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Nature, Published online: 03 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01529-5 Green light from US regulatory agency for GSK’s jab caps off a decades-long quest.
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An international team of botanists, plant biologists and biochemists, has found an important pathway used by roses to produce their familiar sweet smell. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group tracked down the pathway that allows binding molecules to produce the chemicals required to create the aroma associated with roses.
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Anhingas, water birds with snakelike necks, have turned up in Prospect Park in Brooklyn and far upstate, a sign of shifting ranges for birds from the South.
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Tesla Killer Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has some harsh words for Tesla…. In a new interview, Wozniak argued that the Elon Musk-led company's self-driving efforts leave a lot to be desired — and are actively making Teslas incredibly unsafe to drive.
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Job seekers looking to land a role with an altruistic organization may feel too guilty to ask for higher pay, according to a new study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.
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More accurate space-weather predictions and safer satellite navigation through radiation belts could someday result from new insights into "space waves," researchers at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University reported.
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Cells have a fascinating feature to neatly organize their interior by using tiny protein machines called molecular motors that generate directed movements. Most of them use a common type of fuel, a kind of chemical energy, called ATP to operate.
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Cells have a fascinating feature to neatly organize their interior by using tiny protein machines called molecular motors that generate directed movements. Most of them use a common type of fuel, a kind of chemical energy, called ATP to operate.
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The effects of increased nitrogen input and mowing on the resistance and recovery of temperate grassland experiencing a three-year natural drought (from 2015 to 2017) were investigated based on a five-year field manipulative experiment.
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Nuclear energy is crucial for producing cleaner energy, but the associated radioactive pollution requires strategic solutions. Cesium (Cs+) is a toxic radionuclide generated from nuclear power plants that demands immobilization and high adsorption methods to prevent environmental pollution.
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A look at the science making the rounds in the headlines this week — from a new study on virtual reality sickness to whether there's any science behind the ever-trendy 10,000 step goal and ice baths.
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The effects of increased nitrogen input and mowing on the resistance and recovery of temperate grassland experiencing a three-year natural drought (from 2015 to 2017) were investigated based on a five-year field manipulative experiment.
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UT Southwestern Medical Center stem cell and developmental biologists and colleagues have developed a method to produce bovine blastoids, a crucial step in replicating embryo formation in the lab that could lead to the development of new reproductive technologies for cattle breeding.
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Special permission is required to clear forest in Switzerland. Until now, the system has worked well. However, plans to increase wind and solar electricity generation could increase conflicts.
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UT Southwestern Medical Center stem cell and developmental biologists and colleagues have developed a method to produce bovine blastoids, a crucial step in replicating embryo formation in the lab that could lead to the development of new reproductive technologies for cattle breeding.
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Conservative CEOs are four times more likely than their liberal counterparts to acquire international firms rather than forge new alliances when entering foreign markets, according to new research. The same study finds that these political biases can be moderated by active, independent boards.
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A multi-institutional team exploring the physics of collective behavior has developed and measured a model nanomagnetic array in which the behavior can be best understood as that of a set of wiggling strings. The strings, which are composed of connected points of high energy among the lattice, can stretch and shrink, but also reconnect. What makes these strings special is that they are limited to
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With a single letter seemingly etched in the X-ray glow around it, a giant black hole at the center of a massive elliptical galaxy is making a mark on its surroundings.
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Geoscientists have detected specific gases being released from fractured rocks in real time after a series of small chemical explosions set underground.
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Ben Embarek led a contentious international investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Late one recent night, I enlisted GPT-4 to fix my life. I began by soliciting broad-strokes summaries of my journalistic interests and an expedited five-step protocol for breaking in raw-denim jeans (if you know, you know). But after a few rounds, the asks became personal: “How can I tell if I’m overinvested in my career?” and “How do I sum up the volume of my work?” Before I knew it, I’d dredged
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Rings of Power Saturn's innermost rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's upper atmosphere — and scientists are still trying to figure out why, Space.com reports , using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope. The planet's icy rings are collapsing i nto the planet as icy rain, succumbing to its intense gravity. But there's a lot we still don't know about the co
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Ancient teeth preserved bacterial DNA fragments for millennia, and they could become a source of new antibiotics.
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For decades, scientists have looked to seaweed as an indicator of the health of coral reefs lying underneath.
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For decades, scientists have looked to seaweed as an indicator of the health of coral reefs lying underneath.
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Academics at Cardiff University and UCL have sought to gain a greater understanding of young people's experiences of learning about relationships, sex, and sexuality.
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Re-analysis of data from NASA's Voyager spacecraft, along with new computer modeling, has led NASA scientists to conclude that four of Uranus' largest moons likely contain an ocean layer between their cores and icy crusts. Their study is the first to detail the evolution of the interior makeup and structure of all five large moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, and Miranda. The work suggests fo
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Archaeologists in Hungary have unearthed a 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, including forceps and scalpels. They think the tools belonged to a physician from the Roman Empire who had traveled beyond its frontiers to treat patients.
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Proteins that act like air traffic controllers, managing the flow of signals in and out of human cells, have been observed for the first time with unprecedented detail using advanced microscopy techniques. New findings could inform the development of better drugs for pain relief, diabetes or heart failure.
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A California tribe has signed agreements with state and federal agencies to work together on efforts to return endangered Chinook salmon to their traditional spawning areas upstream of Shasta Dam, a deal that could advance the long-standing goal of tribal leaders to reintroduce fish that were transplanted from California to New Zealand more than a century ago and still thrive there.
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Researchers have developed a new tool that tracks the monthly changes in Wikipedia page views for thousands of species. The Species Awareness Index (SAI) is designed to provide a real-time measure of changing interest in biodiversity that can help conservation organizations and science communicators develop effective strategies for protecting wildlife. The study, "Achieving a real-time online moni
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A California tribe has signed agreements with state and federal agencies to work together on efforts to return endangered Chinook salmon to their traditional spawning areas upstream of Shasta Dam, a deal that could advance the long-standing goal of tribal leaders to reintroduce fish that were transplanted from California to New Zealand more than a century ago and still thrive there.
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Greywater Fresh If you want a refreshing, environmentally-friendly beverage — but don't necessarily want to go all the way to Bill Gates' fecal sludge water route — we might have just the thing. It's called the Epic OneWater Brew, and it's a kölsch-style beer that, according to the Guardian , is made from recycled wastewater. Crafted as a collaboration between a San Francisco water recycling comp
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An international team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and the Institute of Magnetism in Kyiv, Ukraine, has developed a comprehensive manual for engineering spin dynamics in nanomagnets—an important step toward advancing spintronic and quantum-information technologies.
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Researchers have developed a new tool that tracks the monthly changes in Wikipedia page views for thousands of species. The Species Awareness Index (SAI) is designed to provide a real-time measure of changing interest in biodiversity that can help conservation organizations and science communicators develop effective strategies for protecting wildlife. The study, "Achieving a real-time online moni
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An international team of scientists has imaged and analyzed THz waves that propagate in the form of plasmon polaritons along thin anisotropic semiconductor platelets with wavelengths reduced by up to 65 times compared to THz waves in free space.
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Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
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Storing data in DNA sounds like science fiction, yet it lies in the near future. Experts expect the first DNA data center to be up and running within five to ten years. Data won't be stored as zeros and ones in a hard drive but in the base pairs that make up DNA: AT and CG. Such a data center would take the form of a lab, many times smaller than the ones today.
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Neuropathic pain — abnormal hypersensitivity to stimuli — is associated with impaired quality of life and is often poorly managed. Estimates suggest that 3 percent to 17 percent of adults suffer from neuropathic pain, including a quarter of people with diabetes and a third of people with HIV. Researchers report that a mechanism involving the enzyme Tiam1 in dorsal horn excitatory neurons of the
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Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
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Storing data in DNA sounds like science fiction, yet it lies in the near future. Experts expect the first DNA data center to be up and running within five to ten years. Data won't be stored as zeros and ones in a hard drive but in the base pairs that make up DNA: AT and CG. Such a data center would take the form of a lab, many times smaller than the ones today.
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A series of centipede-inspired robots with different numbers of legs show that the more legs a robot has, the better it is at moving across unpredictable ground
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The crop-devastating swarms that locusts form are driven in part by the insects' tricks to avoid being cannibalised – they move around and produce a pheromone to deter other locusts from eating them
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Researchers pieced together the genomes of two unknown species of green sulphur bacteria from DNA fragments found in ancient calcified tooth plaque
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It is well understood that in the labor market there exist wage gaps between men and women, and in general, women have had to fight to break the "glass ceiling" to get to upper management in the workplace. The causes of the gender gap may be multiple factors from discrimination to ability difference, and it is not easy to separate one from the other.
