In a new study, researchers describe a device that connects the intentions of a paralyzed patient to his physical movements.
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Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago.
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Parents and caregivers lining up summer camps and other opportunities to occupy their kids when school is out have one more thing to consider as they plan: novelty.
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Species known as marine habitat-forming species —gorgonians, corals, algae, seaweeds, marine phanerogams, etc.— are organisms that help generate and structure the underwater landscapes. These are natural refuges for other species, and provide biomass and complexity to the seabeds.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01732-4 The twin gravitational-wave detectors have started a new observation run after a major upgrade.
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Species known as marine habitat-forming species —gorgonians, corals, algae, seaweeds, marine phanerogams, etc.— are organisms that help generate and structure the underwater landscapes. These are natural refuges for other species, and provide biomass and complexity to the seabeds.
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Towering a few hours from one of the world's largest cities, the Popocatepetl volcano has been coating nearby towns with ash and disrupting flights at Mexico City's airport, the busiest in Latin America.
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Fibers lost during the wear and care of textiles may pose a risk to the environment and human health when released into air and water. A study published in PLOS ONE by Neil J. Lant at Procter & Gamble, Newcastle Innovation Center, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, and colleagues suggests that while condenser dryers may reduce airborne microfibers compared to vented dryers, they are a significan
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The words different cultures use to describe family members have revealed some intriguing insights—including why in Balto-Slavic languages there is a complicated relationship between in-laws and weasels.
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Rising temperatures due to climate change are likely influencing human migration patterns, according to a new study by Rita Issa of University College London and colleagues, published May 24 in the open-access journal PLOS Climate.
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Plastic pollution is seemingly omnipresent in society, and while plastic bags, cups, and bottles may first come to mind, plastics are also increasingly used to make clothing, rugs, and other textiles.
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Coccolithophores, a globally ubiquitous type of phytoplankton, play an essential role in the cycling of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere. New research from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences shows that these vital microbes can survive in low-light conditions by taking up dissolved organic forms of carbon, forcing researchers to reconsider the processes that drive carbon cycling in the oc
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Political parties regularly claim to have their finger on the pulse and be able to read the public mood. Yet a new study challenges the idea that being political makes you good at understanding others: it shows gender, not politics, is a far more important factor in determining people's social skills.
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Young adults engage in online anti-social behavior for fun and social approval, and those who perpetrate this behavior tend to have lower cognitive empathy scores than average, according to a new study published this week in PLOS ONE by Felipe Bonow Soares of University of the Arts London, UK, and colleagues.
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What does a traditional West African dish have to do with road salt spread across snowy Canadian streets every winter?
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Coccolithophores, a globally ubiquitous type of phytoplankton, play an essential role in the cycling of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere. New research from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences shows that these vital microbes can survive in low-light conditions by taking up dissolved organic forms of carbon, forcing researchers to reconsider the processes that drive carbon cycling in the oc
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Earlier this year, a new beer appeared on the menu at Fox City Brewing Company in Forsyth, Georgia. Opened three years ago in a former ice house an hour south of Atlanta, Fox City serves pale ales, stouts and other microbrews. The new addition, called Revival Lager, stands apart from anything it's made before—and from nearly every other beer on tap in the U.S. Fox City's menu calls it a "light, cr
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Most people probably associate algal blooms with red tides in Florida that can lead to skin irritation, burning eyes and rashes in exposed individuals.
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Machine learning technology that can recognize human faces may also help to improve weather forecasts, according to a team of scientists.
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When most researchers looked at a puzzling group of artifacts discovered at French archaeological sites, they presumed these to be ornaments or clothing. But Justin Garnett saw something else.
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Academic researchers and companies in the agricultural biotechnology sector will be able to use a patent-pending Purdue University biology innovation to introduce valuable traits to plants without integrating novel DNA into a plant's genome.
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Most people probably associate algal blooms with red tides in Florida that can lead to skin irritation, burning eyes and rashes in exposed individuals.
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Academic researchers and companies in the agricultural biotechnology sector will be able to use a patent-pending Purdue University biology innovation to introduce valuable traits to plants without integrating novel DNA into a plant's genome.
