The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers?
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The scientist was Geoffrey Hinton , and the bombshell was the news that he was leaving Google, where he had been doing great work on machine learning for the last 10 years, because he wanted to be free to express his fears about where the technology he had played a seminal role in founding was heading.
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Many researchers thought butterflies first evolved in Asia, but a global genetic analysis suggests they arose in North America, well before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct
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Experts say neighbourhood varieties will suit an area’s pollinators, and that caution is needed when buying generic seed mixes Gardeners hoping to establish a wildflower patch in their gardens should be wary of generic seed mixes and stick to local blooms to best serve wild pollinators, experts have said. Conservationists are urging people to source not just native wildflowers but to find out wha
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Newly discovered species with vivid orange and black markings named for evil ruler of Mordor to pique interest in conservation Researchers have uncovered a new genus of butterfly, with distinctive orange wings and dark eyespots. It is a striking appearance that has led the international team to label the genus Saurona, after Sauron, the evil lord of Mordor whose all-seeing fiery eye brought terro
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Homo sapiens forced out Neanderthals between 54,000 and 42,000 years ago, according to controversial new research It took three separate waves of modern humans to colonise Europe between 54,000 and 42,000 years ago. That is the key conclusion of scientists who have been studying caves in the Rhone valley where they have discovered evidence that Homo sapiens had to make a trio of determined attemp
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Many countries and territories have malaria-free status, however, this may be very difficult to achieve in parts of Africa where the parasite is endemic
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by John Mason & BaerbelW, Skeptical Science , Apr 18, 2023 Google Promised to Defund Climate Lies, but the Ads Keep Coming by Nico Grant and Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, May 2, 2023 YouTube's Climate Denial Dollars by Climate Action Against Disinformation Coalition, Friends of the Earth, May 2
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Although the acute phase of the pandemic may have passed, experts agree that the virus’s effects will remain profound The global public emergency caused by Covid-19 may be officially over but the pandemic will still be with us for many years.
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It set us apart from all other species.
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Med et kvart århundrede på bagen er forskning i metalorganisk netværk ved at rykke fra grundforskning til praktisk anvendelse.
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A tiny, orange Brazilian tree frog may be the first known amphibian pollinator, further broadening our understanding of which animals perform this crucial biological function
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Young schizophrenia men
A huge Danish study shows that up to 30 percent of psychosis diagnoses in young men could have been prevented if these individuals hadn’t used marijuana heavily
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Young children are taking melatonin gummy supplements, but experts say they should be a last resort to help with sleep
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A thought experiment that’s dividing mathematicians can help illuminate how belief shapes rational decisions
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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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Developing an allergy to your dog or cat can be a nightmare, but hyposensitization could offer permanent relief
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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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Lañilawal, a Patagonian cypress that may be one of the oldest trees on Earth, needs greater protection if scientists are to understand its secrets of survival, an environmental scientist says
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’Tis the season for hordes of blue jellyfishlike creatures to wash up on California beaches
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New results from a U.A.E. orbiter suggest Mars’s moons may be pieces of the planet. A Japanese mission will tell us for sure
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Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions
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New technology gleans the gist of stories a person hears while laying in a brain scanner
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The Comstock Act is part of a federal case over access to abortion pills. A historical science-fiction writer weighs in on the legacy of 19th-century prudishness
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The genome of the 1920s Siberian husky Balto suggests that greater genetic diversity and less inbreeding contribute to better health
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These elements, dubbed “UNICORNs,” sit close to genes that affect smell, sleep and ways that people and other mammals interact with their surroundings
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California blackworms make a contribution to the math and physics of knot tying by demoing twisting motions that help them escape a tangled worm ball
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New research attempts to discern how bizarre particles of strange matter form in the nuclei of atoms
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A severe drought that has led to near-famine conditions in the Horn of Africa would not have happened without the influence of climate change, a new analysis finds
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Afghanistan’s rare and majestic woodlands can’t shake the echoes of war, desperation and poverty
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With an apparent crash, the HAKUTO-R mission from the private space exploration company ispace has joined a long list of failed moon landers
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The first timekeeping devices were probably natural materials lost to the ages, but the ancient Egyptians were the first to leave records of their timekeeping methods
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We think about what a penguin is like in dozens of different ways—one reason why we often talk past each other
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A gas giant planet’s youthful glow could explain major differences between its four largest satellites
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The genus is named Saurona, as marks on the insect's wings look like the all-seeing eye in Tolkien's books.
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Have you started to feel the impact of image generation AIs? I saw some YouTube videos that used AI pictures. In the coming years there will be a graphic explosion. submitted by /u/Pavancurt [link] [comments]
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Did we create a 'new normal'?
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The Italian tourism ministry thought it had a sure-fire way to bring travelers into the country: turning a 15th century art icon into a 21st century "virtual influencer."
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Finally, a robot vacuum has something I never knew I wanted: an air freshener!
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The challenge: Transport 100 people and 3000 Kg of cargo (we allow an arbitrary max of 30 kg of cargo weight here) from Sweden to Los Angeles for less than 1500 Euro/Dollars. Current fastest time with petrol airplane is 15 hours. How close can one get to that, today? Trains: Let's be generous, assume all train lines active today are loaded with the fastest high-speed train used today, and the sam
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I've been reading up on how our future work landscape might shift as we transition to a post-work society. One intriguing idea that caught my attention is the emergence of decentralized and distributed organizations, like cooperatives and self-governing communities. These models seem to offer an alternative to traditional top-down hierarchies, potentially fostering greater collaboration, autonomy
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A tiny, orange Brazilian tree frog may be the first known amphibian pollinator, further broadening our understanding of which animals perform this crucial biological function
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Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp.
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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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Chloroplasts’ choreography keeps plant cells powered
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Bacteria with artificial hydrogel skeletons could be used as tiny robots
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The genome of the 1920s Siberian husky Balto suggests that greater genetic diversity and less inbreeding contribute to better health
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These elements, dubbed “UNICORNs,” sit close to genes that affect smell, sleep and ways that people and other mammals interact with their surroundings
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California blackworms make a contribution to the math and physics of knot tying by demoing twisting motions that help them escape a tangled worm ball
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Lengthening days set off a cascade of events in migratory birds that culminates in the birth of a clutch of chicks
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Researchers close in on a taxonomic home for one of paleontology’s weirdest wonders, the Tully Monster
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Just two genes get tiny synthetic cells moving, offering clues to life’s evolution
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A microbial discovery could help guide the search for life beyond Earth
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Hibernating brown bears avoid the blood clots that can develop in even temporarily immobile people. Scientists now think they know how the animals do it
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Charles King crowned
Britain crowned a new monarch today, holding its first set-piece coronation ceremony in 70 years. In London’s Westminster Abbey, Charles III and his wife, Camilla, were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the other Commonwealth realms. Despite the rainy weather, crowds of well-wishers (and a few protesters) gathered outside along the Mall and in
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34530-z
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Why some people evolved the ability to digest milk in adulthood hasn't been clear, but the extra calories that young children got may have been key
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Scientists investigate a fatal shark attack that happened on Christmas Eve in central California. #discoveryplus #sharkweek Stream Full Episodes of Shark Week https://www.discoveryplus.com/dp/shark-week About Shark Week: From Dawn of the Monster Mako to The Haunting of Shark Tower, you can stream all Shark Week shows right now. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About Disc
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38309-8 Support Brønsted acid strength and density play important kinetically relevant roles in low temperature NH3-SCR over Cu-exchanged small pore zeolite catalysts. Here the authors demonstrate Brønsted acid sites facilitate hydrolysis and intercage transfer of CuII(NH3)4 intermediates.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38378-9 Genomic landscape studies of malignant germ cell tumors (GCTs) that occur in children, adolescents and young adults are limited. Here the authors perform multi-omics profiling of different types of GCTs across the age spectrum from 0–24 years and show that WNT signalling pathway is activated in GCTs and is associ
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38333-8 Integration and comparison of multiple single cell sequencing datasets can be used to compare different studies. Here the authors propose MetaTiME which compares the gene expression of single cells from the tumour microenvironment across different tumours and uses transportable labels and metacomponents to annota
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King Charles coronation
Sometimes the scriptwriters of reality are a little too on the nose. The British throne, the centerpiece of today’s coronation of Charles III, not only houses a sacred artifact forcibly removed from its owners—the Stone of Destiny, taken from the Scots by Edward I in 1296—but is covered in schoolboy graffiti. According to one scrawl from 1800, someone named “P. Abbott” once slept in it. The Coron
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34368-5
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33936-z
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34522-z
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34520-1
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-33342-5
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34271-z Identification of sequence mutations in Phytophthora cactorum genome associated with mefenoxam resistance and development of a molecular assay for the mutant detection in strawberry ( F. × ananassa )
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34542-9
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34533-w Possible origins and implications of atypical morphologies and domestication-like traits in wild golden jackals ( Canis aureus )
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Researchers show that the migratory locust Locusta migratoria produces the compound phenylacetonitrile (PAN) to defend itself against feeding attacks by conspecifics as population density increases. Cannibalism rates increased in locusts that could no longer produce PAN. The researchers also identified the odor receptor for PAN in the locusts. They showed in animals with a PAN receptor that was no
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Captain Jack's pot gets destroyed by a trawler! #discoveryplus #deadliestcatch Stream Full Episodes of Deadliest Catch https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/deadliest-catch About Deadliest Catch: Crab fishermen risk their lives as they battle Arctic weather, brutal waves and a ticking clock for big money in this modern-day gold rush on the Bering Sea. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/
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Scurrying Centipede robots
Intrigued to see if the many limbs could be helpful for locomotion in this world, a team of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians are using this style of movement to their advantage. They developed a new theory of multilegged locomotion and created many-legged robotic models, discovering the robot with redundant legs could move across uneven surfaces without any additional sensing or control t
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Geoffrey Hinton Tells Us Why He’s Now Scared of the Tech He Helped Build Will Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review “Hinton says that the new generation of large language models—especially GPT-4, which OpenAI released in March—has made him realize that machines are on track to be a lot smarter than he thought they’d be. And he’s scared about how that might play out. ‘Thes
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Hangxiety may sound like a made-up term. But is it a real thing? Find out why hangovers may actually feel worse to some people.