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Adding long-chain fatty acids can thicken cell membranes and alter the activity of a key enzyme, as LMU scientists have demonstrated in cell cultures.
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Recently, the research group led by Prof. Liu Changsong from Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) developed a set of software for simulating the evolution of displacement damage in polycrystalline metals at across time and space scales, which was named object kinetic Monte Carlo-lattice kinetic Monte Carlo (OKMC-
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Adding long-chain fatty acids can thicken cell membranes and alter the activity of a key enzyme, as LMU scientists have demonstrated in cell cultures.
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Dendrobium chrysotoxum is an epiphytic orchid species that grows on tree trunks or as a lithophyte on rocks. It is of great ornamental and medicinal importance. The over-exploitation of D. chrysotoxum from the wild continues to pose a serious threat to the orchid's survival.
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Dendrobium chrysotoxum is an epiphytic orchid species that grows on tree trunks or as a lithophyte on rocks. It is of great ornamental and medicinal importance. The over-exploitation of D. chrysotoxum from the wild continues to pose a serious threat to the orchid's survival.
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A research team led by Prof. Gao Xiaoming at the Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) recently proposed a new dual-wavelength Faraday rotation spectroscopy (FRS) sensor in the two-component simultaneous detection of nitrogen oxides.
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Star planet first
Astronomers have spotted a bright flash of light from a Jupiter-size world being consumed by its own star in a preview of Earth’s likely fate.
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Report people acute
The number of people facing acute food insecurity shot up for the fourth year in a row in 2022
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The rise of Ozempic “Everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can’t help but wonder: Is Ozempic right for me?” Jimmy Kimmel joked during his Oscars monologue earlier this year. Ozempic, or Wegovy, or Mounjaro, has become quite popular in the last year. A drug primarily used for treating type 2 […]
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Researchers discover a unique two-component molecular motor that uses a kind of renewable chemical energy to pull vesicles toward membrane-bound organelles.
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For decades, scientists have used the amount of seaweed at the ocean's surface as a proxy for the health of coral reefs below. However, a new global study of more than 1,200 marine locations over a 16-year period reveals that this approach has been misleading — and may even have hidden signs of reef stress.
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Genome editing is used to modify the genes of living organisms to elicit certain traits, such as climate-resilient crops or treating human disease at the genetic level. It has become increasingly popular in agriculture, medicine and basic science research over the past decade, and will continue to be relevant and utilized well into the future. Given this prevalence, researchers at the University o
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An artificial intelligence system enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments—as many as 10,000 per day—potentially driving a drastic leap forward in the pace of discovery in areas from medicine to agriculture to environmental science.
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The hospitality sector was undoubtedly hugely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but new research has now shown the knock-on effect that had on other sections of the economy.
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Death COVID 2022
Most of the deaths occurred during the early months of the year and mostly among older adults, according to new federal data.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38304-z Multi-enzymatic cascades benefit from precise nanometric organization but achieving this using available scaffolds is challenging. Here the authors present strategy for organizing multienzymatic systems using a protein scaffold based on TRAP domains, and demonstrate improved catalytic output.
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An artificial intelligence system enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments—as many as 10,000 per day—potentially driving a drastic leap forward in the pace of discovery in areas from medicine to agriculture to environmental science.
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Google Pixel Fold
The Pixel Fold was revealed in a tweet today. Here’s what we can discern for now.
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At the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP in Leuna, Germany, representatives from politics, research and industry opened a novel pilot plant for the mild processing of rapeseed to increase the added-value potential of rapeseed as a raw material. Based on a biorefinery, the plant not only delivers high-grade, pre-raffinate-quality rapeseed oil, but also a high-grade, prot
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If we ever find life on other worlds, it is unlikely to be a powerful message from space. It's certainly possible that an alien civilization specifically sends us a radio message like a scene out of Contact, but the more likely scenario is that we observe some kind of biological signature in an exoplanet's atmosphere, such as oxygen or chlorophyll. But as a recent study released on the arXiv prepr
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Discovery of ‘anti-cannibalism’ pheromone raises possibility of spraying crops with similar chemical as non-toxic insecticide Locusts are voracious eaters with appetites that extend to members of their own species. Now scientists have discovered an “anti-cannibalism” pheromone used by the insects to protect themselves in dense swarms, which could pave the way for novel pest control strategies. Sc
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At the Fraunhofer Center for Chemical-Biotechnological Processes CBP in Leuna, Germany, representatives from politics, research and industry opened a novel pilot plant for the mild processing of rapeseed to increase the added-value potential of rapeseed as a raw material. Based on a biorefinery, the plant not only delivers high-grade, pre-raffinate-quality rapeseed oil, but also a high-grade, prot
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01557-1 Garry Cooper’s sustainability business has grown to help thousands of people conduct more efficient research.
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01517-9 The most popular repository for sharing SARS-CoV-2 sequence data has come under increasing scrutiny. Scientists and funders around the world must now consider what lies ahead for the open sharing of genome data.
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I n red and blue states , Democrats are consolidating their hold on the most economically productive places. Metropolitan areas won by President Joe Biden in 2020 generated more of the total economic output than metros won by Donald Trump in 35 of the 50 states, according to new research by Brookings Metro provided exclusively to The Atlantic . Biden-won metros contributed the most to the GDP not
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Russia Ukraine Putin
At about 3 a.m. Moscow time on May 3, a pair of drones appeared to explode on or near a dome at the Kremlin. The explosions were caught on camera from several angles and seemed to cause little damage. Videos of the strikes aired on Russian state television and rapidly made the rounds on the internet. Things only got weirder from there. The Kremlin quickly put out a statement accusing Ukraine of a
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The bushfire outlook for many parts of Australia has changed drastically over the past decade. Environmental conditions have transformed, producing larger and more destructive bushfires.
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Colorado's plan to capture and release dozens of wolves into the Western Slope's wilderness is now finalized, though the timeline might suffer thanks to a bill proposed by the region's lawmakers.
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Researchers at Aalto University have discovered a new way to use biowaste to provide sound absorption and thermal insulation.
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Super Powers Betelgeuse is one of the most visible and iconic stars visible on Earth — and with scientists predicting that it'll go supernova sometime soon, astronomy Twitter naturally has jokes. In 2019, Betelgeuse became noticeably dimmer , which led to stargazers and scientists alike wondering whether the old red giant was about to go supernova. Last year, the Hubble Space Telescope — remember
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The latest in science and policy
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Information theory is used to design robots with guaranteed arrival over noisy terrain.
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Garnet formation cannot be the main reason for some important features of arc lavas.
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Directed inclusion activities increase feelings of belonging in college students.
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Streams of intergalactic gas enriched by previous star formation were observed spiraling toward a massive galaxy.
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Autoimmune diseases display a high degree of comorbidity within individuals and families, suggesting shared risk factors. Over the past 15 years, genome-wide association studies have established the polygenic basis of these common conditions and revealed …
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Although all multicellular organisms have germ line–encoded innate receptors to sense pathogen-associated molecular patterns, vertebrates also evolved adaptive immunity based on somatically generated antigen receptors on B and T cells. Because randomly …
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The incomplete removal of T cells that are reactive against self-proteins during their differentiation in the thymus requires mechanisms of tolerance that prevent their effector function within the periphery. A further challenge is imposed by the need to …
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Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is effective, but mechanisms are elusive
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HomeScienceVol. 380, No. 6644When a delicate balancing act goes wrongBack To Vol. 380, No. 6644 Full accessIntroduction to Special Issue Share on When a delicate balancing act goes wrongGemma Alderton and Seth Thomas ScanlonAuthors Info & AffiliationsScience4 May 2023Vol 380, Issue 6644pp. 468-469 NEXT ARTICLEResetting tolerance in autoimmune diseaseNext ContentsInformation & AuthorsMetrics & C…
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Models sugg est that at least 10.5 million children experienced COVID-19–associated orphanhood and caregiver loss in the first 2 years of the pandemic (1), and the numbers continue to grow (2). However, public health data cannot identify children experiencing orphanhood. More information about such children could facilitate the delivery of support, services, and loving care, minimizing the negativ
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Addressing global warming requires increased investment in conserving and restoring carbon-dense natural habitats. Some companies that emit carbon have turned to certified carbon credits to offset their environmental impact. However, the effectiveness of carbon credits depends on the methods used to quantify them. If carbon credits do not accurately represent their environmental benefits, relying
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HomeScienceVol. 380, No. 6644Protect old-growth forests in Europe nowBack To Vol. 380, No. 6644 Full accessLetter Share on Protect old-growth forests in Europe nowMartin Mikolāš [email protected], Gianluca Piovesan, […] , Anders Ahlström, Daniel C. Donato, […] , Rhiannon Gloor, Jeňýk Hofmeister, William S. Keeton, Bart Muys, Francesco M. Sabatini, […] , Miroslav Svoboda, and Tobias Kuemmerl…
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A pair of historians dig into the deep ideological roots of our planetary predicament
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Ethical analysis should encompass upstream decisions and their downstream consequences
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Dual-use devices offer a different path for more-sustainable living
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A large-scale experiment focused on social belonging shows impacts on first-year full-time completion
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Most animals abandoned plant sterols early in evolution, but some still depend on them
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An anticannibalistic signaling pathway offers a new understanding of locust swarm formation
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Though therapies may come too late for him, Tim Greenamyre sees hope on the horizon for patients
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Impasse after Ukraine invasion threatens long-running data sets in oceanography, ecology, and climate science
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Pioneering technique allows scientists to read genetic traces of an artifact’s last user
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Many researchers oppose measure, which could face court challenge
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Revamped tropical Pacific buoys could aid atmospheric river forecasts
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An institution that has long influenced academia in the United States has lost credibility. The College Board—a nonprofit organization that oversees the development of Advanced Placement (AP) precollege courses and the administration of the SAT exam that …
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Latest version of imaging technique enables use of thousands of antibodies that can map specific cell types
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Despite sending unwanted sexual emails and other “invasive” behavior, David Gilbert carried two NIH grants to a new institution and was awarded $2.5 million in new money
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The endearing behavior is well-known, but few researchers have investigated the reasons why dogs tilt their heads. A recent study offers some clues.
