta, omicron, and others. They have discovered that the likelihood of a substitution occurring at a specific site of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is dependent on concordant
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During photosynthesis, the green pigment chlorophyll in algae and plants absorbs most of the energy from incoming light. Chlorophyll gets excited and transfers this energy to the energy-harvesting protein complexes photosystem I (PSI) and II (PSII). However, some of this energy dissipates as heat or chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlF).
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HSE researchers, in collaboration with their colleagues from Skoltech and the Central Research Institute for Epidemiology, have uncovered the mechanisms behind the emergence of new and dangerous coronavirus variants, such as alpha, delta, omicron, and others. They have discovered that the likelihood of a substitution occurring at a specific site of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is dependent on concordant
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During photosynthesis, the green pigment chlorophyll in algae and plants absorbs most of the energy from incoming light. Chlorophyll gets excited and transfers this energy to the energy-harvesting protein complexes photosystem I (PSI) and II (PSII). However, some of this energy dissipates as heat or chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlF).
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Hydrogen cyanide (HCN) featured with high volatility and high adsorption is a common toxic and hazardous gas. Traces of HCN are also found in human exhaled breath. Unusual high HCN concentration in the breath of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) infection. Therefore, the development of a highly sensitive online HCN measurement in exhaled breath can enable
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Large-scale circulation anomalies are a key factor in the transportation of water vapor and changes in climate. For tropical and subtropical regions, an atmospheric circulation field not only determines the characteristics of the weather situation but also influences the atmospheric circulation in the middle and high latitudes, as well as the global climate, through the transport of energy and ang
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Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a framework for quantifying how well countries around the world are doing at providing adequate food, energy and water to their citizens without exceeding nature's capacity to meet those needs.
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In recent decades, many of Germany's animal populations in agricultural landscapes have experienced sharp declines, both in terms of the number of species and the number of individuals. Fallow land is considered an effective measure to slow this decline. Researchers from the Thünen Institute, the University of Göttingen and the Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA) have investigated the correla
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The eruption was the most powerful natural explosion in over a century, triggering a tsunami hundreds of feet high.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38061-z Authors carry out a genomic analysis of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream isolates, noting subclonal expansion, associated with the emergence of a hypervirulent subpopulation.
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In recent decades, many of Germany's animal populations in agricultural landscapes have experienced sharp declines, both in terms of the number of species and the number of individuals. Fallow land is considered an effective measure to slow this decline. Researchers from the Thünen Institute, the University of Göttingen and the Dachverband Deutscher Avifaunisten (DDA) have investigated the correla
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Ending hunger by 2030 is one of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN. This is a huge challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where one third of all households are still exposed to food insecurity. To meet the demand of the rapidly growing African population, there is widespread consensus that farmers need to boost cereal crop yields.
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People's ability to regenerate bones declines with age and is further decreased by diseases such as osteoporosis. To help the aging population, researchers are looking for new therapies that improve bone regeneration.
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Ensuring the supply of food to the constantly growing world population and protecting the environment at the same time are often conflicting objectives. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully developed a method for the synthetic manufacture of nutritional protein using a type of artificial photosynthesis. The animal feed industry is the primary driver of high
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David Needham, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University, has demonstrated that a metabolic inhibiting drug called niclosamide, traditionally used to treat gut parasites, can readily be extracted and dissolved from commercial tablets in quantities sufficient to create throat and nasal sprays.
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People's ability to regenerate bones declines with age and is further decreased by diseases such as osteoporosis. To help the aging population, researchers are looking for new therapies that improve bone regeneration.
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Ending hunger by 2030 is one of the Sustainable Development Goals set by the UN. This is a huge challenge in sub-Saharan Africa, where one third of all households are still exposed to food insecurity. To meet the demand of the rapidly growing African population, there is widespread consensus that farmers need to boost cereal crop yields.
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Earlier this month, the Biden administration proposed a plan to distribute cuts from the Colorado River and resolve the century-long legal dispute between states across the American Southwest that share its water supplies.
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Ensuring the supply of food to the constantly growing world population and protecting the environment at the same time are often conflicting objectives. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully developed a method for the synthetic manufacture of nutritional protein using a type of artificial photosynthesis. The animal feed industry is the primary driver of high
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David Needham, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University, has demonstrated that a metabolic inhibiting drug called niclosamide, traditionally used to treat gut parasites, can readily be extracted and dissolved from commercial tablets in quantities sufficient to create throat and nasal sprays.
