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Team discovers evidence of prehistoric human activity in Falkland Islands
 
Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries.
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The Atlantic
My Church Doesn’t Know What to Do Anymore
 
After fielding back-to-back complaints about masks in church—one regarding a fellow parishioner who had shirked a mask during a recent service and the other wondering whether our congregation had changed its policy from “strongly recommended” to “required,” because “everyone” was wearing them—I realized something surprising: Leading a church is harder now, in 2021, than it was in 2020, during the
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Science | The Guardian
DNA from Sitting Bull’s hair confirms US man is his great-grandson
 
Study is the first time DNA from a long-dead person was used to demonstrate a familial link between a living individual and a historical figure A sample of Sitting Bull’s hair has helped scientists confirm that a South Dakota man is the famed 19th-century Native American leader’s great-grandson using a new method to analyse family lineages with DNA fragments from long-dead people. Researchers sai
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Futurism
Taiwan Builds Exoskeleton to Give Soldiers Super Strength
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Military Super Suit Taiwan says it’s created a battery-powered exoskeleton suit that can allow its soldiers to run faster and carry heavy objects with ease. The first-generation suit was engineered by the country’s go-to weapons manufacturer, the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, according to The South China Morning Post . The suit is a part of a four year project dubbed th
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Futurism
McDonald’s Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI
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I Said Fries! McDonald’s is partnering with IBM to implement artificial intelligence tech to take orders at its drive-thru lanes. “In my mind, IBM is the ideal partner for McDonald’s given their expertise in building AI-powered customer care solutions and voice recognition,” McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said during a Wednesday earnings call, as quoted by CNBC . It’s arguably the last thing we
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Futurism
Scientists Are Working on an AI to Let Us Talk to Whales
 
Project CETI An interdisciplinary team of scientists have launched a project with the goal of decoding and communicating with sperm whales. That’s right. That scene from “Finding Nemo” might actually become a reality. The initiative is called Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) , and its goal is to use artificial intelligence in order to understand the language of whales, according to
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Futurism
Facebook Changes Name, Announces AR Layer Over Physical Reality
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It’s official: Facebook’s new name is Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement at the end of the company’s Connect conference, which was dedicated to its grand vision for its augmented and virtual reality products. In his concluding remarks, he stressed the company’s focus on developing its metaverse before announcing the name “Meta.” “Over time I hope that we are seen as a metaverse compa
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Futurism
Elon Musk Says He Wants to Use Wealth to Get Humans to Mars, Not Pay Taxes
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It didn’t come as a shock when Tesla CEO Elon Musk criticized a plan to tax billionaires earlier this week over a plan to tax billionaires. The billionaire — who also happens to be the richest person in the world — has other goals in mind for his tremendous wealth: making humanity interplanetary. “My plan is to use the money to get humanity to Mars and preserve the light of consciousness,” he twe
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Phys.org
New photocatalyst produces ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen at room temperature without fossil fuels
 
Ammonia (NH3) is a major component in fertilizer and a promising carbon-free energy carrier. However, ammonia production consumes around 2 percent of the world's total energy production and releases 500 Mt of carbon dioxide annually. A research team led by scientists at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) developed a new kind of photocatalyst that can produce ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen at
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The Atlantic
Revenge of the Donald
 
Losers don’t usually get a second chance in modern U.S. presidential politics. Back in the days of nominating conventions and party bosses, an Adlai Stevenson or a Thomas Dewey could gain two consecutive nominations. Richard Nixon actually won the presidency in 1968 after losing in 1960. But since the coming of primary contests, it’s win—or retire. Even Al Gore, who won the popular vote in 2000,
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Phys.org
Blackhole with warped accretion disc discovered
 
An international team of astrophysicists from South Africa, the UK, France and the US have found large variations in the brightness of light seen from around one of the closest black holes in our Galaxy, 9,600 light-years from Earth, which they conclude is caused by a huge warp in its accretion disc.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Researchers film fundamental life process at cellular level
 
All proteins in a cell are assembled by complicated molecular machines. The precursors of these ribosomes are produced in the cell nucleus and then enter the cell through the so-called nuclear pores. Researchers at the University of Bonn and ETH Zurich have now filmed this fundamental process in living cells for the first time. Their experiments improve the understanding of how ribosomes are creat
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Futurity.org
Green tea discovery upends ideas about its health benefits
 
New research casts doubt on on previous assumptions about how ingredients in green tea work to promote health. Green tea has long been known to have health benefits. In particular, it contains catechins called ECG and EGCG that are said to prolong life. These two substances belong to the group of polyphenols. They are considered antioxidants, which means they counteract or prevent oxidative stres
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MIT Technology Review
How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs
 
A few years ago, a young man from California’s technology scene began popping up in the world’s leading developmental biology labs. These labs were deciphering the secrets of embryos and had a particular interest in how eggs are formed. Some thought if they discovered that recipe, they would be able to copy it and transmute any cell into an egg. Their visitor, Matt Krisiloff, said he wanted to he
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Phys.org
Experts name new species of human ancestor
 
An international team of researchers, led by University of Winnipeg palaeoanthropologist Dr. Mirjana Roksandic, has announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, around half a million years ago, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans.
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ScienceDaily
Four commonly used medications reverse Alzheimer's disease in mice
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Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia in Western societies and it is estimated that 24 million people worldwide have this condition. Researchers have managed to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in mice by administering drugs currently used to treat hypertension and inflammation in humans.
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Science | The Guardian
‘Rare find’: amphitheatre dig in Kent paints picture of Roman town
 
Finds at Richborough include skeleton of cat nicknamed Maxipus and potential evidence of figurative arena panels A big night out for the people of the Roman settlement at Richborough on the Kent coast about 2,000 years ago might have involved gladiatorial contests, wild beast hunting or the occasional execution of a criminal. Taking place in a vast amphitheatre, seating up to 5,000 people, on the
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The Atlantic
A Patriarchal Tradition That Just Won’t Budge
 
About a year before Christine Mallinson gave birth to her first child, she and her husband agreed that all of their children would take her last name. The decision came down to family cohesion: The couple wanted their children—they eventually had two—to share a last name with the only cousin near their kids in age, who was Mallinson’s niece. Mallinson knew that their choice was not a popular one
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Futurism
Fast Food Is Filled With Chemicals That Disrupt Hormones, Scientists Say
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It’s no secret that fast food is bad for you. However, new research indicates that many items found in fast food restaurants throughout the US contain hormone-disrupting chemicals found in plastic. So not only is it bad for you, but it’s bad for you on a molecular level . The researchers discovered that many fast food meals contained chemicals known as phthalates , according to a paper published
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The Atlantic
The Second Amendment Has Become a Threat to the First
 
Many Americans fervently believe that the Second Amendment protects their right to bear arms everywhere, including at public protests. Many Americans also believe that the First Amendment protects their right to speak freely and participate in political protest. What most people do not realize is that the Second Amendment has become, in recent years, a threat to the First Amendment. People cannot
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Futurism
Elon Musk Whines About Taxation Plan for Billionaires
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After seeing his net worth soar past a quarter trillion dollars — that’s 12 zeros, in case you’re counting — Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to whine about a dead-on-arrival plan to tax billionaires. The proposal, by Oregon Lawmaker and Chair of the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden, would raise the taxes on about 700 billionaires in the United States to finance an expansion of healthcare, c
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Science | The Guardian
When the mystical goes mainstream: how tarot became a self-care phenomenon
 
Tarot used to be seen as the domain of the credulous. It’s now seen as a means of coping with the present, thanks to psychology-minded practitioners like Jessica Dore When Jessica Dore was growing up, her mother had a tarot deck from which she’d pull cards – much to the mounting mortification of her daughter. As a child, Dore went along with it as fortune-telling fun. But “as an adolescent, it wa
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Futurism
NASA Says We Need a Plan for When We Discover Alien Life
 
Alien Evidence NASA’s top scientists have a provocative message for the scientific community: that they need a plan in place for when — or if — we find evidence of extraterrestrial life . James Green, the agency’s chief scientist, coauthored a new article , published in the journal Nature , urging researchers to create a framework for reporting evidence of aliens. In it, the authors stressed the
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Science | The Guardian
‘I’m scared I’ve left it too late to have kids’: the men haunted by their biological clocks
 
It’s certainly not just women who worry about ageing and procreation – and now men have begun speaking about their own deep anxieties It was when Connor woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom that he started thinking about it. The 38-year-old civil servant from London got back into bed and couldn’t sleep: he was spiralling. “I thought: ‘Shit, I might not be able to have children
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Science | The Guardian
Universe review – Brian Cox’s trip to the stars is sheer cosmic cowardice
 
As the professor guides us through the solar system via excessive CGI and poetic chat, you can’t help but think his latest quest would be more effective if it wasn’t so dumbed down I don’t know how you make an hour-long programme that takes you slowly through 14bn years of history, but the BBC and Prof Brian Cox have done it with the first episode of Universe. Possibly it is a space-time paradox
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Futurism
NASA Begs Companies to Clone Its Super-Expensive Moon Rocket for Cheap
 
Spending Less Scratch After spending tens of billions of dollars developing its super-heavy and Moon-bound Space Launch System (SLS), NASA is turning to the private industry to keep the doomed system alive — and for the next 30 years or so. In a request spotted by Ars Technica , NASA is suggesting a single contractor could take over production, ownership of flight hardware, and operations while a
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Futurism
Uber Announces It Will Roll Out 50,000 Teslas to Its Drivers
 
Uber x Tesla Rental car company Hertz announced on Monday that it was ordering 100,000 Tesla Model 3s, a colossal commission that sent shares of the Elon Musk-led company soaring . And ride-hailing giant Uber is getting in on the fun. In turn, the company has announced a deal with Hertz to make 50,000 Tesla vehicles available to rent to Uber drivers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and W
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Futurism
Texas Startup Building Largest 3D Printed Home Community in US
 
3D Printing Suburb A Texas startup wants to build a community of a hundred 3D printed homes — which would make it the largest such community in the US. Icon, a startup that 3D prints buildings , is working with Florida-based construction company Lennar Corp to build the houses near Austin in 2022, according to The Wall Street Journal . The partners hope to use Icon’s 3D printing technology to sid
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Futurism
Buffalo Wild Wings Is Allowing Robots to Take Over the Deep Fryer
 
AI Fryer Artificial intelligence-enhanced robots have already overtaken the burger flippers of America — and they’re coming for the deep fryers at Buffalo Wild Wings next. Miso Robotics launched its burger-cooking robot arm Flippy back in 2018, as an easy way for restaurants to cut labor costs. Even Walmart tested Flippy in its many kitchens. Then in 2020, White Castle hired its own fleet of Flip
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Futurism
Elon Musk Mocks Dogecoin Crypto Scams
 
The internet is teeming with cryptocurrency scams. It’s booming business, with US consumers reporting more than $80 million in losses between October 2020 and May 2021 alone, according the Federal Trade Commission — a tenfold increase year-over-year. Scams have become endemic. Even websites teaching users how not to get scammed in the crypto world are getting targeted and replaced with scams . Te
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The Atlantic
Five Big Questions About COVID Vaccines for Kids
 
Some good news finally— finally— appears to be on the horizon for roughly 28 million of the United States’ youngest residents. On the heels of an advisory meeting convened yesterday, the FDA is likely on the cusp of green-lighting a kid-size dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for Americans ages 5 to 11, a move that’s been months in the making . After the agency’s expected emergency authorization,
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Futurism
United Nations Warns of “Endless Suffering” Due to Climate Disaster
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Destabilized World Next month, world leaders will meet at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) to assess the climate crisis. And it sounds like the summit is likely to take an even more urgent tone after the UN dropped two reports that send a clear message: nations simply aren’t doing enough to avert climate disaster. Emissions are slated to increase by roughly 16 percent by the decade’s end,
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Phys.org
Scientists find no hint of sterile neutrino
 
New results from the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory deal a blow to a theoretical particle known as the sterile neutrino. There is no such thing.
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Phys.org
Carbon nanotubes could help electronics withstand outer space's harsh conditions
 
Space missions, such as NASA's Orion that will take astronauts to Mars, are pushing the limits of human exploration. But during their transit, spacecrafts encounter a continuous stream of damaging cosmic radiation, which can harm or even destroy onboard electronics. To extend future missions, researchers reporting in ACS Nano show that transistors and circuits with carbon nanotubes can be configur
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The Atlantic
After 30 Years of Breeding Condors, a Secret Comes Out
 
When you get to be as endangered as the California condor, your sex life becomes a highly public affair. Since 1983, when the number of California condors in existence was a mere 22, biologists have been carefully breeding the birds in captivity . They kept track of who mated with whom, how many offspring they had, and when those offspring were released into the wild. All of this is logged in the
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The Atlantic
Is Moderna Really Better Than Pfizer—Or Is It Just a Higher Dose?
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Way back in February, when COVID-19 vaccines were still largely restricted to the most vulnerable among us, public-health leaders were determined to send a unified message: Don’t worry about the differences among the vaccines . “All three of them are really quite good, and people should take the one that’s most available to them,” Anthony Fauci said on Meet the Press . Now that hundreds of millio
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Quanta Magazine
Is the Great Neutrino Puzzle Pointing to Multiple Missing Particles?
 