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Colorado's plan to capture and release dozens of wolves into the Western Slope's wilderness is now finalized, though the timeline might suffer thanks to a bill proposed by the region's lawmakers.
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Female politicians continue to be subjected to sexist, impossible standards at the hands of the UK media, according to a new study conducted by the University of Surrey.
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Urban ecology is a growing research field. To find orientation in the information jungle on this topic, a team led by IGB and Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) has created a map of 62 important research hypotheses in urban ecology. Among them are the idea of the daring city dweller, life on credit or the biological monotony of cities. Research has yet to show how robust the hypotheses are and t
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Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake.
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A massive, Stanford-led study has found that a brief exercise addressing common concerns about belonging in college increased first-year completion rates on students' local campus, especially for students in racial-ethnic and social-class groups that were less likely historically to complete the first year at that school.
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New research led by an Oregon State University scientist begins to unravel the role dust plays in nourishing global ocean ecosystems while helping regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
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Huge swarms of migratory locusts take on the proportions of natural disasters and threaten the food supply of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia. As the eighth of the ten biblical plagues, the Book of Moses in the Old Testament already describes how swarms of locusts darkened the sky and ate up everything that grew in the fields and on the trees.
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Continents are part of what makes Earth uniquely habitable for life among the planets of the solar system, yet surprisingly little is understood about what gave rise to these huge pieces of the planet's crust and their special properties.
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The North Pacific "Garbage Patch" is home to an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well as the plastic waste it has become famous for, according to a study by Rebecca Helm from Georgetown University, U.S., and colleagues. The paper is published in the open access journal PLOS Biology.
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Cholesterol and phytosterol are sterols, fatty compounds essential for many biological processes such as the functioning of cell membranes. Up to now, it has been assumed that phytosterols are characteristic for plants, and cholesterol for animals, and that only plants can make phytosterols, while animals typically make cholesterol.
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Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a new study published in Science, a transdisciplinary team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Harvard University reconstructed bacteria
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Here comes the sun: New study shows how UK weather conditions influence music success in the markets
Music is an integral part of our daily lives, but what makes a song successful in the competitive music market remains a mystery to even the most experienced experts. A new study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford, suggests that environmental factors such as weather conditions and seasonal patterns can play a significant role in shaping listener preferences and choices, potentially im
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals NGC 547, an elliptical galaxy that sits about 250 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. NGC 547 shines just below the center of this image, with its companion galaxy NGC 545 near the upper left. Collectively, the pair is known as Arp 308.
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This could aid diagnosis.
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Patches of floating plastic are teeming with life, and cleanup companies hauling trash out of the water risk destroying an aquatic habitat.
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Hvorfor er Jordens skorpe anderledes under land end under vand? Nye eksperimenter forkaster en tidligere forklaring.
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Urban ecology is a growing research field. To find orientation in the information jungle on this topic, a team led by IGB and Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) has created a map of 62 important research hypotheses in urban ecology. Among them are the idea of the daring city dweller, life on credit or the biological monotony of cities. Research has yet to show how robust the hypotheses are and t
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Utahraptor is going to need 10 million more candles on its next birthday cake.
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Huge swarms of migratory locusts take on the proportions of natural disasters and threaten the food supply of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia. As the eighth of the ten biblical plagues, the Book of Moses in the Old Testament already describes how swarms of locusts darkened the sky and ate up everything that grew in the fields and on the trees.
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The North Pacific "Garbage Patch" is home to an abundance of floating sea creatures, as well as the plastic waste it has become famous for, according to a study by Rebecca Helm from Georgetown University, U.S., and colleagues. The paper is published in the open access journal PLOS Biology.
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Cholesterol and phytosterol are sterols, fatty compounds essential for many biological processes such as the functioning of cell membranes. Up to now, it has been assumed that phytosterols are characteristic for plants, and cholesterol for animals, and that only plants can make phytosterols, while animals typically make cholesterol.
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Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a new study published in Science, a transdisciplinary team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and Harvard University reconstructed bacteria
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University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers are investigating how farmers and gardeners can best support pollinator species such as bumble bees to help them out during growing season—and find insights on what might be causing them to veer away from certain plants or areas.
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University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers are investigating how farmers and gardeners can best support pollinator species such as bumble bees to help them out during growing season—and find insights on what might be causing them to veer away from certain plants or areas.
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Under the watchful eyes of neighbors, scientists in white lab coats knelt to spread a flour-like mineral over a lawn in Huntington Park.
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When the seeds of plants such as pea and sunflower are biofortified with zinc, the seedlings they quickly produce — harvested as microgreens — could both help to mitigate global malnutrition and boost the odds of people surviving a catastrophe.
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Perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) are a promising alternative to traditional silicon-based solar cells because of their high power-conversion efficiency and low cost. However, one of the major challenges in their development has been achieving long-term stability. Recently, a research team made a breakthrough by developing an innovative multifunctional and non-volatile additive which can improve the
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FDA First Vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for use in people ages 60 and older.
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could detect Earth
Advanced alien civilizations could probably already tell that there's intelligent life on Earth, thanks to our cell phone towers.
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Human-caused changes to landscapes and riverscapes have fundamentally impacted freshwater biodiversity patterns throughout the world's aquatic systems. Previous studies have shown that small- and medium-sized streams have experienced steep reductions, but there has been less focus on patterns and drivers of fish biodiversity in larger riverine systems.
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Humans have bred for desirable plant and animal traits for millennia by selecting and crossing their offspring. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen are taking a natural shortcut to promote beneficial changes using a special bacterium that can transfer its genes into plants.
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Human-caused changes to landscapes and riverscapes have fundamentally impacted freshwater biodiversity patterns throughout the world's aquatic systems. Previous studies have shown that small- and medium-sized streams have experienced steep reductions, but there has been less focus on patterns and drivers of fish biodiversity in larger riverine systems.
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A trio of astrophysicists at Sorbonne Université has developed a new theory to help describe the stability of the solar system. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review X, Federico Mogavero, Nam Hoang and Jacques Laskar, describe their theory and what it suggests about the nature of the solar system.
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A new cohort of astronauts at the European Space Agency's training center in Cologne, Germany, can expect to see time in both the pool and the classroom as they get ready to head into orbit.
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With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity's carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming "time bomb".
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After decades on the sidelines, African countries are venturing into the space industry, hoping to reap rewards in agriculture, disaster prevention and security.
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Research in the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, has looked at the potential of various bioflavonoids as inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. The compounds—narirutin, naringin, neohesperidin and hesperidin—are found in citrus fruits. Their wide-ranging therapeutic and physiological effects are well known. The possibility of repurposing them in t
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Research in the International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, has looked at the potential of various bioflavonoids as inhibitors of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. The compounds—narirutin, naringin, neohesperidin and hesperidin—are found in citrus fruits. Their wide-ranging therapeutic and physiological effects are well known. The possibility of repurposing them in t
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Sucks Twitter was in ablaze this week when in response to the ongoing Writer's Guild strike , a guy decided to let the people know that writing work doesn't matter anymore, actually. ChatGPT can just do it. "Oh no. A writer's strike. Whatever shall we do," tweeted a user who goes by the moniker "powerbottomdad1." "If only there was some kind of machine that could endlessly pump out textual conten
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01537-5 Results suggest the amyloid-targeting drug candidate slows cognitive decline in some people, but questions remain over its potential side effects.