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Since the beginning of journalism in America, newspapers have been funded by advertising. In the 18th century, alongside advertisements for shoe repair, corduroys, and cutlery, colonial newspapers sold and ran ads for enslaved and unfree men, women, and children, usually in the form of "runaway" and "to be sold" ads.
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war Trade superpowers
A trade war between China and the United States triggered by former president Donald Trump created an unexpected boost for Vietnam, new research has shown.
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Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 8 April 2023, this image shows Los Angeles and part of the hinterland in Southern California.
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Gravitational wave astronomy is still in its early stages. So far it has focused on the most energetic and distinct sources of gravitational waves, such as the cataclysmic mergers of black holes and neutron stars. But that will change as our gravitational telescopes improve, and it will allow astronomers to explore the universe in ways previously impossible.
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In her new book, How to Think Like a Woman , the journalist Regan Penaluna zooms in on four overlooked female philosophers. Focusing on them is valuable not just because of the luminosity of each one’s thinking but also because of the argument implicit in such a choice: that women have an indispensable role to play in the male-dominated field of philosophy, Sophia Stewart wrote last week. One’s u
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The Academies accepted millions of dollars from members of the Sackler family — including some who led Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin — even while advising federal officials on opioid policy.
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As underage use surges, e-cigarettes should be tightly controlled but not banned
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-022-20356-8
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Three years after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, many public health restrictions have been lifted and organizations are requiring workers to return to the office.
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A court in the Netherlands ruled that a man who fathered at least 550 children in the past 16 years had lied to prospective mothers and fertility clinics.
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Nation’s guidelines say no donor should father more than 25 children in 12 families Dutch judges have ordered a man suspected of fathering more than 550 children through sperm donations to stop donating, in the latest fertility scandal to shock the Netherlands . The man, identified in Dutch media only as Jonathan M, 41, was taken to court by a foundation protecting the rights of donor children an
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A spring heatwave across parts of southern Europe is seeing temperature records for April broken in many countries. Why is this happening, and will the summer also be hot?
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Zuckerberg AI Meta
Scrambling The Silicon Valley AI race is on — and according to a new report from Reuters , Facebook-formerly-Meta's AI pivot has been even more chaotic than initially thought. And that's saying a lot, because from the outside, Meta's most recent pivot away from VR and the metaverse looks like a disaster. To its credit, Meta has been working on AI research and development for years now. But the co
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Twitter Blue blue
Turns out that Twitter CEO Elon Musk's blue check rollback might be more than just messy. According to some legal experts, it might actually end up getting the billionaire into regulatory trouble with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). To recap: late last week, Mr. Tweet finally rolled back the company's legacy verification system , supposedly leaving the platform's coveted blue verification
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Square Enix AI
Downgrade Square Enix has just released an AI-powered remaster of one of its most revered video games, "The Portopia Serial Murder Case." But don't get too excited. According to journalists and hundreds of angry gamers, it absolutely stinks — specifically because of the new AI. On Steam, the game client of choice for PC Gamers, "Portopia" sits at an embarrassing "Very Negative" rating, with only
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NASA-Boeing Pipeline Brandon Cavanaugh, a 37-year-old former NASA intern who worked in the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab, was sentenced yesterday for storming the capitol, NBC's Ryan J. Reilly tweeted earlier today . Per Reilly's tweet, the former NASA intern was sentenced to "14 days of intermittent confinement to be served on seven consecutive weekends" by Judge Trevor McFadden. Of course, it's n
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Amerikansk forsker får stor dansk bevilling og flytter sin forskning i molekylære ure til Niels Bohr Institutet.
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“To see AI as play, or as a distraction, or as a waste of time is not to say that AI will be entirely unproductive or benign. It’s to imagine, rather, that the AI-inflected future contains more texture than mere utopia or dystopia. In Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, the science and technology writer Steven Johnson says that ‘when human beings create and share experiences designed to d
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What do you think will happen to human art in an A.I dominated world? Personally I’m a bit idealistic when it comes to human art. I believe only those who view art as a commodity and not as an experience think A.I will replace human art. I want to read human written books, knowing there was creativity, intentions and meaning behind the books. I want to look at art and try to understand the emotio
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I’ll admit that my gut reaction to AI has been profoundly negative, which is generally not the case for other nascent technologies (e.g. nanotechnology, genomics, advanced materials). I’m trying to take a cooler-headed approach, so I’m hoping to glean lessons for how we should respond/prepare/adapt to mass deployment of AI from our past experiences. I don’t want this to turn into another debate a
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Neglected tropical diseases like Chagas and dengue fever impact more than 200 million people across the globe. Find out how experts are working to control, prevent and eradicate them.