In 1993, deep underground at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, a few flashes of light inside a bus-size tank of oil kicked off a detective story that is yet to reach its conclusion. The Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) was searching for bursts of radiation created by neutrinos, the lightest and most elusive of all known elementary particles. “Much to our amazement, that’s.
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Science | The Guardian
SpaceX aims to fix leaky toilets before astronauts blast off at weekend
 
Tube came unglued during SpaceX’s first private flight last month, spilling urine on to fans and beneath the floor SpaceX is facing toilet troubles in its capsules before it launches more astronauts into space. The company and Nasa want to make sure the toilet leaks will not compromise the capsule launching early on Sunday from Kennedy Space Center, or another one that has been parked at the Inte
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Futurism
Microbes Could Help Produce Rocket Fuel for Return Trips from Mars
 
Red Planet Fuel One of the hurdles on our quest to colonize Mars has to do with fuel. If humans on the Red Planet want to make it back to Earth, they need enough fuel for the launch and trip home — an immense logistical concern due to the weight of rocket fuel. Luckily, scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the fuel needed on Mars itself. The researchers’ study — publishe
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Science | The Guardian
Human species who lived 500,000 years ago named as Homo bodoensis
 
Species was direct ancestor of early humans in Africa and discovery has led to reassessment of epoch Researchers have announced the naming of a newly discovered species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. The species lived in Africa about 500,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene age, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans, according to scientists. The name bodoensis derives from a sk
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Science | The Guardian
World’s chief scientists urge Cop26 attendees to step up low-carbon policies
 
Signatories include scientists from US, EU, India and African and South American countries Chief scientists and presidents of the national science academies of more than 20 countries including Sir Patrick Vallance have written to world leaders ahead of the Cop26 climate summit, urging them to set out policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sharply, to limit global heating to 1.5C. Governments
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Futurism
Billionaire Warns That Energy Shortages Will Lead to Social Unrest
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Stark Warnings A billionaire is sounding the alarm on possible social unrest due to rising energy prices. Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwartzman told CNN that he believes shortages in the gas and oil industry will lead to a social crisis in nations throughout the world . He worries that this will impact long-standing political institutions as well. “You’re going to get very unhappy people around the
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Phys.org
Astronomers discover a massive galaxy 'shipyard' in the distant universe
 
An international team of astronomers has reported the discovery of a structure thought to be a "protocluster" of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. Located 11 billion light-years from Earth, the observations show the protocluster as it appeared when the universe was 3 billion years old, during an epoch when stars were produced at higher rates in certain regions of the co
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Phys.org
Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved
 
A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in common is that they're all mammals—there are no known fish, reptiles, or birds with tusks. In a new study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, paleontologists traced the first tusks back to ancient mammal relatives that lived before the
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Futurism
Facebook Hardware Devs Reportedly Skeptical of Metaverse
 
During today’s announcement, Facebook revealed that it’s rebranding itself as “Meta ” — a huge play to virtual and augmented reality technologies, in an effort to replace users’ reality wholesale. In a tech demo, Facebook execs showed off impressive augmented reality versions of their own physical bodies — credit where credit is due — in the form of uncanny renderings that had an impressive amoun
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Futurism
Space Toilet No Longer Oozes Human Pee, SpaceX Proclaims
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SpaceX says it’s managed to fix its leaky space toilet with mere days left before its next Crew Dragon spacecraft launch this Sunday — the company’s fourth crewed mission to the International Space Station and fifth crewed mission into orbit. It was an odd race against time, given the stakes involved. No astronaut wants to travel into space knowing that there is human urine oozing out of the toil
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Futurism
Gov Official Tears Apart Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” Feature
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Not Enough It’s no secret that Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” feature — a software suite that doesn’t actually enable full self-driving — is unpopular among federal regulators. In a Tuesday interview with CNBC , National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy didn’t beat around the bush. To her, Tesla isn’t doing enough to ensure its vehicles aren’t ending up crashing while “self-driving
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Phys.org
Why roots don't grow in the shade
 
When a plant finds itself in too much shade, it redirects its resources to reach for light. Crop yield and root development stall as the plant focuses on growing taller, striving to rise above neighboring plants to access the sun.
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The Atlantic
The Blockbuster That Hollywood Was Afraid to Make
 
When I asked him about his film adaptation of Dune , the writer-director Denis Villeneuve quickly held up his prized copy of Frank Herbert’s book, a French-translation paperback with a particularly striking cover that he’s owned since he was 13. “I keep the book beside me as I’m working,” Villeneuve told me cheerfully over Zoom. “I made this movie for myself. Being a hard-core Dune fan, the first
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Phys.org
Talk-to-tilt: Head tilting in dogs
 
According to a new study, just published in Animal Cognition, some dogs, those that can learn the name of their toys, tilt their heads upon hearing their owners requesting a toy. The side of the tilt seems to be consistent for each dog over time. Data on this behavior were collected during the Genius Dog Challenge, a series of live broadcasted experiments that become viral over social media, and d
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MIT Technology Review
Robo-taxis are headed for a street near you
 
In the coming years, mobility solutions—or how we get from point A to point B—will bridge the gap between ground and air transportation—yes, that means flying cars. Technological advancements are transforming mobility for people and, leading to unprecedented change. Nand Kochhar, vice president of automotive and transportation for Siemens Software says this transformation extends beyond transport
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Quanta Magazine
Where Transcendental Numbers Hide in Everyday Math
 
In everyday language, the word “transcendental” connotes something that’s beyond the ordinary, something that is hidden and mysterious, with almost magical or mystical powers. In mathematics, on the other hand, the meaning of the term “transcendental” is more mundane. It simply describes the class of the infinitely many numbers that cannot be solutions of polynomial equations like ax3 + bx2 + cx
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Phys.org
Curbing climate chaos: Why nature is the unsung hero in our quest for net zero
 
The forests, grasslands and coastal and marine ecosystems that Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and partners are working to safeguard are not just biodiversity havens. They also play a vital role in the global carbon cycle by removing it from the atmosphere and storing it for decades, centuries, or even millennia. Between 2007 and 2016 these natural carbon sinks—including terrestrial forests and
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MIT Technology Review
These impossible instruments could change the future of music
 
When Gadi Sassoon met Michele Ducceschi backstage at a rock concert in Milan in 2016, the idea of making music with mile-long trumpets blown by dragon fire, or guitars strummed by needle-thin alien fingers, wasn’t yet on his mind. At the time, Sassoon was simply blown away by the everyday sounds of the classical instruments that Ducceschi and his colleagues were re-creating. “When I first heard i
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The Atlantic
Do You Even Lift, Embryo?
 
Some cuckoos are born assassins. Within a day or two of hatching, the infant birds—still blind, pink, and featherless—will start to evict the other residents of their nest, hurling them over the edge and to their death. Technically, the evictions they carry out are from living quarters that aren’t even their own. The cuckoos are parasites, strategically placed by their mother into the abode of an
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The Atlantic
Democrats Might Give Up on a Methane Tax, and Maybe That’s Okay
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Yet another climate provision may be out of the Democrats’ signature spending bill. On Monday, The New York Times and Reuters reported that Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, one of two pivotal Democratic votes, wants to remove the bill’s tax on methane leaks from oil and gas operations. (A spokesperson for Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware whose committee oversees that proposal, de
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Phys.org
J1420+1205 is a small radio galaxy, study finds
 
An international team of astronomers has conducted radio observations of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) known as J1420+1205. Results of this observational campaign suggest that this source is not a blazar like was previously thought, but a small radio galaxy. The study was detailed in a paper published October 21 on arXiv.org.
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The Atlantic
How to Believe Ghost Stories
 
Y our aunt says she was unable to sleep a wink because her Airbnb on the Cape was haunted by a pirate. Your uncle, who survived a heart attack, claims to have a new zeal for life after talking with his deceased father in heaven. Does believing their stories mean believing in ghosts? No, it doesn’t. Because a story can be true in different ways. Now is the time for ghost stories—and not just the k
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The Atlantic
The Disguises We Wear Every Day
 
“ How to Build a Life ” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life . A pandemic Halloween raises a number of questions about masking. Do we wear our COVID masks under our Halloween masks, or over them? Has the CDC issued guidelines on which costumes can best acc
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Phys.org
A call for a methodical approach to identifying life beyond Earth
 
A team of space scientists at NASA has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature calling for the establishment of a methodical approach to identifying life beyond Earth. In their paper, the group suggests the space science community begin using a "confidence of life detection" (CoLD) scale, similar in some respects to others used in the science community, such as the TRL scale NASA uses
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The Atlantic
Trump Endorses His Legacy
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Brazil’s next presidential election is a year away, but Donald Trump already knows whom he is supporting. “President Jair Bolsonaro and I have become great friends over the past few years,” the former president said in a statement on Tuesday. “He fights hard for, and loves, the people of Brazil—Just like I do for the people of the United States.” Reading between the lines, Trump’s support for the
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Science | The Guardian
Call for action on TB as deaths rise for first time in decade
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Tuberculosis campaigners tell G20 leaders $1bn is needed annually for vaccine research to reverse decades of underfunding A group of tuberculosis survivors are calling for more funding and action to find new vaccines, after the numbers dying of the infection rose for the first time in 10 years. In 2020, 1.5 million were killed by TB and 10 million infected , according to the World Health Organiza
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The Atlantic
The Trump Playbook Hits France
 
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A television star eyes a presidential run as an outsider ready to take on the political establishment. Unlike his competitors, he doesn’t shy away from religious or racial provocation, nor does he hide his penchant for conspiracies. He is a vocal opponent of immigration, political correctness, and feminism. To his supporters, he is a familiar face who isn’
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MIT Technology Review
Innovating for the hybrid future of work
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In March 2020, companies large and small, across industries, and around the world, had to pivot nearly overnight to remote work because of pandemic-related shutdowns. In fact, over a third of US workers reported working remotely during that time, including nearly three-quarters of the highest-income workers. Digital meeting and collaboration tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack became c
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The Atlantic
Gossip Bloggers Caught Canoodling With QAnon
 
Gossiping about celebrities is fun because you don’t know them personally and therefore you can’t hurt their feelings or directly ruin their lives. The idea that celebrity gossip could ever be dangerous is silly. For example, let’s say I told the woman who cuts my hair (whom I am always trying to entertain) that Jay-Z supposedly threatened to have Chris Brown murdered because Chris Brown keeps cl
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MIT Technology Review
Podcast: How pricing algorithms learn to collude
 
Algorithms now determine how much things cost. It’s called dynamic pricing and it adjusts according to current market conditions in order to increase profits. The rise of e-commerce has propelled pricing algorithms into an everyday occurrence—whether you’re shopping on Amazon, booking a flight, hotel or ordering an Uber. In this continuation of our series on automation and your wallet, we explore
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Phys.org
Additively manufacturing a better steel via synchrotron X-ray techniques
 
Laser additive manufacturing—a form of 3D printing that builds up parts layer-by-layer by melting and resolidifying metal powders—has ushered in a renaissance for scientists learning how to design unique structural materials. A new study led by Stony Brook University researchers sheds light on the connection between the corrosion behavior and underlying materials structure in laser additively manu
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The Atlantic
The Revolution Will Be Improvised
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T he word transformative appears five times in the White House’s announcement of a $1.75 trillion framework for tackling climate change and bolstering the social safety net. The word historic shows up another 12 times. But if Democrats are truly reshaping American government with President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda, they’re doing it on the fly. The recent frenzied days of negotiation
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
For less than $10, anyone can now get up close and explore single cells in VR
 