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Humans have bred for desirable plant and animal traits for millennia by selecting and crossing their offspring. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen are taking a natural shortcut to promote beneficial changes using a special bacterium that can transfer its genes into plants.
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For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a prototype lidar system that uses quantum detection technology to acquire 3D images while submerged underwater. The high sensitivity of this system could allow it to capture detailed information even in extremely low-light conditions found underwater.
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Europe's latest weather satellite, the Meteosat Third Generation Imager, has just delivered its first view of Earth—revealing conditions over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic in remarkable detail.
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Scientists from four research institutes in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld have joined forces to develop a ground-breaking experimental setup. Their new Spitrobot greatly simplifies observing changes in proteins as they carry out their functions. This makes time-resolved crystallography accessible for non-specialist research groups, as samples can now be prepared in standard labs and processe
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
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The young star TW Hydrae is playing "shadow puppets" with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Black irises have been spotted in gannets that test positive for bird flu antibodies, suggesting they are an indicator that the seabirds have survived an infection with the virus
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A thought experiment that’s dividing mathematicians can help illuminate how belief shapes rational decisions
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Scientists from four research institutes in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld have joined forces to develop a ground-breaking experimental setup. Their new Spitrobot greatly simplifies observing changes in proteins as they carry out their functions. This makes time-resolved crystallography accessible for non-specialist research groups, as samples can now be prepared in standard labs and processe
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Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed an artificial intelligence system that can create proteins not found in nature using generative diffusion, the same technology behind popular image-creation platforms such as DALL-E and Midjourney.
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The Beatles famously sang, 'Money can't buy me love,' but married couples who manage their finances together may love each other longer, according to new research.
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Researchers have exposed roundworms (a well-established model organism in biological research) to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of drugs used for treating depression and anxiety. Surprisingly, this treatment improved the quality of aging females' egg cells.
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What is long COVID? What are its symptoms? Can it be treated? Is it dangerous? Researchers have some answers, but it remains one of the pandemic’s great mysteries. Three years in, scientists still aren’t quite sure why some people get stuck with the syndrome and its cluster of debilitating symptoms long after their COVID-19 infection has cleared, while others breeze through and quickly return to
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There is a reason that NASA's Opportunity rover explored Mars's Meridiani Planum region for 14 years: The locale could hold crucial hints about the Red Planet's early geology and environment.
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Biden 30% tax
Death, Taxes, Crypto The White House is proposing a 30 percent tax on crypto mining operations, to better reflect the effects they're having on the environment. The "Digital Asset Mining Energy (DAME) excise tax" is meant to address the "economic and environmental costs of current practices for mining crypto assets," according to a new White House statement . "After a phase-in period, firms would
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May 4, 2023–– The Atlantic has hired Tyler Watson as executive vice president of marketing. Tyler joins The Atlantic from Condé Nast, where he was most recently global VP of production and activation and led a team that delivered over 800 marketing campaigns annually across industries. As EVP of marketing, Tyler will oversee commercial marketing at The Atlantic , including creative strategy, bran
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Updated at 2:07 p.m. ET on May 4, 2023 The subway is a commons, and every kind of public behavior is visible there. On the train are, inter alia, teenagers listening to music on their phone, babies wailing, hungry people wolfing down sandwiches from fast-food containers, lovers kissing, lovers quarreling, children whirling around poles, adults trying to corral them, panhandlers asking for money,
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Ted Lasso Season
Midway through watching “Sunflowers,” a nearly feature-length episode of Ted Lasso that juggles five separate plotlines, I wondered aloud, “When exactly did this show turn into a prestige drama?” Yes, the script still has plenty of jokes—though few of them deserve more than a low chuckle, and many characters are little more than caricatures. But as it’s continued to draw viewers and accolades for
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Imagine being able to predict how a group of people will behave before they even know it themselves. From the dynamics of a sports team to the complexities of a nation, the ability to anticipate human interactions has long been a goal of scientists and analysts. Now, a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories is pioneering a new approach to social analysis.
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Most chromosomes have been around for millions of years. Now, researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have revealed the dynamics of a new, very young chromosome in fruit flies that is similar to chromosomes that arise in humans and is associated with treatment-resistant cancer and infertility. The findings may one day lead to developing more targeted therapies for treating thes
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Storing data in DNA sounds like science fiction, yet it lies in the near future. Professor Tom de Greef expects the first DNA data center to be up and running within five to ten years. Data won't be stored as zeros and ones in a hard drive but in the base pairs that make up DNA: AT and CG. Such a data center would take the form of a lab, many times smaller than the ones today.
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Most chromosomes have been around for millions of years. Now, researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research have revealed the dynamics of a new, very young chromosome in fruit flies that is similar to chromosomes that arise in humans and is associated with treatment-resistant cancer and infertility. The findings may one day lead to developing more targeted therapies for treating thes
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Startups building chatbots tuned for emotionally engaged conversation say they can offer support, companionship—and even romance.
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‘Fascinating’ discovery could prove a useful non-invasive diagnostic tool to apply to other species, say scientists The vivid blue irises of northern gannets turn black if they survive avian flu, according to a study which provides evidence that some wild birds are shaking off the deadly virus. Avian flu has killed wild and domestic birds for decades but the current strain (H5N1) severely affecte
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A tiny microphone designed to replicate the way sound is processed in the inner ear could be used in hearing aids
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Heavy rain triggered by climate change is forecast to reduce rice production in China by 8 per cent by the end of the century
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Ultrasound chemotherapy brain
In the first in-human clinical trial, scientists used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously. This is potentially a huge advance for glioblastoma patients because the most potent chemotherapy can't permeate the blood-brain barrier to reach
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New guidance may help doctors correctly diagnose hoarding disorder. Hoarding disorder affects around 2% of the population but remains a largely misunderstood mental health condition. It was only added to the International Classification of Diseases in 2019, having previously been classified under Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The guidance is written by experts from Anglia Ruskin University
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Researchers find mutations of the Foxp2 gene disrupt the formation of synapses in the brain's striatum, which plays important roles in the control of movement, in mice. A new study sheds light on how Foxp2 controls speech production.
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A 'beautiful effect' predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a magnetar — a neutron star featuring a powerful magnetic field, according to an astrophysicist.
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The young star TW Hydrae is playing 'shadow puppets' with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In 2017, astronomers reported discovering a shadow sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding the red dwarf star. The shadow isn't from a planet, but from an inner disk slightly inclined relative to the much larger outer disk — causing it to ca
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Apnea Sleep sleep
Deep sleep might help buffer against memory loss for older adults facing a heightened burden of Alzheimer’s disease, new research suggests. Deep sleep, also known as non-REM slow-wave sleep, can act as a “cognitive reserve factor” that may increase resilience against a protein in the brain called beta- amyloid that is linked to memory loss caused by dementia. Disrupted sleep has previously been a
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In a world hungry for clean energy, engineers have created a new material that converts the simple mechanical vibrations all around us into electricity to power sensors in everything from pacemakers to spacecraft.
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drug reduces Alzheimer’s
The experimental treatment donanemab is now the second antibody drug to slow cognitive decline in people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease, but questions remain about its real-world benefits and safety
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Radio signals sent to NASA spacecraft could have already reached four neighbouring star systems, and if any aliens tried to respond, we might hear from them within a few years from now
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An international team of botanists, plant biologists and biochemists, has found an important pathway used by roses to produce their familiar sweet smell. In their study, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group tracked down the pathway that allows binding molecules to produce the chemicals required to create the aroma associated with roses.
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A huge amount of wildlife trade takes place on the internet. Online marketplaces, private forums and messaging apps make it easy to sell and buy live animals, plants and fungi digitally. University of Adelaide researchers investigated wildlife trading specifically on the dark web to understand potential impacts. Their findings have been published in People and Nature.
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The Steller's sea eagle is one of the largest and most aggressive raptors in the world. With an 8-foot wingspan and striking white markings, these birds tower over their bald eagle cousins.
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On May the Fourth, we celebrate Star Wars Day as we sort through the on-again, off-again relationship between the IP and such fields as physics and geology in Star Wars.
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Despite the eye-catching claim that large AI language models like ChatGPT have achieved theory of mind, some experts find their abilities lackluster.
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Plaintiffs from five environmental groups are suing the FAA to stop SpaceX's massive Starship rocket from launching until the conclusion of a yearslong investigation.
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A huge amount of wildlife trade takes place on the internet. Online marketplaces, private forums and messaging apps make it easy to sell and buy live animals, plants and fungi digitally. University of Adelaide researchers investigated wildlife trading specifically on the dark web to understand potential impacts. Their findings have been published in People and Nature.
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The Steller's sea eagle is one of the largest and most aggressive raptors in the world. With an 8-foot wingspan and striking white markings, these birds tower over their bald eagle cousins.