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Exes and Ohs In one of the strangest cases in financial history, a key figure is a millennial who used to blog about her love life — so naturally, we're morbidly fascinated to see what's inside her diary, which is apparently a key piece of evidence in the upcoming trial. As the New York Times reports , federal prosecutors purportedly have a "mountain" of evidence in their case against FTX CEO Sam
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As McDonald’s is targeted, governments also need to tighten and enforce rules
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A €5.5bn flood barrier has bought only a temporary reprieve
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A downward view of ESA's rock-strewn recreation of the Red Planet, is designed to put prototype planetary rovers through their paces.
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The Arctic, once again at the forefront of climate change, is experiencing disproportionately higher temperature increases compared to the rest of the planet, triggering a series of cascading effects known as Arctic amplification.
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The ispace HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander was launched on Dec. 11, 2022, a privately funded spacecraft planned to land on the lunar surface. After a several-month journey to the moon, the spacecraft started a controlled descent to the surface to land near Atlas crater. The ispace team announced the following day that an anomaly occurred, and the HAKUTO-R Mission 1 lunar lander had not safely touc
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When multiple NASA telescopes observe the same cosmic region, the universe's true colors are revealed.
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Non-avian dinosaurs were probably in decline long before an asteroid smashing into the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago sealed their fate, according to a University of Alberta paleontologist who says the ancient tale is chronicled at three stops on an astonishing three-hour drive along the Red Deer River.
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Politically polarized Google users are not steered to partisan sites by the search engine’s algorithm but generally decide to go there on their own
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Oklahoma's state health department is investigating reports of suspected meningitis in people who swam in local lakes and rivers. The cause remains unknown, but a dangerous brain-eating amoeba has been ruled out.
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It is only the seventh case of the deadly disease reported in the U.S. since it first emerged in the country in 2003.
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Non-avian dinosaurs were probably in decline long before an asteroid smashing into the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago sealed their fate, according to a University of Alberta paleontologist who says the ancient tale is chronicled at three stops on an astonishing three-hour drive along the Red Deer River.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38837-3 Early detection of immunotherapy-induced tumor response is of major benefit for patients but can be complicated by therapy-induced pseudoprogression. A consensus guideline-iRECIST- was developed as a modification of Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST version 1.1). Here we describe which next st
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Three and a half years since the start of a pandemic that has killed millions of people and debilitated countless more, the world is still stuck at the start of the COVID-19 crisis in one maddening way: No one can say with any certainty how, exactly, the outbreak began. Many scientists think the new virus spilled over directly from a wild animal, perhaps at a Chinese wet market; some posit that t
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When Elon Musk tweeted that the Jewish financier George Soros “hates humanity” and “wants to erode the very fabric of civilization,” he drew international condemnation. Musk’s outburst was “not just distressing,” but “dangerous,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League’s CEO, said on Twitter. “It will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to atta
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01699-2 A component of the milk consumed by newborn mice triggers a crucial shift in heart cells’ metabolism.
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Politically polarized Google users are not steered to partisan sites by the search engine’s algorithm but generally decide to go there on their own
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Find out how happy and healthy relationships can improve your overall health. And how toxic relationships affect physical health.
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Researchers who are bringing back the woolly mammoth have found several modifications to its DNA overtime, telling us how they evolved.
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Many of us imagine ferocious hunters when we think of dinosaurs. But most of them were actually herbivores. Here's everything you need to know about plant-eating dinosaurs.
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Researchers are looking for an edge, or at least better prediction, as fires grow more dangerous.
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The big, red galactic troublemaker has kept humanity guessing for thousands of years. Physicists predict when Betelgeuse will explode.
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Groupthink has been blamed for major historical disasters, but studies show there may be some benefit to it.
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Despite containing the longest-known land predator, Spinosaurus, this family suffers from a sparse fossil record.
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In the deep mysterious waters of the Galápagos Islands lies Darwin Island. Get the real story behind Charles Darwin’s work and how he made the area famous.
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Various psychological theories explore why natural events are attributed to gods, deities and other supernatural forces.