While often thought of as being limited to expensive hardware for dedicated gamers, virtual reality (VR) has become a lot more affordable in recent years with entry-level hardware—such as Google Cardboard—costing less than $10. With this headset, anyone with a smartphone can place their device into the headset and view VR content through its large screen.
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Phys.org
Advances in pH and phosphate monitoring enhance safety in nuclear fuel recycling
 
Picture a scenario in which a highly toxic substance, like dissolved nuclear fuel, is being recycled in a reprocessing plant. Until now, workers inside the plant had very limited information about what's in the solution to inform next steps. But that's changing, thanks to the innovative work led by two interns at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Now, without opening, sampling, or othe
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Science | The Guardian
Daylight saving time could be bad for our health – should we get rid of it? – podcast
 
The clocks go back in the UK this Sunday and many will welcome the extra hour in bed. But research suggests that changing the time like this could be bad for the body. Anand Jagatia speaks to the Guardian’s science correspondent Linda Geddes and chronobiologist Prof Till Roenneberg about how daylight saving time affects our biology – and whether we should get rid of it permanently Continue readin
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MIT Technology Review
We are awash in digital light
 
The computer scientist Alvy Ray Smith cofounded both Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division and Pixar Animation Studios. For those achievements alone, he is one of the most important technological innovators in cinema since at least the end of the Second World War. But Smith is not a Hollywood guy, and his intriguing, foundational new book A Biography of the Pixel is not a Tinseltown book. There
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Phys.org
Researchers develop broadband spintronic-metasurface terahertz emitters with tunable chirality
 
Terahertz radiation, between infrared and microwave radiation in the electromagnetic spectrum, possesses unique advantages for fundamental studies and practical applications. The ability to generate and manipulate broadband chiral terahertz waves is essential for applications in material imaging, terahertz sensing, and medical diagnosis. It can also open up new possibilities for nonlinear terahert
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The Atlantic
Reality TV’s Absurd New Extreme
 
At a posh bar somewhere in the U.K., a devil is on a date with a statue. The two sip their drinks and make stilted conversation. “I moved to New York to pursue modeling,” the devil says, her horns protruding from the top of her head, her cherry-red cheeks stretching with her mouth as she smiles. “Ooh, I did a bit of modeling myself!” her flint-skinned date replies. The two don’t find much else to
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic Daily: Our Weird Economic Moment, Explained
 
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. Bettman / Getty; The Atlantic Welcome to another very weird economic moment. Right now, it’s as if we’re living through multiple timelines at once, my colleague Derek Thompson explains. “The pande
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MIT Technology Review
The new art in town
 
Students returning to campus this fall found a new bit of public art in Kendall Square: two multicolored brick structures just outside the Marriott Cambridge by the Baltimore artists known as Jessie and Katey.
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MIT Technology Review
Digital body language for the post-pandemic era
 
The awkward pause on a Zoom call. The brusque, ambiguous email. The context-free meeting invite. When online interactions are so easily misconstrued, effective communication is essential. As the author of the new book Digital Body Language , Erica Dhawan, MBA ’12, trains corporate leaders to connect fluently in this new era of remote work, with clients ranging from the US Army to Pepsi to Deloitt
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Phys.org
Professor examines new developments in mapping tribal displacement
 
The history of indigenous displacement and land dispossession is a long, troubled and still incomplete history of the United States. It's been widely reported that since 1776, the year America was founded, the U.S. has seized more than one billion acres of land that was home to hundreds of nations of American Indians. Yet many Americans are only vaguely familiar with how this situation came to be.
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MIT Technology Review
The Glasgow climate talks will fall short. Here are other ways to accelerate progress.
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Thousands of delegates will amass in Glasgow, Scotland, in the coming days for the annual UN climate conference, where they’ll spend two weeks squabbling over a lengthy list of action items that add up to a single question: How much faster will the world move to prevent catastrophic warming this century? If history is any clue, it won’t be by much. After 25 such summits over the last three decade
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Phys.org
Identifying old bones by scanning the collagen in them using mass spectrometry
 
A team of researchers from Australia, Germany, the U.S. and Canada has found that it is possible to identify old bones by scanning the collagen they contain using mass spectrometry. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the group describes using the technique to identify extant monotreme and marsupial species on Australia's Barrow Island.
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MIT Technology Review
Amit Sinha and Deepali Perti Sinha
 
“Because of my time at MIT, I had the training and opportunity to work with some of the smartest people throughout my career,” says Amit Sinha, chief technical officer and president of research and development, operations, and customer service at Zscaler, a cloud-based information security company. “Plus, my friends and colleagues think I’m smarter than I actually am!” Joking aside, he and his sp
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Phys.org
Getting NASA data to the ground with lasers
 
NASA launches satellites, rovers, and orbiters to investigate humanity's place in the Milky Way. When these missions reach their destinations, their science instruments capture images, videos, and valuable insights about the cosmos. Communications infrastructure in space and on the ground enables the data collected by these missions to reach Earth. Without ground stations to receive it, the extrao
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Phys.org
Researchers map best conditions for forage fishes in the Chesapeake
 
Big fish eat smaller fish, but only if there are smaller fish to eat. A new study led by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science maps the conditions most suitable for key species of forage fishes in the Chesapeake Bay, offering guidance for any future efforts to protect or restore the habitat required to yield sufficient prey for predatory fishes such as striped bass.
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ExtremeTechExtreme – ExtremeTech
Meet Starlab, a Private Space Station That Could Fly by 2027
 
(Image: Nanoracks> With the rise in commercial space exploration comes a new intergalactic destination: a private space station called Starlab. It’s being developed via a partnership between Voyager Space, Nanoracks, and Lockheed Martin, and they announced late last week that they’re planning on having Starlab operational by 2027. Starlab will be the first free-flying commercial space station. Th
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MIT Technology Review
Looking to space to cure osteoarthritis
 
In 1976, Alan Grodzinsky ’71, ScD ’74, was feeling a little frustrated. He had spent two years teaching a basic course on semiconductor physics and circuits in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, learning the material in the fast-moving field as he went along. That didn’t leave him any time for research. Then a golden opportunity arose. With the help of the late Irvin
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ExtremeTechExtreme – ExtremeTech
New DMCA Exemptions Guarantee a De Facto Right to Repair
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The S20 Ultra's giant camera assembly, courtesy of iFixit. It stands to reason that if you own something, you should be able to tear it apart, tinker with it, and (hopefully) repair it. However, the great importance ascribed to copyright in US law makes that difficult. However, new copyright exemptions have gone into effect today that could help promote the right-to-repair movement, but hardware
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MIT Technology Review
3 space science questions that computing is helping to answer
 
As space scientists collect more and more data, observatories around the world are finding new ways to apply supercomputing, cloud computing, and deep learning to make sense of it all. Here are some examples of how these technologies are changing the way astronomers study space. What happens when black holes collide? As a postdoctoral student in the US, astrophysicist Eliu Huerta started to think
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ScienceDaily
Many new college students report pet separation anxiety
 
A survey of a sample of new first-year college students leaving pets at home and found that 75% experienced some level of pet separation anxiety — with one in four reporting moderate to severe symptoms. The students who had higher anxiety tended to be those who treated their pets more like people, identifying them as friends, sleeping in the same room and generally spending a lot of time with the
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The Atlantic
Thousands of Space Rocks Follow Jupiter Everywhere
 
Imagine Jupiter and its little asteroids as cosmic Halloween decor on the solar system’s front stoop. The planet itself—swirly, stormy, the largest in the solar system—is the pumpkin, while the tiny asteroids that accompany it are kind of like funky-shaped gourds, one cluster in front and the other behind . The pumpkin and these gourds have been on display like this for billions of years, strung
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The Atlantic
Luke Skywalker, Paul Atreides, and the Very Special Boys of Sci-Fi
 
A desert planet. An empire spanning the galaxy. A young boy burdened to be its savior. The 1965 novel Dune ’s influence on Star Wars is obvious, but Frank Herbert’s work has echoed throughout all of modern science-fiction storytelling. With the director Denis Villenueve’s big-budget, star-studded epic now giving it a proper film adaptation , how does 2021’s Dune play more than a half century afte
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Phys.org
Researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal
 
Physicists and engineers have long been interested in creating new forms of matter, those not typically found in nature. Such materials might find use someday in, for example, novel computer chips. Beyond applications, they also reveal elusive insights about the fundamental workings of the universe. Recent work at MIT both created and characterized new quantum systems demonstrating dynamical symme
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Phys.org
Researchers set 'ultrabroadband' record with entangled photons
 
Quantum entanglement—or what Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance"— occurs when two quantum particles are connected to each other, even when millions of miles apart. Any observation of one particle affects the other as if they were communicating with each other. When this entanglement involves photons, interesting possibilities emerge, including entangling the photons'
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Phys.org
Scientists identify G-Exos as a nanocarrier for miRNA transfer to stimulate neural differentiation of stem cells
 
Differentiation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) into functional neural cells is of tremendous significance to treat neural diseases. However, the limited neural differentiation of BMSCs remains a major challenge. Recent studies suggest that miRNAs may play a crucial role in regulating the neural differentiation of stem cells as effective signaling molecules. Due to their uniq
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ScienceDaily
New species of human ancestor named: Homo bodoensis
 
Palaeoanthropologists have announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, around half a million years ago, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans.
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Phys.org
Sun releases significant solar flare
 
The Sun emitted a significant solar flare peaking at 11:35 a.m. EDT on Oct. 28, 2021. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event.
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MIT Technology Review
Cryptocurrency isn’t private—but with know-how, it could be
 
There’s probably no such thing as perfect privacy and security online. Hackers regularly breach corporate firewalls to gain customers’ private information, and scammers constantly strive to trick us into divulging our passwords. But existing tools can provide a high level of privacy— if we use them correctly, says Mashael Al Sabah, a cybersecurity researcher at the Qatar Computing Research Instit
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
The fastest way to slow climate change now | Ilissa Ocko
 
"Cutting methane is the single fastest, most effective opportunity to reduce climate change risks in the near term," says atmospheric scientist Ilissa Ocko. That's because, unlike carbon dioxide, methane's warming power doesn't come from a gradual buildup over time but is almost entirely from recent emissions. Ocko identifies three main sources of methane pollution which, if addressed, could drama
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Phys.org
New hydrogen storage material steps on the gas
 
Hydrogen is increasingly viewed as essential to a sustainable world energy economy because it can store surplus renewable power, decarbonize transportation and serve as a zero-emission energy carrier. However, conventional high-pressure or cryogenic storage pose significant technical and engineering challenges.
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
AI isn't as smart as you think — but it could be | Jeff Dean
 
What is AI, really? Jeff Dean, the head of Google's AI efforts, explains the underlying technology that enables artificial intelligence to do all sorts of things, from understanding language to diagnosing disease — and presents a roadmap for building better, more responsible systems that have a deeper understanding of the world. (Followed by a Q&A with head of TED Chris Anderson)
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Phys.org
Social mobility is influenced by where ancestors lived
 
There are clear and enduring regional divides across Great Britain, finds an intergenerational assessment of the social mobility of British families between 1851 and 2016, carried out by University College London (UCL) researchers at the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC).
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Phys.org
NASA's Juno: Science results offer first 3D view of Jupiter atmosphere
 
New findings from NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet's distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the unseen processes below its clouds. The results highlight the inner workings of the belts and zones of clouds encircling Jupiter, as well as its polar cyclones and even the Great Red Spot.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Empirical audit and review and an assessment of evidentiary value in research on the psychological consequences of scarcity [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
 
Empirical audit and review is an approach to assessing the evidentiary value of a research area. It involves identifying a topic and selecting a cross-section of studies for replication. We apply the method to research on the psychological consequences of scarcity. Starting with the papers citing a seminal publication in…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
First-order antiferromagnetic transitions of SrMn2P2 and CaMn2P2 single crystals containing corrugated-honeycomb Mn sublattices [Applied Physical Sciences]
 
SrMn2P2 and CaMn2P2 are insulators that adopt the trigonal CaAl2Si2-type structure containing corrugated Mn honeycomb layers. Magnetic susceptibility χ and heat capacity versus temperature T data reveal a weak first-order antiferromagnetic (AFM) transition at the Néel temperature TN=53(1) K for SrMn2P2 and a strong first-order AFM transition at TN=69.8(3) K…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Vascular KATP channel structural dynamics reveal regulatory mechanism by Mg-nucleotides [Biochemistry]
 