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For the first time, scientists have caught a star in the act of swallowing a planet—not just a nibble or bite, but one big gulp.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38252-8 Astrocytes can influence several steps of the metastatic process in the brain. Here the authors show that type I interferon response in astrocytes facilitates brain metastasis by increasing recruitment of tumor promoting monocytic myeloid cells.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38324-9 Long-read single-cell RNA isoform sequencing can elucidate the intricate landscape of alternative RNA splicing in individual cells, but it suffers from a low read throughput. Here, the authors develop circular consensus sequencing methods to allow high-throughput and high-accuracy single-cell RNA isoform sequenci
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A gap exists between the academic discussions surrounding AI and the likely reality of it's inception. Failure to address this gap means that all the philosophical discussion concerning how best to control AI is wasted. The problem isn't just that we aren't sure how to keep an AI aligned with human interests, it is largely that we will instruct an AI to do heinous things. Aligned with what exactl
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La ciencia moderna sugiere que nosotros y todos nuestros logros y recuerdos estamos destinados a desaparecer como un sueño. ¿Eso es triste o bueno?
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. In a 1996 book, the philosopher Herbert Fingarette argued that fearing one’s own death was irrational. When you die, “there is nothing,” he wrote. Why should we fear death if we won’t even be around
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Plus: Apple and Google plan to stop AirTag stalking, Meta violated the FTC’s privacy order, and how to tell if your car is tracking you.
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An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years.
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Kids in America Associate director of Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Robert Reich threw absolute daggers this week when, while speaking to Esquire about the newness of the AI industry and how that impacts its relationship to ethics, he likened those in the burgeoning field to actual children. "AI researchers are more like late-stage teenagers," Reich told Esquire
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TikTok Watched Gay
Rainbow Listed A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's alleged practice of keeping a list of users who watched gay content for at least a year. As the Wall Street Journal reports , employees became concerned about the alleged list because it could be used to identify LGBTQ users and, if leaked or provided to hostile governments, could put those users at risk. Social
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losses $540 ChatGPT
Big Spender OpenAI, the Elon Musk-founded research firm behind ChatGPT, is apparently hemorrhaging money on the game-changing chatbot that put it on the map. People familiar with the company's losses confirmed to The Information that OpenAI spent upwards of $540 million last year while developing its widely-used chatbot — including funds it used to poach talent from the likes of Google. The repor
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Scientists have developed a new gene therapy that can reverse vision loss in primates, potentially laying the groundwork for treatments in humans as well. Last month, a team of scientists from Harvard Medical School and biotech company Life Biosciences announced preclinical data showing that a new approach was able to reprogram genetic markers to restore visual function in primates that had their
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What Is Going On? Not sure how to feel about AI? You're in good company. During a conference on Wednesday, Variety asked rapper and business mogul Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Junior to share his thoughts on AI in regard to the ongoing Writer's Guild strike . And, well, Snoop didn't hold back. He expressed a mix of fascination and concern, comparing the rise of AI to sci-fi movies, and questioned
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So That Happened An ex-Coinbase executive banked big on Bitcoin bouncing back — and ended up cashing out his alliterative bet early once it was clear that he was going to lose. In an embarrassingly-long Twitter Blue subscriber post , Bitcoin booster Balaji Srinivasan explained why he closed out his $1 million bet that the cryptocurrency would reach incredible new heights within 90 days. Earlier t
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AI Books Books almost entirely generated by AI are flooding Amazon's marketplace, The Washington Post reports , a trend that's turning out to be a huge headache for human authors. It's a growing problem, making it more difficult to distinguish real authors from AI-generated bylines of non-existent writers. One publisher identified by the WaPo lists dozens of books on Amazon on surprisingly niche
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A tiny, orange Brazilian tree frog may be the first known amphibian pollinator, further broadening our understanding of which animals perform this crucial biological function
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Fisheries managers are recognizing the ecological importance of the maligned marine suckers and are stepping up efforts to help their populations recover.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38357-0 Testis-specific serine/threonine kinases have been associated with male infertility, but the mechanism for this connection is unclear. Here they identify a Drosophila homolog, dTSSK, which is essential for male fertility in fruit flies and has functionally conserved catalytic activity with human TSSKs.
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Mapping PTBP2 binding in human brain identifies SYNGAP1 as a target for therapeutic splice switching
Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38273-3 Dawicki-McKenna and Felix et al comprehensively map binding and alternative splicing by PTBP2 in human brain and neurons, thus identifying splice switching therapeutic strategies for the neurodevelopmental disorder associated gene SYNGAP1.
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Michael Wiley will discuss detecting pathogens in communities through wastewater surveillance programs.
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E very time Paula McCartney drives across a bridge to the Belfast neighborhood known as the Markets, she crosses the River Lagan, which she now associates with the deaths of both of her brothers. One died by suicide in 2000. The other was killed in a last gasp of paramilitary violence five years later. “For a long time, I would just try to avoid driving on the bridges,” Paula told me. “It was all
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Young schizophrenia men
A huge Danish study shows that up to 30 percent of psychosis diagnoses in young men could have been prevented if these individuals hadn’t used marijuana heavily
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By reading a rat's intentions from its brain patterns, an AI can help the rodent move objects in a virtual environment
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W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: Australian study supporting mask mandates earns expression of concern Leading primate researcher demoted after admitting he faked data Hindawi shuttering four journals overrun by paper mills Chemist in India loses seven papers, blames outsourcing of images Nature editors retract in
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When was the last time you cleaned your floors? If you're checking out these deals, it's probably been too long.
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Queen Elizabeth II was a blank canvas onto which scores of memes were projected. Charles III is nothing of the sort.
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Developers like Koei Techmo and Tango Gameworks are working to make accessible design a global standard.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38312-z Here, the authors demonstrate a continuous tuning of the thermal conductivity of strontium-doped lanthanum cobaltite by a factor of >5 at room temperature, via an electrolyte-gate-induced non-volatile topotactic phase transformation from perovskite to brownmillerite.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38336-5 Direct conversion of CO2 to a specific hydrocarbon with high selectivity is attractive but challenging. Here the authors report a highly active InZrOx-Beta tandem catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to butane and develop a surface silica protection strategy to inhibit the migration of indium species, greatly improving
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Get ready to be amazed! Artificial intelligence has reached new heights in generating images so realistic, you'll have a hard time believing they weren't captured by a camera. Youtube ai, #imagecreation, #art, #design, #photography #AI #Technology #Innovation submitted by /u/dialchimp [link] [comments]
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Microorganisms—in particular bacteria—are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major evolutionary advantages, such as allowing them to interact with one another or their environment and helping defend against different threats. Because of the diverse functions bacterial natural products ha
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Cats may purr because they're happy, but also for a slew of other reasons, including getting their owner's attention and stress.
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Microorganisms—in particular bacteria—are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major evolutionary advantages, such as allowing them to interact with one another or their environment and helping defend against different threats. Because of the diverse functions bacterial natural products ha
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As more young people risk hearing loss, over-the-counter hearing aids are providing new options, but also confusing choices.
