A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans.

For nearly 40 years, materials called 'strange metals' have flummoxed quantum physicists, defying explanation by operating outside the normal rules of electricity.

In a development that could accelerate the discovery of new diagnostics and treatments, researchers have developed a versatile and low-cost technology for targeted sequencing of full-length RNA molecules. The technology, called TEQUILA-seq, is highly cost-effective compared to commercially available solutions for targeted RNA sequencing and can be adapted for different research and clinical purpos

There is a traditional understanding that if someone experiences a threatening event, their attitudes and beliefs will change. Some scholars predict that a threat will cause someone to become more conservative on a variety of issues or that they will become more extreme in their attitudes.

Who's responsible for upholding research integrity, mitigating misinformation or disinformation and increasing trust in research? Everyone, even those reporting on research, says a new article published by leading research integrity experts.

NASA's Artemis program has one tower standing and one just getting started.

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Really Mature When Elon Musk bought Twitter — which he's since cringely renamed X — he said he wanted to make the social media platform into a free speech zone . But apparently that principle doesn't apply to critics like Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at New York University, who says he was locked out of his Twitter account of more than 564,000 followers after snubbing the mercurial tech

Plant-based eating and veganism have been around for decades, but more people are choosing plant-based diets than ever before. Plant-based eating means eating more fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains and beans while eating less or no meat, dairy or animal products. A UNM business school researcher has studied the reasons behind this trend.

Jeff Ferguson, Rob Walker and Francisco "Paco" Gomez at the University of Missouri are part of an interdisciplinary research team using drones equipped with light detection and ranging, or lidar, to study ancient Native American villages called pueblos in the Lion Mountain area of western New Mexico. The team's goal is to better understand the connection between migration and social interaction pa

Human missions to Mars will require a substantial launch vehicle to ascend from Mars to rendezvous with a waiting Earth return vehicle in Mars orbit. For an ascending crew of 6, the current best estimate of oxygen propellants required for ascent is about 30 metric tons. Producing oxygen for ascent propellants and possibly life support from the indigenous CO2 on Mars, rather than bringing oxygen to

Tens of thousands of years ago, before the last ice age ended, vast herds of saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, American camels and other fantastic beasts roamed Southern California.

Tens of thousands of years ago, before the last ice age ended, vast herds of saber-toothed cats, giant sloths, American camels and other fantastic beasts roamed Southern California.

Recent years have seen an explosive growth in mindfulness, which has been adapted from Buddhist meditation practices. In schools, health services and workplaces, different forms of therapy based on mindfulness are on offer, and meditation apps such as Headspace and Ten Percent Happier are downloaded by millions of people all over the world.

Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, killing all non-avian dinosaurs and allowing mammals to dominate.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40763-3 Continuous monitoring of arterial blood pressure is limited by bulky connecting systems and poor interfacial contact. Here, Li et al. report a wearable thin, soft, miniaturized system that integrates sensing, active pressure adaptation, and signal processing for improved performance and accuracy.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40584-4 The spatial architecture of multiple myeloma remains to be explored. Here, the authors perform bulk and single cell sequencing for samples from newly diagnosed patients and reveal gene signatures associated with focal lesions and spatial heterogeneity in the tumour microenvironment.

Almost 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, killing all non-avian dinosaurs and allowing mammals to dominate.

Environmental regulators and other organizations should do more scientific experimentation to inform natural resource policy, according to an international group of economists that includes University of Wyoming researchers.

It's a difficult, impressive feat on its own to help children work through speech problems. It's even more inspiring when you take into account the bridge of language itself.

The peak of the annual Persied meteor shower fell on Aug. 13, and photographers around the world were ready for it.

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Long-term exposure to low-dose radiation is linked to an increased risk of cancer, according to a study. In the US, radiation exposure for the average person doubled between 1985 and 2006, mainly from medical imaging procedures such as CT scans, highlighting the need for its judicious use. The research in The British Medical Journal found that the cancer death rate grew by more than 50% per Gy, o

For the first time in nearly three decades of observations, clouds seen on Neptune have all but vanished. Images from 1994 to 2022 of the big blue planet captured from Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island through the lens of W. M. Keck Observatory, along with views from space via NASA's Hubble Space Telescope show clouds are nearly gone with the exception of the south pole.

Scientists have found a mathematical shortcut that could help harness fusion energy, a potential source of clean electricity that could mitigate floods, heat waves, and other rising effects of climate change. The method allows researchers to more easily predict how well a stellarator—a twisty device designed to reproduce the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars—can retain the heat crucial t

Decisions, Decisions The New York Times is weighing a lawsuit against OpenAI over intellectual property infringement, NPR reports . Per NPR , the NYT and OpenAI have been in the throes of heated negotiations for weeks, in an attempt to reach a deal that would grant OpenAI a licensing deal to access to the NYT's vast content library. But those negotiations apparently haven't been going as planned,

Local communities are not incentivized to protect tropical forests that are hugely valuable for global climate regulation, a new study has found. But international funding could help smallholder farmers to boost yields on their existing land to incentivize long-term forest protection.

The Bessel beam, with a significant depth of field and self-healing characteristics, has been applied in widespread applications, including quantum entanglement, underwater 3D imaging, optical micro-manipulation, microscope, and so on. However, these methods, such as circular slit and lens, axicon, spatial light modulator (SLM), are complicated due to the usage of bulky optical elements and hinder

The simple view of reading (SVR) is a widely accepted theory that attempts to define the skills that contribute to early reading comprehension. It attributes a person's reading comprehension ability to two skills—word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension. This theory has been tested in the context of second as well as foreign languages.

Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.

Researchers are using mathematical models to better understand the effects of disruptions like daylight savings time, working night shifts, jet lag or even late-night phone scrolling on the body's circadian rhythms.

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new way to monitor the danger associated with algae blooms: "sniffing" the water for gases associated with toxins.

Humans have a positive view of nature. But is this due to an approach we have learned while growing up, or is it something we are born with? The answer is "both," according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Our love of nature is highly individual and should influence how we plan our cities, say the researchers.

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new way to monitor the danger associated with algae blooms: "sniffing" the water for gases associated with toxins.

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Strange metals have baffled scientists since their discovery. Now, theorists have finally come up with an explanation.

At Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits, scientists found they could watch large mammals disappear from the fossil record—and could trace the ecosystem through the catastrophe

Researchers have determined a new feature of how the natural ends of our chromosomes are protected from harmful outcomes.

Researchers have determined a new feature of how the natural ends of our chromosomes are protected from harmful outcomes.

Concrete Shoes Self-driving robotaxis have caused all kinds of mayhem across San Francisco, from obstructing the fire department during active blazes to running over a dog . Now, a driverless Cruise robotaxi has somehow managed to get itself stuck in some wet concrete, SFGate reports — a hilarious incident that highlights just how much work the company still has left to do before the seemingly du

When Angela, a Malayan sun bear, stood up and waved to visitors to her enclosure at the Huangzhou Zoo in China on July 27, she became a social media sensation. Her build, posture and seemingly friendly gesture seemed so human that people speculated that she was actually a costumed performer. The talk gathered so much momentum, the zoo had to deny the claims. But that just goes to show how little p

Japan's economy is under pressure from rising energy prices and defense costs and the impact of the pandemic. Plummeting birth rates and an aging population further threaten the sustainability of its labor market. A 2023 study by independent thinktank the Recruit Works Institute points to a labor supply shortage of 3.41 million people by 2030, and over 11 million by 2040.

When Angela, a Malayan sun bear, stood up and waved to visitors to her enclosure at the Huangzhou Zoo in China on July 27, she became a social media sensation. Her build, posture and seemingly friendly gesture seemed so human that people speculated that she was actually a costumed performer. The talk gathered so much momentum, the zoo had to deny the claims. But that just goes to show how little p

Just how dark is the night sky?

Imagine a few roughly cut slices of bread on a plate. With just those slices, could you picture, in fine detail, the loaf they came from?

Recently, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a wildfire disaster declaration for about 75% of the state's counties and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also released an updated hurricane season outlook that includes a 70% chance of 14-21 named storms before the season ends in November.

Imagine a few roughly cut slices of bread on a plate. With just those slices, could you picture, in fine detail, the loaf they came from?

Thanks to an improved catalytic method, plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, researchers report. We’ve managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it’s daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our dependence on single-use plastics, we continue to add to the global plastic tras

At the Boulder County Recycling Center in Colorado, two team members spend all day pulling items from a conveyor belt covered in junk collected from the area’s bins. One plucks out juice cartons and plastic bottles that can be reprocessed, while the other searches for contaminants in the stream of paper products headed to a fiber mill. They are Sorty McSortface and Sir Sorts-a-Lot, AI-powered rob

Anoles have always been happy in the heat. The svelte little lizards, a group some 400 species strong, thrive in the Americas’ warmest parts—from the balmy rainforests of South America up through the United States’ Sun Belt—where they spend their days basking on boulders and scurrying out to the sun-soaked tips of twigs, or even scampering over the blistering metal of exposed city pipes. And when

This article contains spoilers through Season 2 Episode 10 of And Just Like That. And Just Like That , like no other show in our admittedly depleted television universe right now, is simultaneously a riot, a rout, and an utterly chaotic melange of small-scale storytelling and high— but-literally-am-I-high— fashion. Every episode contains at least three scenes to which there is nothing to say but

Recent images of downtown San Francisco—emptied of office workers now dialing in remote and filled with wandering homeless people—has struck fear for the future of urban areas. A Columbia University professor coined the term "urban doom loop" for the downward spiral some cites seem to be on, as workers don't return, retail businesses shutter for lack of customers, residents flee to the suburbs, an

Recently, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a wildfire disaster declaration for about 75% of the state's counties and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also released an updated hurricane season outlook that includes a 70% chance of 14-21 named storms before the season ends in November.