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A team led by Professor Virginijus Šikšnys from Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) determined the structure of TnpB using cryo-electron microscopy in collaboration with the group of Professor Guillermo Montoya at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR) at the University of Copenhagen.
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They're well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at "playing dead," a behavior that University of South Australia researchers believe is a recorded world first.
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A future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment
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SpaceX’s Starship launch site in southern Texas is now the subject of a lawsuit after the vehicle’s first flight caused concerning damage
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Most chromosomes have been around for millions of years. Now, researchers have revealed the dynamics of a new, very young chromosome in fruit flies that is similar to chromosomes that arise in humans and is associated with treatment-resistant cancer and infertility. The findings may one day lead to developing more targeted therapies for treating these conditions.
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Stone tools recovered from near the Senegalese coast extend occupation of the region back to 150 thousand years ago and are comparable to those seen across Africa at this time, but uniquely persist in the region until 10 thousand years ago.
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Large numbers can only be factorized with a great deal of computational effort. Physicists are now providing a blueprint for a new type of quantum computer to solve the factorization problem, which is a cornerstone of modern cryptography.
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Black Dragon vs. Riptide full fight! #discoveryplus #battlebots Stream Full Episodes of Battlebots https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/battlebots About Battlebots: Next-generation robots from all over the globe trade blows to reign supreme. The series highlights the design and build of each robot, bot-builder backstories and the pursuit of the BattleBots championship. Subscribe to Discovery: https
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01530-y US space agency plans to shift the New Horizons planetary probe to studying heliophysics, and some scientists don’t agree.
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On its surface, the unfolding debt-ceiling crisis looks a lot like the confrontation in 2011 between congressional Republicans and then-President Barack Obama. Once again, a new GOP majority in the House is using the threat of a national default as leverage to force a first-term Democratic president to agree to spending cuts in exchange for lifting the federal borrowing limit. A first-ever defaul
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Make it Work, Designers Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pivoting once again. But this time, his next venture is a lot more unexpected. Zuckerberg took to Instagram this week to reveal some dresses that he created for his daughters. According to the post, all he needed was a dream, some needle and thread, and — of course — a 3D printer. "I love building things and recently started designing and 3D pri
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Deep sleep, also known as non-REM slow-wave sleep, can act as a 'cognitive reserve factor' that may increase resilience against a protein in the brain called beta-amyloid that is linked to memory loss caused by dementia.
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Goldenhar syndrome is a rare congenital disease, affecting early fetal development. This syndrome includes malformations of varying severity, affecting different parts of the face. Its causes and modes of transmission are still poorly understood. An international collaboration has discovered that pathogenic variants of the FOXI3 gene — responsible for the development of the ear — cause one form
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Researchers discover a mechanism by which cancer cells escape the immune system.
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Those Transportation Security Administration requirements are drilled into every frequent flyer's head: You can carry on liquids that are only less than 3.4 ounces (100 milliliters) in volume each.
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A team led by Professor Virginijus Šikšnys from Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC) determined the structure of TnpB using cryo-electron microscopy in collaboration with the group of Professor Guillermo Montoya at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR) at the University of Copenhagen.
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They're well known for their industrious work, but now a species of ant on Kangaroo Island is also showing that it is skilled at "playing dead," a behavior that University of South Australia researchers believe is a recorded world first.
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The Netherlands, late 1944. After the liberation from the Nazis, there were still unexpected problems to solve. Trains and river transport were blocked by rivers that had frozen over so people found it more difficult to access food.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38344-5 Nanostructured platforms for efficient nonlinear optics are the building block of next generation integrated photonic devices. Here the authors provide a straightforward method to engineer the lattice symmetry of monolayer graphene, boosting the SHG signal at low temperature.
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The bulbous-eyed mudskipper could offer key clues about how our fishy ancestors first made the leap to land.
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In 2021, avian influenza evolved into a new form—a new and remarkably lethal variant first found in Europe.
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The internet has made it easier for people to buy and sell a huge variety of wildlife—from orchids, cacti and fungi to thousands of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as insects, corals and other invertebrates.
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Life on other worlds — if it exists — might be so alien as to be unrecognizable. There’s no guarantee that alien biology would use the same chemistries as on Earth, with familiar building blocks such as DNA and proteins. Scientists might even spot the signatures of such life forms without knowing they’re the work of biology. This problem is far from hypothetical. In April… Source
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Sensor High-Fidelity input
A new sensing system can turn couches, tables, sleeves, and the human body into a high-fidelity input device for computers. The sensing system repurposes technology from new bone-conduction microphones, known as Voice Pickup Units (VPUs), which detect only those acoustic waves that travel along the surface of objects. It works in noisy environments, along odd geometries such as toys and arms, and
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Researchers across disciplines combine layers of discovery obtained with accessible NGS-based multiomics approaches.
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Keenan Scott Il's passion for words, stories and superheroes fueled his journey to becoming a celebrated playwright, producer, director and actor. Showing how language can illuminate the superhero in all of us, Scott performs three spoken word pieces that seamlessly weave together literary devices like simile, assonance and slant rhyme, sharing the talent he's cultivated despite the obstacles (rea
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In 2021, avian influenza evolved into a new form—a new and remarkably lethal variant first found in Europe.
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The internet has made it easier for people to buy and sell a huge variety of wildlife—from orchids, cacti and fungi to thousands of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, as well as insects, corals and other invertebrates.
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A "beautiful effect" predicted by quantum electrodynamics (QED) can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a magnetar—a neutron star featuring a powerful magnetic field, according to a Cornell astrophysicist.
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Evidence from West Africa about human evolution remains scarce, but recent research has indicated unique patterns of cultural change in comparison to other regions of the continent. A new article in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution adds to our understanding with a study of the oldest directly dated archaeological site in West Africa. The site shows technological continuity spanning roughly
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Proteins that act like air traffic controllers, managing the flow of signals in and out of human cells, have been observed for the first time with unprecedented detail using advanced microscopy techniques.
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With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates due to climate change, invertebrates that live in the cold meltwater rivers of the European Alps will face widespread habitat loss, warn researchers.
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Atmospheric rivers—long, concentrated flows of moisture in the sky—are a key factor in the complex conditions accelerating glacial melting over northern Greenland, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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The Beatles famously sang, "Money can't buy me love," but married couples who manage their finances together may love each other longer, according to research from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
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In Florida alone, thousands of acres of marine seagrass beds have died. Major seagrass die-offs also are occurring around the world. Stressors such as high temperature, hypersalinity and hypoxia or lack of oxygen affect seagrasses' ability to resist and recover from these stressor-related mortality events or when disturbances lead to seagrass die-off events.
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Proteins that act like air traffic controllers, managing the flow of signals in and out of human cells, have been observed for the first time with unprecedented detail using advanced microscopy techniques.
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With glaciers melting at unprecedented rates due to climate change, invertebrates that live in the cold meltwater rivers of the European Alps will face widespread habitat loss, warn researchers.
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In Florida alone, thousands of acres of marine seagrass beds have died. Major seagrass die-offs also are occurring around the world. Stressors such as high temperature, hypersalinity and hypoxia or lack of oxygen affect seagrasses' ability to resist and recover from these stressor-related mortality events or when disturbances lead to seagrass die-off events.
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Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) have collaborated with scientists in the University of York to complete the first ever structural atlas of a crassvirus (also referred to as crassvirales, bacteriophage, crass-like phage)—the most abundant group of viruses in the human gut, which can play an important role in shaping the gut microbiome, impacting health and disease.
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When the seeds of plants such as pea and sunflower are biofortified with zinc, the seedlings they quickly produce—harvested as microgreens—could both help to mitigate global malnutrition and boost the odds of people surviving a catastrophe.
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Cultured meat is gaining momentum, with large production facilities under construction and the arduous approval process for the finished products inching forward . Most of the industry’s focus thus far has been on ground beef , chicken , pork , and steak . Save for one startup that was working on lab-grown salmon , fish have been largely left out of the fray. But last month an Israeli company cal
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Similar to humans, chimpanzees combine vocalizations into larger communicatively meaningful structures. UZH researchers suggest that this ability might be evolutionarily more ancient than previously thought.
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Depressive symptoms have decreased among older people and they are more satisfied with their lives so far than people at the same age three decades ago.
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Normal age-related changes in how we think, perceive and reason may increase the risk of older people viewing themselves through a negative and ageist lens, research suggests.
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A study in Florida Bay, one of the largest global contiguous seagrass systems, examined if a phytotoxin that accumulates as seagrass ecosystems become more enriched in nutrients prevents a marine seagrass, turtlegrass, from recruiting into open bare sediment following die-off events. While they do 'bounce back,' long-term monitoring indicates the timeframe for recovery after major die-off events i
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Using the Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope (NOWT), astronomers from China have performed a photometric survey of the old open cluster NGC 188. In result, they identified many variable stars, one of which was detected for the first time. The finding was reported April 25 on the arXiv pre-print repository.