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Advanced AI systems can mimic human conversation with remarkable authenticity. Now researchers are fighting back with carefully crafted questions that force AIs to reveal themselves.
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Strokes tend to come on quickly and need immediate medical treatment. Here's how to spot the signs of a stroke as it's happening, and what to do if you are experiencing symptoms.
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Researchers are developing brain-computer interfaces that would enable communication for people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions that render them unable to speak.
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Skin Walker Cops say a scammer in northern China has managed to cheat a man out of his money, Reuters reports , by masquerading as his friend with the use of AI-powered face-swapping and voice-cloning software. If the tale holds up to scrutiny, the incident would go to show how easy it has become for scammers to deepfake their way to a payday using new AI tools. While we've come across examples o
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Most biological cells have a fixed place in an organism. However, cells can become mobile and move through the body. This happens, for example, during wound healing or when tumor cells divide uncontrollably and migrate through the body. Mobile and stationary cells differ in various ways, including their cytoskeleton.
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Like thread tightly wrapped around a spool, DNA is wrapped around histones and packaged into structures called nucleosomes. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are exploring how a type of transcription factor called a pioneer transcription factor accesses DNA even when it is tightly wound. Their work revealed how the epigenetic landscape influences transcription factor binding.
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Most biological cells have a fixed place in an organism. However, cells can become mobile and move through the body. This happens, for example, during wound healing or when tumor cells divide uncontrollably and migrate through the body. Mobile and stationary cells differ in various ways, including their cytoskeleton.
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Like thread tightly wrapped around a spool, DNA is wrapped around histones and packaged into structures called nucleosomes. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are exploring how a type of transcription factor called a pioneer transcription factor accesses DNA even when it is tightly wound. Their work revealed how the epigenetic landscape influences transcription factor binding.
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Existing solar cells are normally only used on flat, static surfaces to avoid them cracking, but now there is a flexible alternative with the same energy-generating efficiency
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Implants in brain and spine allow Dutch man to walk and climb stairs by power of thought, in world first use of the technology
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Atomic clocks work by using a laser to bounce the electrons in an atom at a given frequency, while nuclear clocks would theoretically do the same for atomic nuclei, and we are a step closer to building one
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The Department of Agronomy at the University of Cordoba, together with the IAS–CSIC, has improved the AquaCrop growth simulation model used by the UN by introducing the option of simulating alfalfa yield with precision.
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Wild chimpanzees are being exposed to a cocktail of harmful chemicals.
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Varroa mites—notorious honey bee parasites—have recently reached Australian shores, detected at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales last year. If they establish here, there would be significant implications for agricultural food security, as honey bees are heavily relied on for the pollination of many crops.
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Gluten is one of the largest natural proteins and has fantastic properties: It keeps a well-cooked dough airy until baking stabilizes the open-pore structure. Prof. Dr. Mario Jekle from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart is working on processes in which selected proteins from peas, rapeseed, rice, or maize, for example, directly replace gluten protein or can be linked to form chains with glu
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The increasingly inferior quality of heavy oil resources has brought more difficult challenges to traditional heavy oil processing technology. The high temperature and pressure conditions, and the carbon emission and energy consumption required to convert heavy oil to value-added chemicals are far from ideal.
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The Department of Agronomy at the University of Cordoba, together with the IAS–CSIC, has improved the AquaCrop growth simulation model used by the UN by introducing the option of simulating alfalfa yield with precision.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is shutting down less than two months after the satellite launch start-up filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a Tuesday company announcement.
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Wild chimpanzees are being exposed to a cocktail of harmful chemicals.
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Varroa mites—notorious honey bee parasites—have recently reached Australian shores, detected at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales last year. If they establish here, there would be significant implications for agricultural food security, as honey bees are heavily relied on for the pollination of many crops.