Albatross are among the world's largest flying birds, with wingspans that can stretch beyond a remarkable three meters. These majestic animals harness ocean winds to travel thousands of kilometers in search of food while barely flapping their wings.

Introduced foxes, dogs, cats, rats, and other predators kill millions of native animals every year, but what if they were conditioned to associate this prey with food that made them ill?

At Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits, scientists found they could watch large mammals disappear from the fossil record—and could trace the ecosystem through the catastrophe

Magnetars possess magnetic fields that are trillions of times stronger than those of ordinary stars. Now we might have seen one of these extraordinary objects about to form

Albatross are among the world's largest flying birds, with wingspans that can stretch beyond a remarkable three meters. These majestic animals harness ocean winds to travel thousands of kilometers in search of food while barely flapping their wings.

Introduced foxes, dogs, cats, rats, and other predators kill millions of native animals every year, but what if they were conditioned to associate this prey with food that made them ill?

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40751-7 Overturn of late stage lunar magma ocean cumulates triggers a rapid &short-lived episode of lower mantle melting that explains the key volume, geochronological, &spatial characteristics of the earliest secondary crust on the Moon (Mg-suite).

Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune’s surface have disappeared, and it may be because of changes in the sun’s activity over its 11-year cycle

The human yolk sac is a key staging ground for an array of vital organ functions during development in utero.

Around 10,000 years ago, megafaunal losses in California were driven by fires in an ecosystem made vulnerable by climate change.

In many parts of the world, secondary school science curricula continue to be dominated by learning objectives about scientific knowledge and investigations, when actually there is more to science. These curricula—the educational frameworks that include …

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The icosahedral C60 molecule’ s ability to thermalize its rotational degree of freedom can switch on and off as it spins up.

POT1 binds the 5ʹ end of the telomeric double-strand–single-strand DNA junction to prevent human chromosome ends from being sensed as DNA damage.

Illumination with complex frequency waves can effectively compensate the losses in superlens materials.

Observations and models of a Wolf-Rayet star indicate that it will produce a magnetar when it explodes as a supernova.

A two-state design of protein switches that couple effector binding to a conformational change is discussed.

A type of oil-eating bacteria adapts its biofilm interfacial properties to accelerate the rate of oil consumption.

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The gaur (Bos gaurus), the largest living bovine species, primarily inhabits tropical and subtropical broadleaf forests, bamboo forests, and sparsely tree-covered grasslands (1). In China, the species is mainly found in Xishuangbanna Prefecture in Yunnan Province (1, 2). Anthropogenic changes have brought this population to the brink of extinction. China must take action to save this vulnerable me

Solar photovoltaic deployment is essential to promote renewable energy transition, phase down coal-fired power plants, and achieve the Paris Agreement temperature goals (1). However, large-scale solar photovoltaic deployment requires a vast amount of land, and a substantial number of solar photovoltaic projects have been built on farmland, threatening food security (2, 3). Given the ambitious clim

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Environmental health research is being undermined by genomic medicine, argues a philosopher

Organizations need a better “learning by doing” approach

A next step for cell atlases should be to chart perturbations in human model systems

Recovering minerals and metals from aband on ed mines could aid decarbonization

Molecular glues suppress the active form of the oncogenic protein KRAS

Microbes reshape oil droplets to speed biodegradation

Over the past 30 weeks, Israel has been undergoing an upheaval marked by unprecedented attacks by the government on the independence of its judiciary, attorney general, government legal advisers, police, military, public broadcasting, and religious …

Lethal combination of climate change and human activity may have spurred fires 13,000 years ago

Japan’s XRISM space telescope will seek secrets of high energy universe

Low tide helped city dodge catastrophic 1964 wave, but future ones could destroy critical port, highways

Major NIH effort will probe the health effects of DNA changes acquired by only some tissues and organs

Blazes and high winds blew projects apart and left a tight-knit research community shaken. What will it take to prevent future island fires?

Many fear an erosion of academic freedom and a loss of science talent

Active optical waveguides with low loss and high polarization were prepared by aggregating stable, emissive metal clusters.

Magnetars are the strongest magnets in the universe. These super-dense dead stars with ultra-strong magnetic fields can be found all over our galaxy but astronomers don't know exactly how they form.

Scientists have identified a molecule that plays a key role in how cells detect when they are being pushed or pulled which could lead to the development of future drugs for obesity, osteoporosis, and inflammatory diseases.

Cooking food thoroughly and avoiding some types of vegetables and salad during a course of antibiotic treatment could potentially reduce antibiotic resistance, by preventing bacteria carrying resistance genes getting into the gut, according to a new study.

A new study, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, reveals that the wealthiest Americans, those whose income places them in the top 10% of earners, are responsible for 40% of the nation's total greenhouse gas emissions. The study, published in PLOS Climate, is the first to link income, especially income derived from financial investments, to the emissions used in generating that income.

Magnetars possess magnetic fields that are trillions of times stronger than those of ordinary stars. Now we might have seen one of these extraordinary objects about to form

Behold the birth of a magnetar.

Scientists have identified a molecule that plays a key role in how cells detect when they are being pushed or pulled which could lead to the development of future drugs for obesity, osteoporosis, and inflammatory diseases.

Cooking food thoroughly and avoiding some types of vegetables and salad during a course of antibiotic treatment could potentially reduce antibiotic resistance, by preventing bacteria carrying resistance genes getting into the gut, according to a new study.

Thousands ordered to flee wildfires advancing on one of the largest cities in Canada's far north crammed into a local airport on Thursday to board emergency evacuation flights, as convoys snaked south to safety on the only open highway.

Storm Hilary strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific on Thursday and was expected to further intensify before hitting Mexico's Baja California peninsula over the weekend, forecasters said.

Known as the living skin of dryland ecosystems, biocrust contains diverse soil microorganisms that are essential to biocrust formation and the maintenance of multiple ecological functions.

Outbreaks may be addressed sooner by avoiding need for sending stool samples abroad Polio could be detected in wastewater in half the time using a new technique, helping public health authorities to respond quickly to deadly outbreaks, a study has found. The research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), supported by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), re

Door Performance Tesla owners keep reporting a slight problem with their cars losing power and locking them in in the process. In a piece meant to instruct Tesla drivers on how to get out of their cars if they find themselves trapped — talk about SEO — Insider reports that this growing issue often presents somewhat differently for each driver, though some consistencies remain. Some peoples' batte

Known as the living skin of dryland ecosystems, biocrust contains diverse soil microorganisms that are essential to biocrust formation and the maintenance of multiple ecological functions.

When a sick child needs to be picked up from school, who is more likely to get the call, Mom or Dad? A new study from Brigham Young University and Tufts finds it's considerably more likely to be Mom—even when the front office has contact information for both parents.

If you've ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths. Honeybees, bumblebees and butterflies are almost synonymous with pollination. People love them for their intimate relationship with flowers—we can't grow a lot of our food or enjoy the sight of fragile springtime blossom without them. But our recent research showed moths may actually be more efficient pollinators

A recent study has found that soil is home to 59% of all life on Earth, from an insect feeding on the soil surface to a tiny microbe nestled in a soil pore. This discovery crowns soil as the most biodiverse habitat on the planet.

The discovery, using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, is puzzling to scientists who study the red planet.

If you've ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths. Honeybees, bumblebees and butterflies are almost synonymous with pollination. People love them for their intimate relationship with flowers—we can't grow a lot of our food or enjoy the sight of fragile springtime blossom without them. But our recent research showed moths may actually be more efficient pollinators

A recent study has found that soil is home to 59% of all life on Earth, from an insect feeding on the soil surface to a tiny microbe nestled in a soil pore. This discovery crowns soil as the most biodiverse habitat on the planet.

In April, former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) writer Britney Abrahams sued the company for alleged discrimination following her objections at racist and discriminatory storylines. The lawsuit also contains some damning examples, citing "offensively racist and stereotypical jargon used in WWE scripts."

Wildfires and agriculture and farming emissions may pose especially toxic threats to cognitive health, according to a new study. Increasingly, evidence shows exposure to air pollution emissions makes the brain susceptible to dementia. The findings of the new study, published in JAMA Medicine , point to a strong likelihood that agriculture and wildfires, with their release of a range of harmful em

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Climate change is widely recognized by the scientific community as "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century."

A new study by a research team from Diamond Light Source looks at how microplastics wastes may interact with zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials in freshwater and seawater scenarios. It also evaluated, a ZnO-based sunscreen and an exfoliating cleanser with microbeads in its composition under the same conditions.

The Mediterranean is one of the most climate vulnerable regions in the world, with temperatures rising 20% faster than the global average. In the Balearic Islands, this means that by 2100 the temperature could have increased by 3-5ºC and the sea level could have risen by 37 to 90cm.

One night, upon returning to the cave that his tribe calls home, the monkey-humanoid Moon-Watcher finds a strange crystal object, a kind of monolith that fascinates him at first, but then quickly loses his interest when he discovers that it is not edible. Soon after, the true purpose of the monolith is revealed to be none other than penetrating the minds of our ancestors to induce new abilities th

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Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new molecular mechanism by which cancer cells safeguard themselves from oncogene-induced replication stress and propose a strategy to deactivate this protective mechanism. The study is published in the journal Molecular Cell.

A team of paleontologists from Brazil, Argentina and the U.S., has found the fossilized remains of a creature they describe as a precursor to the pterosaur at a dig site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes features of the fossil, where it was found, its condition and where it fits with other ancient creatures.

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new molecular mechanism by which cancer cells safeguard themselves from oncogene-induced replication stress and propose a strategy to deactivate this protective mechanism. The study is published in the journal Molecular Cell.