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Researchers at APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) have collaborated with scientists in the University of York to complete the first ever structural atlas of a crassvirus (also referred to as crassvirales, bacteriophage, crass-like phage)—the most abundant group of viruses in the human gut, which can play an important role in shaping the gut microbiome, impacting health and disease.
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Meghan Hill is a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University. Hill has won first place in MSU's Council of Graduate Student's 3-Minute Thesis Competition and represented MSU at the regional Midwestern Association of Graduate School's thesis competition in Chicago. Most recently, she was awarded a dissertation completion fellowship through MSU's College
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In the near future, birth defects, traumatic injuries, limb loss, and perhaps even cancer could be cured through bioelectricity—electrical signals that communicate to our cells how to rebuild themselves. Michael Levin, a professor of biology at Tufts University and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, has tested this innovative idea on flatworms and frogs. Levi
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A radical new proposal wants the world to sign up to a deal to halt development of new oil, gas and coal fields. It is already backed by thousands of scientists and more than 70 city governments, says Graham Lawton
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When the seeds of plants such as pea and sunflower are biofortified with zinc, the seedlings they quickly produce—harvested as microgreens—could both help to mitigate global malnutrition and boost the odds of people surviving a catastrophe.
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A new show streaming on Apple TV+ creatively envisions how artificial intelligence, other advanced technologies and climate change might impact people's lives this century. In Extrapolations, Scott Burns—who produced Al Gore's 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth—tells the fictional and interconnected stories of several people living through climate collapse.
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A small team of chemists at the Russian Academy of Sciences, has found that metal atoms, not nanoparticles, play the key role in catalysts used in fine organic synthesis. In the study, reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the group used multiple types of electron microscopy to track a region of a catalyst during a reaction to learn more about how it was proceeding.
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Volcanic eruptions are spectacular, violent and dangerous. Large explosive eruptions can even have global impacts. To classify the size of volcanic eruptions, the magma volume and the deposition volume are determined. Volcanologists estimate these values in order to compare the size of different volcanic eruptions or to obtain a measure of the explosiveness of the eruption. However, it is often no
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Out of Harmony Talk about family drama. As Decrypt reports , an Ohio resident named Gary James Harmon was sentenced on Thursday to four years and three months in prison for stealing 712 Bitcoin from his brother, Larry Dean Harmon, back in 2020. At the time of the theft, the Bitcoin would have been worth a healthy $4.8 million. At the time of Gary Harmon's sentencing, though, coins' value had swel
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Planets might be more common throughout the universe than previously thought, results from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest
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A key feature of human language is our ability to combine words into larger compositional phrases, where the meaning of the whole is related to the meaning of the parts. Where this ability came from or how it evolved, however, is less clear.
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Mosses are some of the oldest land plants. They are found all over the world, from lush tropical rainforests to the driest deserts, and even the wind-swept hills of Antarctica.
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A key feature of human language is our ability to combine words into larger compositional phrases, where the meaning of the whole is related to the meaning of the parts. Where this ability came from or how it evolved, however, is less clear.
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Mosses are some of the oldest land plants. They are found all over the world, from lush tropical rainforests to the driest deserts, and even the wind-swept hills of Antarctica.
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#shorts #goldrushparkerstrail #discoveryplus From: Discovery
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A programme to increase electric vehicle adoption in California increased air pollution in lower-income communities and communities of colour – groups that are less likely to own electric cars
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When medical companies manufacture the pills and tablets that treat any number of illnesses, aches, and pains, they need to isolate the active pharmaceutical ingredient from a suspension and dry it. The process requires a human operator to monitor an industrial dryer, agitate the material, and watch for the compound to take on the right qualities for compressing into medicine. The job depends heav
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38120-5 Ion gradients power the neurotransmitter transport by brain glutamate transporters. Here, the authors report cryo-EM structures of the EAAT3 transporter isoform with and without the ions and the neurotransmitter, revealing the coupling mechanisms.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38123-2 Facility-level analysis of green H2- based steel production demonstrates co-location of high-quality renewables and iron ore resources is imperative for cost minimisation.
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surgery brain first
She doesn’t know it yet, but a baby girl living somewhere near Boston has made history. The seven-week-old is one of the first people to have undergone an experimental brain operation while still in the womb. It might have saved her life. Before she was born, this little girl developed a dangerous condition that led blood to pool in a 14-millimeter-wide pocket in her brain. The condition could ha
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Exotic animal cafes have been rapidly growing in popularity. But conservationists and scholars alike question their safety.
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This new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows interacting galaxies known as AM 1214-255. These galaxies contain active galactic nuclei, or AGNs. An AGN is an extraordinarily luminous central region of a galaxy. Its extreme brightness is caused by matter whirling into a supermassive black hole at the galaxy's heart.
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GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in NOAA's GOES-R Series, recently completed a successful test deployment of its solar array to ensure it will function properly in space.
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Developing an allergy to your dog or cat can be a nightmare, but hyposensitization could offer permanent relief
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Big recent trends of CEOs of the companies admitting that they are going to cut costs by firing people who are white-collar college educated like HR, middle-management, and maybe even average and low performing employees in other white collar sectors will be replaced by AI. The shortage of trade jobs lead to higher wages. In fact, it may cause a sudden huge shift for high school kids to no longer
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With recent extreme weather events happening in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, new research published in Nature Geoscience aims to improve predictions of heavy rainfall and provide the public with earlier warnings so they can prepare for extreme weather events.
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EU’s sundhedsmyndighed fremhæver effekterne af øget covid-19-overvågning, analyse og digitalisering – og efterspørger mere international informationsudveksling.
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The longer a person’s telomeres, researchers found, the greater the risk of cancer and other disorders, challenging a popular hypothesis about the chromosomal roots of vitality.
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The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.
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Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) can be an ideal platform for detecting or extracting metal ions due to their different functional building units and large surface area.
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Quantification of carbon isotopic composition (δ13C) of CO2 can trace the source of carbon, which is significant for studying the evolution process of geological fluids, constraining the global carbon budget, and clarifying the mechanism of biological metabolism.
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A novel, non-invasive treatment using electrical currents exploits physiological properties of dividing cancer cells to prolong survival and augment current therapies.
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Champagne bubbles' scientific discovery
New research explains why bubbles in Champagne fizz up in a straight line while bubbles in other carbonated drinks, like beer or soda, don’t. The findings are based on a series of numerical and physical experiments, including, of course, pouring out glasses of Champagne, beer, sparkling water, and sparkling wine. The results not only explain what gives Champagne its line of bubbles but may hold i
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38255-5 Vandenberg et al. identify differing roles of yeast DNA polymerases during accurate and mutagenic synthesis past common and rare ultraviolet light photoproducts. Similar mechanisms may contribute to driver mutations causing skin cancer in humans.
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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. Geoffrey Hinton talks about the “existential threat” of AI Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton announced on Monday that he was stepping down from his role as an AI researcher at Google after a decade with the company. He says he wants to speak freely as he g
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Researchers in Singapore have developed the world's smallest LED (light-emitting diode) that enables the conversion of existing mobile phone cameras into high-resolution microscopes. Smaller than the wavelength of light, the new LED was used to build the world's smallest holographic microscope, paving the way for existing cameras in everyday devices such as mobile phones to be converted into micro
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Researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have measured the masses of several key nuclei with high precision by employing the most advanced storage-ring mass spectrometry technique. Using the new data, they investigated X-ray bursts on the surface of a neutron star, setting constraints on the properties of neutron stars fr
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Researchers in Germany and the U.S. have shown for the first time that terahertz (THz) light pulses can stabilize ferromagnetism in a crystal at temperatures more than three times its usual transition temperature. As the team reports in Nature, using pulses just hundreds of femtoseconds long (a millionth of a billionth of a second), a ferromagnetic state was induced at high temperature in the rare
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Large numbers can only be factorized with a great deal of computational effort. Physicists at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, led by Wolfgang Lechner are now providing a blueprint for a new type of quantum computer to solve the factorization problem, which is a cornerstone of modern cryptography. The research was recently published in Communications Physics.
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Nature, Published online: 03 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01534-8 The neurological causes of menopause, the month’s best science images and an AI-powered brain scan that can decode imagined speech.