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Communal wound licking has been documented in a hoofed mammal for the first time. American bison may use the behaviour to boost social connections and reduce stress
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38328-5 Recently, a pipeline for the design of protein-binding proteins using only the structure of the target protein was reported. Here, the authors report that the incorporation of deep learning methods into the original pipeline increases experimental success rate by ten-fold.
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Cohen Irwin is part of a group of former addicts in New Zealand working with researchers to trace signs of healing in the brains of those who stop smoking Every few months, Cohen “Coey” Irwin lies on his back and lets the walls close in. Lights move overhead, scanning over the tattoos covering his cheeks. He lies suspended, his head encased by a padded helmet, ears blocked, as his body is shunted
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Since AI for white collar work would require a stable internet connection and electricity, and physical robotics would cost at a minimum, several thousand dollars. It seems that, at-least in the short term, there might be less displacement in those countries. The countries which I feel like might experience the most disruption, would be rich countries with smaller populations, such as Canada, Ice
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Eksperter fra anerkendte virksomheder i Tyskland og Danmark har intet godt bud på, hvad der forårsager de voldsomme vibrationer på kraftvarmeværket i Aalborg.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37555-0 Quantum technologies allow memory advantages in simulating stochastic processes, but a demonstration of this for non-Markovian processes (where the advantage would be stronger) has been missing so far. Here the authors fill this gap analytically and experimentally, using a single qubit memory to model non-Markovi
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Finding a full-time faculty job can be a daunting challenge for doctoral graduates. University of Cincinnati anthropologist Kathleen Grogan says postdoctoral researchers can benefit from having peers review their applications.
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Att vara dominant, oförutsägbar och lite av en mobbare har visat sig vara ett framgångsrecept hos schimpanshanar. Nu visar forskning att schimpanser med vissa speciella personlighetsdrag får fler ungar.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 06 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38321-y The authors find that whether the Labrador Current transports its cold, relatively fresh, and well oxygenated waters towards the subpolar North Atlantic or the eastern American coast depends on large-scale forcing, partly driven by winds over the North Atlantic.
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longer global emergency
Emergency responses—being, well, emergency responses—aren’t designed to last forever, and this morning, the World Health Organization declared the one that’s been in place for the COVID-19 pandemic since January 2020 officially done. “This virus is here to stay. It is still killing, and it’s still changing,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the WHO, said at a press conference ;
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Walensky CDC post
Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01567-z Chief of US public-health agency announced her departure as COVID-19 emergency declarations end.
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I keep interacting with gpt3/4 and have to often write messages to friends/girlfriend etc at the same time. I have started having to actually walk away and from my PC to remind myself that the txt messages Im sending are to real and alive people and not AI's. Ive found a bit of music helps keep me a bit more….. human. Its a phenomenon for sure.. submitted by /u/SpoofRiddler [link] [comments]
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For years, whenever technology (computers, smartphones, multifunction printers, etc.) was giving me a hard time, I would say, “I am Human. I will win!” Now that AI is improving, should I be worried that “they” have a dossier on me? submitted by /u/Electronic-Rip-3622 [link] [comments]
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I've been experimenting with it as of late after hearing all the hype, and frankly I think people are overestimating how powerful these tools are. Even the most powerful tools like MJ cannot produce accurate results which means any image generated will only 'roughly' resemble the prompt. This lack of precision is okay if you're only using the AI as a toy, but for serious work it's useless. I've s
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Namely, if you were to bestow upon an AI tool the gift of free and unfettered access to any and all data it desires, what would you choose? ✌🏼After all, which AI tool wouldn't want to revel in the boundless expanse of the digital universe, absorbing every bit and byte of information it can find? But let's try to be specific here, shall we? If you were to pick just one lucky algorithm, which woul
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The idea of the “informed consumer” may have always been a myth, but online shopping has made distinguishing between reality and manipulation even harder. First, here are four new stories from The Atla
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Hi, First of all, thank you for spending time to read this post I really appreciate it! Last time, I received some advise on which career path I should think of and I was wondering if anyone could help me with choosing classes from the list that I made that you think it would be necessary because I could only take two classes from this list and I am not certain about what classes I should take. T
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Newly developed 'smart' coatings for surgical orthopedic implants can monitor strain on the devices to provide early warning of implant failures while killing infection-causing bacteria, researchers report. The coatings integrate flexible sensors with a nanostructured antibacterial surface inspired by the wings of dragonflies and cicadas.
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manual engineering spin
An international team of researchers 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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Brain surgery on fetus successful
Doctors performed a first-of-its-kind brain surgery on a fetus in the womb to repair a malformed blood vessel.
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State and local health authorities ignored the risks of raw sewage for residents in a rural county, the Justice Department has found; the officials have agreed to change their practices.
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Photovoltaics, the conversion of light to electricity, is a key technology for sustainable energy. Since the days of Max Planck and Albert Einstein, we know that light as well as electricity are quantized, meaning they come in tiny packets called photons and electrons. In a solar cell, the energy of a single photon is transferred to a single electron of the material, but no more than one. Only a f
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Microbiologists have uncovered the evolutionary origins of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria. His studies on the bacterium that causes cholera, Vibrio cholerae, provide insight into deciphering what conditions must occur for infectious agents to become resistant. He studied genetic variants of a protein found in bacterial membranes called OmpU. Using computational and molecular approaches
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manual engineering spin
An international team of researchers 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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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. Many of the species are likely to become restricted to cold habitats that will only persist higher in the mountains, and these areas are also likely to see pressures from the skiing and tourism industries
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Vol. cell cells
A new study sheds light on how a rare type of helper T cell, called Th9, can drive allergic disease, suggesting new precision medicine approaches to treating allergies in patients with high levels of Th9.
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Algorithm predicts mouse vision
A research team has developed a novel machine-learning algorithm that can reveal the hidden structure in data recorded from the brain, predicting complex information such as what mice see.
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Editor’s Note : The following is a brief letter from Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google and cofounder and member of the board at Singularity Group, Singularity Hub’s parent company, in response to the Future of Life Institute’s recent letter, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter.” The FLI letter addresses the risks of accelerating progress in AI and the ensuing race to comme
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longer global emergency
Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01559-z The pandemic has been on a “downward trend” but the risk of new variants remains, WHO’s director-general says.
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As far as alarming headlines are concerned, there are few scarier than those warning that oral sex is causing an epidemic of throat cancer. Last week, British cancer researcher Hisham Mehanna published a sobering column in The Conversation — " Oral sex is now the leading risk factor for throat cancer " — about the increase in throat cancer as a result of HPV infection, often contracted via oral s
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Photovoltaics, the conversion of light to electricity, is a key technology for sustainable energy. Since the days of Max Planck and Albert Einstein, we know that light as well as electricity are quantized, meaning they come in tiny packets called photons and electrons. In a solar cell, the energy of a single photon is transferred to a single electron of the material, but no more than one. Only a f
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California EVs 2027
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The World Health Organization no longer considers COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern and has brought an end to an emergency declaration that has been in place since January 2020.