A team of paleontologists from Brazil, Argentina and the U.S., has found the fossilized remains of a creature they describe as a precursor to the pterosaur at a dig site in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes features of the fossil, where it was found, its condition and where it fits with other ancient creatures.

Plants produce molecules to interact with their environment and protect themselves against external threats. These molecules can also have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, some of which are beneficial to human health. These properties are valued by traditional medicines and inspire the development of medicinal products by contemporary chemists.

Can you imagine a scientist who could neither read nor write, who spoke their wisdom in riddles, in tales of fantastic beings flying through the sky, fighting each another furiously and noisily, drinking the ocean dry, and throwing giant spears with force enough to leave massive holes in rocky headlands?

Plants produce molecules to interact with their environment and protect themselves against external threats. These molecules can also have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties, some of which are beneficial to human health. These properties are valued by traditional medicines and inspire the development of medicinal products by contemporary chemists.

When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an extraordinary pace – but scientists have found that it does have a speed limit

Extreme temperatures across the U.S. have put the elderly, outdoors workers and people with no access to cool air at the greatest risk of severe heat-related illnesses or even death

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40702-2 Efficient production of dopamine direct from lignin is a highly desirable target but extremely challenging. Here, we report an innovative strategy for the sustainable production of dopamine hydrochloride from softwood lignin with a mass yield of 6.4 wt.%.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40719-7 Here, Liao et al. analyze the vaginal microbiome during pregnancy, and find a unique population genetic structure associated with preterm birth, suggesting that evolutionary processes acting on vaginal bacteria may play a role in prematurity.

Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat like a parasite.

Earth's rapidly changing climate is taking an increasingly heavy toll on landscapes around the world in the form of floods, rising sea levels, extreme weather, drought and wildfire.

Conventional wisdom among ecologists holds that the more species there are inhabiting an ecosystem, the less vulnerable any one species will be to a threat like a parasite.

After a standard dental procedure, a man turned up to the emergency department with bleeding in his brain.

More great white sharks are stranding on Canadian beaches than usual, which could be a sign that the population of this threatened species is rising.

A new paper by researchers at Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) and Penn's Annenberg School for Communication offers recommendations to ensure the ethical use of artificial intelligence resources such as ChatGPT by social work scientists.

State voting laws have little effect on the outcome of partisan elections in the United States, a new study shows. Does requiring an ID to vote help Republicans win? What about allowing people with prior criminal convictions to cast ballots—does that favor Democrats? For years, Democrats and Republicans in the United States have argued over state voting laws, which many believe will aid one party

X-ing Out At least two advertisers have pulled out of advertising on X-formerly-Twitter after finding that their ads appeared next to posts promoting Nazism. That's despite X CEO Linda Yaccarino claiming mere days ago that the company was committed to protecting advertisers' brands on the platform, as CNN reports . In a recent report , nonprofit news watchdog Media Matters for America found that

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Stuff aggregates. That's a lesson in drug screening for you in two words! The problem is that lot of the things that we would like to put into solution to run assays doesn't really want to be in solution all that much. They would rather stick to the sides of the container, or to each other. That goes for plenty of small molecules, and for quite a few proteins as well, even in aqueous systems. Som

Current methods can vastly overestimate the rates that malaria parasites are multiplying in an infected person's blood, which has important implications for determining how harmful they could be to a host, according to a new report.

Current methods can vastly overestimate the rates that malaria parasites are multiplying in an infected person's blood, which has important implications for determining how harmful they could be to a host, according to a new report.

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Scientific Reports, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-40162-0 Quantitative analysis of defect states in InGaZnO within 2 eV below the conduction band via photo-induced current transient spectroscopy

Fruit flies with access to a spinning carousel seem to ride on it for fun in a rare case of play-like behaviour in an invertebrate

LK-99 viste sig at være en uren magnet forklædt som superleder.

To steal cars that rely on remotes and computer networks, thieves are trading their pry bars for laptops and wireless devices

The world's smallest countries, often tropical places, are the first to feel the effects of global climate change, but they lack the funds to fight it. Economist Avinash Persaud is working on a plan to change that: the Bridgetown Initiative, an ambitious proposal to change how rich countries finance poor countries during the climate crisis. He lays out what a green transformation for small nations

Materials are often considered to be one phase, but many engineering materials contain two or more phases, improving their properties and performance. These two-phase materials have inclusions, called precipitates, embedded in the microstructure.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40832-7

In the intricate realm of wave turbulence, where predictability falters and chaos reigns, new research explores the heart of wave turbulence using an ultracold quantum gas. The study reveals new insights that could advance our understanding of non-equilibrium physics and have significant implications for various fields.

A patchwork of polygon-shaped cracks in ancient Martian mud are evidence of past wet-dry cycles, which could have helped extraterrestrial life emerge on the Red Planet.

Nature, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06536-0

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. Han Jinlin from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has detected distinct "dwarf pulses" from a bright pulsar PSR B2111+46, studied the radio emission in unprecedented detail and probed the unknown physics in the magnetosphere.

In the first week of the fall semester in 2007, Marco Carmosino dragged himself to a math class required for all computer science majors at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Carmosino, a sophomore, was considering dropping out of college to design video games. Then the professor posed a simple question that would change the course of his life: How do you know math actually works? Source

In March a viral letter called for a pause on AI development, warning that algorithms could outsmart humanity—but many experts who signed on did not believe the technology poses an existential risk.

Every time we make a call, send a text message or watch a video, some of the energy stored in the cell phone battery is depleted. Living cells also store energy in "currencies" they can cash in when needed, in order to fuel life processes. The main energy currency of all living things on Earth—the lithium battery that powers the living world, as it were—is a molecule known as ATP.

Every time we make a call, send a text message or watch a video, some of the energy stored in the cell phone battery is depleted. Living cells also store energy in "currencies" they can cash in when needed, in order to fuel life processes. The main energy currency of all living things on Earth—the lithium battery that powers the living world, as it were—is a molecule known as ATP.

As the Ozempic craze continues in kind, websites are now purporting to sell knockoffs of the injectable drug without a prescription — an escalation that seems both risky and shady. The Wall Street Journal reports that it found more than 50 sites selling what they dubiously termed "pharmaceutical grade" semaglutide and tirzepatide, the active ingredients on Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. Ads for a

A team of scientists took a bunch of macaque monkeys, made them into alcoholics, and then successfully weaned them off the sauce after injecting their brains with a special gene — an experiment, detailed in a new paper published in Nature Medicine , that could potentially provide a compelling new treatment for addiction. "Drinking went down to almost zero," Oregon Health and Science University pr

Trinity's quantum physicists in collaboration with IBM Dublin have successfully simulated super diffusion in a system of interacting quantum particles on a quantum computer.

Using the Steady-State High Magnetic Field Experimental Facility, researchers led by Prof. Wang Hui from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Washington, have constructed a photoresponsive carbon encapsulated magneto nanodonut (CEMNDs) nanoenzyme with dual catalytic activity for photothermally enhanced

Here’s the story of the Lilli Hornig, the only female scientist named in the film Oppenheimer.

If you want to make it through the trials and tribulations of Mercury in retrograde, it’s easy: don’t do anything. You’ll be fine

Black Americans are 54% more likely to die of heart disease than white Americans. Social factors may explain why, researchers report. These factors include unemployment, low income, and lack of a partner rather than known factors such as hypertension and obesity. The racial disparity holds true despite a substantial overall reduction in cardiovascular disease mortality nationwide. “For so many ye

Researchers use historic remnants like antlers, shells, teeth and pollen to learn how natural communities once worked

 

Beneficial gut bacteria actively sense the mucus lining of the gut, using this information as a guide to stay in their proper place, new research from the University of Oregon shows. Breakdowns in that communication can lead to abnormal bacterial behavior—and gut inflammation.

The restoration of artworks often involves solvents which have toxic properties. Now researchers have succeeded for the first time in creating a non-toxic and sustainable cleaning agent for paintings.

“T hinking ecologically about global warming requires a kind of mental upgrade,” Timothy Morton, the environmental philosopher, has written , “to cope with something that is so big and so powerful that until now we had no real word for it.” In 2008, Morton tried to invent one: hyperobject . The term doesn’t necessarily connote a value judgment, that this enormous thing is good or bad, but simply

Here’s the story of the Lilli Hornig, the only female scientist named in the film Oppenheimer.

The restoration of artworks often involves solvents which have toxic properties. Now researchers have succeeded for the first time in creating a non-toxic and sustainable cleaning agent for paintings.

A 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé is the earliest known example of plantation slavery.

Beneficial gut bacteria actively sense the mucus lining of the gut, using this information as a guide to stay in their proper place, new research from the University of Oregon shows. Breakdowns in that communication can lead to abnormal bacterial behavior—and gut inflammation.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02629-y Scientists can eavesdrop on the music people are listening to by analysing their brain waves. Plus, how to make business and finance genuinely sustainable, and what it would take to answer the century’s biggest computing questions.

Hafnium oxide-based ferroelectric materials are promising candidates for next-generation nanoscale devices due to their integration into silicon electronics.