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S unny Bryant is only 9 years old—but already an old hand at testifying before lawmakers. The youngster from Houston was 4 when she first asked her mother, “Why did you make me a boy? I wanted to be a girl,” as she was being strapped into a car seat. Since then, Sunny and her mother have spoken at the Texas legislature at least five times, entering the political spotlight amid a nationwide surge
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Photographs by Phyllis B. Dooney O ne Tuesday this past fall, Senior Police Officer Terry Cherry was struggling to connect with some 75 bleary Clemson University students doing their best to stay awake and not make eye contact with the day’s guest speaker. Cherry, who packs a lot of ebullience and authority into a short frame, was deploying nearly all of it to get their attention. “Who here wants
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What does it mean to speak without the hope of a response? To address someone who cannot or will not hear you, who cannot or will not reply? The first three full-length novels by the South Korean writer Han Kang to appear in English pose these questions with an uncompromising starkness. All three books stage conversations hauntingly out of joint, severed dialogues that yearn toward impossible com
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Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. Seattle has gone through several big transformations in the past few decades. Today, it is known for Amazon, Microsoft, fancy coffee, and enormous fortunes. In the 1990s, it was a cool destination for countercultural 20-somethings who liked grunge rock. In the ’60s and ’70s, it was a remote, rai
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Illustrations by Vartika Sharma In October of 1858, John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet, were traveling near Avignon, France. She developed a cough, which seemed like just a minor inconvenience, until it got worse. Soon Harriet was racked with pain, not able to sleep or even lie down. Mill frantically wrote to a doctor in Nice, begging him to come see her. Three days later her condition had wo
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Medication treatment for heroin addiction has come a long way since its pioneer died. But what would she think of the field today?
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No matter the genre or location, these gadgets will upgrade your experience.
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Bluesky Explained Twitter
This week, we discuss the still-in-beta social platform the internet elite are buzzing—and skeeting—about.
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The technique may finally be emerging as a way to preserve species at risk of extinction.
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I know this wasn’t the purpose of sending up a €4.3bn satellite into geostationary orbit, but tweaking flat earthers is a fun side effect. European countries have collaborated on this project, having weather satellites in orbit since 1977. The latest iteration is Meteostat-12, which was launched in December and is now in orbit 36,000 km above the equator. This means it will have a constant view o
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Mounjaro weight loss
From how well they work to side effects such as hair loss, here’s the skinny on new weight loss injections that work by blocking a hormone that normally reduces appetite
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An outburst of 'shooting stars' from Halley's Comet could result in a dazzling Eta Aquarid meteor shower on May 5 and 6 — if the full moon doesn't get in the way.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38067-7 Inert C–C bond cleavage remains a challenge in organic chemistry. Herein, the authors report a retro-Diels-Alder process via palladium catalysis to achieve selective C(alkyl)–C(vinyl) bond cleavage.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38165-6 In NAFLD, high levels of fatty acids in the liver impair lysosomal acidification. Here, the authors report the synthesis of novel biodegradable acid-activated acidifying nanoparticles that re-acidify lysosomes, restore autophagy, and reverse fasting hyperglycemia and hepatic steatosis in fat mice.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38239-5 Noradrenergic and mesenchymal cell states have been proposed in neuroblastoma, but their contributions to the tumour are not clearly understood. Here, the authors used in vitro and in vivo models, as well as single-cell RNA-seq, to characterise noradrenergic and mesenchymal cells and their phenotypic plasticity i
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Nature, Published online: 02 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01519-7 COVID outbreaks are evolving from waves to ‘wavelets’, the science behind cloud-seeding efforts in Mexico and how solar panels are helping to shelter citrons from climate change.
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De rör sig långsamt, äter mellis och tvekar att korsa farliga älvar. Den stora älgvandringen följs av en hängiven tv-publik. Forskaren Erica von Essen vill nu ta reda på varför vilda djur väcker tittarnas engagemang. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Hidden beneath the surface of the treasured strawberry is a unique branch of the evolutionary tree, where eight sets of chromosomes are better than two
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Folketinget er gået et skridt videre med en af de mest komplicerede jernbaneopgaver siden Signalprogrammet.
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Regeringen vil afsætte milliarder til at lappe hullerne efter årtiers besparelser og hårdt slid på både soldater og materiel.
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Star May Wars
The decade after The Force Awakens was shaky. With a batch of films and shows on the way, the franchise is making more adventurous moves.
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This Star Wars Day, it’s time to figure out how these iconic flying machines work, and if there’s anything like them on Earth.
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The social network has survived by rebuilding itself from the ground up several times. Its latest project aims to help users with ChatGPT-like “copilots.”
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The funniest show you’re probably not watching kicks off its third season this week on HBO Max.
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Looking for discounts on all things Skywalker, Vader, Fett, and Grogu? This is the way.
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06115-3
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06126-0
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A vein of Galen malformation is a condition that can place pressure on a fetus’s heart and lungs and deprive the brain of oxygen. Surgeons corrected this type of blood vessel problem in a fetus for the first time
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A cognitive philosopher explains how prediction, rather than perception, is the mind’s secret weapon Do we see the world directly, or do we make some of it up? It was the great 19th-century scientist Hermann von Helmholtz who first argued that some unconscious process of logical reasoning must be inherent in optical and auditory perception. That insight was rediscovered in the late 20th century,
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I en studie fick ett litet antal patienter med typ 2-diabetes markant bättre långtidssocker när de behandlades med hög dos av ett potensmedel. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. Sometimes, as a reporter following climate technology, I feel like I have a front-row seat for some of the hottest topics on the planet. That’s how I’ve felt watching the news about solar geoengineering unfold over the past several months. Thanks to a few b
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Brain first surgery
A vein of Galen malformation is a condition that can place pressure on a foetus’s heart and lungs and deprive the brain of oxygen. Surgeons corrected this type of blood vessel in a foetus for the first time
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A rise in antisocial behaviour indicates covid-19 lockdowns disrupted our cultural evolution, says Jonathan R. Goodman
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Middle US China
E ver since the defeat of Japan in World War II nearly 80 years ago, the United States has been the preeminent military power in East Asia. Today China is on the verge of matching or even eclipsing the U.S. military’s presence in the region, having marshaled its newly acquired wealth and technological prowess to expand the scale and capabilities of its armed forces. The military balance between t
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Jamie Beard is pouring everything into a singular vision: Tap into the awesome potential of geothermal power in Texas, and beyond. She has no time to lose.
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The lancetfish, one of the biggest species to roam the deep ocean, sometimes appears ashore along the West Coast, baffling scientists.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38298-8
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37816-y Syntax is a key feature distinguishing human language from other animal communication systems. Here, Leroux et al. show that chimpanzees produce a compositional syntactic-like structure, suggesting syntax might be evolutionary ancient and potentially already present in our last common ancestor with chimpanzees.
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The lancetfish, one of the biggest species to roam the deep ocean, sometimes appears ashore along the West Coast, baffling scientists.
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Tesla AI Kill
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Det er et spørgsmål om vaner at skifte til elbil. Det samme gør sig gældende, når man skal omlægge verdens største flåde af lastbiler.
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No one wants to end a long-term friendship – but sometimes a rift is unavoidable. Experts suggest the most ethical ways to approach the conversation In a recent viral video, New York psychologist Arianna Brandolini was called “callous” by some after she posted a TikTok guide to breaking up with a friend. While she claimed that phrases such as “I’ve treasured our season of friendship” and “I have
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AI security Cybersecurity
The White House will support an event at the Defcon security conference this summer that challenges experts to uncover flaws in generative AI systems.
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Our view of the constellations has changed since they were first mapped thousands of years ago. That new perspective could also mess with your horoscope. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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Hundreder af millioner af mennesker ser med, når kong Charles krones lørdag. De britiske tv-billeder bliver for første gang sendt over et privat 5G-netværk. som danske TV 2 har hjulpet BBC med at implementere.
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Rumfartsingeniør med amerikansk baggrund advarer mod ‘amerikanske tilstande’ i dansk forskning, hvor militærindustrien er på vej mod større indflydelse.
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Öringar är på tillbakagång i södra Sverige, men ökar i norr. Klimatförändringarna med fler värmeböljor och torrperioder riskerar att förstärka trenden, enligt en studie. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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The next time NASA goes to the Moon, it intends to stay. Under the Artemis program, the US space agency plans to maintain a human presence, for the very first time, on a celestial body other than Earth.
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Sound can't normally travel from beneath water's surface to the air above due to a mismatch in densities, but a new material changes that
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For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where mountain lions have been studied for two decades, the National Park Service said Wednesday.
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A new study, published in the journal Environmental Research: Health, reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are twice as likely to die prematurely from smoke exposure due to wildfires than the broader South American population. Regions in Peru, Bolivia and Brazil are identified as particular hotspots for smoke exposure, with mortality rates rising to as high as 6 times that of the gen
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For the first time, researchers have captured and radio-collared a bear in the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles where mountain lions have been studied for two decades, the National Park Service said Wednesday.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38243-9 LPL hydrolyzes triglycerides from lipoproteins. LPL can adopt many oligomeric forms. Here, the authors solve a 3.9 Å cryoEM structure of the previously uncharacterized LPL dimer. Key features include a C-terminal dimerization interface and a hydrophobic pore next to the active site.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38314-x We know that nutrition and obesity can impact male fertility, but specific dietary guidelines for men trying to conceive don’t exist. Here the authors show that diet composition is likely more important than body fat in influencing reproductive traits and each macronutrient has different impacts.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38103-6 Both plant and animals utilize resistant proteins to recognise pathogens. In this work the authors illustrate how bacterial perception by a tomato resistant protein is communicated in order to protect plants against pathogens.