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Scientists thought our home galaxy was a four-armed spiral. Now they think it is a different shape.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38167-4
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Allowing the direct observation of biomolecules in dynamic action, high-speed AFM has opened a new avenue to dynamic structural biology. An enormous number of successful applications developed within the last 15 years provide unique insights into essential biological processes at the nanoscale—visualizing, for example, how molecular motors execute their specific functions.
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Physicists have simulated strange objects from string theory to determine what they look like – if they exist, they could be mistaken for a black hole when imaged from very far away
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E arly one morning in March , I was at the Holloway House in West Hollywood meeting a writer friend for breakfast. When I arrived the place was empty, but 90 minutes later, it was positively vibrating with anxious energy. Walking to the door on my way out I could hear them, at table after table: my fellow writers. Pitching ideas for TV shows and arcs for feature films to junior executives and stu
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Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee released a video that it claims was “built entirely with AI imagery.” The content of the ad isn’t especially novel—a dystopian vision of America under a second term with President Joe Biden—but the deliberate emphasis on the technology used to create it stands out: It’s a “ Daisy ” moment for the 2020s. We should expect more of this kind of thi
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From Dundee to LA, citizen scientists will document plants and animals for the City Nature Challenge Hundreds of cities are competing this weekend to collect the most plant and wildlife observations in an urban “bioblitz” as part of a global citizen science challenge. From Dundee windowsills to San Francisco parks, people are being urged to document whatever flora and fauna they can spot around t
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ChatGPT patient questions
ChatGPT rated higher in quality and empathy of written advice, raising possibility of medical assistance role ChatGPT appears to have a better ‘bedside manner’ than some doctors – at least when their written advice is rated for quality and empathy, a study has shown. The findings highlight the potential for AI assistants to play a role in medicine, according to the authors of the work, who sugges
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Allowing the direct observation of biomolecules in dynamic action, high-speed AFM has opened a new avenue to dynamic structural biology. An enormous number of successful applications developed within the last 15 years provide unique insights into essential biological processes at the nanoscale—visualizing, for example, how molecular motors execute their specific functions.
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Researchers looking at fuel use for cooking in Kenya and Malawi have found residents in the countries' informal settlements are being exposed to worrying levels of pollution.
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A team of Japanese astronomers used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to capture a more complete picture of a superflare on a star. The observed flare started with a very massive, high-velocity prominence eruption. These results give us a better idea of how superflares and stellar prominence eruptions occur.
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One hundred meters underground inside a pit in northern China, miners extract lumps of coal with the flick of a finger on a smartphone, as the country tries to drag the traditionally dangerous and dirty work into the digital era.
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This year is already shaping up to be another bad one for glaciers in the Swiss Alps, with the snowpack covering them around 30 percent below the 10-year average, according to the scientist tracking their decline.
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Emirati astronaut Sultan Alneyadi stepped out of the International Space Station (ISS) Friday for the first space walk by an Arab astronaut, a moment touted by the UAE as a "milestone".
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New research involving the University of Sydney Business School has found researchers underestimate the degree of uncertainty in their findings.
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A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds are visible in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In addition to several large elliptical galaxies, a ring-shaped galaxy is lurking on the right of the image. A pair of bright stars are also visible at the left of the image, notable for their colorful crisscrossing diffraction spikes. This collection of astronomical curiosities is the
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Dandelions, love them or hate them, are blooming in abundance all over the UK this spring. As an ecologist who studies the insects which visit these flowers, so redolent of sunshine, I have never been able to understand why anyone might hate them.
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In a multidisciplinary study newly published in the Journal of Cell Biology, the Barral group (D-BIOL/IBC) together with the Steinmetz group (PSI) and the Stelling group (D-BSSE), sheds light on how the motor domain of the kinesin protein Kip2 collaborates with the microtubule plus-end-binding protein Bik1, to moonlight as a microtubule polymerase.
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Alleged misconduct generally reduces public support for political candidates, but many people would still vote for someone accused of sexual harassment, according to a new paper in the journal Electoral Studies from Queen Mary University of London and Brunel University London.
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Sustainable diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) transformation requires a committed community who are empowered to openly reflect on their institution's culture, policies and practices. However, the open information-sharing and critical reflection that underlies this type of transformation requires vulnerability—sometimes intense personal vulnerability—and is usually a radical shift from busines
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Dandelions, love them or hate them, are blooming in abundance all over the UK this spring. As an ecologist who studies the insects which visit these flowers, so redolent of sunshine, I have never been able to understand why anyone might hate them.