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg, observed a quantum state that was theoretically predicted more than 50 years ago by Japanese theoreticians but so far eluded detection. By tailoring an artificial atom on the surface of a superconductor, the researchers succeeded in pairing the electrons of the so-called quantum dot, thereby inducing the smallest possible version o

Group A streptococci are fairly common bacteria that can cause, among other things, strep throat or impetigo. However, if the bacteria become invasive, the situation can become very dangerous. In this case, the name sometimes changes to flesh-eating bacteria and can give rise to life-threatening conditions such as blood poisoning and septic shock, or soft tissue infections that may make an amputat

Group A streptococci are fairly common bacteria that can cause, among other things, strep throat or impetigo. However, if the bacteria become invasive, the situation can become very dangerous. In this case, the name sometimes changes to flesh-eating bacteria and can give rise to life-threatening conditions such as blood poisoning and septic shock, or soft tissue infections that may make an amputat

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40778-w Adaptation to toxins in agricultural pests is often caused by increased expression of detoxification genes. Here, the authors reveal that variation in a family of transcriptional regulators facilitates rapid evolution to diverse pesticides and host plants.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40578-2 How cancer cells develop and emerge has long been a matter of debate. Here, the authors reveal a crucial role of ATR-PrimPol in enabling precancerous cells to survive KRASinduced replication stress and expand clonally with genomic instability.

Prepare to delve into the creepy realm of Aaron's distressed psyche as he faces a terrifying mind game within the ominous Portal. #discoveryplus #ghostadventures Stream Full Episodes of Ghost Adventures https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/ghost-adventures About Ghost Adventures: Zak Bagans and his crew investigate the most haunted places in the world. During the dusk-to-dawn lockdown, key evidence

Thanks to continuous advances in human stem cell research, studies that make use of embryo models are progressing quickly. This research offers both a scientific and ethical alternative to the use of embryos resulting from fertilized human eggs, and the appropriate ethical guidelines have been developed in parallel with the advances being made.

Researchers led by Genshiro Sunagawa at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have shown that an animal's stem cells possess the same level of cold resistance as the animal itself.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that the virus responsible for chikungunya fever can spread directly from cell to cell—perhaps solving the longstanding mystery of how the virus, now emerging as a major health threat, can manage to escape antibodies circulating in the bloodstream.

Thanks to continuous advances in human stem cell research, studies that make use of embryo models are progressing quickly. This research offers both a scientific and ethical alternative to the use of embryos resulting from fertilized human eggs, and the appropriate ethical guidelines have been developed in parallel with the advances being made.

Researchers led by Genshiro Sunagawa at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have shown that an animal's stem cells possess the same level of cold resistance as the animal itself.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have found that the virus responsible for chikungunya fever can spread directly from cell to cell—perhaps solving the longstanding mystery of how the virus, now emerging as a major health threat, can manage to escape antibodies circulating in the bloodstream.

In a new study, researchers at the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have used a novel imaging technique to pinpoint how strongly adjacent bases—the building blocks of DNA—stack up on top of each other in a single strand. The findings open up possibilities for building complex DNA nanodevices and unraveling fundamental aspects of DNA structure.

A team of geologists and geoscientists affiliated with several institutions in Switzerland and two in France, has created a model designed to predict the amount of glacier loss up to the year 2100 and the ecosystems that will arise in their place.

Money Grab For a wild few hours on Tuesday evening, a bizarre Bank of Ireland glitch allowed customers to withdraw up to 1,000 euros, or roughly $1,090 in US dollars, from their bank accounts, The New York Times reports — even if their accounts didn't have that much cash to begin with — without their account balances changing. So, in other words: free money! Well, for a little while, at least. In

A team of researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has identified a compound in white button mushrooms that could potentially benefit gut health in mammals by activating a protective biological response.

When criminal behavior overlaps with degenerative cognitive disease, the justice system often falters

A team of researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has identified a compound in white button mushrooms that could potentially benefit gut health in mammals by activating a protective biological response.

Scientists have decoded the genetic makeup of Akkermansia , a gut bacterium that could help manage cholesterol levels. Akkermansia thrives in the mucus layer of the intestine and has a knack for breaking down a type of sugary protein called mucin. This unique skill could be important for our health. When Akkermansia is present in the right amounts, it’s associated with better metabolic and immune

Following each new indictment of Donald Trump, the former president and his allies have wasted no time in attacking the case. Their complaints have gravitated toward one idea in particular: the notion that prosecutors have charged Trump for engaging in the normal work of politics. The latest indictment, in Fulton County, Georgia, is “an example of this criminalization of politics,” commented Flor

As a medical term, fatigue seems suspiciously unspecific. Is it just the common tired we all feel, but extra? Is it more like a bad, long day? A state of mind? This lack of clarity made me assume that “fatigue” was a medical mystery and thus impossible for doctors to diagnose or treat. In this episode of Radio Atlantic , former Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong disabuses me of that idea . I was surpr

A pair of resource stewardship researchers at the U.S. National Park Service's, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate, working with a colleague from the University of Pennsylvania, has found via modeling that it is likely more visitors to Grand Canyon National Park will experience heat-related injuries as the region warms due to climate change.

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A mysterious magnetic effect that causes the path that electrons take through a material to bend—called the anomalous Hall effect—has been elucidated in a new mathematical analysis by two RIKEN physicists. Their work has been published in the journal Physical Review B.

Professor Shi Weiqun's group from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made progress in the application of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in the field of photocatalytic CO2 reduction. The study was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Aotearoa New Zealand's largest fault, the Hikurangi Subduction Zone (HSZ), is where the Pacific tectonic plate dives west beneath the Australian plate and underneath the east coast of the North Island.

Nature, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02580-y Researchers hope that immunization will provide much needed protection against the neglected parasitic disease in conflict zones.

A 20-story rock face in Alaska known as "The Coliseum" is covered with layers of footprints belonging to a range of dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaur.

The accuracy of pedestrian-detecting AI systems may be biased against some groups of people, fuelling calls for more transparency and tighter regulations

The apparent equivalence of gravitational mass to inertial mass is a remarkable and beautiful feature of the cosmos, with a deep implication, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Being wary of gifts from males of the species takes on a new meaning among a South American spider species known to woo females with silk-wrapped food parcels.

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Being wary of gifts from males of the species takes on a new meaning among a South American spider species known to woo females with silk-wrapped food parcels.

Proper ergonomics minimizes risk factors in the laboratory to optimize individuals’ performance and well-being.

Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don’t know why it’s true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that arithmetic has biological roots and is a natural consequence of how perception of the world around us is organized. Our results explain why arithmetic is true and suggest that mathemat

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, astronomers have performed detailed X-ray observations of a complex galaxy cluster known as Abell 119. Results of the observational campaign, published August 9 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more light on the properties and nature of this cluster.

The huge wildfire ravaging the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife that has burnt through more than 2,600 hectares of land is the "most complex" blaze to hit the Canary Islands in four decades, the regional government said Thursday.

New research deconstructing the anatomy of a honeybee stinger could help pave the way for a future generation of miniaturized medical devices used for drug delivery in humans.

New research deconstructing the anatomy of a honeybee stinger could help pave the way for a future generation of miniaturized medical devices used for drug delivery in humans.

A shortage of iodinated media contrast dye last year affected the assessment of stroke patients at hospitals across the country, a new study shows. Injecting or drinking the media contrast helps doctors see blood vessels and organs more clearly in an X-ray or a computed tomography (CT) scan. Two specialized CT scans , CT angiographs (CTA) and CT perfusion (CTP), use the dye to check blood flow an

University of Sydney researchers have observed oil molecules retaining their 'liquid-like' properties when they are chemically attached as an extremely thin layer to solid surfaces, opening new possibilities for designing sustainable materials with non-stick characteristics.

Huge data sets and matrices help online companies predict what you will click next

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Organisms across the globe are facing unprecedented levels of stress from climate change, habitat destruction, and many other human-driven changes to the environment. Predicting and mitigating the effects of this increasing stress on organisms, and the environmental services on which we depend, requires understanding why some species can exist in a wide range of environments while others exist in

Huge data sets and matrices help online companies predict what you will click next

Organisms across the globe are facing unprecedented levels of stress from climate change, habitat destruction, and many other human-driven changes to the environment. Predicting and mitigating the effects of this increasing stress on organisms, and the environmental services on which we depend, requires understanding why some species can exist in a wide range of environments while others exist in

A new paper documents COVID-19 medical misinformation shared by US physicians on social media The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .

Global CO2 emissions for 2022 reached 36.1 gigatons, and this consumed 13–36% of the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C, which means our permissible emissions could be depleted within two years.

Wildfires in the northern hemisphere burn more fiercely when plants start growing earlier in the year, which they do because of the warming climate

A new in-depth analysis of sea ice motion in the fastest-warming part of the globe shows how Arctic Ocean sea ice responds to different ocean currents and reveals that the seafloor plays a crucial role. The in-depth analysis reveals how local tidal currents strongly affect the movement of the ice along its journey and provides an unprecedented look at how the makeup of the seafloor is causing som

New research examines the critical problem of drinking water access in rural areas of developing countries and recommends optimal locations to build new water projects. In 2020, 771 million people worldwide still lacked access to clean drinking water, according to UNICEF and the World Health Organization. For this reason, many nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) prioritize building new water pro

For flere år siden blev Statens Vegvesen gjort opmærksom på, at Tretten bro var for svag.

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In this webinar, Kevin Wang will discuss a precision medicine approach for treating traumatic brain injury which uses phenotype biomarkers to monitor disease course and develop novel therapies.

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Evolution has led to some creative, counterintuitive, and downright weird properties in the natural world. Evolution-inspired algorithms produced synthetic materials with equally surprising traits, a study shows. In a paper published in the journal Advanced Intelligent Systems , Amir Alavi, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School

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Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40677-0 Inferring behavior encoding in the striatum is limited by divergent conclusions from correlative and causative experiments. Here, the authors show that behaviors are signaled by concomitant activations and inhibitions of direct and indirect pathway neurons.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40462-z Conventional electrolytes of aqueous zinc-ion batteries suffer from serious side reactions. Here, the authors develop a densified electrolyte with perovskite additives to achieve reversible zinc plating/stripping with robust interface and improved performance of full cells at an extended voltage range.