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Under Valborg genomfördes Vårkollen, då allmänheten rapporterar vårtecken som forskare sedan analyserar. , konstaterar forskarna. Så här är läget för bland annat björk, sälg, tussilago och blåsippa. Inlägget Våren 2023 är historiskt sen dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Att rekrytera artrospatienter med mycket smärta till kliniska studier, kan ge felaktigt resultat om forskaren inte tar hänsyn till den naturliga smärtvariationen som förekommer. En forskargrupp från Lunds universitet uppmärksammar nu fallgroparna i forskningsstudier kring artros.
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Having escaped Boko Haram, internally displaced people now face the threat of rain as destructive storms, fueled by a warming climate, swamp settlement camps. Researchers say government planners have the tools to reduce such climate risk — but are doing too little to take those hazards into account.
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Open access notables In connection with "how do we feed ourselves without disrupting the climate," Research needs for a food system transition by Sunala Shukli McDermid and coauthors and published in Climatic Change first reviews what we've learned of impacts from our agriculture and in particular animal husbandry on Earth systems, including climate. The review's conclusion remains familiar: ther
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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Bob Henson Nothing has a bigger influence on year-to-year variations in the global climate than the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, commonly called ENSO. And the tropical waters at the heart of ENSO aren’t behaving exactly as climate scientists expected they would in a warming world, with potentially major implications for Atlantic hurricane season
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38296-w This study presents constraints on seismic anisotropy properties in western-central Tibet, revealing pronounced north-directed basal shearing beneath the rifts in the southern plateau that sheds light on the cause of syncontractional extension there.
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For example a copywriter will not be hired for copywriting creativity but more for keying in overall marketing idea and selecting the best AI suggestion. So a copywriter worth and salary will be reduced greatly. Similarly for many other professions from accountants to designers. submitted by /u/grampa55 [link] [comments]
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38197-y The distribution of dihedral angles in film state has significant influence on excited state lifetimes of thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters. Here authors report conformation distribution confinement strategy to achieve fast spin-flipping for efficient organic light-emitting diodes.
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Da en række britiske kolonier efter 2. verdenskrig begyndte at kræve selvstændighed, blev…
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Drawing closer to first light.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38286-y Artificial spin ices consist of small magnets arranged in a lattice. Their simplicity belies their rich behaviour; they allowed for the investigation of effective magnetic monopoles, and more recently have been suggested as promising platforms for neuromorphic computing. For this latter function, efficient readou
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38228-8 Boronic acids are promising catalysts for the direct functionalization of alcohols without requiring precious metals. Here, the authors report an easily synthesized class of cyclic hemiboronic acid catalysts which are applicable in both nucleophilic and electrophilic modes of alcohol activation.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38311-0 Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare genetic disorder that is associated with a higher risk of skin cancer. Here, the authors analyse the genomes of skin cancers from patients across five different XP groups, revealing genetic and molecular factors related to the mutational profile and UV-related mutagenesis in X
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I took it once and got an 8/14, I didn't know if I was prepared or not after I got done. I felt like maybe I wasn't paying attention enough or I just hated the idea of that I'm not even average at doing it(I did the Cambridge test earlier and I was not even in the average spot even though it felt ridiculously to me to be THAT bad), or more importantly not having a "special quirk" of some kind sin
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AI non-invasive mind
For the first time, researchers have found a way to non-invasively translate a person’s thoughts into text. Using fMRI scans and an AI-based decoder trained on a precursor to ChatGPT, the system can reconstruct brain activity to interpret the gist of a story someone is listening to, watching or even just imagining telling. Ian Sample speaks to one of the team behind the breakthrough, the neuroscie
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AI non-invasive mind
For the first time, researchers have found a way to non-invasively translate a person’s thoughts into text. Using fMRI scans and an AI-based decoder trained on a precursor to ChatGPT, the system can reconstruct brain activity to interpret the gist of a story someone is listening to, watching or even just imagining telling. Ian Sample speaks to one of the team behind the breakthrough, the neurosci
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38101-8 Repression of gene expression contributes to lineage-specific transcriptional signatures. Here Lackner et al. demonstrate that the Erf-NCoR1/2 complex controls trophoblast differentiation by linking signalling with transcriptional repression
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Nature Communications, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38177-2 Pulmonary fibrosis results from dysregulated lung repair, but the role of endothelial cells (EC) in fibrosis is unclear. Here, the authors show that FOXF1/R-Ras signalling in EC inhibits profibrotic mediators and that ECspecific nanoparticle FOXF1 gene therapy decreases lung fibrosis in mice.
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01518-8 Fruit-fly cells use previously unknown complex cellular structures to store phosphate, a molecule essential to life
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Til søs, på motorvejen og i luften er den bundne opgave at udfase diesel og flybenzin til fordel for el, brint og andre grønne alternativer. Hvordan kan du høre i denne temaudgave af Transformator.
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Brint og brændselsceller blev længe udråbt som en løsning på den grønne omstilling for den tunge vejtransport. Men markedet rykker sig.
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Morocco plans to send renewable energy to Europe, but some want it to save it for its home market.
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In US will be Billionares, millionares , government officials ? and in non democratic countries like China for example common people will have acess to this tech or only top tier members of comunist party ? ordinary/middle to low class people will ever get acess to this tech ? I would love to know what you guys think about this subject I am kind of pessimistic about this, because generally people
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Fate Therapeutics 2023
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01483-2 New analysis of genomic data from market swabs highlights their limitations.
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NatureScot warned there are likely too few pure-bred Scottish wildcats for the population to be viable.
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Scientists El Spike
"The world should prepare."
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This is what fate has in store for us.
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Eli Lilly drug
This gives hope.
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How are you sleeping? A new study has found the transition from daylight saving time to standard time, when one hour is gained overnight, was associated with a brief increase in sleep disorders such as difficulty going to sleep or staying asleep, but there was no such association when an hour is lost in the change from standard time to daylight saving time. The study also found a small difference
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A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously unexplored 500 million-year-old Grand Canyon formation: The Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. The newly named rock layer has lain hidden in plain sight throughout the Grand Canyon for millennia, but — until now — geologists had not named it or studied it in detail.
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Researchers have developed a new high-speed way to detect the location, size and category of multiple objects without acquiring images or requiring complex scene reconstruction. Because the new approach greatly decreases the computing power necessary for object detection, it could be useful for identifying hazards while driving.
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Vibrations vibrations IoT
In a world hungry for clean energy, engineers have created a new material that converts the simple mechanical vibrations all around us into electricity to power sensors in everything from pacemakers to spacecraft.
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eliminating HIV gene-editing
Gene-editing therapy aimed at two targets — HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, and CCR5, the co-receptor that helps the virus get into cells — can effectively eliminate HIV infection, new research shows. The study combines a dual gene-editing strategy with antiretroviral drugs to cure animals of HIV-1.
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Nature, Published online: 03 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01462-7 A plant used as medicine by South African peoples could be a source of some of the ingredients in the marijuana plant.
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Nature, Published online: 03 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01463-6 Younger and older people gained greater protection if they had their jabs in the middle of the day.
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Sweat is more than just a sign of a good workout. It holds vital information about our health, providing clues to dehydration, fatigue, blood sugar levels and even serious conditions such as cystic fibrosis, diabetes and heart failure. Researchers have taken a giant leap forward in sweat analysis with an innovative 3D-printed wearable sweat sensor called the 'sweatainer.'
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New findings in color vision research imply that humans can perceive a greater range of blue tones than monkeys do. Distinct connections found in the human retina may indicate recent evolutionary adaptations for sending enhanced color vision signals from the eye to the brain.
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Attack Kremlin Russia
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. Two drones struck inside the Kremlin complex early this morning. We don’t know exactly what happened, but the Russian claims of a Ukrainian attack are doubtful. Russia may now have a domestic-terrorist
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electric car California’s
A programme to increase electric vehicle adoption in California increased air pollution in lower-income communities and communities of colour – groups that are less likely to own electric cars
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Major Win In a historic step for outsourced tech labor, over 150 African content moderators — whose work has underpinned AI systems at Facebook, TikTok, and OpenAI — have voted to unionize, Time reports . The newly minted African Content Moderators Union is entirely made up of current and former employees of third-party moderation contractors, according to the report. Those contractors include a
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