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In a multidisciplinary study newly published in the Journal of Cell Biology, the Barral group (D-BIOL/IBC) together with the Steinmetz group (PSI) and the Stelling group (D-BSSE), sheds light on how the motor domain of the kinesin protein Kip2 collaborates with the microtubule plus-end-binding protein Bik1, to moonlight as a microtubule polymerase.
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Certain fungi play a critical role in the ecological sustenance of forest trees. Ectomycorrhizal fungi are one such example. Commonly found on pine, oak, and birch trees, ectomycorrhizal fungi form a sheath around the outside of tree roots, and their mycelial body develops into vast underground networks that absorb vital nutrients from the soil and transfer it to the trees.
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From the outside, planting trees seems simple. Seedlings want to grow—pop them in the soil, water them and walk away.
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Ground-penetrating radar has revealed the outline of a Viking ship in a mound in southwest Norway that was once thought to be empty.
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Computer scientist Yejin Choi is here to demystify the current state of massive artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, highlighting three key problems with cutting-edge large language models (including some funny instances of them failing at basic commonsense reasoning.) She welcomes us into a new era in which AI is becoming almost like a new intellectual species — and identifies the benef
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Last summer, former Google engineer and AI ethicist Blake Lemoine went viral after going on record with The Washington Post to claim that LaMDA, Google's powerful large language model (LLM), had come to life. Lemoine had raised alarm bells internally, but Google didn't agree with the engineer's claims. The ethicist then went to the press — and was fired by Google shortly thereafter . "If I didn't
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As the space tourism industry grows, so too do concerns about the potential for sex — and even conception — in microgravity. In a new paper , researchers at the United Kingdom's Cranfield University questioned whether the space tourism industry has even begun grappling with the concept of customers potentially having sex and conceiving children in space, which is a big deal given the growing body
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01448-5 A network of organizations urges the European Commission to recognize that discrimination can harm people’s well-being.
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01476-1 A method for breaking down epoxies could stop wind turbine blades ending up in landfill.
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01453-8 Academics are demanding a significant boost to government-sponsored fellowships and scholarships, which haven’t changed for decades.
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New findings challenge the healthy herds hypothesis. Nature documentaries will tell you that lions, cheetahs, wolves and other top predators target the weakest or slowest animals and that this culling benefits prey herds, whether it’s antelope in Africa or elk in Wyoming. This idea has been widely accepted by biologists for many years and was formalized in 2003 as the healthy herds hypothesis. It
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Certain fungi play a critical role in the ecological sustenance of forest trees. Ectomycorrhizal fungi are one such example. Commonly found on pine, oak, and birch trees, ectomycorrhizal fungi form a sheath around the outside of tree roots, and their mycelial body develops into vast underground networks that absorb vital nutrients from the soil and transfer it to the trees.
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From the outside, planting trees seems simple. Seedlings want to grow—pop them in the soil, water them and walk away.
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Spain recently adopted a menstrual leave policy, which makes additional (paid or unpaid) days off work available to "only and all cisgender women."
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An international team of researchers has fully sequenced the genome of a climate resilient bean that could bolster food security in drought-prone regions.
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Our DNA is constantly exposed to damaging factors that can lead to aging and age-related diseases such as cancer. PARP1 is an important enzyme that facilitates the response to DNA damage by attaching chemical groups called ADP-ribose to proteins. Published in Molecular Cell, a new study by the Matic group at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing has discovered a second, slower wave of
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A large international team of astronomers has discovered that the dwarf planet Quaoar is circled by a second ring. In their study, accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, the group discovered the second ring while they were studying the first known ring.
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An international team of molecular chemists, physicists and nanomolecular scientists has found the molecule responsible for the bright, white-colored stripes sported by the Pacific cleaner shrimp. The study is published in Nature Photonics. Diederik Wiersma with the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, has published a News & Views piece in the same journal issue outlining the work by t
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12 Blue NASA
NASA is again sending people to the moon. The agency must revamp its safety reporting procedures to protect everyone involved
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Israeli fusion reactor
Here’s what’s next after the U.S. National Ignition Facility’s breakthrough on nuclear fusion last year
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An unusual semiconductor is making physicists rethink the science of extreme conditions
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Information theory can help people mathematically calculate the best starting guess for the popular online game
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The Comstock Act is part of a federal case over access to abortion pills. A historical science-fiction writer weighs in on the legacy of 19th-century prudishness
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The genome of the 1920s Siberian husky Balto suggests that greater genetic diversity and less inbreeding contribute to better health
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These elements, dubbed “UNICORNs,” sit close to genes that affect smell, sleep and ways that people and other mammals interact with their surroundings
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California blackworms make a contribution to the math and physics of knot tying by demoing twisting motions that help them escape a tangled worm ball
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A mutant human influenza found in two dogs shows the importance of viral surveillance in companion animals
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A new bill in California proposes making electric vehicles a backup power source for the electric grid—an idea that has promise but has to overcome several technological hurdles, experts say
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The prevalence of autism and other developmental disorders is rising. Changing who teaches early-career pediatricians about these issues will negatively affect children’s health
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New research attempts to discern how bizarre particles of strange matter form in the nuclei of atoms
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A severe drought that has led to near-famine conditions in the Horn of Africa would not have happened without the influence of climate change, a new analysis finds
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Very high HDL cholesterol levels almost double your risk of heart problems.