Vascular tone is dependent on smooth muscle KATP channels comprising pore-forming Kir6.1 and regulatory SUR2B subunits, in which mutations cause Cantú syndrome. Unique among KATP isoforms, they lack spontaneous activity and require Mg-nucleotides for activation. Structural mechanisms underlying these properties are unknown. Here, we determined cryogenic electron microscopy structures of…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Double peroxidase and histone acetyltransferase AgTip60 maintain innate immune memory in primed mosquitoes [Microbiology]
 
Immune priming in Anopheles gambiae is mediated by the systemic release of a hemocyte differentiation factor (HDF), a complex of lipoxin A4 bound to Evokin, a lipid carrier. HDF increases the proportion of circulating granulocytes and enhances mosquito cellular immunity. Here, we show that Evokin is present in hemocytes and…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Calcineurin regulates the stability and activity of estrogen receptor {alpha} [Cell Biology]
 
Estrogen receptor α (ER-α) mediates estrogen-dependent cancer progression and is expressed in most breast cancer cells. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of the cellular abundance and activity of ER-α remain unclear. We here show that the protein phosphatase calcineurin regulates both ER-α stability and activity in human breast…
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ScienceDaily
After California’s 3rd-largest wildfire, deer returned home while trees were ‘still smoldering’
 
While many animals have adapted to live with wildfires of the past — which were smaller, more frequent and kept ecosystems in balance across the West — it's unclear to scientists how animals are coping with today's unprecedented megafires. A team of researchers tracked a population of black-tailed deer before, during and after the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire and found that most of the deer retur
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Futurism
SpaceX Flexes Giant Starship-Catching “Chopsticks” for the First Time
 
SpaceFlex SpaceX has flexed the “Chopsticks” arm of its massive Starship-catching tower for the first time this morning at the company’s testing facilities in South Texas, as spotted during a live NASASpaceflight stream . The “Mechazilla” tower, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk likes to call it , is meant to ensure that the space company’s heavy lift rocket called Starship and its accompanying Super Heavy
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Futurism
Best Drones for Kids of Any Age
 
Today’s drones offer more hands-on fun than your kid’s favorite video game. Advances in quadcopter technology have made these flying gadgets safer and much easier to control. In fact, most are flight-ready in mere minutes. Plus, drones designed for kids provide extra layers of protection to prevent curious fingers from interacting with angry propellers. A drone with camera and phone apps turns th
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Phys.org
New results from MicroBooNE provide clues to particle physics mystery
 
New results from a more-than-decade long physics experiment offer insight into unexplained electron-like events found in previous experiments. Results of the MicroBooNE experiment, while not confirming the existence of a proposed new particle, the sterile neutrino, provide a path forward to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, the theory of the fundamental forces of nature and elementary par
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The Atlantic
Photos: The Spirit of Halloween 2021
 
This year, many of the Halloween events that were canceled in 2020 because of the pandemic have returned. Although some safety measures remain in place, people appear to be greeting the spooky season with open arms once again. Collected below are photos that take a look at some scary (and fun) pre-Halloween festivities in England, New York, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Ukraine, California, Peru, and elsew
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Futurity.org
Salamander size is a big part of their incredible healing
 
Researchers have found that a phenomenon tied to animal size helps determine whether animals heal without scarring after injury—in this case, burns. What’s more, the researchers have also found a way to manipulate this feature to allow burns to heal without leaving a permanent mark. Burns not only cause disfiguring scars that mark a person for life, but the inflexible, plastic-like tissue found i
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ScienceDaily
Cleveland Clinic study links gut microbiome and aggressive prostate cancer
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Researchers have shown for the first time that diet-associated molecules in the gut are associated with aggressive prostate cancer, suggesting dietary interventions may help reduce risk. While more research will be necessary, the study's lead author says findings from the team's analysis of nearly 700 patients may have clinical implications for diagnosing and preventing lethal prostate cancer.
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ScienceDaily
Stacking the deck: Layers of crystalline nanosheets enable tunable electronic properties
 
Researchers have obtained and characterized two-dimensional (2D) boron monosulfide (BS) nanosheets. The bandgap energy of a single BS nanosheet was greater than that of the bulk material from which it came. As additional 2D layers were stacked, the bandgap energy eventually decreased to that of the bulk material. This result reflected the tunable electronic properties of BS nanosheets, which are s
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ScienceDaily
New study solves energy storage and supply puzzle
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Researchers have found a simple and affordable method to determine which chemicals and types of metals are best used to store and supply energy, in a breakthrough for any battery-run devices and technologies reliant on the fast and reliable supply of electricity, including smart phones and tablets.
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Futurism
The Navy Can’t Figure Out What Damaged Its Nuclear Submarine
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Unknown Object The US Navy still has no idea what its submarine hit in the South China Sea earlier this month. Officials announced earlier this month that the nuclear submarine USS Connecticut had sustained damage — and its crew members had reported several injuries — after colliding with an “unknown object” in the South China Sea. Now, it sounds as though military officials still have no idea wh
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Futurity.org
Is trick-or-treating safe this Halloween?
 
With school back in session, it’s easy to feel like things are back to normal—but they’re not. Parents should keep this in mind with the arrival of Halloween this weekend. More transmission of COVID is happening among kids, especially in social settings, researchers say. “We are seeing an uptick in cases locally,” warns Kristen Padilla , a pediatrician at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the Univ
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ScienceDaily
Increased cognitive demands offset low-back exoskeleton advantages, research finds
 
In manufacturing, work-related lower-back injuries from lifting and handling heavy objects account for approximately $100 billion in medical bills annually in the United States, according to new data. Although novel ergonomic interventions such as industrial exoskeletons have shown promise in reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injuries, new research finds that the cognitive fit (where the wearer
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ScienceDaily
How two people controlled HIV after stopping treatment
 
Research has identified two distinct ways that people with HIV can control the virus for an extended period after stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART) under medical supervision. This information could inform efforts to develop new tools to help people with HIV put the virus into remission without taking lifelong medication, which can have long-term side-effects.
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ScienceDaily
Creating a new 'toehold' for RNA therapeutics, cell therapies, and diagnostics
 
Synthetic biologists have developed eToeholds — small versatile devices built into RNA that enable expression of a linked protein-encoding sequence only when a cell-specific or viral RNA is present. eToehold devices open up multiple opportunities for more targeted types of RNA therapy, in vitro cell and tissue engineering approaches, and the sensing of diverse biological threats in humans and oth
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Phys.org
Making plastic durable and degradable
 
Polyethylene is the most abundantly manufactured plastic in the world. Due to properties like durability, it has many diverse, and even long-term uses. Professor Stefan Mecking's team in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Konstanz has now incorporated polar groups in the material's molecular chains in order to expand its properties and simultaneously reduce the problematical persiste
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Phys.org
Climate change misinformation fools too many people, but there are ways to combat it
 
In recent decades, people in the UK have watched climate change shift from being an abstract threat discussed on the news to an increasingly common presence in everyday life. As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, floods and other extreme weather events has risen, so has public concern about climate change. A 2019 poll found 80% of people were fairly or very worried, while a more recent surv
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Science | The Guardian
Treasury minister praised for divulging his agoraphobia
 
Simon Clarke explained his absence from pre-budget photo op was due to condition that affects thousands in UK A minister has been praised for “leading by example” after he spoke openly about his experience of agoraphobia , a condition that leads to thousands of hospital admissions every year. Simon Clarke, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said on Wednesday he would not take part in the tradit
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ScienceDaily
Trapping molecules to find new physics
 
The Standard Model of particle physics has been extremely successful in describing how the universe works. However, there are some things that it cannot explain. Physicists have, therefore, been looking for new physics in particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Now, a different approach is also being used: in contrast to smashing up matter at high energies, physicists want
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Phys.org
Satellite images show positive impact of conservation efforts for China's coastal wetlands
 
Coastal wetlands support diverse and vital ecosystems central to coastal areas' biodiversity and economic vitality. However, coastal wetlands are threatened by sea level rise that can lead to flooding and land use changes that alter the way people can live or work in these areas. These impacts are large. Approximately 600 million people live less than 10 meters, approximately 33 feet, above sea le
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Phys.org
What are the drivers of individual climate actions in Europe?
 
Individual climate actions are an essential pillar for achieving the climate change mitigation goals of the Paris Agreement. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognizes the importance of individual efforts and lists specific actions that citizens can take. Even with many potential actions available to citizens, progress towards the Paris Agreement lags behind the targets,
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Nature Communications – current – nature.com science feeds
Assessing the importance of thermogenic degassing from the Karoo Large Igneous Province (LIP) in driving Toarcian carbon cycle perturbations
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26467-6 The emplacement of the Karoo LIP occurred synchronously with the Toarcian crisis, which is characterized by negative carbon isotope excursions. Here the authors use carbon cycle modelling to show that thermogenic carbon released during LIP emplacement represents a plausible source for the negative excursions.
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Nature Communications – current – nature.com science feeds
Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26540-0 Climate change negatively impacts the livelihoods of indigenous communities across the world, including those located on the African continent. This Comment reports on how five African indigenous communities have been impacted by climate change and the adopted adaptation mechanisms.
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Nature Communications – current – nature.com science feeds
Specialized transendothelial dendritic cells mediate thymic T-cell selection against blood-borne macromolecules
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26446-x T cells are selected in the thymus, through interaction with self-antigens, to remove autoreactive cells. Here the authors show that a specialized thymic dendritic cell subset juxtaposes to microvessels, requires CX3CR1/CX3CL1 for this positioning, and has processes extruding into the blood stream to sample s
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Nature Communications – current – nature.com science feeds
Improvement of a synthetic live bacterial therapeutic for phenylketonuria with biosensor-enabled enzyme engineering
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26524-0 PKU patients have elevated phenylalanine levels which can result in neurological impairment. Here the authors utilize biosensor-based ultra-high-throughput screening to optimize PAL activity in a synthetic biotic platform for improved in vivo performance.
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Nature Communications – current – nature.com science feeds
Impact of intensifying nitrogen limitation on ocean net primary production is fingerprinted by nitrogen isotopes
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26552-w Projected declines in marine primary production are underpinned by a slowdown in nitrogen supplied to surface waters. Here the authors detail a new means to detect this slowdown and describe major shifts in the 21st century oceanic nitrogen cycle.
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Nature Communications – current – nature.com science feeds
Ion-dependent structure, dynamics, and allosteric coupling in a non-selective cation channel
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26538-8 NaK is a bacterial non-selective cation channel. Here, the authors use solution NMR to show that selectivity filter (SF) in NaK is dynamic, with structural differences between the Na+ and K + -bound states. The conformation of the SF is communicated to the pore-lining helices similarly as in the K + -selectiv
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The Atlantic
The Experiment Podcast: What Does It Mean to Give Away Our DNA?
 
Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts Just as the Navajo researcher Rene Begay started to fall in love with the field of genetics, she learned that the Navajo Nation had banned all genetic testing on tribal land. Now she is struggling to figure out what the future of genetics might look like, and whether the Navajo and other Indigenous communities should be a
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The Atlantic
The Atlantic Daily: What Comes Next for Kid Vaccines
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Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox. COVID-19 vaccines for kids could arrive as early as next week. To help you prepare, we answer five practical questions. Pfizer’s vaccine for 5-to-11-year-olds has cleared the first of four hurdles
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
The tech-forward rejuvenation of "underdog" cities | Irma L. Olguin Jr.
 