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Gluten is one of the largest natural proteins and has fantastic properties: It keeps a well-cooked dough airy until baking stabilizes the open-pore structure. Prof. Dr. Mario Jekle from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart is working on processes in which selected proteins from peas, rapeseed, rice, or maize, for example, directly replace gluten protein or can be linked to form chains with glu
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Urban heat islands can lead to dangerous temperatures in the summer months, but there are things city managers can do to reduce the effect, according to a new study. The researchers found that trees had a cooling effect on outdoor air temperature, mean radiant temperature, and predicted mean vote index, a measurement designed to evaluate thermal comfort levels. Additionally, the researchers deter
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With all the heat that has been on Mark Ramsey, he felt the need to keep his moonshine operation a secret! #discoveryplus #moonshiners Stream Full Episodes of Moonshiners https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/moonshiners About Moonshiners: Every spring, a fearless group of men and women venture deep into the woods of Appalachia, defying the law, rivals and nature itself to keep the centuries-old tra
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06207-0
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01733-3 Five-year study shows islands increase ecosystem health without lowering crop yield, and a house built from concrete and nappies.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06086-5 A large-scale, five-year study in Indonesia finds that enriching oil palm-dominated landscapes with patches of trees bolsters biodiversity and ecosystem functioning without impairing oil palm yields but should not replace forest protection.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05925-9 The authors introduce a single-molecule DNA-barcoding method, resolution enhancement by sequential imaging, that improves the resolution of fluorescence microscopy down to the Ångström scale using off-the-shelf fluorescence microscopy hardware and reagents.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06018-3 An experiment with atoms and photons provides a fully tunable and microscopically controllable platform for the experimental study of the interplay of superfluidity and density-wave order.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06100-w We identify that the larval zebrafish unpaired pre-anal fin fold is derived from the lateral plate mesoderm, can be readily duplicated, and thus may represent a developmental intermediate between median and paired fins.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05996-8 Experiments at the National Ignition Facility show how delocalization of K-shell electrons is driven by extreme pressure and temperature.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06105-5 A metabolically bioactivated selective imidazothiazole nematicide shows comparable effectiveness at controlling plant root infection by Meloidogyne incognita to commercial nematicides, which are traditionally nonselective and toxic.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06089-2 Ubiquitination of the receptor FAM134B regulates ER-phagy and remodelling of the endoplasmic reticulum in response to cellular demands.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06112-6 Binding of the human pioneer transcription factor OCT4 to nucleosomes containing endogenous DNA sequences causes changes to the nucleosome structure and facilitates the cooperative assembly of multiple pioneer transcription factors, a property that can be affected by histone modifications.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06091-8 Small-molecule RNA-targeted degradation can be leveraged to convert strong, yet inactive, binding interactions into potent and specific modulators of RNA function.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06099-0 In the Drosophila central-pattern-generating neural network, a mechanism for network desynchronization relying on weak electrical synapses and specific excitability dynamics of the coupled neurons translates unpatterned premotor input into stereotyped neuronal firing with fixed sequences of cell activation, ensuring stable wing
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06068-7 The switch from glucose- to fatty acid-dependent metabolism in cardiomyocytes of newborn mice is governed by γ-linolenic acid in maternal milk, which binds to retinoid X receptors, thereby causing a transcription-dependent metabolic transition.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05938-4 An analysis of chemical processes to immobilize lead from perovskite solar cells is presented, highlighting the need for a standard lead-leakage test and mathematical model to reliably evaluate the potential environmental risk of perovskite optoelectronics.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06042-3 A deep learning and data-driven modelling study finds that microbial carbon use efficiency is a major determinant of soil organic carbon storage and its spatial variation across the globe.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05985-x Data-assimilated three-dimensional dynamic rupture models of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence in California are used to reveal the dynamics, interactions and delays of the earthquake sequence.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05921-z Modules of foldable crystalline silicon solar cells retain their power-conversion efficiency after being subjected to bending stress or exposure to air-flow simulations of a violent storm.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06094-5 A reliable digital bridge restored communication between the brain and spinal cord and enabled natural walking in a participant with spinal cord injury.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06106-4 Cryo-electron microscopy structures of mouse trace amine-associated receptor 9 reveals structural motifs involved in odorant ligand recognition, including a unique disulfide bond linking the N terminus to extracellular loop 2.