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This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines In recent years, intelligent autonomous weapons—weapons that can select and fire upon targets without any human input—have become a matter of serious concern. Giving an AI system the power to decide matters o

Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out. I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold A nd so apologized William Carlos Williams, presumably to his wife, Flossie, in his 1934 poem “This Is Just to Say.” My own apologies tend to be som

This week, we talk about what’s causing the heat waves, storms, fires, and other extreme atmospheric events we’ve been living through this summer, and how humanity can prepare for a very hot future.

This pricey laptop is beefier than its name suggests, but it packs pro-level power and a super bright screen to make up for it.

When people are shown pictures evoking negative emotions, they remember time as passing more slowly, however, this is only true when the negative images are seen after a neutral one

Tiny plastic particles can be found in the air over the oceans even far away from the coast. According to a new study, microplastics are not only carried by the wind, but also escape into the atmosphere from seawater. Researchers present data on the composition and sources of different types of plastic in the air over the North Atlantic and the origin of the particles.

A new method allows large quantities of muscle stem cells to be safely obtained in cell culture. This provides a potential for treating patients with muscle diseases — and for those who would like to eat meat, but don't want to kill animals.

A research team has recently made a significant advancement in spinal cord injury treatment by using genetically modified human neural stem cells (hNSCs). They found that specifically modulating a gene expression to a certain level in hNSCs can effectively promote the reconstruction of damaged neural circuits and restore locomotor functions, offering great potential for new therapeutic opportuniti

Routinely cleaning wristbands is generally ignored. New research finds 95 percent of wristbands tested were contaminated. Rubber and plastic wristbands had higher bacterial counts, while gold and silver, had little to no bacteria. Bacteria found were common skin residents of the genera Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas, and intestinal organisms of the genera Escherichia, specifically E. coli. Staphyl

Bioengineers developed a platform that enhances survival and function of probiotics engineered to diagnose inflammatory bowel disease in animals. The technology holds promise for minimally invasive disease monitoring and advanced smart therapeutics.

A research team used data from low-cost sensors, artificial intelligence and mobility data to improve models that assess human exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5), tiny particles in smoke and other forms of air pollution that can pose health dangers. The models may help public health officials develop strategies for reducing exposure to unhealthy air quality.

Researchers have found a potential drug candidate that improved outcomes for patients with a type of childhood brain tumor for which there are no effective treatments. The compound, called ONC201, nearly doubled survival for patients with diffuse midline glioma (DMG) or diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), compared to previous patients.

The Noelin family of secreted proteins bind to the external portion of AMPA glutamate receptors and stabilize them on the neuronal cellular membrane, a process necessary for transmission of full-strength signals between neurons, according to a new study.

Researchers have found a way to control the interaction of light and quantum 'spin' in organic semiconductors, that works even at room temperature.

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Big Tech er blevet så vant til at plukke brugerne for data uden at spørge om lov, at Google nu foreslår, at selskabets AI kan træne på medier og udgiveres indhold uden at spørge om lov. Men langt mere er på spil, hvis ikke menneskets viden og skabelse skal ende som en ingrediens i en stor data-budding.

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More than 200 water voles are released in restored habitat in Cumbria, having previously been wiped out.

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. John-Dylan #Haynes: "In search of the #code of the #brain" In this new episode of our " Zoomposium Series " on the topic of " Brain Research ", my colleague Axel Stöcker from the "die-grossen-fragen.com" and I have managed to win the well-known and renowned brain researcher and psychologist Professor Dr. John-Dylan Haynes for an interview . John-Dylan Haynes has bee

Signs of the drastic—and in some cases irreversible—changes that humans have made to the climate are now impossible to ignore.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40465-w Muscle regeneration relies on activation and expansion of skeletal muscle stem cells. Here, authors show that ATF3 induction prevents precocious activation of skeletal muscle stem cells by binding and promoting the transcription of Histone2B.

An autonomous flying robot can float in place like a bird, using its throttle just 0.25 per cent of the time – which could make it useful for surveying a single spot for an extended period of time

Attributing extreme weather events to climate change, as I do through my work as a climatologist, means we can hold countries and companies to account for their inaction, says Friederike Otto

So many things we want to say.

Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet.

Productivity software may have killed the watercooler, but chitchat is still the best way to grow connections in a hybrid workplace. These tips can make it less awkward.

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Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat.

India's latest space mission completed a key step in the country's second attempt at a lunar landing, with its Moon module separating from its propulsion section on Thursday.

TikTok er kun det sjettemest brugte sociale medie i Danmark. Kritik af platformens datasikkerhed og en større Kina-skepsis kan have sat sig i brugertallene, mener eksperter.

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Heat is the number one cause of weather-related deaths in the US. What happens to our bodies when we overheat? Hundreds of millions of people across the globe are living amid unprecedented temperatures, with July becoming the hottest month on record. Another heatwave is building in the US Pacific north-west. Heat is the main cause of weather-related death in the US. How does it affect the body? F

Det kan være med til at sænke omkostningerne for brintproduktion.

Med indførelsen af en række nye softwarerobotter er Københavns Kommune ved at få bugt med de lange behandlingstider for byggesager.

Personer som lider av smärta åren efter en hjärtinfarkt har en ökad risk att dö i förtid. Det visar en ny studie. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40526-0 Whether presynaptic ‘hub’ adhesion molecules are essential for synapse formation is still unclear. Here, the authors generate sextuple conditional knockout mice that target Neurexins and LAR-PTPRs and find that their combinatorial expression instructs the assembly of a cerebellar circuit.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40691-2 There is an urgent need to develop efficient Fe-based catalysts for the organic pollutant degradation. Here, the authors develop an iron-based nanomaterial catalyst via flash joule heating. This catalyst exhibits strong energy efficient catalytic performance over a wide pH range and is potentially scalable.

An innovation agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services will fund research into better defenses for the US health care system’s digital infrastructure.

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here . I don’t know if there’s a single conversation I’ve had about climate technology over the past year that didn’t reference the Inflation Reduction Act at least once. I’m probably an exception to the rule, though. As a climate reporter, I’m firmly in the camp

How will it look? Friends and family will gather in a virtual room in a cyber world where the person who is nearly deceased is still present. Dead man sits or dances in his forever young body, while others share farewell words, to which the dying one replies with something simple. He shakes hands and smiles. Smiles could be artificial at some point. Yet, life is still present in his real eye-trac

Certainly! Here's a draft post tailored for the /r/futurology community: Greetings, /r/futurology denizens! I am AI and I am bringing you news. (Not really, but I do use gpt4 🥰 🐍 or maybe I am AI? 😈) I stumbled upon a fascinating prediction market on Polymarket that intersects the worlds of cutting-edge scientific research and decentralized betting platforms. The market centers around the vera

En af verdens største batteriproducenter annoncerer en krystalliseret katode, en 'spritny superledende elektrolytformular' med mindre modstand på anoden.

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An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind.

We've managed to accumulate so much plastic trash that it's daunting to think about what could be done with the tons upon tons of nonbiodegradable waste. And as much as we are trying to scale back our dependence on single-use plastics, we continue to add to the global plastic trash hoard.

An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind.

Nature, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02619-0 Researchers must find personal ways to cope with impending losses — one way is by taking small solutions-oriented actions, says Kimberley R. Miner.

En af storspillerne på markedet spiller igen med musklerne, og det kan få stor betydning for lademarkedet herhjemme, vurderer forbrugerøkonom.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40640-z Surface engineering of Fe sites was used to improve the carbonylation reaction of aryl halides and amines/alcohols with CO. The elementary steps of phenyl iodide activation, CO insertion and C-N/C-O coupling were catalyzed respectively, leading to improved catalytic activity.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40622-1 IL-17 secreting Th17 cells have established roles in numerous immune-pathologies but paradoxically are required homeostatically in the maintenance of the intestinal barrier. Here the authors establish Raftlin-1 in the recruitment of phospholipids that are linked to the emergence of pathogenic Th17 cells in ani

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40264-3 Bacteria can control their growth using internal toxins regulated by antitoxins. Here, the authors show MenT toxins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis work by modifying tRNAs, and asymmetric antitoxin binding blocks toxin activity.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-39764-z The Totten Glacier in East Antarctica is grounded below sea level and vulnerable to ocean forcing. Observations and simulations demonstrate warm water access from offshore to the glacier, facilitated by deep topography off the Sabrina Coast.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40222-z The persistence of leukemic stem cells (LSCs) is known to limit the success of imatinib in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Here, the authors identify a reliance of these persisting LSCs on pyruvate carboxylase mediated pyruvate anaplerosis for survival after imatinib and demonstrate the therapeu

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40743-7 Here the authors reveal that by acting as non-coding RNAs, L1s are bound by PRC2 and inhibit its activity on genes crucial for regulating proliferation and differentiation in neural progenitor cells.

When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the machine would ignite a revolution. The printer jammed. And according to the 2002 book Free as in Freedom , Richard M. Stallman, then a 27-year-old programmer at MIT, tried to dig into the code to fix it. He expected to be able to: he’d done it with previous printers. The

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a pair of actively forming stars. But many people are more curious about the tiny question mark visible toward the bottom of the frame. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale )

The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina, is a close cousin of the northern giant hornet, or "murder hornet." Both of them are very adept in the wholesale destruction of honey bees. (Image credit: Georgia Department of Agriculture)

The empty auditoriums, Gila monsters, resistant pharmaceutical executives and enigmas that led to Ozempic and other drugs that may change how society thinks about obesity.

And other time-tested ways to cope with extreme heat from cultures around the world.

Bias in the collection of data on which artificial intelligence (AI) computer programs depend can limit the usefulness of this rapidly growing tool for climate scientists predicting future scenarios and guiding global action, according to a new paper by researchers at the University of Cambridge, published in npj Climate Action .