Computer skills aren't what's stopping people from breaking into the tech industry, says social entrepreneur Irma L. Olguin Jr. More often, the biggest hurdles are things like access to childcare, transportation and financial stability. In this visionary talk, Olguin Jr. introduces the work she's done to uplift and empower people in her community in Fresno, California — and shows how it can be a
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forskning.se
Tiden ute för klimatkompensation
 
Får man flyga till Teneriffa eller Cypern om man klimatkompenserar? Och är det okej att köpa oxfilé från Brasilien om mjölken vi dricker lovar nollutsläpp? Nej, det är för sent att förlita sig på klimatkompensering om vi ska nå klimatmålen, säger forskarna. Klimatkompensation innebär enkelt uttryckt att ett utsläpp av växthusgaser på ett ställe, kompenseras med en klimatpositiv insats på ett anna
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Artificial intelligence accelerates search for markers of resistance to sugarcane yellow leaf disease
 
Yellow leaf disease, a major sugarcane pest in Brazil, is caused by a virus resistant to thermal treatment. An infected plantation can be saved only by growing plantlets in tissue culture in the laboratory and planting them out, a time-consuming process that requires specialized infrastructure and personnel. According to a group of scientists who have long studied the problem, the most effective w
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Science | The Guardian
Abdul Qadeer Khan obituary
 
Physicist hailed as the father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons industry who confessed to smuggling nuclear secrets The father of Pakistan’s atomic weapons industry and the greatest proliferator of nuclear weapons in history, Abdul Qadeer Khan , who has died aged 85 after testing positive for Covid-19, was heralded as a hero in his native country, but he left a troubling legacy for the west. Along wit
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Phys.org
Sustainable fashion aims to make green the new black
 
Fast fashion, which encourages consumers to quickly discard and replace clothing, uses significant amounts of natural, social, and creative resources and creates excessive waste. Research into sustainable fashion aims to change this.
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Singularity Hub
Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: How Scientists Cracked a 400-Year-Old Alchemical Cipher
 
What secret alchemical knowledge could be so important it required sophisticated encryption? The setting was Amsterdam, 2019. A conference organized by the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry had just concluded at the Embassy of the Free Mind , in a lecture hall opened by historical fiction author Dan Brown. At the conference, Science History Institute postdoctoral researcher Megan P
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Phys.org
Violence and mental health are likely to get worse in a warming world
 
Extreme weather has been the cause of some of the biggest public health crises across the world in recent years. In many cases, these have been enhanced by human-induced climate change. For instance, in 2003, high summer temperatures in Europe were believed to cause 50,000 to 70,000 excess deaths across 16 European countries.
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Phys.org
Directly measuring electrical properties in ultra-thin topological insulators
 
Physicists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have made a significant step towards the realization of new types of electronic components. Using a special four-tip scanning tunneling microscope, they were able to directly measure the extraordinary electrical properties that exist in ultra-thin topological insulators for the first time. These properties result from the fact that the electron spin is couple
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Egyptian fruit bat pups steer echolocation beams from day zero
 
A trio of researchers with Tel Aviv University's School of Zoology has found that newly born Egyptian fruit bats are capable of steering echolocation beams. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Grace Smarsh, Yifat Tarnovsky and Yossi Yovel note also that just after birth, the pups are also able to hear the echolocation clicks produced by adults and can produc
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Phys.org
Study: 10 UNESCO forests emit more CO2 than they soak up
 
Sites containing some of the world's most treasured forests, including the Yosemite National Park and Indonesia's Sumatra rainforest, have been emitting more heat-trapping carbon dioxide than they have absorbed in recent years, a U.N.-backed report said.
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Nature
Bacterial drug resistance overcome by synthetic restructuring of antibiotics
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02916-6 Chemical synthesis, guided by crystal structures of antibiotics bound to the bacterial ribosome, has been used to discover a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics that overcomes bacterial multidrug resistance. Biochemical and crystallographic studies reveal the mechanism of action, including how one mode of resistance is circ
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Phys.org
Carbon dioxide emissions rebound to nearly pre-pandemic levels
 
Days before the opening of the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Glasgow, Scotland, the latest estimates by the Carbon Monitor, an international research initiative begun during the pandemic, show that global carbon dioxide emissions as of the end of September 2021 were just 0.9 percent lower than emissions at the same time in 2019.
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Phys.org
Ancestors of whale sharks in Panama may come from distant waters
 
The world's largest fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), is a plankton-loving giant that can be found alone or in groups in all tropical oceans. However, despite being a highly migratory species, little is known about how the different populations worldwide interact with each other. This lack of knowledge hinders conservation efforts aimed at protecting this endangered animal. Héctor Guzmán, a
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Phys.org
New method helps to understand the development of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases
 
Important processes take place among the subunits of the molecules that make up our cells. Defects in these processes or distortions in the subunits can lead to serious diseases. In order to better understand this microscopic world, Hungarian and German researchers have jointly developed a method that reveals changes in the structure of proteins more efficiently and accurately than before. The stu
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Futurity.org
Smell and memory are behind all the pumpkin spice love
 
Two perception researchers say a key to understanding why people love pumpkin spice is the smell of it. Those notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger trigger deeply rooted cozy memories of autumn. “Pumpkin spice aromas emerge in the fall in shops and cafes, coinciding with the arrival of colorful leaves, family gatherings, and back-to-school bustle. The association that the smell has with the seaso
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ScienceDaily
On-water creation of conducting MOF nanosheets
 
Oil and water do not mix, but what happens where oil and water meet? Or where air meets liquid? Unique reactions occur at these interfaces, which a team of researchers based in Japan used to develop the first successful construction of uniform, electrically conductive nanosheets needed for next-generation sensors and energy production technologies.
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forskning.se
Låg virusnivå i avloppsvatten efter slopade restriktioner
 
Snart en månad efter de slopade restriktionerna är halterna av coronavirus i avloppsvattnet i Göteborg fortsatt ganska låga. Det framgår av senaste mätningarna och analyserna från Göteborgs universitet. – Det är nu effekterna skulle visa sig, men vi har relativt låga nivåer, förutsatt att deltavarianten utsöndras i avföring lika mycket som de andra varianterna, säger Heléne Norder. Hon är adjunge
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ScienceDaily
Industry must prepare now for a new world of green electricity
Industry Prepare Green
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Industry must speed up investment in new technologies that allow manufacture of materials using renewable electricity if net zero emissions targets are to be met, research warns. The study cautions that national strategies for replacing fossil fuels with renewables need an integrated approach to energy use and material production — or risk industry being unable to use electricity produced from re
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ScienceDaily
Burning and tingling in your feet? You may have small fiber neuropathy
 
The number of people experiencing numbness, tingling and pain in their feet with no known cause has been increasing over the last two decades, according at a new study. Called small fiber neuropathy, the condition has different symptoms than large fiber neuropathy, which can cause weakness and balance issues. But in many cases people have both types of neuropathy.
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Phys.org
Nearly half of all churches and other faith institutions help people get enough to eat
 
Almost half of U.S. congregations participate in some kind of food distribution program. While the government's Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program was helping nearly 42 million Americans purchase groceries in mid-2021, those benefits often don't cover the full food costs of people facing economic hardship. And not everyone who needs food is eligible for those benefits.
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Phys.org
CO2 reduction and economic growth: Can they go hand-in-hand?
 
Fearing a trade-off with economic growth, countries feel discouraged to cut their CO2 emissions. But do the two really not go together? Environmental scientist Ranran Wang and her colleagues investigated the relationship between economic growth and CO2 emissions in 73 countries from 1970 to 2016. Wang: "We also identified mechanisms by which countries drove down their CO2 emissions, especially dur
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Phys.org
Only 27.5% of adult victims of child sexual abuse tell someone about the experience while still a child
 
Three researchers of the University of Malaga have just published a paper that brings to light sexual abuse experiences suffered in childhood by more than a thousand Spanish adults –according to a sample that is representative of the Spanish population in terms of age, gender, and region– evidencing the silence surrounding this type of aggression, since only 27.5% of those surveyed who said they h
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Optimal concentrations of enzymes and their substrates
 
Biological cells invest much of their resources into the production of enzymes, which catalyze the conversion of substrates into products. An international team of bioinformaticians and biophysicists, led by Prof. Martin Lercher from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), discovered that these processes are most efficient at a certain relationship between the intracellular enzyme and substrat
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
How you mix cells changes the brain
 
Brain organoids are models of the brain made from growing stem cells like iPS cells into three-dimensional structures. They are used to study all sorts of brain-related phenomenon, including neural networks and disease development. However, a new study led by CiRA Professor Haruhisa Inoue, in collaboration with RIKEN and other organizations, shows how scientists mix the iPS cells will greatly infl
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Intriguing insect fossils preserved in amber
 
All fossils are time capsules. But unlike many other finds, insects encapsulated in amber are often perfectly preserved. "Frequently, their external morphology is as well conserved as if they had been sealed in synthetic resin," says LMU zoologist Professor Joachim T. Haug. He and his colleagues have now obtained new insights into the evolutionary history of insects from specimens that were trappe
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Phys.org
Nickel single atom and copper nanoparticles used for highly selective tandem electrocatalysis of CO2 to ethylene
 
The electroreduction reaction of CO2 (CO2RR) into higher-value C2+ (C≥2) products such as C2H4 provides an environmental friendly technology to realize the cyclic utilization of carbon resources, but the activity and selectivity of higher-value C2+ (C≥2) products are largely limited by the multi-electron transfer process and sluggish C-C coupling step at one single active site.
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Phys.org
Image: Lunar lander in Dubai
 
This mockup of ESA's European Lunar Logistics Lander (EL3) is currently on display at the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai.
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Phys.org
Starlight catching system for 4MOST is unpacked in Potsdam
 
With construction for 4MOST, an instrument for spectroscopic sky surveys, underway, its first major subsystem arrived at the Babelsberg campus of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and is now being unpacked and assembled. The fiber positioning system AESOP will ensure that 4MOST's optical fibers are able to collect the maximum light of astronomical objects such as stars and galax
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Discovery (uploads) on YouTube
Preparing for a Brutal Two Day Extraction | Naked and Afraid
 
Stream Naked and Afraid on discovery+ ► https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/naked-and-afraid About Naked and Afraid: What happens when you put two complete strangers – sans clothes – in some of the most extreme environments on Earth? Each male-female duo is left with no food, no water, no clothes, and only one survival item. #NakedAndAfraid #Discovery #Survival Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.l
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Biochemistry News – Chemistry News
Novel strategy to track adulterants in milk
 
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a low-cost and effective method to detect adulterants in milk, by analyzing deposition patterns after evaporation. It was designed by Virkeshwar Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher, and Susmita Dash, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In a study published in ACS Omega, the team used the method to test f
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Phys.org
On-water creation of conducting metal-organic–framework nanosheets
 
Oil and water do not mix, but what happens where oil and water meet? Or where air meets liquid? Unique reactions occur at these interfaces, which a team of researchers based in Japan used to develop the first successful construction of uniform, electrically conductive nanosheets needed for next-generation sensors and energy production technologies.
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Phys.org
Poor parents receiving universal payments increase spending on kids
 
When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to Washington State University research. The study, published in the journal Social Forces, also found that the additional funding had little impact on child-related expenditures of high-income parents.
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forskning.se
Mossdjuren utvecklades för 500 miljoner år sedan
 
Mossdjuren utvecklades 35 miljoner år tidigare än man trott. Världens hittills äldsta fossil av mossdjur har hittats i Kina. Därmed har mossdjuren sitt ursprung från samma period för drygt 500 miljoner år sedan, i den så kallade kambriska explosionen, liksom alla andra nu levande djurgrupper. Mossdjur finns idag i de flesta vattenmiljöer och bildar alltid kolonier, mellan en centimeter och en met
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Futurity.org
Your Halloween candy faves come with environmental costs
 
Candy is a staple of Halloween and other American holidays, but it comes with hidden environmental costs. Halloween. Valentine’s Day. Easter. Throughout the year, US stores are stocked with rotating chocolates, gummies, and hard candies. These periods of mass candy production and consumption have a profound effect on the supply chain, yet candy consumption is often absent from conversations about
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Futurity.org
Tooth roots reveal the size of fossil primates
 
New formulas can calculate the body size of a primate based on the root size of its teeth. The formulas could let researchers make use of partial and incomplete fossils in order to learn how ancient primates—including human ancestors—interacted with their environment. Ashley Deutsch, graduate student at North Carolina State University and first author of a paper on the research, wanted to know if
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Phys.org
Report: Southeast Asia needs to boost disaster resilience
 
A group of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and University of Glasgow, have presented a range of disaster risk reduction strategies and policies for ASEAN, a region at risk of multiple natural hazards, which are further compounded by climate change.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Parasitic bird embryos found to exercise in the egg to make them stronger
 
An international team of researchers has found that some parasitic bird embryos move around more in their eggs than other species, which makes them stronger when they hatch. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, the group describes their study of multiple types of avian embryos and what they learned about them.
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Phys.org
From Tarantino to Squid Game: Why do so many people enjoy violence?
 