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Abstract TMEM106B, a lysosomal transmembrane protein, has been closely associated with brain health. Recently, an intriguing link between TMEM106B and brain inflammation has been discovered, but how TMEM106B regulates inflammation is unknown. Here, we report that TMEM106B deficiency in mice leads to reduced microglia proliferation and activation and increased microglial apoptosis in response to d
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Abstract Roughly half of U.S. counties do not provide defense counsel at bail hearings, and few studies have documented the potential impacts of legal representation at this stage. This paper presents the results from a field experiment in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, that provided a public defender at a defendant’s initial bail hearing. The presence of a public defender decreased the use of m
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Abstract The design of Faradaic battery electrodes with high rate capability and long cycle life comparable to those of supercapacitors is a grand challenge. Here, we bridge this performance gap by taking advantage of a unique ultrafast proton conduction mechanism in vanadium oxide electrode, developing an aqueous battery with untrahigh rate capability up to 1000 C (400 A g −1 ) and extremely lon
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Abstract Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with persistent oral microbial dysbiosis. The human β-glucuronidase (GUS) degrades constituents of the periodontium and is used as a biomarker for periodontitis severity. However, the human microbiome also encodes GUS enzymes, and the role of these factors in periodontal disease is poorly understood. Here, we define the 53 unique
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Abstract A preclinical evaluation using a regenerative medicine methodology comprising an additively manufactured medical-grade ε-polycaprolactone β-tricalcium phosphate (mPCL-TCP) scaffold with a corticoperiosteal flap was undertaken in eight sheep with a tibial critical-size segmental bone defect (9.5 cm 3 , M size) using the regenerative matching axial vascularization (RMAV) approach. Biomecha
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Abstract Swimming microrobots guided in the circulation system offer considerable promise in precision medicine but currently suffer from problems such as limited adhesion to blood vessels, intensive blood flow, and immune system clearance—all reducing the targeted interaction. A swimming microrobot design with clawed geometry, a red blood cell (RBC) membrane–camouflaged surface, and magnetically
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Abstract Since 1983, more than 70 employment audit experiments, carried out in more than 26 countries across five continents, have randomized the gender of fictitious applicants to measure the extent of hiring discrimination on the basis of gender. The results are mixed: Some studies find discrimination against men, and others find discrimination against women. We reconcile these heterogeneous fi
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Abstract The release of phosphorus (P) from crustal rocks during weathering plays a key role in determining the size of Earth’s biosphere, yet the concentration of P in crustal rocks over time remains controversial. Here, we combine spatial, temporal, and chemical measurements of preserved rocks to reconstruct the lithological and chemical evolution of Earth’s continental crust. We identify a thr
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Abstract The prevalence of orthopedic implants is increasing with an aging population. These patients are vulnerable to risks from periprosthetic infections and instrument failures. Here, we present a dual-functional smart polymer foil coating compatible with commercial orthopedic implants to address both septic and aseptic failures. Its outer surface features optimum bioinspired mechano-bacteric
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Abstract The extraordinary work hardening ability and fracture toughness of the face-centered cubic (fcc) high-entropy alloys render them ideal candidates for many structural applications. Here, the deformation and failure mechanisms of an equiatomic CrCoNi medium-entropyalloy (MEA) were investigated by powerful laser-driven shock experiments. Multiscale characterization demonstrates that profuse
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Abstract Hypoxia-induced adenosine creates an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) and dampens the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). We found that hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) orchestrates adenosine efflux through two steps in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). First, HIF-1 activates transcriptional repressor MXI1, which inhibits adenosine kinase (ADK), resulting in th
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Abstract Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most lethal form of breast cancer, and effective targeted therapeutics are in urgent need to improve the poor prognosis of TNBC patients. Here, we report the development of a rationally designed antibody drug conjugate (ADC) for the treatment of late-stage and refractory TNBC. We determined that intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM1), a
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Abstract Pathogenic short tandem repeat (STR) expansions cause over 20 neurodegenerative diseases. To determine the contribution of STRs in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), we used ExpansionHunter, REviewer, and polymerase chain reaction validation to assess 21 neurodegenerative disease-associated STRs in whole-genome sequencing data from 608 patient
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Abstract Evolutionary dynamics of diversification of brain neuronal cell types that have underlain behavioral evolution remain largely unknown. Here, we compared transcriptomes and functions of Kenyon cell (KC) types that compose the mushroom bodies between the honey bee and sawfly, a primitive hymenopteran insect whose KCs likely have the ancestral properties. Transcriptome analyses show that th
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Abstract Bats have been identified as natural reservoir hosts of several zoonotic viruses, prompting suggestions that they have unique immunological adaptations. Among bats, Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae) have been linked to multiple spillovers. To test for lineage-specific molecular adaptations in these bats, we developed a new assembly pipeline to generate a reference-quality genome of the
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Abstract Infectious disease control measures often require collective compliance of large numbers of individuals to benefit public health. This raises ethical questions regarding the value of the public health benefit created by individual and collective compliance. Answering these requires estimating the extent to which individual actions prevent infection of others. We develop mathematical tech
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King Coronation III
Want to stream the royal ceremony wherever you are? Here’s where you can tune in on Saturday.
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In early 2011, Ken Jennings looked like humanity’s last hope. Watson, an artificial intelligence created by the tech giant IBM, had picked off lesser Jeopardy players before the show’s all-time champ entered a three-day exhibition match. At the end of the first game, Watson—a machine the size of 10 refrigerators—had Jennings on the ropes, leading $35,734 to $4,800. On day three, Watson finished t
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2024 CAImpaign Legislators are seeking to regulate AI-generated political advertisements ahead of the 2024 presidential election. As The Washington Post reports , representative Yvette Clarke (D-NY) has authored a bill that would require political parties to disclose if they used AI-generated content in their ads. "Our current laws don't begin to scratch the surface with respect to protecting the
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Using a long-term multifactor experimental field site researchers showed that experimental warming of a tallgrass prairie ecosystem significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea and reduced their taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity.
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Because contrasting societal views have created an approach that simultaneously manages horses on the range as wildlife, livestock and pets, current U.S. government programs are incapable of succeeding, according to researchers.
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Scientists in Brazil may have observed the first example of an amphibian pollinating a flowering plant.
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Researchers have captured one of the fastest movements of a molecule called ferricyanide for the first time by combining two ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy techniques. They think their approach could help map more complex chemical reactions like oxygen transportation in blood cells or hydrogen production using artificial photosynthesis.
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Stargazers in Asia and Australia had the best seats for the year's first lunar eclipse.
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If you believe we're about to reach a point where AI chatbots are just as capable of learning how to complete intellectual tasks as humans, you might want to think again. In a new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper , a team of Stanford scientists, argue the glimmers of artificial general intelligence (AGI) we're seeing are all just an illusion. Across the board, AI companies have been making big claim
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Researchers have captured one of the fastest movements of a molecule called ferricyanide for the first time by combining two ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy techniques. They think their approach could help map more complex chemical reactions like oxygen transportation in blood cells or hydrogen production using artificial photosynthesis.
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The U.S. federal government's management of wild horses is doomed to fail without fundamental changes in policy and the law, according to a new paper led by researchers at the University of Wyoming and Oklahoma State University.
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Scientists are seeking to unlock the secrets behind the younger brains of super agers.
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The U.S. federal government's management of wild horses is doomed to fail without fundamental changes in policy and the law, according to a new paper led by researchers at the University of Wyoming and Oklahoma State University.
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An analysis of ancient mammoth tusks has revealed that they underwent musth just like modern elephants do.
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Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the mushroom bodies (a part of the insect brain involved in learning, memory and sensory integration) of "primitive" sawflies and sophisticated honey bees.
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Scientists have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West Arnhem Land in Australia. These ground-breaking methods showed how this important landscape in the Northern Territory was altered as sea levels rose about 8,000 years ago.
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Providing defendants with legal counsel during their initial bail hearing decreases use of monetary bail and pretrial detention, without increasing the likelihood that defendants fail to appear at the subsequent preliminary hearing, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
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Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the mushroom bodies (a part of the insect brain involved in learning, memory and sensory integration) of "primitive" sawflies and sophisticated honey bees.
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Male wooly mammoths experienced musth, a testosterone-driven episode of heightened aggression against rival males, a study of their tusks shows. The findings come from a study of traces of sex hormones extracted from a woolly mammoth’s tusk. In male elephants, elevated testosterone during musth was previously recognized from blood and urine tests. Musth battles in extinct relatives of modern elep
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Scientists at the Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have discovered something remarkable while studying phosphate transport in fruit fly intestines—a never before seen organelle. Their results are published in the journal Nature, and a News and Views piece in the same journal discusses their findings.
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Scientists at the Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School have discovered something remarkable while studying phosphate transport in fruit fly intestines—a never before seen organelle. Their results are published in the journal Nature, and a News and Views piece in the same journal discusses their findings.
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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory captured one of the fastest movements of a molecule called ferricyanide for the first time by combining two ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy techniques. They think their approach could help map more complex chemical reactions like oxygen transportation in blood cells or hydrogen production using artificial photosynthesis.
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The High court dismisses case brought by animal activists against a government change in policy.
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Forres-based Orbex has proposed launching up to 12 rockets a year from Sutherland Spaceport.
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The touring artwork by Bristol artist Luke Jerram is on display at Aerospace Bristol until 5 June.
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Findings suggest that the amyloid-targeting drug candidate slows cognitive decline in some people, but questions remain over its potential side effects
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A new program looks to replant warm weather trees in northern Minnesota to help them adjust to a rapidly warming world
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Leaked documents reveal that the American College of Pediatricians viewed “mainstream medicine” and “nominal Christians” as its opposition.
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A new technique eliminates a source of bias in a popular simulation method, which could enable scientists to create new algorithms that are more accurate and boost the performance of applications and networks.
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Scientists have found a lipid transporter crucial to regulating the cells that make myelin, the nerve-protecting sheath.
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AI Me This A one-time OpenAI safety researcher is sounding alarm bells about the decidedly grim-sounding prospect that artificial intelligence may, eventually, bring about the end of humanity. "I think maybe there's something like a 10-20 percent chance of AI takeover, [with] many [or] most humans dead," former OpenAI-er Paul Christiano told the " Bankless " podcast earlier this week. "I take it
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Moon Solid Core
After more than 50 years, scientists finally confirmed that the moon has a solid inner core, just like Earth.