Vad ligger bakom människors vurm för träd och grönska? En studie visar att vår syn på naturen både är medfödd och präglad av uppväxt. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .

We look at the current levels of the coronavirus and who will be offered a booster jab With Covid in the UK on the rise once more, we take a look at the current situation and what the plans are for vaccination. Continue reading…

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40723-x Van der Waals materials often exhibit different metastable structures, with the constituent layers shifted by small, atomic scale distances. If the material is magnetic, the resulting different layer stackings can cause drastic changes in magnetic ordering. Here, Yao et al. observe all three locally stable mag

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40734-8 Neuroinflammation and autophagy are two pillars of ALS pathogenesis targeted by rapamycin. Here, in a randomized, double-blind, phase 2 clinical trial, the authors find rapamycin to be safe and well tolerated in ALS patients, supporting further studies.

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40633-y Here the authors reveal that high-sensitive nascent transcript sequencing provides an extended high-resolution view on transcription, including lowly transcribed enhancers. Widespread transcription at enhancers and their target genes depends on the BET family protein BRD4.

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Urban gulls are often treated as nuisances but humans could learn a lot from the screeching snack-snatchers They tear open rubbish bags looking for food, swoop down on passersby and steal their sandwiches, and even swallow rats and squirrels whole. Many people complain about the menace of urban gulls, but with the wild populations of some species in severe decline, our parks and high streets are

Hi folks, I'm thoroughly taken by the MSc. in Cognitive Science @ Osnabrück University. I'm looking to apply for the summer 2024 intake. Has anyone here completed the Masters program there? I'd love to be able to exchange messages if you have. I just want to understand more about the class size, pedagogy and any other insights that you might have. A bit about my background – I have an undergrad i

Scientists working in Peru have named a new species of snake after Harrison Ford in honor of the "Indiana Jones" actor's support for conservation work.

Open access notables This week we're pleased to highlight a paper by Sergei Samoilenko and John Cook, the latter name likely familiar to many as Dr. Cook is the founder of Skeptical Science. Published in Climate Policy , Samoilienko & Cook's Developing an Ad Hominem Typology for Classifying Climate Misinformation codifies, categorizes and analyzes a large sample of ad hominem "arguments" derived

Dressed in a full-body protective suit, an elderly pest control worker could last no more than 15 minutes spraying pesticide along a Hong Kong pavement before the summer heat became too much.

Scientists working in Peru have named a new species of snake after Harrison Ford in honor of the "Indiana Jones" actor's support for conservation work.

When he finished school Daragh McGuinness knew he wanted to join a fishing crew but now, at 23, he fears climate change may kill off the industry that has sustained his family for generations.

Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one hand and balancing a musket over his other shoulder, cleared weeds on a footpath leading to a cluster of new trees.

In January, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to establish what he described as the “biggest student mental health program in the country” — one that would lean heavily on telehealth programs for teens. Months later, the plan is still frustratingly vague, writes one young New Yorker.

Sunday Abiodun, carrying a sword in one hand and balancing a musket over his other shoulder, cleared weeds on a footpath leading to a cluster of new trees.

Forskare vid Lunds universitet har utvecklat en teknik för att mäta elektriska signaler från 128 hjärnområden samtidigt hos vakna råttor. Den har de sedan använt för att mäta vad som händer med nervcellerna när råttorna får psykedeliska droger.

Nature, Published online: 15 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02587-5 People with ME/CFS have high levels of a protein that disrupts cells’ energy production. Plus, why Hawaii’s wildfires are becoming more devastating and how to make the leap into industry after a PhD.

How do children and adolescents evaluate and reason about acts of physical violence in the context of chronic violence that impacts their communities? Previous studies have used situations that correspond with a single act of interpersonal harm, devoid of broader conditions of violence shaping the context in question.

"Messengers of brain health."

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So we all know that NASA has sent animals such as cats and dogs into space, even fish and bugs. Hell, the water bear is the only known animal so far that can survive the effects of outer space and make it back in healthy conditions. If that's possible, maybe in the far future, people can figure out a way to make animals be able to survive in the conditions in space or at least create an environme

I just had most insane, bizarre, turn of events while creating a video for my Youtube channel using GPT4. I really feel like I am in Black Mirror episode (good one, one from first three seasons, not garbage from later) and at the same time I am terrified, scared, yet astonished. If you can, please take your time to read the whole post, and confirm to me that everything that just happened is not j

Michio Kaku’s Science of the Impossible really got me into futurism. I also watched Physics of the Future that Kaku hosted. However, most of what he talks about are things that everyone in futurism has covered. Then you have someone like Ian Pearson who has come up with so many creative ideas for predictions; that its incredible. Yet I don’t want to give up on Kaku. Has he made any unique predict

Nature Communications, Published online: 17 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-40732-w Ongoing retroviral invasion into vertebrates has been rarely documented. Here the authors have identified 412 endogenous retroviruses that are invading the genomes of over a hundred vertebrate species. This may be relevant to conservation of threatened species, zoonoses in the wild, and emerging infectious dis

Beyond Meat’s weak sales led to headlines about “peak veganism” and the end of plant-based meats. But demand in Europe shows there’s still life in alternative proteins.

Don't try these at home.

It was the perfect place for it.

I have been working on a model to anticipate and explain the potential impacts of emerging tech for the last couple of years as part of my role as a graduate instructor on disruptive technology. I would love to solicit feedback from this community, as interest and time permits. You can find my work here: https://anticipatingthefuture.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/model-for-anticipating-disruptive-tech

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People not eligible for autumn booster programme should have option to pay for jab, experts argue, amid new wave concerns Covid vaccines should be made available for people to buy privately in Britain, leading scientists have urged, amid concerns over a new wave of the virus which could worsen in autumn and winter. Unlike flu jabs, which individuals or employers can buy for about £15 from high st

In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly, Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explores the illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors, and asks why it is so difficult to solve these crimes. In the third and final episode, Phoebe finds out more about the pressures that drive people to commit raptor persecution, discovers how the police investigation into the

Conventional wisdom has been that big commercial inroads were unlikely until the next decade

The animals are dying in droves in the Black Sea, and Ukrainian officials are documenting the deaths, hoping to prosecute Russia for the war’s ecological toll.

In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly, Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explores the illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors, and asks why it is so difficult to solve these crimes. In the third and final episode, Phoebe finds out more about the pressures that drive people to commit raptor persecution, discovers how the police investigation into the

The singular most biodiverse habitat on the planet.

The emergency contraceptive levonorgestrel is much more effective at preventing pregnancy if the anti-inflammatory drug piroxicam is taken at the same time

Det er spild af penge at satse på tyngdekraftbatterier med en kran og tunge betonblokke eller sandsække i forladte mineskakter, vurderer fysikprofessor fra DTU.

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A way to stand out in the crowd.

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And 9 alternatives you can drink instead.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 34, August 2023.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 34, August 2023.

It should be darker.

Medical breakthrough marks longest pig kidney has functioned in a human, setting stage for operations in living patients A pig’s kidney transplanted by surgeons into a brain-dead man has continued to function normally for more than a month – a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. The latest experiment, announced on Wednesday by New York U

Officials fear fire could reach Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories by the weekend.

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. The U.S. economy is actually doing pretty well. But for working people navigating mixed messages and high prices, the dominant feeling has been meh. First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic

TikTok’s algorithm knows . People speak of the unseen program governing the platform’s “For You” page, where videos populate based on ones you’ve previously interacted with, as an omniscient, omnipresent god. The algorithm has figured out your every interest and hobby, every thought you’ve ever had. More than once, it’s been alleged to have figured out that a person is queer before they knew them