Last month, more than 100 million people watched the gory Netflix show, Squid Game. Whether or not screen violence is bad for us has been extensively studied. The consensus is that it can have negative effects. But the question of why we are drawn to watch violence has received much less attention.
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Phys.org
What Big Oil knew about climate change, in its own words
Exxon Big Oil Climate
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Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change—and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they knew about it.
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forskning.se
Rotfyllning bästa behandling för svårt skadade tänder
 
Att rädda en svårt skadad tand med rotfyllning är en åtgärd som få patienter ångrar. Av patienterna skulle 87 procent välja samma behandling igen, trots att det är vanligt med smärta och obehag runt tanden. Hälften av patienterna uppgav sig ha mild smärta eller obehag från sin rotfyllda tand under uppföljningstiden (upp till tre år) men trots detta var alltså det stora flertalet nöjda. De ångrade
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Biochemistry News – Chemistry News
Plants from plastics: Bio-based polymers can be transformed into fertilizer
 
Plastics have taken the world by storm over the last century, finding applications in virtually every aspect of our lives. However, the rise of synthetic polymers, which form the basis of plastics, has contributed to many serious environmental issues. The worst of these is the excessive use of petrochemical compounds and the disposal of non-biodegradable materials without recycling; only 14% of al
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Phys.org
Reclaiming Coast Miwok history through indigenous interpretations of archeology
 
In his latest book, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Tsim Schneider examines the history of Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo peoples in California from an Indigenous perspective, uncovering stories of resilience and continued connection to culture and homelands from the 18th through 20th century, despite multiple waves of colonial intrusion.
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Phys.org
Layers of crystalline nanosheets enable tunable electronic properties
 
Boron is a versatile non-metal element, but until the last five years, chemists have only theorized about the useful properties and applications of two-dimensional (2D) boron-containing materials. In a study published this month in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, a group led by researchers from the University of Tsukuba brought theory to life by preparing the first 2D boron monosulfide (BS)
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Phys.org
Solving the energy storage and supply puzzle for battery-run devices
Energy Storage Supply
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Curtin University research has found a simple and affordable method to determine which chemicals and types of metals are best used to store and supply energy, in a breakthrough for any battery-run devices and technologies reliant on the fast and reliable supply of electricity, including smart phones and tablets.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Study shows vaccine protects dogs against Valley fever
Arizona Valley Fever
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A possible canine vaccine for Valley fever took one giant step closer to becoming a reality thanks to a University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson-led study that showed the vaccine provided a high level of protection against Coccidioides posadasii, a fungus that causes Valley fever. The development of a potential canine vaccine serves as a positive harbinger of a human vaccine.
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Futurism
Augmented Reality Eyewear Is The Future, And It Is Not Too Far Off
 
Wearable augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) tech was once little more than the subject of sci-fi movies and video games, but in the past few years, they’ve exploded into life. It’s predicted that AR/VR will completely revolutionize not just shopping and entertainment, but how we communicate, socialize, and interact with the world around us. While Facebook’s Oculus and Google Glass are the
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NeuroLogica Blog
Panda Camouflage
 
When thinking of highly camouflaged animals, giant pandas are probably not on the short list. Their striking black and white fur pattern, if anything, makes them stand out. This, at least, has been the conventional wisdom, but a new study shows that the panda’s coloration is an effective form of camouflage. When we think of animals with camouflage we generally imagine those with dull mottled colo
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Futurity.org
Body heat-powered sensor could detect fever in large groups
 
Researchers hope to make it possible to check the temperatures of large groups of people more quickly and less expensively than current methods allow. Public temperature checks have become common practice around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers are working to harness the thermal energy generated by body heat to power a small, self-sustaining electronic device capable of det
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Futurity.org
Natural disasters bring married couples closer, at least for awhile
 
Although natural disasters can cause horrific damage to homes and infrastructure, they can bring married couples closer together, at least temporarily. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind study that looked at couples in the Houston area before and after Hurricane Harvey. The study, published in the journal Psychological Science , has implications for how best to help families as they navigate
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Futurity.org
Half of space travelers experience back pain
 
With growing numbers of humans venturing into space, experts predict an increase in the number of people experiencing back pain. The prediction comes in a new report in the journal Anesthesiology , based on a comprehensive review of past studies measuring the effects of space travel on the spine, and exploring methods to prevent, diagnose, and treat back pain. The scientists say further study amo
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Phys.org
Antarctic ozone hole is 13th largest on record and expected to persist into November
 
The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7 and ranks 13th largest since 1979, scientists from NOAA and NASA reported today. This year's ozone hole developed similarly to last year's: A colder than usual Southern Hemisphere winter lead to a deep and larger-than-average hole that will likely persist into November or early December.
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Science Weekly
Daylight saving time could be bad for our health – should we get rid of it?
 
The clocks go back in the UK this Sunday and many will welcome the extra hour in bed. But research suggests that changing the time like this could be bad for the body. Anand Jagatia speaks to the Guardian’s science correspondent Linda Geddes and chronobiologist Prof Till Roenneberg about how daylight saving time affects our biology – and whether we should get rid of it permanently. Help support ou
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Phys.org
Five climate change myths
 
As world leaders prepare for the COP26 climate summit from October 31, AFP Fact Check examines some common claims that question the existence of global heating caused by humans.
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Science-Based Medicine
The Anti-Vaccine Movement Supports Big Pharma
 
It's common knowledge that anti-vaxxers are dedicated to filling the coffers of Big Coffin. Simple math leads to another obvious conclusion: they also work extremely hard to enrich hospitals and Big Pharma. The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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Nautilus
Why AI Lags Behind the Human Brain in Computational Power – Facts So Romantic
 
pspn / Shutterstock Recent advances have made deep neural networks the leading paradigm of artificial intelligence. One of the great things about deep neural networks is that, given a large number of examples, they can learn how to act. This means we can get software to learn to do things that even their programmers don’t know how to do. The more complicated the task is, the more powerful the neu
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Nautilus
Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis – Issue 107: The Edge
 
On a chilly evening last fall, I stared into nothingness out of the floor-to-ceiling windows in my office on the outskirts of Harvard’s campus. As a purplish-red sun set, I sat brooding over my dataset on rat brains. I thought of the cold windowless rooms in downtown Boston, home to Harvard’s high-performance computing center, where computer servers were holding on to a precious 48 terabytes of m
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Nautilus
Your Brain Is Like Beethoven – Issue 107: The Edge
 
Prior to the rise of urban culture, the sounds of clucking hens must have been among the world’s most ubiquitous annoyances. For millennia, humans have been “up with the chickens,” demarcating time by the rooster’s crow. But the infernal clucking of poultry must have constituted a constant din. It seems odd, then, that this obnoxious noise has found its way into a vast repertoire of music, from “
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Nautilus
Everyday Noises Are Making Our Brains Noisier – Issue 107: The Edge
 
Take a walk on a busy avenue and you hear either traffic whizzing by or creeping in a honk-laden crawl. Add the hissing of pneumatic bus brakes, distant sirens, the boom-boom of overloud car stereos, the occasional car alarm, music coming from shops you pass, the beeping of a reversing delivery truck. All are part of the fabric of city life. These sounds do not meet or exceed the generally accept
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ScienceDaily
Evidence of prehistoric human activity in Falkland Islands
 
Findings from a new study suggest that Europeans were not the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Most of the evidence from the investigation indicates that Indigenous South Americans likely traveled to the Falkland Islands between 1275 C.E. and 1420 C.E., although earlier dates cannot be ruled out.
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ScienceDaily
Promising new antimalarial compound discovered
 
A discovery opens the door to the development of new drugs targeting malaria, one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet. The researcher teams performed a screen of soil bacteria extracts for antimalarials and identified an extremely potent inhibitor of malaria development.
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ScienceDaily
All about Eve, sophisticated AI
EVE AI Variants Disease
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New AI model called EVE outperforms other AI methods in determining whether a gene variant is benign or disease-causing. When applied to more than 36 million variants across 3,219 disease-associated proteins and genes, EVE indicated more than 256,000 human gene variants of unknown significance that should be reclassified as benign or pathogenic. Used in combination with current clinical tools, EVE
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ScienceDaily
Twenty-four trillion pieces of microplastics in the ocean and counting
 
Based on a total of 8,218 pelagic microplastic samples from the world's oceans collected between 2000 and 2019, a team of scientists has developed a publicly available dataset for assessing the abundance of microplastics and their long-term trend in the world's upper oceans. The team found 24.4 trillion pieces (82,000–578,000 tons) of microplastics in the world's oceans, but the actual amount is
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ScienceDaily
Scientists create device that uses ‘light tweezers’ to trap and move viruses
 
A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has created a laser-powered device that can trap and move viruses using light. The device, which has the ability to manipulate light to act as 'tweezers', would aid in the development of new approaches to disease diagnosis and the study of viruses, as the device can precisely 'move' a single virus to target a p
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ScienceDaily
The upside-down orbits of a multi-planetary system
 
When planets form, they usually continue their orbital evolution in the equatorial plane of their star. However, an international team, led by astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has discovered that the exoplanets of a star in the constellation Pisces orbit in planes perpendicular to each other, with the innermost planet the only one still orbiting in the equatorial pla
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ScienceDaily
A novel solution to a combinatorial optimization problem in bicycle sharing systems
 
Bicycle sharing systems have become an attractive option to alleviate traffic in congested cities. However, rebalancing the number of bikes at each port as time passes is essential, and finding the optimal routing paths for the vehicles in charge of rebalancing constitutes a combinatorial optimization problem. Now, scientists propose an innovative algorithm that can find near-optimal solutions mor
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ScienceDaily
Tuneable catalysis: Solving the particle size puzzle
 
Chemical reactions can be studied at different levels: At the level of individual atoms and molecules, new compounds can be designed. At the level of tiny particles on the nano and micrometer scale, one can understand how catalyst materials influence chemical reactions. Now it is possible to connect all levels from the microscopic to the macroscopic level in order to describe a technologically imp
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ScienceDaily
Bone mineral density decreases less than expected after menopause
 
Bone mineral density at the femoral neck bone in postmenopausal women decreased by an average of 10% during a 25-year follow-up, according to a new study. Being the world's hitherto longest follow-up of changes in bone mineral density in postmenopausal women, the study shows that bone loss after menopause is significantly lower than has previously been assumed on the basis of earlier studies.
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ScienceDaily
A heart that beats (almost) like our own
 
Biologists have unraveled how a 'heart' in the fruit fly's head functions. The researchers discovered the fly's head-heart beats much like a human's: Its rhythmic pulses are automatically generated by a tiny muscle that runs through the middle of the fly's brain.
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ScienceDaily
Cat’s meow: Robotic pet boosts mood, behavior and cognition in adults with dementia
 
Researchers tested the effectiveness of affordable, interactive robotic pet cats to improve mood, behavior and cognition in older adults with mild to moderate dementia. Mood and behavioral symptoms were measured along with cognition using the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE). Intervention with this robotic cat improved all mood scores over time, with significant improvements in mood and depres
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Biochemistry Research News — ScienceDaily
Flexible device could treat hearing loss without batteries
 
Some people are born with hearing loss, while others acquire it with age, infections or long-term noise exposures. In many instances, the tiny hairs in the inner ear's cochlea that allow the brain to recognize electrical pulses as sound are damaged. As a step toward an advanced artificial cochlea, researchers report a conductive membrane, which translated sound waves into matching electrical signa
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ScienceDaily
Astronomers discover massive galaxy 'shipyard' in the distant universe
 
Astronomers have discovered a structure thought to be a 'protocluster' of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. Observations show the protocluster, which is located 11 billion light-years from Earth, as it appeared when the universe was 3 billion years old, when stars were produced at higher rates in certain regions of the cosmos.
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Dagens Medicin
Regeringen vil omlægge speciallægeuddannelsen i almen medicin
 
Kommende speciallæger i almen medicin skal tilbringe et halvt år mere i almen praksis, og de ekstra hænder skal især komme lægedækningstruede områder til gavn, foreslår regeringen i nyt udspil. Det kan dog blive en udfordring flere steder i landet, hvor uddannelsesforløbene i forvejen står ubesatte hen.
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Nature
The structure of neurofibromin isoform 2 reveals different functional states
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04024-x Cryo-EM structure of Nf1 protein is reported, revealing closed and open conformations that regulate interaction with Ras oncogene, setting the stage for understanding the mechanistic action of Nf1 and how disease mutations lead to dysfunction.
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Phys.org
Scientists discover how forest fires influence rain cloud formation in the Amazon
 