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Some commonly consumed beverages contain levels of toxic metals that exceed federal drinking water standards, according to a new study. Researchers tested 60 beverages and found five contained levels of a toxic metal above federal drinking water standards. Two mixed juices had levels of arsenic above the 10 microgram/liter standard. A cranberry juice, a mixed carrot and fruit juice, and an oat mi
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Alan Shepard American
The story of how Alan Shepard became the first American in space, causing an anxious nation to collectively exhale a sigh of relief.
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The World Health Organization has declared an end to covid-19’s designation as a public health emergency of international concern, saying the pandemic is on a "downward trend"
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The long-accepted practice of search engines scraping content from websites is being re-examined now that the data is being used to build valuable artificial intelligence tools
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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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Trican Well Service
In an announcement on Friday, the head of the beleaguered agency said she would step down in June. “We made this world a safer place,” she said.
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Oregon State Parks said several lancetfish have washed up on beaches in recent weeks in a highly unusual spate of strandings.
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With huge teeth and large eyes, Crassigyrinus scoticus was specially adapted to hunt in the coal swamps of Scotland and North America.
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Brownfield restoration has become a frontier topic in the research on urban ecosystem governance. Optimizing brownfield ecosystems through proper bioremediation approaches can provide urban landscapes and habitats with sound ecological potentials. Currently, the lagging theory and technique development of brownfield vegetation restoration, the species selection based on single causality, and the n
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A scientist will attempt to turn seismic activity—recorded in real time at Yellowstone National Park—into music during an ambitious live performance on Tuesday, May 9.
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The Middle East and North African region lose about $13 billion a year because of increasing sand and dust storms. By combining learnings from artificial intelligence and 3000-year-old sustainable methods, researchers might be on the way to finding out how to mitigate the damages.
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Poorly monitored badger farming and illegal poaching in South Korea is a cause for concern for wildlife and human health, with regulation of the trade urgently needed, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.
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Brownfield restoration has become a frontier topic in the research on urban ecosystem governance. Optimizing brownfield ecosystems through proper bioremediation approaches can provide urban landscapes and habitats with sound ecological potentials. Currently, the lagging theory and technique development of brownfield vegetation restoration, the species selection based on single causality, and the n
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Poorly monitored badger farming and illegal poaching in South Korea is a cause for concern for wildlife and human health, with regulation of the trade urgently needed, according to a new study involving UCL researchers.
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Bacteria naturally adapt to various environmental stimuli and as they mutate, these changes can make them resistant to drugs that would kill or slow their growth.
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Pope peace Ukraine
Pope Francis has staked a position on the war in Ukraine that puts him more in line with Beijing, New Delhi, and Brasília than Washington, London, or Brussels: He wants to end Ukraine’s armament by the West and negotiate an immediate cease-fire. Earlier this week, Francis vaguely alluded to a mission he was working on to end the conflict. Yet he seems to have alienated many of the actors whose su
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Bacteria naturally adapt to various environmental stimuli and as they mutate, these changes can make them resistant to drugs that would kill or slow their growth.
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Study finds female astronauts more efficient, suggesting future space missions with all-female crews
As humans contemplate life on other planets, we are immediately confronted with two choices. One is a journey to another solar system that would take tens of thousands of years (with current technology), requiring around 2,000 generations to live out their existence in the cramped confines of a spacecraft while adhering to a strict population control scheme. The other choice is Mars.
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Exoplanet Mystery The Space Telescope Science Institute announced this week that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor near a rocky exoplanet that is highly unlikely to have an atmosphere. It's a startling discovery that raises more questions than it can answer. For instance, does the presence of water vapor indicate that the rocky exoplanet dubbed GJ 486 b has an atmosphere
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Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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The latest meteor shower is formed from the debris left by Halley’s comet as it travels around the sun.
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Led by Jizhong Zhou, Ph.D., the director of the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma, an international research team conducted a long term experiment that found that climate warming reduced the diversity of and significantly altered the community structure of soil archaea. Their findings are published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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In August 2020, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced a change in the Fed's inflation strategy: they would be implementing a strategy called average inflation targeting (AIT), which allows inflation to move above and below the target rate of 2% so that it averages out to 2% over time. This differs from the previous strategy of traditional inflation targeting, in which the intent is to retu
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In this poetic and moving reflection, actor, musician and activist Golshifteh Farahani honors those who have fought for "Woman, Life, Freedom" following Mahsa Amini's death at the hands of Iran's religious morality police. Calling upon our shared humanity, she urges everyone to take a stand against violence inflicted on innocent people around the world.
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Erik Sten Andersen skyndte sig at knipse et billede af dette P-skilt uden for Føtex, som han kun blev mere forvirret af at nærlæse: »Hvordan kan man på nudansk vælge imellem tre forskellige kun’er? Eller kan man kun parkere under opfyldelse af alle tre kriterier samtidig,« spørger han.Eller er der i virkeligheden blot tale om genial bødetænkning? Illustration: Ingeniøren.
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Want to make a positive difference in the wage conditions of developing country factory workers churning out products for multinational firms?
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The implementation of effective policies at local and regional level, and the cooperation of all countries in the Mediterranean Sea basin is urgently needed to successfully reverse the environmental problems in this marine area.
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Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), commonly called the "King of Grass," is a legume grown in many parts of the world as a source of animal fodder. It is prized in the forage industry for its high protein content and biomass yield. Recently, alfalfa protein has found applications in aquaculture, pet food industry and human diet. Furthermore, it is seen as an environmentally beneficial crop, with positive i
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The Okinawa Trough is a newly formed back-arc basin located in the outer margin of the continental shelf of the East China Sea. The submarine hydrothermal activities are widely developed in the Okinawa Trough. A typical feature of the basin is that the hydrothermal fluids are highly rich in CO2.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38267-1 Catch bonds where lifetime increases with force applied can form when T cell receptors (TCR) interact with agonist peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes. Here the authors use a modelling and experimental approach to analyse 55 TCR–pMHC bond lifetime curves measured under force to further characterise the structural bases
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Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), commonly called the "King of Grass," is a legume grown in many parts of the world as a source of animal fodder. It is prized in the forage industry for its high protein content and biomass yield. Recently, alfalfa protein has found applications in aquaculture, pet food industry and human diet. Furthermore, it is seen as an environmentally beneficial crop, with positive i
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Whether you work with dementia patients or are caring for a loved one, communication can be challenging. Researchers share how to talk to someone with dementia.
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Young children are taking melatonin gummy supplements, but experts say they should be a last resort to help with sleep
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Never Give Up It turns out that reports of its death were greatly exaggerated. NASA says it's figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years. And that's no easy feat, considering the probe has been screaming through the cosmos since 1977 and is currently more than 12 billion miles from Earth. The probe recently switched to its backup power reser
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Language—no matter how we handle it, try to control it, or share it—is powerful. In recent years, memes have emerged as a fragmented written and symbolic dialect of the internet; they have also become calls to action. In Meme Wars , three researchers analyze how the spread of trollish phrases and iconography online led to the real-world attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Those communicatio
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Researchers have identified four important signs and symptoms that signal an elevated risk of early-onset colorectal cancer, according to a new study. These red flags may be key to earlier detection and diagnosis of early-onset colorectal cancer among younger adults. The number of young adults with colorectal cancer has nearly doubled in recent years. For the study in the Journal of the National
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When light strongly interacts with matter, it can produce unique quasi-particles called polaritons, which are half light and half matter. In recent decades, physicists explored the realization of polaritons in optical cavities and their value for the development of highly performing lasers or other technologies.
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I mainly applied for Bachelors in Comp Sci in several universities but I ended up applying for cognitive and brain science at Macquarie university because somehow it felt like it called to me. I have always been interested in many things and had a tough time to choose a specific subject to get tied up with. Don’t get me wrong but I love tech. I’ve been into tech for as long as I can remember and
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With the official end of the public health emergency next week, the agency will no longer report community levels of infection and will stop trying to tally every case.
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Old-growth forests are of exceptional importance for biodiversity and climate protection in Europe, but they are increasingly rare. Despite the European Union's (EU) pledge in its Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, legislation to protect old-growth remnants still has not been implemented in many member states. Old-growth forest loss continues at alarming rates.
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Alexandrite laser crystals are well suited for use in Earth observation satellites. They are robust and enable laser systems with a tunable output wavelength. In the European Horizon 2020 project GALACTIC, the partners Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH), Optomaterials S.r.l. (Italy) and Altechna (Lithuania) have now succeeded in establishing a solely European supply chain for alexandrite laser crys
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Engineering organs to replace damaged hearts or kidneys in the human body may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the building blocks for this technology are already in place. In the burgeoning field of tissue engineering, live cells grow in artificial scaffolds to form biological tissue. But to evaluate how successfully the cells develop into tissue, researchers need a reliable method
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Sunshine levels have a significant impact on the bidding behavior of stock market investors, according to new research.