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A federal ruling on ACA is threatening lifesaving medical services, and prioritizing anti-LGBTQ+ bias over scientific evidence
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The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers?
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Afghanistan’s rare and majestic woodlands can’t shake the echoes of war, desperation and poverty
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The Goldman Environmental Prize has announced its 2023 awards. Three winners speak about their efforts to protect wilderness and fight polluters
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With an apparent crash, the HAKUTO-R mission from the private space exploration company ispace has joined a long list of failed moon landers
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The first timekeeping devices were probably natural materials lost to the ages, but the ancient Egyptians were the first to leave records of their timekeeping methods
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We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other
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Courts hand down conflicting decisions often. Here’s how this has played out with mifepristone
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Dead trees have accumulated in an Arctic basin for centuries, creating one of the largest “carbon pools” in the world
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Here's why a woman who spent 500 days in extreme isolation lost her sense of time
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38146-9 Tightly controlled NGN3 expression is essential for endocrine cell generation in the developing pancreas, with dysregulation leading to hyperglycemia in mice. Here they identify USP7 as a key post-translational regulator of NGN3 stability and show that this axis is required for endocrine development and beta-ce
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38109-0 Additive based UO2 nuclear fuels, which incorporate small amounts of metal oxides such as chromia (Cr2O3), are an important class of accident tolerant fuels. Here authors determine the structural-redox mechanism for Cr lattice incorporation into UO2 nuclear fuels.
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An international team of researchers has fully sequenced the genome of a climate resilient bean that could bolster food security in drought-prone regions.
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Our DNA is constantly exposed to damaging factors that can lead to aging and age-related diseases such as cancer. PARP1 is an important enzyme that facilitates the response to DNA damage by attaching chemical groups called ADP-ribose to proteins. Published in Molecular Cell, a new study by the Matic group at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing has discovered a second, slower wave of
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As Republicans across the U.S. intensify their efforts to legislate against transgender rights, they are finding aid and comfort in an unlikely place: Western Europe, where governments and medical authorities in at least five countries that once led the way on gender-affirming treatments for children and adolescents are now reversing course, arguing that the science undergirding these treatments
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It was a black Monday for media titans: Tucker Carlson split from Fox amid allegations from a former producer, Abby Grossberg, that the set of Tucker Carlson Tonight was a hostile workplace for women ; Don Lemon was fired by CNN just weeks after declaring that the Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley was out of her “prime” at age 51; and Jeff Shell, the CEO of NBC Universal, was ousted becaus
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Imagine you need to send a letter. The mailbox is only two blocks away, but the task feels insurmountable. Air hunger seizes you whenever you walk, you’re plagued by dizziness and headaches, and anyway, you keep blanking on your zip code for the return address. So you sit in the kitchen, disheartened by the letter you can’t send, the deadlines you’ve missed, the commitments you’ve canceled. Month
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An international team of oceanographers, parasitologists and biologists has found that the single-celled alga Cryptomonas gyropyrenoidosa harbors seven genomes in its one cell. In their study, reported in the journal Current Biology, the group explored how one cell could hold more than one set of DNA and isolated seven of them in C. gyropyrenoidosa.
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Central bank balance sheet policies are among the most popular stabilization policy tools but are still poorly understood theoretically and empirically. A new study by Bocconi University, Milan, professors Luigi Iovino and Dmitriy Sergeyev published in The Review of Economic Studies shows that such balance sheet policies are effective if investors behave according to a plausible alternative behavi
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An international team of oceanographers, parasitologists and biologists has found that the single-celled alga Cryptomonas gyropyrenoidosa harbors seven genomes in its one cell. In their study, reported in the journal Current Biology, the group explored how one cell could hold more than one set of DNA and isolated seven of them in C. gyropyrenoidosa.
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Stanford researchers have designed an irrigation optimization tool that could help farmers slash water use.