A Brazilian study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment shows how wildfires and forest burning for agriculture influence rain cloud formation in the Amazon. According to the authors, aerosols (tiny solid particles and liquid droplets emitted into the atmosphere by fire) hinder the freezing of cloud droplets when the atmosphere is humidified, but can also promote freezing when
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Phys.org
Exploring the dual function of the CTCF protein
 
The rapid scientific advancements that followed the mapping of the human genome have revealed just how staggeringly complex the world of genetics is. We now know that proteins are not just the products of genes, but that they also interact with genes, influencing and regulating the rhythm of their expression. A typical example of this are transcription factors, which begin the transcription of gen
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iBiology (uploads) on YouTube
Chrystelle Vilfranc (U. Cincinnati): Who Protects the Liver When it Faces Disease?
 
www.iBiology.org In this Share Your Research video, Dr. Chrystelle Vilfranc describes her graduate research on BRUCE, a protein that is protective against liver disease. Chronic liver diseases affect millions of people worldwide. By understanding how liver disease progresses, we may be able to identify new therapies that can protect the liver. Dr. Chrystelle Vilfranc studied the role of BRUCE, a
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Phys.org
NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts launch to space station alongside microgravity research
 
NASA's SpaceX Crew-3 mission is set to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon on Sunday, Oct. 31. The mission includes three NASA astronauts—mission Commander Raja Chari, Pilot Tom Marshburn, and Mission Specialist Kayla Barron—as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, who will also serve as a mission specialist.
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ScienceDaily
Brain connectivity is lower in adults with PTSD or a history of sexual abuse
 
A study has found that adults with maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder or a history of sexual abuse have lower brain connectivity in the attention systems known as the ventral and dorsal attention network. These networks enable us to shift attention from external events to a specific task. The team also found that oxytocin, a hormone associated with social affiliation as well as str
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ScienceDaily
Powerful X-ray technique finds new degradation-inducing materials in British shipwreck
 
In 1545, King Henry VIII's favorite ship, the Mary Rose, capsized and sank in the Battle of the Solent defending England and Portsmouth from a French invasion fleet. The wreck remained on the seabed until 1982 when it was salvaged in a widely viewed televised event. Now, it is a time capsule for 16th century Tudor society, and conservators are working to preserve it for future generations. Scienti
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ScienceDaily
The surprising origins of the Tarim Basin mummies
 
Researchers have determined the genetic origins of Asia's most enigmatic mummies. Once thought to be Indo-European speaking migrants from the West, the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies are revealed to be a local indigenous population with deep Asian roots and taste for far-flung cuisine.
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Futurism
China May Have Secretly Built Two Exascale Supercomputers
 
Supercomputer Wars China might have cemented its supercomputing supremacy with not one but two exascale computing systems. The two machines were created at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China, an anonymous source told The Next Platform , a publication about the cloud and supercomputing industries. The computers — which are the Sunway “Oceanlite” system and the Tianhe-3 — allegedly h
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Phys.org
Researchers evaluate whether lactate sensors can contribute to sports physiology
 
While there are a growing number of wearable lactate sensors available for sports and fitness, there hasn't necessarily been an improvement in the understanding of this nascent technology—and the debate continues over the usefulness of monitoring lactate in sweat. A recent article in ACS Sensors, a journal of the American Chemical Society, says that despite a recent history of contradictory—and in
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Not all acne is equal: Scientists reveal strains of C. acnes that promote skin health
 
Cutibacterium acnes, a bacteria that is known to cause acne, is also widely spread on people with healthy skin. Recent advances in gene sequencing have shown that differences in the genetic background between strains of bacteria may lead to differing roles in the skin. A new study, done without animal (mammal) testing, shows that the nonpathogenic strain of C. acnes improves the skin's resistance
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ScienceDaily
Red paint on 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins
 
Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40–50-year-old man from the Sicán culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man's seated, upside-down skeleton was painted bright red, as was the gold mask covering his detached skull. Now, researchers have analyzed the paint, finding that, in addition to a red pigment, it contains human blood and bird egg proteins.
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ScienceDaily
Carbon nanotubes could help electronics withstand outer space’s harsh conditions
 
Space missions, such as NASA's Orion that will take astronauts to Mars, are pushing the limits of human exploration. But during their transit, spacecrafts encounter a continuous stream of damaging cosmic radiation, which can harm or even destroy onboard electronics. To extend future missions, researchers show that transistors and circuits with carbon nanotubes can be configured to maintain their e
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Strong {pi}-stacking causes unusually large anisotropic thermal expansion and thermochromism [Chemistry]
 
π-stacking in ground-state dimers/trimers/tetramers of N-butoxyphenyl(naphthalene)diimide (BNDI) exceeds 50 kcal ⋅ mol−1 in strength, drastically surpassing that for the *3[pyrene]2 excimer (∼30 kcal ⋅ mol−1; formal bond order = 1) and similar to other weak-to-moderate classical covalent bonds. Cooperative π-stacking in triclinic (BNDI-T) and monoclinic (BNDI-M) polymorphs effects unusually large.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
HIF-1-regulated expression of calreticulin promotes breast tumorigenesis and progression through Wnt/{beta}-catenin pathway activation [Medical Sciences]
 
Calreticulin (CALR) is a multifunctional protein that participates in various cellular processes, which include calcium homeostasis, cell adhesion, protein folding, and cancer progression. However, the role of CALR in breast cancer (BC) is unclear. Here, we report that CALR is overexpressed in BC compared with normal tissue, and its expression…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Topological barriers to defect nucleation generate large mechanical forces in an ordered fluid [Applied Physical Sciences]
 
Common fluids cannot sustain static mechanical stresses at the macroscopic scale because they lack molecular order. Conversely, crystalline solids exhibit long-range order and mechanical strength at the macroscopic scale. Combining the properties of fluids and solids, liquid crystal films respond to mechanical confinement by both flowing and generating static forces….
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Berry curvature generation detected by Nernst responses in ferroelectric Weyl semimetal [Physics]
 
The quest for nonmagnetic Weyl semimetals with high tunability of phase has remained a demanding challenge. As the symmetry-breaking control parameter, the ferroelectric order can be steered to turn on/off the Weyl semimetals phase, adjust the band structures around the Fermi level, and enlarge/shrink the momentum separation of Weyl nodes…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Deep learning the slow modes for rare events sampling [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
 
The development of enhanced sampling methods has greatly extended the scope of atomistic simulations, allowing long-time phenomena to be studied with accessible computational resources. Many such methods rely on the identification of an appropriate set of collective variables. These are meant to describe the system’s modes that most slowly approach…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Cryo-EM structure of the needle filament tip complex of the Salmonella type III secretion injectisome [Microbiology]
 
Type III secretion systems are multiprotein molecular machines required for the virulence of several important bacterial pathogens. The central element of these machines is the injectisome, a ∼5-Md multiprotein structure that mediates the delivery of bacterially encoded proteins into eukaryotic target cells. The injectisome is composed of a cytoplasmic sorting…
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue
Retraction for Nojiri et al., Atrial natriuretic peptide prevents cancer metastasis through vascular endothelial cells [Retractions]
 
MEDICAL SCIENCES Retraction for “Atrial natriuretic peptide prevents cancer metastasis through vascular endothelial cells,” by Takashi Nojiri, Hiroshi Hosoda, Takeshi Tokudome, Koichi Miura, Shin Ishikane, Kentaro Otani, Ichiro Kishimoto, Yasushi Shintani, Masayoshi Inoue, Toru Kimura, Noriyoshi Sawabata, Masato Minami, Tomoyuki Nakagiri, Soichiro Funaki, Yukiyasu Takeuchi, Hajime Maeda, Hiroyasu
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RealClimate
A science-based move to climate change adaptation
 
All countries in the world urgently need to adapt to climate change but are not yet in a good position to do so. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate . This fact is underscored by recent weather-related calamities , such as flooding in Central Europe and heatwaves over North America. It’s also urgent because the oceans act like a flywheel, making sure that cuts in em
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Futurity.org
‘Digital denim’ is almost as good as the real thing
 
Overall, “digital” denim samples made using a computer and printer are a good match on average for denim made using traditional, more labor-intensive methods, according to a new study. Drop by drop, researchers printed ink on cotton fabric to make the “digital” denim fabric resembling six different styles of jeans. Certain styles of jeans were easier to replicate using inkjet printing than others
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Futurity.org
BBQ lighter inspires new way to deliver vaccines
 
Inspired by barbecue lighters and microneedles, researchers have developed and tested an innovative method that may simplify delivery of vaccines through a handheld device called an electroporator. “The ePatch is a handheld device the size of a pen, weighing less than two ounces, and requiring no battery or power sources.” While electroporation is commonly used in the research lab using short ele
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Biochemistry News – Chemistry News
Researchers identify a new kind of pure carbon production by microorganisms
 
Life on the Earth is based on carbon. Through the course of evolution, living organisms have learned to form and process large numbers of different carbon compounds. Carbon is the cornerstone of most biologically produced organic compounds such as proteins, carbohydrates, fats and DNA. All of these compounds contain, in addition to carbon, many other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen and oxyg
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ScienceDaily
The ripple factor: Economic losses from weather extremes can amplify each other across the world
 
Weather extremes can cause economic ripples along our supply chains. If they occur at roughly the same time the ripples start interacting and can amplify even if they occur at completely different places around the world, a new study shows. The resulting economic losses are greater than the sum of the initial events, the researchers find in computer simulations of the global economic network. Rich
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Phys.org
Researchers worry about Census' gap in 2020 survey data
 
Researchers are worried about coronavirus-related disruptions to one of the U.S. Census Bureau's most important surveys about how Americans live, saying a gap in the 2020 data will make it more difficult to understand the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and measure year-to-year changes.
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
How platform co-ops democratize work | Trebor Scholz
 
Co-ops date back almost 200 years, run by groups of people that work together to own and operate a company. What does it look like when this tried-and-true business model merges with the digital economy? Trebor Scholz introduces the "platform cooperative," a new way to create democratic companies of empowered workers — and develop a better, fairer alternative to the gig economy.
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right | Debbie Lovich
 
Work that's dictated by a fixed schedule, place and job description doesn't make sense anymore, says leadership expert Debbie Lovich. In light of the cultural shift towards remote work sparked by the pandemic, Lovich gives three essential tips to leaders so employees can keep their autonomy (while remaining productive), companies can let go of rigid bureaucracy and we can all reshape work to bette
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare | Chris Bennett
 
Childcare needs a transformation — but rather than investing billions in new buildings and schools, what if we could unlock the potential of people already nearby? Entrepreneur Chris Bennett offers an innovative way to tackle the shortage of childcare worldwide and connect families to safe, affordable and high-quality options in their own communities.
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
How much clean electricity do we really need? | Solomon Goldstein-Rose
 
To fight climate change, we need to clean up the global electricity system by replacing fossil fuel power plants with clean generation — right? Climate author Solomon Goldstein-Rose thinks we need to do much more than that. Replacement isn't enough, he explains in this compelling talk: we need to rapidly develop a new global system capable of producing 12 times the amount of clean electricity we
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport | Monica Araya
 
The roadmap to ending pollution from transportation is here, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Araya introduces Drive Electric: a global campaign to retire the polluting internal combustion engine in time to avoid climate disaster. And she shares some exciting news: a breakthrough funding commitment from the Audacious Project that puts the
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Nature
Daily briefing: mummies’ mysterious ancestry revealed
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02974-w Ancient DNA has allowed researchers to trace the origins of 4,000-year-old mummies in China. Plus: Bacteria imaged in unprecedented detail, and plans for Africa’s first synchrotron.
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
The global treaty to phase out fossil fuels | Tzeporah Berman
 
We currently have enough fossil fuels to progressively transition off of them, says climate campaigner Tzeporah Berman, but the industry continues to expand oil, gas and coal production and exploration. With searing passion and unflinching nerve, Berman reveals the delusions keeping true progress from being made — and offers a realistic path forward: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Lear
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Futurity.org
4 answers about the COVID vaccine for kids from 5 to 11
 