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Engineering organs to replace damaged hearts or kidneys in the human body may seem like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the building blocks for this technology are already in place. In the burgeoning field of tissue engineering, live cells grow in artificial scaffolds to form biological tissue. But to evaluate how successfully the cells develop into tissue, researchers need a reliable method
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New, invasive plant-destroying insects, weeds and diseases will increasingly challenge New Zealand's borders as a warming climate and other global "megatrends" make our plants and ecosystems more exposed and vulnerable; a new report proposes.
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People from Chinese or Western backgrounds reported having different tastes in wines, which may partly come down to the concentrations of their salivary proteins
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A major challenge in human genetics is understanding which parts of the genome drive specific traits or contribute to disease risk. This challenge is even greater for genetic variants found in the 98% of the genome that does not encode proteins. A new approach combines genetic association studies, gene editing, and single-cell sequencing to address these challenges and discover causal variants and
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A recent study sheds light on online art viewing as a source of pleasure and meaning-making that can boost our well-being.
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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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New, invasive plant-destroying insects, weeds and diseases will increasingly challenge New Zealand's borders as a warming climate and other global "megatrends" make our plants and ecosystems more exposed and vulnerable; a new report proposes.
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An international team of space scientists has found that observation of a gas cloud stream heading into a massive galaxy may offer evidence of gas material recycling. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their observance and analysis of a gas cloud surrounding a dense galaxy cluster 11 billion light years away, and what they learned from their work.
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New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work
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A new study that analyzed 60 commonly available beverages found mixed-fruit juices and plant-based milks such as oat and almond were most likely to contain levels of toxic metals above federal drinking water standards.
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A major challenge in human genetics is understanding which parts of the genome drive specific traits or contribute to disease risk. This challenge is even greater for genetic variants found in the 98% of the genome that does not encode proteins. A new approach combines genetic association studies, gene editing, and single-cell sequencing to address these challenges and discover causal variants and
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Automation uncovers combinations of amino acids that feed two bacterial species and could tell us much more about the 90% of bacteria that humans have hardly studied. 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 t
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A changing climate is upon us, with more frequent land and marine heatwaves, forest fires, atmospheric rivers and floods. For some, it is the backdrop to day-to-day life, but for a growing number of people it is a life-changing reality.
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Think back to September last year. What happened early that month? What news shook the world and reverberated for weeks, if not months?
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The coronation of King Charles III has upped the UK's public holiday count this year. The special public holiday on the Monday after the May 6 ceremony, combined with the early May bank holiday and the spring bank holiday at the end, has certainly made for a month of celebrations for many workers.
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Canada's food system is experiencing ongoing stresses from supply chain disruptions, price inflation and extreme weather events. Canadians are feeling the effects of these stresses: in 2021, nearly 16% of provincial households experienced some degree of food insecurity.
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#shorts #deadliestcatch #discoveryplus From: Discovery
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Artists AI Image
AI is already rewriting art history. When you Googled the famed realist artist Edward Hopper this week, the first featured image that appeared was convincing enough. A lone woman, painted in the artist's signature soft, muted style, stared out a window, sporting a red dress and hair tucked into a bun. Hopper created a number of similar paintings throughout his career; casual viewers, and even som
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Being an environmentally friendly tourist can be challenging. Tourism is an industry that brings many negative environmental impacts—our pleasure often comes at the expense of local habitats or wildlife.
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The extreme heat that engulfed the Iberian peninsula and parts of north Africa last week would have been "almost impossible without climate change," an international scientific study found Friday.
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In northern India, a tragedy is playing out in slow-motion. Located at about 2,000 meters elevation in Chamoli District in the Himalayas, Joshimath is an ancient, sacred town of about 17,000 people. Popular with pilgrims and visitors wanting to ski or climb the nearby mountains, the town is a beautiful refuge from the bustle of the plains.
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Humans make decisions using statistical information every day. Imagine you're selecting a packet of jellybeans. If you prefer red jellybeans, you will probably try to find a packet that shows the most red (and less of the dreaded black ones) through the small window.
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Energy of '25 billion atomic bombs' trapped on Earth in just 50 years, all because of global warming
A new study has revealed that 380 zettajoules of energy was trapped by global warming between 1971 and 2020.
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longer global emergency
Declaration a major step towards end of pandemic that has killed more than 6.9m people The Covid-19 pandemic, which has sickened or killed almost 800 million people over three years, no longer constitutes a global health emergency, the head of the World Health Organization has said. The WHO first gave Covid its highest level of alert on 30 January 2020, and its panel has continued to apply the la
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Forty years ago, a strange, empty shark egg case was found off the coast of Western Australia, and scientists have finally determined the species it belongs to
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Schools and students around Australia continue to face a teacher shortage.
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Humans make decisions using statistical information every day. Imagine you're selecting a packet of jellybeans. If you prefer red jellybeans, you will probably try to find a packet that shows the most red (and less of the dreaded black ones) through the small window.
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A small team of astronomers at Université Côte d'Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, working with a colleague from MCCE, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, has found more evidence that the moon has an inner core similar to Earth's. In their study, reported in the journal Nature, the group analyzed data from a wide variety of sources and used it to create models depicting the inner parts
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Transporting energy is costly. When a current runs through conductive materials, some of the energy is lost due to resistance as particles within the material interact—just notice the warmth from your phone or laptop. This energy loss presents a hurdle to the advancement of many technologies and scientists are searching for ways to make superconductors that eliminate resistance.
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Long COVID Covid
Immune cells called monocytes are triggered to help clear infection—but in some cases they never switch off, leaving patients breathless for months.
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To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does and how it contributes to its function. In other words, one should be able to explain the “mechanics” of how it works. According to a philosophical approach called mechanism, humans are arguably a type of machine—and our ability to think, speak, and unde
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Married couples who manage their finances together may love each other longer, according to a new study. Prior research suggests a correlation that couples who merge finances tend to be happier than those who do not. But this is the first research to show a causal relationship—that married couples who have joint bank accounts not only have better relationships, but they fight less over money and
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Prolonged power outages, often caused by weather events, hit some parts of the US harder than others, according to new research. Joan Casey, an assistant professor in the University of Washington’s department of environmental and occupational health sciences, lived through frequent wildfire-season power outages when she lived in northern California. While waiting for the power to return, she wond
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Find out how SpaceX and NASA have brought back splashdowns in a big way.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38370-3
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38302-1
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37194-5 Isolating the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in natural ecosystems is challenging. Here, the authors apply a causal inference approach to observational data from grasslands and find a negative effect of biodiversity on productivity driven by non-native and rare species.
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Naturally fluctuating temperatures on coral reefs caused by tides, waves and currents can bring relief from marine heat waves and may even help corals adapt to higher temperatures, a new study by Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) scientists has found.
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The known population of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now just two males. Experts said that if the female had survived, she could have "laid a hundred eggs or more a year."
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The need for a smaller, more transportable version of ANSTO's 1,500-liter atmospheric radon-222 monitor, and with a calibration traceable to the International System of Units, prompted the team to develop a 200-liter radon monitor that would meet those needs.
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Naturally fluctuating temperatures on coral reefs caused by tides, waves and currents can bring relief from marine heat waves and may even help corals adapt to higher temperatures, a new study by Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) scientists has found.
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The World Health Organization today lifted its Public Health Emergency of International Concern for COVID-19. That declaration went into effect three years ago on Jan. 30, 2020. (Image credit: Fabrice Coffrini /AFP via Getty Images)
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UN health body declares end to acute phase of pandemic after at least 20mn deaths
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Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01523-x Some institutions arrange for highly cited researchers to change their main affiliations, which boosts their position in global university rankings.
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Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01558-0 The nation’s support for the International Space Station until 2028 is a relief for international scientists who depend on it for their research.
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A trio of environmental scientists and city planners from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Miami has found that as motorists slowly make the jump from gasoline-powered vehicles (GVs) to electric-powered vehicles (EVs), people living in the same general area experience different levels of change in air quality. The research
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over El Oued, in northeast Algeria, about 80 km west of the border with Tunisia.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our society. Beyond the currently hyped systems such as ChatGPT or DALL-E, which can generate images, the technology has also found its way into the daily work of lawyers and even judges. At present, such applications are still in their early stages, but AI has the potential to change our justice system. Yet as well as promising significant benefits, it
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An international team led by researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has detected aerosols from the Hunga Tonga eruption in the Northern Hemisphere stratospheric westerlies for the first time.