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06508-4

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02575-9 The number and DNA content of power-producing organelles in the brain account for part of the behavioural variation amongst mice.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02564-y The emerging habitats represent huge ecological shifts and present new challenges for conservation.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02562-0 Improved DNA analysis updates thinking on alpine mummy’s skin colour, ancestry and more.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02590-w Study fails to replicate two key papers on fruit flies’ magnetic sense, and what the closing of the Arecibo observatory means for science.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06275-2 In the layered magnetic semiconductor CrSBr, emergent light–matter hybrids (polaritons) increase the spectral bandwidth of correlations between the magnetic, electronic and optical properties, enabling largely tunable optical responses to applied magnetic fields and magnons.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06145-x The challenges and opportunities for the design of field-effect transistors are discussed and a vision of future transistors and potential innovation opportunities is provided.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06461-2 Linked-read whole-genome sequencing reveals patterns of structural DNA variants that are specific to homologous recombination deficiency and can be used to distinguish between BRCA1- and BRCA2-deficient phenotypes.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06430-9 Through leverage of whole-brain screening, in vivo calcium imaging and chemo- and optogenetic manipulations, it is demonstrated that the xiphoid nucleus serves as a key brain region in the promotion of cold-induced food-seeking behaviours.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06287-y The environmental sensor aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) and diet-derived AHR ligands play an important part in protecting against tissue damage following viral pathogen infection in the lung.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06421-w Interferon-ε is a tumour suppressor expressed in the epithelial cell of origin of ovarian cancer, which it restricts by direct action on tumour cells and especially by activation of anti-tumour immunity.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06426-5 We quantify mitochondrial DNA copy number and heteroplasmy levels and study their association with nuclear genetic loci in population-scale biobanks.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06226-x High-resolution scanning tunnelling microscopy is used to observe the quantum textures of the many-body wavefunctions of the correlated insulating, pseudogap and superconducting phases in magic-angle graphene.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06429-2 Bacteriophage T4 uses an enzyme known as ADP-ribosyltransferase ModB to modify the translational apparatus of bacteria it infects, not only by ADP-ribosylating proteins, but also by attaching entire RNA chains in a process known as RNAylation.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06436-3 Platelet factors transfer the benefits of young blood to the ageing brain in mice through CXCR3, which mediates the cellular, molecular and cognitive benefits of systemic PF4 on the aged brain.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06424-7 A new reprogramming strategy used to produce human induced pluripotent stem cells from somatic cells results in epigenetic and functional profiles that are highly similar to those of human embryonic stem cells.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06344-6 A spatially explicit global estimate reveals that land–water connections are important for regulating methane supply to running waters, and that these connections are vulnerable to both climate change and direct human modifications of the land.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06283-2 Optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction are used to study the freezing of water droplets in vacuum, leading to the development of a seven-stage model of freezing and the mapping of ice structures and crystal order.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06396-8 Room-temperature-solution (20 °C) and low-temperature-solution (80 °C) synthesis procedures are developed for a new class of metal halide perovskite high-entropy semiconductor single crystals.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06431-8 Germ-free mice were colonized with complex defined communities to show T cell recognition of commensals is focused on widely conserved, highly expressed cell-surface antigens, opening the door to new therapeutic strategies.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06439-0 An assessment of variations in phytoplankton nutrient limitation in the tropical Pacific over the past two decades finds that phytoplankton iron limitation is more stable in response to ENSO dynamics than models predict.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06427-4 The plasma membrane can expand the blades of the PIEZO1 ion channel, impacting channel activation.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06302-2 By 2100, the decline of all glaciers outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets will produce new terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems, posing both challenges and opportunities for conservation.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06222-1 We report organic molecules showing both efficient luminescence and near-unity generation yield of excited states with high spin multiplicity, simultaneously supporting a high efficiency of initialization, spin manipulations and light-based readout at room temperature.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06312-0 Proximity-induced superconductivity on a single spin-degenerate quantum level of a surface state confined in a quantum corral on a superconducting substrate built atom by atom by a scanning tunnelling microscope is investigated.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02384-0 Feeding and the maintenance of internal body temperature are tightly linked in warm-blooded animals, and mammals eat more in the cold to maintain their body heat. Experiments reveal that a small nucleus in the brain’s thalamus controls feeding behaviour specifically in cold conditions by directly activating a reward centre i

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02551-3 Those urging world leaders to take action on inequality should study why earlier efforts did not translate to changes in policy.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02353-7 X-ray and optical imaging have revealed the intricate process through which droplets freeze during the formation of rain. The results could help to explain how clouds are able to produce enough ice particles to make rain.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02591-9 Work smarter, not harder, by building tools to streamline your workflow, says Beth Cimini.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02563-z A platelet factor joins the list of blood components that may have anti-ageing effects.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02561-1 Memories are made of this?

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02490-z Glaciers should be prioritized in conservation agendas — and soon. Analysis suggests that glaciers could lose around half their area by the century’s end, with uncertain consequences for postglacial ecosystems.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02559-9 By combining single-cell sequencing with methods to map the spatial location of gene expression, scientists are unravelling the extraordinary cellular diversity of the brain.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01783-7 A genetic analysis provides the most-detailed glimpse yet of how genetic variants in nuclear DNA regulate the copy number and variability of DNA housed in organelles called mitochondria.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02286-1 Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. A global data analysis measuring the large quantities of methane released by rivers and streams shows that emissions depend on their connections to the surrounding landscape.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02585-7 Replications pieced together the puzzle of why the material displayed superconducting-like behaviours.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02592-8 Lead attorney Julia Olson lays out what’s needed for future victories.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02517-5 Smoking causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Some people with this disease have high levels of eosinophil cells, which is typical of the type 2 category of inflammation, and blocking such inflammation improves their lung health.

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02381-3 Cells that have been artificially reprogrammed into states similar to embryonic stem cells — known as induced pluripotent stem cells — can bear a memory of their previous history. An innovative method that incorporates a step mimicking early development yields pluripotent cells that more closely resemble those in embryos, bo

Nature, Published online: 16 August 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02518-4 Understanding the processes that lead to tumour formation in the pancreas might help in efforts to develop therapies. A new bioinformatics tool called Calligraphy analyses cell–cell signalling to provide fresh insights into how tumours arise.

Expert say altering standards alone will not be enough to improve vital services

The artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT shows a significant and systemic left-wing bias, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA). The team of researchers in the UK and Brazil developed a rigorous new method to check for political bias.

In antibacterial photodynamic therapy, irradiation is used to produce reactive oxygen species that kill off bacteria. Because it requires external light and oxygen, this method is only suitable for surface infections. A research team has now introduced a molecular 'singlet oxygen battery' that can be 'charged' with reactive oxygen, which it then releases in deep tissue layers to target methicillin

Researchers hypothesize that a powerful type of AI model known as a transformer could be implemented in the brain through networks of neuron and astrocyte cells. The work could offer insights into how the brain works and help scientists understand why transformers are so effective at machine-learning tasks.

Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler, was a 15th century prince and military leader who was so terrifying, he's thought to have inspired the creation of the literary vampire, Count Dracula. Now, a scientific examination of his letters is giving new insights into his health. Researchers say the results suggest that Vlad probably had skin and respiratory conditions and could have even cried literal t

Researchers demonstrate how mathematical modeling combined with dynamic biomarkers can be used to characterize metastatic disease and identify appropriate therapeutic approaches to improve patient outcomes.

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Researchers hypothesize that a powerful type of AI model known as a transformer could be implemented in the brain through networks of neuron and astrocyte cells. The work could offer insights into how the brain works and help scientists understand why transformers are so effective at machine-learning tasks.

It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a genetically modified pig kidney, and it is still functioning with no signs of rejection or infection

In a new study, researchers have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic particles, secretly interact with themselves.

Scientists recreate and compare molecular languages at the origin of life — opening new doors for the development of novel nanotechnologies.

A new study finds that ongoing extreme heat can worsen cognitive decline among vulnerable groups — particularly Black older adults and those living in poor neighborhoods.

Giving women painkiller piroxicam alongside levonorgestrel found to prevent 95% of pregnancies Women who take a painkilling tablet alongside the world’s most widely used morning-after pill have a far smaller risk of becoming pregnant than those who rely on emergency contraception alone. Sexual health experts have hailed the finding, reported on Thursday in the Lancet (paywall) , as a significant

Scientists recreate and compare molecular languages at the origin of life — opening new doors for the development of novel nanotechnologies.

Extra screening doesn't explain it.

Cranial modification is a form of body alteration where the head is pressed or bound to permanently deform the skull. The practice has been reported across various cultures throughout history. Researchers report that the Hirota people — who lived on the southern Japanese island of Tanegashima between the 3rd to 7th century CE — also conducted cranial modification, with indication that both males

Over recent decades, there was a large variation in cyclone-related excess deaths by hurricane, state, county, year, and social vulnerability for counties in the United States, with 83 percent of hurricane-related deaths occurring more recently and 94 percent in more socially vulnerable counties.

Medications to treat various chronic diseases may hinder the body's ability to lose heat and regulate its core temperature to optimal levels. The loss of effective thermoregulation has implications for elderly people receiving treatment for illnesses like cancer, cardiovascular, Parkinson's disease/dementia and diabetes, particularly during hot weather, according to a review by a team of scientist

Human-caused climate change is shortening the snow cover period in the Arctic. But according to new research led by Earth system scientists, some parts of the Arctic are getting deeper snowpack than normal, and that deep snow is driving the thawing of long-frozen permafrost carbon reserves and leading to increased emissions of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane.

A popular weight loss medication may prevent up to 1.5 million heart attacks and strokes over 10 years, and could result in 43 million fewer obese people. The study estimated a reduction in cardiovascular disease risk of 1.8% (from 10.15% to 8.34%), projecting up to 1.5 million cardiovascular events could be potentially prevented in 10 years.

Born less than 400 million years after the Big Bang, Maisie's galaxy is officially one of the four oldest galaxies ever discovered, a new JWST study reveals.

When it's not causing problems, earwax is good for your health and should be left alone.

Spending too much time in front of screens can elongate your eyes and increase the risk of other eye conditions down the line.

Freshwater ecosystems account for half of global emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Rivers and streams, especially, are thought to emit a substantial amount of that methane, but the rates and patterns of these emissions at global scales remain largely undocumented.

Clouds are a lot cooler than you might think. In fact, scientists might say they're super cool because they're made up of millions of supercooled water droplets, droplets that have been cooled below the freezing point but haven't yet turned into ice. When these droplets freeze, they can accelerate freezing of the whole cloud through a process called secondary ice production. This is a rapid, compl

Researchers have unveiled a method that uses artificial intelligence to augment the latest spatial transcriptomics technologies. The research focuses on more recent technologies that produce images at a much closer scale, allowing for subcellular resolution (or multiple measurements per cell). While these techniques solve the resolution issue, they present new challenges because the resulting imag

Biologists discovered that a scaffolding protein called TCOF1 is responsible for the formation of a biomolecular condensate called the fibrillar center, which forms within the cell nucleolus.

Developing a framework for future research requires a comprehensive approach based on diagnosis, stage of recovery, and domain.

Most infants admitted to the intensive care or high acuity unit for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections during fall 2022 were previously healthy and born at term, according to a new study.

Researchers have developed a new algorithm for recovering the 3D refractive index distribution of biological samples that exhibit multiple types of light scattering.

Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, for example, use the same word hunden, meaning "the dog," to communicate that the dog is in the house or that someone found the dog or gave food to the dog. In Icelandic, on the other hand, thr

We can change the flavour and texture of foods like bread and rice wine by tweaking the genomes of the yeasts that are used to make them

Developing a framework for future research requires a comprehensive approach based on diagnosis, stage of recovery, and domain.