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Once every 10,000 years or so, the center of a galaxy lights up as its supermassive black hole rips apart a passing star. This "tidal disruption event" happens in a literal flash, as the central black hole pulls in stellar material and blasts out huge amounts of radiation in the process.
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Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague have deciphered the structure of the protein methyltransferase from the monkeypox virus. It is with the help of this protein that the virus escapes human immunity and causes the monkeypox disease. Based on this discovery, they have prepared substances that can block the function of methyltransferase.
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The Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE) project team, jointly led by NASA and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, envisions a way to make huge circular self-healing mirrors in-orbit to further the field of astronomy. Larger telescopes collect more light, and they allow astronomers to peer farther into space and see distant objects in greater detail.
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Scientists and clinicians increasingly use real world data (RWD) to make valuable discoveries that can be applied to the healthcare industry.
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As global warming threatens the two main varieties, coffee growers in Uganda are betting on a type that can stand up to heat, drought and pests.
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The federal National Nuclear Security Administration is setting up an advanced network that can verify an attacker’s identity.
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Stanford researchers have designed an irrigation optimization tool that could help farmers slash water use.
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Nature, Published online: 27 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01455-6 A sapphire crystal close to half the mass of an eyelash has been put in a quantum superposition state. Plus, black-hole image reveals turmoil around the abyss and how a human-made archipelago reveals the limits of rewilding.
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Scientists from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry in Prague have deciphered the structure of the protein methyltransferase from the monkeypox virus. It is with the help of this protein that the virus escapes human immunity and causes the monkeypox disease. Based on this discovery, they have prepared substances that can block the function of methyltransferase.
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It is a cliché that not knowing history makes one repeat it. As many people have also pointed out, the only thing we learn from history is that we rarely learn anything from history. People engage in land wars in Asia over and over. They repeat the same dating mistakes, again and again. But why does this happen? And will technology put an end to it? One issue is forgetfulness and “ myopia ”: we d
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Et middelalderligt mørkekammer er det begreb, 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 sagen blev det hollandske konsulentfirma Deltares hyret til at udarbejde en såkald
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38206-0
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38033-3 Genotype networks are sets of genotypes connected by small mutational changes that share the same phenotype. Here the authors combine construction of over 20 synthetic gene regulatory networks with mathematical modeling to exemplify how gene regulatory networks provide robustness in face of mutations while enab
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34290-w
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34317-2
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32810-2
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#shorts #deadliestcatch #discoveryplus From: Discovery
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New research about plant communication upends older beliefs. Experts share the unique ways plants talk to each other.
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Researchers led by Dr. Xin Liping from the Space-based Multi-band Astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) research team, National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), have detected the prompt optical emission and its transition to the early afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB 201223A), using the Ground Wide Angle Camera Array (GWAC) located at Xinglong Observa
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The search for radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations has yet to yield evidence of alien technological activity. Research carried out at EPFL suggests we continue searching while optimizing the use of available resources.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced how often urban residents intersect with people from different income brackets, according to a new study led by MIT researchers.
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In the cell nucleus, numerous proteins bind to the DNA molecule in order to regulate the activity of certain genes. One of these is the TATA-box binding protein (TBP), which binds to a specific DNA sequence and constitutes an initial signal for the reading of DNA. Incorrectly bound TBP is removed from the DNA by a special enzyme called Mot1 and "recycled." This enzyme belongs to a large family of
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Fredag sender vi live fra studiet med et kig ind i fremtiden for skibsfart, fly og lastbiler.
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Nature, Published online: 26 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01451-w The lunar lander by Japanese firm ispace appears to have crash-landed. Plus, the risks of repeat COVID infections and a surprising galaxy with the ingredients for planet formation.
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A new book by BuzzFeed News founder Ben Smith reveals how virality betrayed the news industry—but glosses over who really drove the clicks.
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OnePlus Pad priced at $479
Android on a tablet has never looked or felt so good—and it’s a worthy iPad alternative.
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Ron Disney DeSantis
This week, the Mouse House filed a suit claiming the Florida governor is weaponizing government power and stifling its free speech.
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Amid rising evidence that additives designed to improve plastics also disrupt sex hormones, a laboratory trial shows that plastic itself can do likewise when inhaled at moderate levels. Previous studies focused on chemicals such as bisphenol-A (BPA) that make plastics stiffer or more flexible. These findings spurred ongoing efforts to find safer plastic additives. The new study in the journal Par
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A scientist who does whale necropsies — or in layman's terms, whale autopsies — tells us why so many dead whales are washing up on beaches.