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longer global emergency
The decision has little practical effect but is a significant moment in the struggle against a virus that has killed millions and upended lives throughout the world.
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The former professor's calls for more control over AI have made him a media darling of the ChatGPT era. Some top researchers aren't impressed.
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Laurastar’s travel-friendly handheld pressurized steamer helps your garments stay fresh and crisp-looking while you’re on the road.
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thinks AI Hollywood
English textile workers once destroyed the machines threatening to take their jobs. Screenwriters can’t kill AI, but they can protect themselves from it.
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The simple answer to the question of whether fish can catch a cold is: no. This is because fish don't have lungs or a respiratory tract—or a nose to breathe through, for that matter. This is why you'll never see a fish with a hacking cough or a runny nose.
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The second episode of Apple TV+’s new kids’ series Frog and Toad adapts a lovely vignette titled “Ice Cream” from Arnold Lobel’s book Frog and Toad All Year . In Lobel’s original, the story is simple. On a hot summer day, Frog and Toad sit by the pond and wish for ice cream. Toad volunteers to go get it, but as he walks back with two cones of chocolate ice cream, the heat causes them to melt onto
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The Biden administration plans to send additional active-duty troops to the border with Mexico in anticipation of a migrant surge up to and after May 11. On that day, the White House’s activation of Title 42—the 1944 law that allows the quick expulsion of immigrants to stop the “introduction of communicable disease” during a public-health emergency—will expire, along with most other emergency mea
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As the executor of life activities, proteins exert their specific biological functions through interactions such as forming protein complexes. The localization effects, crowding effects, and organelle microenvironments within cells are crucial for maintaining the structure and function of protein complexes.
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In physics, one often has to deal with different scales that can be described separately from one another: For the Earth's orbit around the sun, it makes absolutely no difference whether an elephant in the zoo walks to the left or to the right. And the movement of the elephant can be described without having to know anything about the properties of the electrons in its ear. The world can be divide
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Researchers have used data from previous publications aiming to answer the question of why the Arctic sea ice is responding much more quickly and obviously to climate change than the Antarctic sea ice, which has stayed relatively stable according to the long-term studies monitoring the Antarctic region's sea ice patterns. Their results were published in the journal Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research.
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The simple answer to the question of whether fish can catch a cold is: no. This is because fish don't have lungs or a respiratory tract—or a nose to breathe through, for that matter. This is why you'll never see a fish with a hacking cough or a runny nose.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38187-0 Here the authors establish a biochromatic method for ultrafast probe and control of the strong field high harmonic generation process in solid by combining strong mid-infrared and weak terahertz fields.
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As the executor of life activities, proteins exert their specific biological functions through interactions such as forming protein complexes. The localization effects, crowding effects, and organelle microenvironments within cells are crucial for maintaining the structure and function of protein complexes.
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Ett sätt att kuva en befolkning är att radera, eller skriva om, befolkningens gemensamma minnen. Under Sovjetåren förbjöds allt prat om den svältkatastrof som på 1930-talet krävt miljontals ukrainares liv. Men idag fungerar minnet av svälten som en enande kraft i Ukraina, enligt historikern Yuliya Yurchuk. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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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. Doctors have performed brain surgery on a fetus in one of the first operations of its kind What’s happened: A seven-week-old baby girl is one of the first people to have undergone an experimental brain operation while still in the womb. She had developed a dan
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Death COVID 2022
Covid deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries, while in 2020 and 2021 it was the third leading cause US deaths fell last year, and Covid-19 dropped to the nation’s No 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported. Covid-19 deaths trailed those caused by heart disease, cancer and injuries such as drug overdoses, motor vehicle fatalities and sh
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Researchers at the University of Miami Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and partners found that the corals within the highly urbanized environment around the Port of Miami show great resilience against unfavorable conditions, such as poor water quality, excess nutrients, high temperatures, high sa
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Water oxidation reaction involves a four-electron and four-proton transfer process, which requires an uphill energy transformation and limits the efficiency of the overall photocatalytic water splitting reaction.
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Most researchers today understand biology through the principles of biochemistry. Cells communicate and activate processes via chemical signals, and traditional medicine has long focused on how to treat disease by modifying those signals.
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Researchers at the University of Miami Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and partners found that the corals within the highly urbanized environment around the Port of Miami show great resilience against unfavorable conditions, such as poor water quality, excess nutrients, high temperatures, high sa
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Most researchers today understand biology through the principles of biochemistry. Cells communicate and activate processes via chemical signals, and traditional medicine has long focused on how to treat disease by modifying those signals.
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A VR accessory called JumpMod can make users feel like they are jumping higher or landing harder, just by moving a weight on their back
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Amazon's MacBook Air deal is back, and well worth a look for students.
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Warning labels on AI-generated media give viewers little context. Artists and human rights advocates have forged a more effective—and creative—path.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38152-x
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Clive Crook Biden
One of the most revealing statements of the 2020 presidential campaign wasn’t uttered by the candidates. It came instead from a former Republican congressman. “It’s difficult to attack vanilla,” griped Florida’s Carlos Curbelo, lamenting the failure of GOP attacks against then-candidate Joe Biden. Curbelo probably intended to deride the former vice president as milquetoast. But he inadvertently l
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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Well, that was fast. In November, the public was introduced to ChatGPT, and we began to imagine a world of abundance in which we all have a brilliant personal assistant, able to write everything from computer code to c
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M ore and more, children, long associated with innocence and joy, seem to terrify us. In the forthcoming novel Cutting Teeth , a group of bloodthirsty 4-year-olds are suspects in a murder case. Baby Teeth features a little girl who “may have a truly sinister agenda,” as the novel’s jacket copy explains. And on the 2022 HBO show The Baby , an adorable infant falls from the sky and then lots of peo
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In one of his rare moments of naivete, Alexander Hamilton imagined that the Electoral College would afford “a moral certainty” that the office of the presidency would not “fall to the lot of any man, who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” He hoped that the electors would be a bulwark against men who had a talent “for low intrigue and the little arts of popular
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Overheard in the men’s bathroom of a movie theater in Boston, after a screening of Creed III : “That movie basically just makes me want to get in shape.” “It makes me want to get in shape mentally.” “Huh?” “Bro, that movie was all about mental stuff. You didn’t get that?” The mental stuff. That’s where it’s at. The mind, the mind—it can bear you sweetly along on pulses of transparent super-energy
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Ålder, rökning och alltför hårdhänt tandborstning kan leda till att tandköttet drar sig tillbaka. Men även tandreglering innebär en risk, enligt en ny avhandling. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Over the past few months, viewings of the lights have increased in areas farther south than usual. That’s going to continue into 2025.
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Recycling was already a mess. Now a study finds that one facility may emit 3 million pounds of microplastics a year.
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5G Wireless network
This $300 phone performs better than its predecessor, but the competition is stiff.
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Researchers figured out how the flow of microplastics flattens ocean waves, letting satellites paint a clearer picture for future policy and cleanup efforts
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Hälften av ungdomarna i en studie har upplevt våld i en sexuell relation. Men många väljer att inte berätta för vårdpersonal om sina upplevelser. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01407-0 In space, no one can hear you screen.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38338-3 The ability to recognize an individual and retrieve related information is crucial for social animals. Here, the authors employ a new social recognition paradigm to show that dorsal CA1 neurons distinguish individual mice and encode associated reward information.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38256-4 The authors extend the theory of quantum conductance corrections to 2D electron systems with the symplectic symmetry, such as topological-insulator surface states. They find that magnetoconductance can be enhanced significantly by second-order interference and electron-electron interaction effects.
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A test to see whether ChatGPT has memorised the contents of copyrighted material suggests it was trained on passages from Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and many other novels
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Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp.
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# The Last Message She checked her phone for the hundredth time. Nothing. No missed calls, no texts, no emails. Nothing from him. She sighed and tossed the phone on the couch. She knew he was busy, but he could have at least sent her a quick message to let her know he was okay. He was supposed to be back from his business trip yesterday, but she hadn't heard from him since he boarded the plane. S
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Många i Sverige, kanske överraskande många, tror att det finns människor med paranormala förmågor. Det visar en ny studie. Och vissa grupper i befolkningen tror mer än andra, men inte exakt på det vis som forskarna hade föreställt sig. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Inside a vault at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles lies a microscopic population of immense value—the repository for vernal pool fairy shrimp.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38354-3 Single-pulse THz spectroscopy at 50 kHz is performed with a table-top system to extract rapid changes of a material’s complex dielectric function. This technique is demonstrated by monitoring carrier accumulation and relaxation dynamics in silicon.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37922-x Reliably identifying transient intermediates is crucial to elucidate chemical reaction mechanisms. Here, the authors use femtosecond Fe Kβ main line and valence-to-core x-ray emission spectroscopy to characterize a short-lived intermediate of the aqueous ferricyanide photo-aquation reaction.