Some 28 million Americans still aren’t eligible for coronavirus vaccines—elementary school-aged kids between the ages of 5 and 11—but Biden administration officials announced that’s poised to change soon. The White House announced that it’s expected the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon approve and recommend a scaled-down version of t
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ScienceDaily
Enhanced touch screens could help you 'feel' objects
 
The next time you buy a new couch, you may not ever have to leave your old one to get a feel for the texture of the new material. Researchers are working to better define how the finger interacts with a device with the hope of aiding in the further development of technology that goes beyond sensing and reacting to your touch.
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Nature
Genomics unwraps mystery of the Tarim mummies
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02969-7 The unexpected origins of a 4,000-year-old people, protecting your ‘digital presence’ and what to expect from COP26.
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Nature
Dispatched uses Na+ flux to power release of lipid-modified Hedgehog
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03996-0 Cryo-electron microscopy studies show that dynamic coordination of Na+ in the ion channel of Dispatched homologue 1 and the transmembrane Na+ gradient have key roles in exporting lipid-modified Hedgehog protein signal.
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Nature
A human-specific modifier of cortical connectivity and circuit function
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04039-4 The human-specific gene duplication SRGAP2C is identified as a modifier of structural and functional features of cortical circuits leading to improved behavioural performance that may have allowed the emergence of cognitive properties characterizing the human brain.
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Nature
Strongly correlated excitonic insulator in atomic double layers
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03947-9 So far only signatures of excitonic insulators have been reported, but here direct thermodynamic evidence is provided for a strongly correlated excitonic insulating state in transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor double layers.
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Nature
A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03957-7 A global inventory of utility-scale solar photovoltaic generating units, produced by combining remote sensing imagery with machine learning, has identified 68,661 facilities — an increase of over 400% on previously available asset-level data — the majority of which were sited on cropland.
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Nature
The orbitofrontal cortex maps future navigational goals
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04042-9 Dedicated cells in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex map an animal s instantaneous position in space; by contrast, its future goal location is represented in the orbitofrontal cortex, a structure within the broader circuit.
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Nature
TMK-based cell-surface auxin signalling activates cell-wall acidification
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03976-4 Auxin induces transmembrane-kinase-dependent activation of H+-ATPase in the plasma membrane through phosphorylation of its penultimate threonine residue, promoting apoplastic acidification and hypocotyl cell elongation in Arabidopsis.
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Nature
Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04033-w Interpretation of the early Cambrian fossil Protomelission gatehousei9 as a potential stem-group bryozoan realigns the fossil record with molecular clock estimations of the origins of Bryozoa.
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Nature
Machine learning enables global solar-panel detection
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02875-y An inventory of the world’s solar-panel installations has been produced with the help of machine learning, revealing many more than had previously been recorded. The results will inform efforts to meet global targets for solar-energy use.
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Nature
A compact device sustains a fluid of bosons
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02876-x A device that generates exotic fluids of particles at equilibrium conditions and high temperatures could have applications ranging from low-loss electrical cables to memory storage.
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Nature
Bryozoan fossils found at last in deposits from the Cambrian period
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02874-z Molecular evidence has long indicated that aquatic animals called bryozoans should be found among the fossils of the Cambrian period, around 541 million years ago. Yet they have been conspicuously absent, until now.
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Nature
The unexpected ancestry of Inner Asian mummies
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02872-1 The genomes of Bronze Age mummies from the Tarim Basin in northwest China suggest that these individuals were descended from an ancient Asian population that was genetically isolated, despite extensive cultural interactions in the region.
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Nature
DNA reveals surprise ancestry of mysterious Chinese mummies
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02948-y The genomes of 13 remarkably preserved 4,000-year-old mummies from the Tarim Basin suggest they weren’t migrants who brought technology from the west, as previously supposed.
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ScienceDaily
How a natural disaster can bring couples closer
 
According to a study of couples in the Houston area before and after Hurricane Harvey, natural disasters can actually bring married couples closer together, at least temporarily. This surprised researchers because in previous studies looking at everyday stressors, couples typically experience 'stress spillover' in their relationships, which can decrease their satisfaction with their relationships.
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ScienceDaily
Teaching robots to think like us
 
Researchers outline how a robot could be taught to navigate through a maze by electrically stimulating a culture of brain nerve cells connected to the machine. These nerve cells were grown from living cells and acted as the physical reservoir for the computer to construct coherent signals. These findings suggest goal-directed behavior can be generated without any additional learning by sending dis
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ScienceDaily
Affordable policy which could stop fossil fuels causing global warming
 
Imagine a single policy, imposed on one industry, which would, if enforced consistently, stop fossil fuels causing global warming within a generation. The Carbon Takeback Obligation could do just that. It requires fossil fuel extractors and importers to dispose safely and permanently of a rising fraction of the CO2 they generate, with that fraction rising to 100% by the year of net-zero. Criticall
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ScienceDaily
Brain circuitry for both positive and negative 'valence' affected by trauma
 
Research has revealed that the brain employs distinct circuitries that mediate positive, or rewarding, behaviors and negative, or aversive, ones. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has long been thought to arise from overactivity in the negative valence system, however a new study shows that people with PTSD also displayed a deficit in activation of positive valence processing soon after the tr
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ScienceDaily
Fermented soybeans suppress asthma-induced airway inflammation
 
Researchers have revealed in an animal model that ImmuBalance, a fermented soybean product, is effective in suppressing airway inflammation caused by asthma. Results showed a decreased presence of eosinophils in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, a decrease in mucus production in the bronchial epithelium, and a suppression of proteins that induce eosinophilic inflammation.
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Phys.org
When does reputation lie?
 
Consider two stories: the first, about a boy who gets all the attention. He's the cool kid in class who comes from a well-known family. He seems to soar through life. When he errs, few seem to care. The more popular he is, the more beloved he becomes. The second: a girl who can't thrive. She tries and tries, to no avail. She's smart and kind, but she has few friends. The more she's shunned, the mo
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Phys.org
New tool untangles complex dynamics on hypergraphs
 
Networks are a powerful model for describing connected systems in biological, physical, social, and other environments. As useful as they are, though, conventional networks are static and are limited to describing links between pairs of objects; they can't capture more complicated connections, like those that connect many points at once or those that change over time.
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Phys.org
Computational discovery of complex alloys could speed the way to green aviation
 
Computational materials science experts at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and their collaborators have identified the source of and the way to tune the strength and ductility of a class of materials called high-entropy alloys. The discovery may help power-generation and aviation industry develop more efficient engines, reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions.
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Phys.org
Want to visualize the realities of a warmer planet? Give this online tool a try
 
The Clark Fork River drains much of western Montana, bringing water from the Crown of the Continent to the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. My daily commute via bicycle crosses the Clark Fork most days and has allowed me to discern a rhythm and tempo in how the seasons come and go—a composition of daily weatherlike notes in a musical score that is the climate of Missoula, Montana.
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Phys.org
Biodiversity collections address science workforce needs
 
The task of training an effective cadre of biodiversity scientists has grown more challenging in recent years, as foundational skills and knowledge in organismal biology have increasingly required complementary data skills and knowledge. Writing in BioScience, Dr. Anna K. Monfils, of Central Michigan University, and colleagues identify one way to address this training conundrum: biodiversity colle
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Nature
A guide to the Nature Index
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02915-7 A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Nature
The COVID pandemic must lead to tuberculosis vaccines
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Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02892-x The coronavirus crisis has halted decades of progress on TB. But the speed of COVID vaccines shows there can still be hope for advances against neglected diseases.
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Nature
An mRNA vaccine industry in the making
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02913-9 The technology could form the basis of a new generation of vaccines for diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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Inside Science – Reliable news for an expanding universe
Zack Savitsky
 
Contributor is a science journalist and graduate student in the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz. Before that , he studied public relations and physics at the University of Florida. In his free time, he enjoys exploring diverse environments – both with his eyes and through a camera lens. You can follow him on Twitter @ savagitsky . Author social media Twitter
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Phys.org
Scientists find a way to stabilize a promising material for solar panels
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One of the solar energy market's most promising solar cell materials—perovskite—is also the most frustrating. A research team in Sweden reports a possible solution to the environmental instability of perovskite—an alternative to silicon that's cheap and highly efficient, yet degrades dramatically when exposed to moisture.
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forskning.se
Covid-19-immunitet hos unga vuxna kartlagd
 
Drygt en fjärdedel ovaccinerade unga vuxna hade antikroppar, visar en kartläggning av immunitet mot covid-19. Unga som varit sjuka i covid-19 hade däremot färre så kallade minnesceller i immunförsvaret än äldre som genomgått infektion. Nu fortsätter forskare att studera långtidssymtom hos unga, och hur vaccination påverkar immuniteten. ­Det finns väldigt få populationsbaserade studier som undersö
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Phys.org
Fast and localized temperature measurements during earthquakes or volcanic processes
 
The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid's (UC3M) Displays and Photonic Applications Research Group has developed a measuring instrument that can be used to study the increase in temperature during volcanic eruptions. This research allows the first measurements of temperature to be taken in situ using a machine in the laboratory that simulates these volcanic processes. The measurements that can be tak
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Discovery (uploads) on YouTube
The Summer Bay Has Catastrophic Part Failure | Deadliest Catch
 
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Singularity Hub
This Tiny Personal Aircraft Costs Under $100K and Can Take Off From Your Driveway
 
From buses to taxis to ambulances , the number and type of vehicles set to take to the skies in the allegedly near future keeps growing. Now another one is joining their ranks, and it seems to defy classification—it’s not a flying car , nor a drone; the closest to an accurate description may be a flying all-terrain vehicle, or the designation its creators have given it, which is a “personal elect
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Phys.org
First overview of archaea in vertebrates
 
Archaea are often mistaken as bacteria, given that both are small, single-cell organisms. However, archaea are as genetically different from bacteria as humans are from bacteria. While archaea are found in most environments, including the human gut microbiome, relatively little is known about them. An international team of researchers from Germany and Austria, led by Nicholas Youngblut at the Max
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ExtremeTechExtreme – ExtremeTech
Putting the New DJI Action 2 Camera Through its Paces
 
For the last decade the action camera market has been dominated by a traditional “point-and-shoot” form factor, with only slight variations. DJI’s new 4K Action 2 ($399-$515) presents us with a radical new approach. Its system is composed of a number of modules and uses strong magnets as its primary means of attachment. Each module is about the size of an ice cube. DJI Action 2 By the Numbers The
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Nature
Research round-up: oral health
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02927-3 Links between perceived racial discrimination and tooth loss, new materials for implants and enamel repair, and other research highlights.
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Nature
Investigating the mouth–COVID connection
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02922-8 Research conducted since the start of the pandemic is starting to suggest that the mouth could be a key player in COVID-19 infection.
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Nature
Homing in on an oral link to inflammatory disease
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02918-4 The immunological effects of untreated gum disease can amplify risk of a range of disorders — but could also create opportunities for intervention.
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Nature
Optics shine a light on dental imaging
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02925-5 Light can outperform X-rays in tooth examinations and avoids the use of ionizing radiation.
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Nature
The mouth’s curative superpowers
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02923-7 Wounds in the mouth heal faster than in skin — and without scarring. Could unravelling the mechanisms that drive regeneration in the oral cavity lead to better wound therapies?
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Nature
The advocacy frontier
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02926-4 Several major organizations are calling for radical reforms to improve oral health. What’s holding them up?
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Nature
Lessons from the ancient oral microbiome
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02921-9 Christina Warinner explains what the microorganisms that lived in our ancestors’ mouths reveal about human evolution and health.
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Nature
Science opens wide for oral health
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02917-5 Diseases of the teeth and gums, which are linked to many other illnesses, are finally getting the research attention that they deserve.
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Nature
The fluoride wars rage on
 
Nature, Published online: 27 October 2021; doi:10.1038/d41586-021-02924-6 There is little question that supplemental fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces decay. But at what cost?
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Futurism
Get lower prices and future purchase credits with one click.
 
Now that Apple Pay has so many options , making payments is smoother and more secure than ever before. But that’s no reason to pay more than you have to when making purchases online. Capital One Shopping is offering a free and easy way to save money while shopping online even if you aren’t a Capital One customer. After unsuccessfully searching for discount codes so many more times than finding on
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