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In the cell nucleus, numerous proteins bind to the DNA molecule in order to regulate the activity of certain genes. One of these is the TATA-box binding protein (TBP), which binds to a specific DNA sequence and constitutes an initial signal for the reading of DNA. Incorrectly bound TBP is removed from the DNA by a special enzyme called Mot1 and "recycled." This enzyme belongs to a large family of
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38231-z Jellyfish see light in a similar way that vertebrates smell odours. Here, Michiel van Wyk and Sonja Kleinlogel show how jellyfish has adapted this slow signal detection pathway to support sophisticated vision, and use a similar method to restore vision in blind mice.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37626-2 Precision environmental health leverages environmental and system-level data to understand underlying environmental causes of disease, identify biomarkers of exposure, and develop new prevention and intervention strategies. In this Perspective, the authors provide real-life illustrations of the utility of preci
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Two notable metal oxide structures, spinel-type oxide and solid solution-type oxide, are widely used in Oxide-Zeolite (OXZEO) bifunctional catalysts for CO/CO2 hydrogenation reactions.
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En amerikansk virksomhed, der normalt lukker atomkraftværker, vil nu prøve at genåbne et i USA. Forsøget møder allerede massiv kritik og skepsis.
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A team of Japanese astronomers used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to capture a more complete picture of a superflare on a star. The observed flare started with a very massive, high-velocity prominence eruption. These results give us a better idea of how superflares and stellar prominence eruptions occur.
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A new study investigated the combined effect of temperature and humidity on urban heat stress using observational data and an urban climate model calculation. Researchers found that the heat stress burden is dependent on local climate and a humidifying effect can erase the cooling benefits that would come from trees and vegetation.
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Nature documentaries will tell you that lions, cheetahs, wolves and other top predators target the weakest or slowest animals and that this culling benefits prey herds, whether it's antelope in Africa or elk in Wyoming. This idea has been widely accepted by biologists for many years and was formalized in 2003 as the healthy herds hypothesis. It proposes that predators can help prey populations by
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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How an undercover content moderator polices the metaverse 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 car
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En metod som används internationellt i skolor för att träna elever i självkontroll och för att förbättra studieron har stora fördelar, enligt svenska lärare i en studie. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33955-w
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34234-4
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33405-7
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A new study may help explain why people choose to include themselves in some photos — and it is not vanity. Researchers found that first-person photos (capturing the scene as it looks from one's own eyes) best represent the physical experience of an event for people. But third-person photos like selfies (documenting a moment with themselves in it) better depict the deeper meaning of the event in
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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. Researchers report that sexual selection was a strong driving force for males to grow bigger and to streng
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A new study looked at a known binary star (two stars orbiting around a mutual center of gravity), analyzing starlight obtained from a range of ground- and space-based telescopes. The researchers found that the stars, located in a neighboring dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud, are in partial contact and swapping material with each other, with one star currently 'feeding' off the other.
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Food waste food
How is 'junk food' defined for food policies like taxes? A combination of food category, processing, and nutrients can determine which foods should be subject to health-related policies, according to a new analysis examining three decades of U.S. food policies by researchers.
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New research suggests future Martian botanists may be able to grow gene-edited rice on Mars.
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Polymer chemists have been finding ways to tackle the environmental problems humans have created with plastics waste. Now, a team has come up with fundamental new chemistry that seeds a creative solution to the challenge of recycling mixed-use plastics.
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A major collaboration involving 80 scientists from Europe and South America has identified the regions of the Amazon rainforest where trees are most likely to face the greatest risk from drier conditions brought about by climate change. Based on the analysis, the scientists predict trees in the western and southern Amazon face the greatest risk of dying. They also warn that previous scientific inv
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New process wind
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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Researchers argue that the rapid growth in urban honeybee-keeping over the past decade may be negatively impacting nearby wild bee populations. Small bees with limited foraging ranges may be especially at risk, they write.
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The show Ted Lasso is about to wrap up its final season. I am one of the many people who really enjoy the show, which turns on a group of likable people helping each other through various life challenges with care and empathy. Lasso is an American college football coach who was recruited to coach an English “football” team, and manages to muddle through with Zen-like calm and folksy good spirits.