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Sommaren 2022 skickade Nasas nya superteleskop sina första bilder hem till jorden. James Webb-teleskopet lät oss se längre tillbaka i tiden än någonsin tidigare. Men för att vi ska kunna se bilderna i färg behöver det osynliga ljuset från teleskopet göras om till färger det mänskliga ögat kan uppfatta.
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01561-5 FDA approves GSK’s vaccine Arexvy against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for older people. Plus, prehistoric pendant’s DNA reveals the person who held it and investment in diseases that mostly affect women could reap big rewards.
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As the Biden administration moves to curb health threats caused by toxic chemicals, the debate hits home for families living near petrochemical plants.
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The bugs are unique among colony-forming insects in that their queens cannot rule without a king.
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When looking up at the night sky, light from stars draws attention. But the darkness between the light can reveal even more about the universe, says Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist Adam Riess
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38219-9 Combining molecular dynamic simulations with in vivo functional assays, Gagelin et al. identified unique molecular features of the mitochondrial carrier uncoupling protein 1 that are crucial to its inhibition by nucleotides
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Warmer temperatures are melting the state's historic snowpack. Already flooded communities downstream are scrambling to prepare for the surge. (Image credit: Claire Harbage/NPR)
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Brain surgery Surgery
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here . 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 b
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Her grandfather defended native lands in the Brazilian Amazon with bows and arrows. Today, the weapon of choice for Txai Surui and many young Indigenous activists like her is technology.
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Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01396-0 Representatives of US whistleblower organisations deliver their verdict on a strategy to protect federal scientists and their research.
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Ny studie visar att svenska förlossningsläkare och gynekologer är påtagligt mer emotionellt stabila och mer samvetsgranna, jämfört med majoriteten av övrig svensk befolkning. Utifrån läkarnas personlighet kan man se hur deras beslutsstilar skiljer sig åt i akuta situationer.
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None of us have to fantasize what we would have done during a pandemic. What you actually did the past three years is exactly what you would have done. The post Letter to a Medical Student: There Is No Elite RCT Strike Force first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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H5N1 bird flu may lead to extinction of species as data revealed by Guardian shows worst losses in decades Avian flu has killed more than twice the number of wild birds previously estimated in the UK, according to data collected by the Guardian, with numbers likely to escalate during this year’s breeding season. The highly infectious variant of H5N1 has caused Europe’s worst bird flu outbreak, re
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London in the 19th century was an overcrowded river of sewage. But one peculiar man, Edwin Chadwick, led a campaign to push the government to improve essential urban services like public water supply, street cleaning, and garbage removal. In he process, he helped transform the well-being of modern cities.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38316-9 The deprivation of amino acids in the tumor microenvironment affects T cell survival and activation. Here the authors show that reduced levels of methionine are associated with PD1 upregulation in CD4+ T cells and that methionine supplementation promotes CD4+ T cell dependent anti-tumor immune responses.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37866-2 A central goal of spintronics is electric control of magnetism. One particularly promising method makes use of spin-orbit torques which arise due to the combination of electric current, and the intrinsic spin-orbit effect in a material. Here, Grezes et al demonstrate non-volatile electrical control of the spin-or
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38301-2 RNA viruses are defined by linear RNA genomes encoding an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, while viroid-like elements consist of small, single-stranded, circular RNA genomes that, in some cases, encode self-cleaving catalytic RNAs. Here, the authors identify over 20,000 candidate viroid-like elements, and show that
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38313-y The effect of head positioning in acute stroke is controversial. Here, the authors report the results of a clinical trial suggesting that the procedure, initiated within 24 hours of onset, is safe and feasible, but does not improve functional outcome in acute moderate stroke patients with large artery atheroscler
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STR, SNP’er og shotgun-sekventering. Retsgenetikerne har mange værktøjer i kassen, når de skal analysere DNA-spor – intakte såvel som nedbrudte.
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The Crown Estate lays claim to vast ocean assets, allowing the royal family to cash in on the booming blue economy.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38361-4 Single-site pincer-ligated iridium complexes exhibit the ability for C-H activation but suffer from instability and difficulty in catalyst recycling. Here the authors design an atomically dispersed Ir catalyst which can be considered the bridge between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis and displays an outst
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Nature Communications, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37025-7 Single-nucleus RNA-seq was used to profile 11 retinas with varying stages of age-related macular degeneration and 6 control retinas. The authors identified shared glial states across neurodegeneration, indicating that the retina provides a human system for investigating therapeutic approaches in neurodegeneration
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Schneider Shorts 5.05.2023 – Spanish Saudi Shills: a trilogy, state-of-the-art tools to cure diabetes, papermilling gang moves to new Elsevier journal, congrats on 1000 citations, with legitimate images, imaginary American co-authors, rapamycin longevity advice, catfish as COVID-19 origin, and finally, why German universities sponsor Hindawi.
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Scientists at Flinders University have used sub-surface imaging and aerial surveys to see through floodplains in the Red Lily Lagoon area of West Arnhem Land in Northern Australia.
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Rising floodwater along the Mississippi River, May Day protests in France, a hedge maze in Scotland, an air show in Istanbul, baseball cheerleaders in Taiwan, big-wave surfing in Tahiti, preparations for a coronation in London, scenes from the Met Gala in New York, and much more
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Biggest biomedical charity makes first investment in science infrastructure from its endowment
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Virus species never seen before.
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Between approximately 450 BCE and 950 CE, millions of Amerindian people living in today's Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil through various processes. Over many human generations, soils were enriched with charcoal from their low-intensity fires for cooking and burning refuse, animal bones, broken pottery, compost, and manure. The result is Amazonian dark earth (ADE) or terra preta, exc
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A journal has issued an expression of concern for an Australian study that supported mask mandates after researchers raised several potential problems with the design and methodology of the study. The article, “ The introduction of a mandatory mask policy was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 cases in a major metropolitan city ,” was published in the journal PLOS ONE in July 2021. It
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Between approximately 450 BCE and 950 CE, millions of Amerindian people living in today's Amazonia transformed the originally poor soil through various processes. Over many human generations, soils were enriched with charcoal from their low-intensity fires for cooking and burning refuse, animal bones, broken pottery, compost, and manure. The result is Amazonian dark earth (ADE) or terra preta, exc
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I got a question that could be helpful for me, is there any AI or website that could replicate a pdf file or document just to make changes in it ? Please a comment below if there's a solution for it submitted by /u/aka_Notorious [link] [comments]
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Move to take more action on actively managing utilities. Utilities are generally the main bottleneck in the deployment of renewable resources. submitted by /u/optomist_prime_69 [link] [comments]
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Many police departments prohibit their officers from employing the kind of neck restraints a man used in fatally subduing Jordan Neely in the New York City subway.
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. With 18 months to go before the 2024 election, a Trump-Biden rematch seems imminent , a sharp reversal of expectation from as recently as this March. Trump’s resurgence is a reminder of what has become
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FDA First Vaccine
An RSV vaccine has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration and should be available to people 60 years and older later this year
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Scams, hacks, and recently AI fake porn/nudes. Scumbags have used the internet for crime for decades. AFAIK law enforcement has the ability to get a person's address from ISPs or VPN logs, and to access GPS info. Plus I'd presume they can surely access one's web activity. So why isn't it more of a thing for law enforcement to zero in on a scumbag perpetrator's residence and send police to raid an
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New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to oceanic crust. The iron-poor composition of continental crust is a major reason why vast portions of the Earth's surface stand above sea level as dry land, making terrestrial life possible today. The study us
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Phytosterols are good for your health, but humans and other animals are not able to make them themselves, only plants can. To acquire phytosterols, humans are increasingly turning to supplements, green smoothies, or a Mediterranean diet with plenty of plant-based foods. Researchers have now discovered that tiny gutless worms from the Mediterranean can synthesize phytosterols on their own. Their st
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Nature, Published online: 04 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01516-w Language models similar to those behind ChatGPT have been used to improve antibody therapies against COVID-19, Ebola and other viruses.
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Microsoft Bing AI
A Microsoft spokesperson is typing something into a search engine, and it isn’t quite working. I’m watching this unfold at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan that’s meant to show off new features on Bing, the company’s Google rival. In this demonstration, a chatbot is supposed to respond to a user’s query with an embedded video. Typing on a large computer monitor in full view of several journal
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Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here. Question of the Week Today I invite emails debating any of the following subjects: war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, or natura
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New research begins to unravel the role dust plays in nourishing global ocean ecosystems while helping regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.
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Nature, Published online: 05 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06118-0
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