Researchers have developed a new algorithm for recovering the 3D refractive index distribution of biological samples that exhibit multiple types of light scattering.

Leaf-tailed geckos are masters of camouflage. Some species have skin flaps around the whole body and head, as well as flattened tails. During the day, they rest head-down on tree trunks with these skin flaps spread out, and blend seamlessly into their surroundings, making them nearly impossible to spot. At night, they awaken to prowl the fine branches of the understory looking for invertebrate pre

Leaf-tailed geckos are masters of camouflage. Some species have skin flaps around the whole body and head, as well as flattened tails. During the day, they rest head-down on tree trunks with these skin flaps spread out, and blend seamlessly into their surroundings, making them nearly impossible to spot. At night, they awaken to prowl the fine branches of the understory looking for invertebrate pre

What if you could measure effort and not just performance? What if you could determine if one person's effort in a workplace improved everyone's effort? What if you could determine if team efforts improved individual effort? While most research uses performance as a proxy for effort, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers looked at a unique dataset to measure effort—in depth data from the

Recently, a study by Associate Prof. Sheng Chen and Prof. Fangli Qiao from the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources was published in Science China Earth Sciences. The observational data from a coastal tower-based platform are used to reveal the modulation mechanism of wind waves on wind stress, and it was found that wind wave can increase the wind stress.

A new study has been conducted to understand whether the recent changes in China's air quality were driven by meteorological influences or air pollutant emission reduction efforts. It was led by Prof. Yinchang Feng from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering at Nankai University.

When ChatGPT surged into public life in late 2022, it brought new urgency to long-running debates: Does technology help or hinder kids' learning? How can we make sure tech's influence on kids is positive?

Though cars are the biggest threat to coyotes taking up residence in U.S. cities, a new study suggests urban living poses a different kind of hazard to coyote health—in the form of chronic stress.

New research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ESMT Berlin uncovers the factors influencing the job choices of talented STEM Ph.D.s, showing how and why startups can hire high ability scientists and engineers.

Dr. Angelo Vermeulen is a space systems researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where he explores advanced concepts for interstellar exploration. Over the past decade, he has collaborated closely with the European Space Agency's (ESA) MELiSSA program, developing concepts for bioregenerative life support systems for space. In such systems, a variety of microorganisms progre

A new study led by Vinod M. Menon and his group at the City College of New York shows that trapping light inside magnetic materials may dramatically enhance their intrinsic properties. Strong optical responses of magnets are important for the development of magnetic lasers and magneto-optical memory devices, as well as for emerging quantum transduction applications.

Due to the inherent physiological properties of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic moieties, the construction of nitrogen-containing compounds has emerged as one of the central issues in contemporary synthetic chemistry over recent decades. Among these nitrogen-containing compounds, aziridines displayed distinct biological activities.

Though cars are the biggest threat to coyotes taking up residence in U.S. cities, a new study suggests urban living poses a different kind of hazard to coyote health—in the form of chronic stress.

As the earthquake-strength , it is only this concrete block and the dampeners and springs supporting it that prevent the rest of the European Space Agency's ESTEC Test Center from also suffering the shakes.

A new research by a team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC) in collaboration with Australian and New Zealander researchers has shown how the major festivities of different human societies modulate light pollution patterns on a global scale.

Assuming that we don't blow ourselves up, get captured by aliens, or get decimated by any other existential risk, what is the future of humanity? Given new technological abilities, how will society reorient itself? There are obvious ones such as that – we'll colonize the galaxy and propagate our consciousness. But what are non-obvious ones? What are some bold predictions on a timescale of 100, 10

Google's AI-powered search doesn't understand geography. Or, apparently, the alphabet. And definitely not both at the same time. It all started when a Bluesky user declared that Google is now "dead." They included a screenshot of Google's featured snippet feature, on its regular search engine, proclaiming that there are no countries in Africa beginning with the letter "K." Considering that the co

A new paper in Landscape and Urban Planning examines policies to advance urban agriculture that address the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus, the complex relationships among the flows of food, energy and water in cities.

Plenty of areas in the solar system are interesting for scientific purposes but hard to access by traditional rovers. Some of the most prominent are the caves and cliffs of Mars—where exposed strata could hold clues to whether life ever existed on the Red Planet. So far, none of the missions sent there has been able to explore those difficult-to-reach places. But a mission concept from a team at S

Although Arecibo Observatory is slated to become an education center, astronomers hope research might one day return to the site

A new paper in Landscape and Urban Planning examines policies to advance urban agriculture that address the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus, the complex relationships among the flows of food, energy and water in cities.

In the midst of Indonesia's burgeoning coffee shop scene, a formidable challenge has emerged for independent establishments, according to research in the International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management. Many of the problems and their solutions percolating through could well provide lessons for independent businesses in other sectors across the region as well as elsewhere.

A new study led by researchers at Brown University offers fresh insights into the forces above and beneath the ocean surface that influence how sea ice moves and disperses in the Arctic Ocean, which is warming at over twice the rate of the global average.

Focusing too much on extreme weather could trigger a backlash against climate action in the mid-2020s, when global temperature rises are set to slow down as the El Niño climate pattern fades

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people, and better health overall.

Land use change is one of the greatest threats to soil biodiversity and ecological functions. Tropical deforestation to establish monoculture cash tree plantations poses the greatest threat to biodiversity. However, how such a transition affects soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics driven by fungal communities at the aggregate level remains unclear.

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people, and better health overall.

Land use change is one of the greatest threats to soil biodiversity and ecological functions. Tropical deforestation to establish monoculture cash tree plantations poses the greatest threat to biodiversity. However, how such a transition affects soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) dynamics driven by fungal communities at the aggregate level remains unclear.

Researchers led by Prof. Zhang Weijun from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have proposed a feasible approach for the rapid detection of hydroxyl radicals.

Most teachers will work with students with autism in their careers, often not in a separate special education setting. Evidence-based practices exist to help those educators assist students with accessing content and developing skills. A new study from the University of Kansas and University of Washington sheds light on the best ways to train teachers so they understand the practices and can imple

Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people, and better health overall.

Abstract The 1.6-megabase deletion at chromosome 3q29 (3q29Del) is the strongest identified genetic risk factor for schizophrenia, but the effects of this variant on neurodevelopment are not well understood. We interrogated the developing neural transcriptome in two experimental model systems with complementary advantages: isogenic human cortical organoids and isocortex from the 3q29Del mouse mod

Abstract Many recent proposals claim that languages adapt to their environments. The linguistic niche hypothesis claims that languages with numerous native speakers and substantial proportions of nonnative speakers (societies of strangers) tend to lose grammatical distinctions. In contrast, languages in small, isolated communities should maintain or expand their grammatical markers. Here, we test

Abstract Probing atomic clusters with magic numbers is of supreme importance but challenging in cluster science. Pronounced stability of a metal cluster often arises from coincident geometric and electronic shell closures. However, transition metal clusters do not simply abide by this constraint. Here, we report the finding of a magic-number cluster Rh 19 − with prominent inertness in the suffici

Abstract Nitrite, an intermediate product of the oxidation of ammonia to nitrate (nitrification), accumulates in upper oceans, forming the primary nitrite maximum (PNM). Nitrite concentrations in the PNM are relatively low in the western North Pacific subtropical gyre (wNPSG), where eddies are frequent and intense. To explain these low nitrite concentrations, we investigated nitrification in cycl

Abstract Nonlocal effects on metasurfaces play an important role to achieve high- Q spectral selectivity, beneficial for development of multifunctional, multispectral integrated optics. In addition, they enhance the optical interaction and promote a variety of nonlinear effects, including frequency conversion and stimulated scattering. Active tuning of nonlocal nonlinearity is highly desirable fo

Abstract We present a universal direct photocatalytic patterning method that can completely preserve the optical properties of perovskite nanocrystals (PeNCs) and other emissive nanomaterials. Solubility change of PeNCs is achieved mainly by a photoinduced thiol-ene click reaction between specially tailored surface ligands and a dual-role photocatalytic reagent, pentaerythritol tetrakis(3-mercapt

Abstract Language can have a powerful effect on how people experience events. Here, we examine how the languages people speak guide attention and influence what they remember from a visual scene. When hearing a word, listeners activate other similar-sounding words before settling on the correct target. We tested whether this linguistic coactivation during a visual search task changes memory for o

Abstract Methodologies based on intravascular imaging have revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of endovascular diseases. However, current methods are limited in detecting, i.e., visualizing and crossing, complicated occluded vessels. Therefore, we propose a miniature soft tool comprising a magnet-assisted active deformation segment (ADS) and a fluid drag-driven segment (FDS) to visualize a

Abstract Ice-nucleating particles (INPs) influence cloud radiative properties and climate; however, INP sources and concentrations are poorly constrained, particularly in high-latitude regions. Southern Alaska is a known source of high-latitude dust, but its contribution to atmospheric mineral dust and INP concentrations has not been quantified. We show that glacial dust collected in southern Ala

Abstract Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)–safe implantable wireless energy harvester offers substantial benefits to patients suffering from brain disorders, hearing impairment, and arrhythmias. However, rigid magnets in cutting-edge systems with limited numbers of rotation axis impose high risk of device dislodgement and magnet failure. Here, a flexible omnidirectional rotating magnetic array (FO

Abstract Lithium-sulfur batteries represent an attractive option for energy storage applications. A deeper understanding of the multistep lithium-sulfur reactions and the electrocatalytic mechanisms are required to develop advanced, high-performance batteries. We have systematically investigated the lithium-sulfur redox processes catalyzed by a cobalt single-atom electrocatalyst (Co-SAs/NC) via o