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Expert Jen Lau has advice for parents to prevent children from drowning. Drowning is often preventable —including incidents where children have drowned right in front of their parents, who never even realized their child was in trouble. Lau, manager of the Pediatric Trauma and Injury Prevention Program at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, shares what you should do to ensure your kids’ safety
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01466-3 Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Republicans have had 10 months to hammer out a coherent post- Roe message on abortion. You would think they’d have nailed it by now. Yet on Tuesday, Nikki Haley set out to declare her position on the issue—and proceeded to be about as clear as concrete. She began with plausible precision. “I want to save as many lives and help as many moms as possible,” the former South Carolina governor and amba
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The so-called Limit, Save, Grow Act , which House Republicans passed late on Wednesday, will never become law, because its combination of a small increase in the debt limit and a freeze on much government spending has no chance of making it through the Senate. The bill is nevertheless a statement about conservative priorities—among the most important of which, the debate over the bill suggests, i
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Abortion states abortion
Not long after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade , commentators warned that another right might unexpectedly be in danger: the right to travel . Republicans in Missouri proposed a law that would have allowed people to sue anyone who helped a resident travel out of state to end a pregnancy . Missouri’s bill didn’t pass, but it seemed to signal a new strategy—one that Idaho has now taken up.
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Trends Education AI
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week . L ast week, a TikTok user named Ghostwriter used AI voice-emulating technology to make a song that sounded like a collaboration between the artists Drake and The Weeknd. The result was surprisingly non-awful. The track blew up on
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37536-3 Offshore wind power may play a key role in decarbonising energy supplies. Here the authors evaluates current grid integration capabilities for wind power in China and find that investment levels should be doubled for 2030, and that long-term storage and transmissions are key to accelerated developments of offsh
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37002-0 Controlled delivery of small molecule therapeutics is challenging. Here the authors report a simple and effective aptamer-based depot system where the formation of aptamer/drug complexes leads to sustained release, and using this approach demonstrate improved in vivo delivery of channel blockers.
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FDA Approves Pill
The Food and Drug Administration approved the second-ever medical treatment made from donated human feces.
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Industrivirksomheder og ingeniørvirksomheder er som så mange andre virksomheder i hård konkurrence med it-branchen om at gøre sig attraktive og relevante overfor it-udviklere, it-arkitekter, data scientists og andre it-specialister. Konkurrencen er ikke kun i forhold til direkte rekruttering. I et større perspektiv handler det også om, at kunne brande sig som en attraktiv faglig, social og menings
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Habitat loss blamed as study finds 19% of bryophyte species at risk and at least four have become extinct in Great Britain Almost one-fifth of bryophytes – the plant group that includes mosses, liverworts and hornworts – in Great Britain are threatened with extinction, according to a new red list assessing their conservation status. The red list , published in the Journal of Bryology, was compile
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hi everyone! i was recently accepted to transfer to both ucla and berkeley. at ucla i would be completing the linguistics and cs major and at berkeley i would be cognitive science with a minor in ds. i want to go into tech and im extremely conflicted on which i should pick. i have heard different things from different people. if it helps i got no aid from both. also, at ucla i would probably have
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01351-z Trial successes have raised hopes that the condition might eventually be preventable.
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01395-1 Ukrainian scientists reflect on their country’s invasion by Russia, how to halt a postwar brain drain, and how collaborations with Russian colleagues have suffered.
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Nature, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01457-4 Discrimination against members of under-represented groups in academic publishing leads to lower citation rates, fewer editorial-board positions and longer manuscript-review periods.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 April 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33692-0
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Er der liv under iskapperne på Jupiters måner? Det skal to nye rumsonder finde svar på. I ugens Transformator kan du også høre om en dansk ingeniørs selvlåsende samleteknik og om sære danske droneregler.
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In carbonated drinks, the wake from rising bubbles can disturb other bubbles. But when the molecules that give fizzy drinks their flavour coat the bubbles, they can form stable columns as they float
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After three solid years of the pandemic, here is an admittedly incomplete rundown of how it has affected children in the United States. The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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Status og udsigt til arbejdet med at få de fossile brændstoffer ud af transportmidlerne på vejene, i luften og til havs. Fokus for briefingen er de tre transportområder: biler (personbiler, busser og lastbiler), skibe (færger, bulk og container) og fly (både korte og interkontinentale ruter)
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Light-on-dark displays tap into society's deepest fears about technology's ills. But reducing screen light isn't the same as putting your device away.
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Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs, and stayed there. It’s a worrying signal of an ocean in crisis.
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Nu är den här – världens första transistor gjord av balsaträ. Den kan bana väg för utveckling av ny elektronik och styrning av elektroniska växter. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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EU-Kommissionen vil rokere rundt på beskyttelsen af ny medicin, men der er noget, de har misforstået, understreger branchen.
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240 däggdjur, allt från pyttesmå fladdermöss till människor och valar, har kartlagts genetiskt. Kartläggningen visar hur dna:t hos människan och andra däggdjur har utvecklats under evolutionen och kan kasta ljus över vilka gener som spelar roll för sjukdomar som schizofreni och astma. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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