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06078-5 Ecologically valid data collected during the 2018 and 2020 US elections show that exposure to and engagement with partisan or unreliable news on Google Search are driven not primarily by algorithmic curation but by users’ own choices.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06085-6 Subunits of SWI/SNF act as mitotic bookmarks to safeguard cell identity during cell division.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05967-z The discovery of an orbital Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state in the multilayer Ising superconductor 2H-NbSe2, in which the translational and rotational symmetries are broken, enables the preparation of such states in other materials with broken inversion symmetries.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05986-w Petahertz-scale optical-field metrology in a pump-probe setting enables the direct observation of how the optical properties of a medium evolve after 1-fs-scale photoinjection.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06111-7 A study examining bacterial gene expression in human-derived samples identifies a gene encoding a small RNA and describes how it orchestrates the transition between chronic and acute infection in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05894-z The authors report on the radiative decay of a low-energy isomer in thorium-229 (229mTh), which has consequences for the design of a future nuclear clock and eases the search for direct laser excitation of the atomic nucleus.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05972-2 A new specific, small-molecule activator of the PI3Kα isoform (UCL-TRO-1938) identified through high-throughput screening can transiently activate PI3K signalling and biological responses in cells and tissues, with potential therapeutic applications in tissue protection and regeneration.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06090-9 The membrane-shaping protein ARL6IP1 is involved in the selective degradation of the endoplasmic reticulum, and this process depends on its ubiquitination and interaction with other membrane-shaping proteins such as FAM134B.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06114-4 Remote tumours cause liver dysfunction by releasing extracellular vesicles and particles containing palmitic acid, which induces TNF signalling in Kupffer cells, resulting in inflammation, fatty deposits and metabolic dysregulation, thus both reducing the efficacy and increasing the toxicity of chemotherapies.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01631-8 A long-sought photon that is emitted by the nucleus of a thorium isotope has now been observed. The feat is a key step in efforts to build a nuclear clock, a device that is precise enough to probe the Universe’s best-kept secrets.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01634-5 Analysis of people’s web searches and visited websites suggests that it is more likely that they are choosing to engage with partisan or unreliable news than that they are being unduly exposed to it by search-engine algorithms.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01363-9 The degree of ionization inside giant planets and stars determines their material properties. In burning stars, ionization is controlled by temperature, whereas pressure-driven ionization is dominant in cooler objects. Experiments creating the extreme conditions needed for pressure-driven ionization in the laboratory shed light
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01498-9 Nematode worms that parasitize plants ravage food crops and threaten global food security. Conventional nematode control relies on agrochemicals that are broadly toxic, so less-risky strategies are needed. Benign precursor chemicals that are metabolically converted to lethal products selectively in worm tissue could be the solu
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01632-7 A limit on the resolution of optical-microscopy techniques has been broken by using a mixture of tags to label copies of target molecules in a sample, opening the way to better views of molecular organization in cells.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01345-x Spinal-cord injury interrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to paralysis. An implant that decodes the brain signals that control movements and drives electrical stimulation of the spinal cord re-establishes this communication, enabling an individual with spinal-cord injury to walk naturally.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01635-4 A fatty acid in the milk of nursing mice has been found to trigger a transformation in the metabolic pathways that are active in pups’ heart muscle cells, enabling the cells to rapidly mature after birth.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01357-7 Although crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells were developed nearly 70 years ago, their use is still limited. Tailoring the structural symmetry on the edges of textured c-Si wafers changes their fracture mechanism such that they can be used to fabricate flexible solar cells with a bending radius of about 8 millimetres.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01510-2 Bacterial infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa can shift between chronic and acute. An investigation of P. aeruginosa gene expression during human infection identified a small RNA that is expressed in low-oxygen conditions and controls this transition.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01728-0 The device provides a connection between the brain and spinal cord, allowing thought to control movement.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01636-3 The cultivation of oil palm is here to stay. However, a five-year study indicates that creating islands of native trees within oil-palm monocultures increases biodiversity and ecosystem functioning without notably lowering crop yields.
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In the US, youth in foster care are nearly twice as likely as war veterans to suffer from PTSD. Placed in foster care at just 11 months old, 2023 Audacious Project grantee Sixto Cancel experienced the faults of the system firsthand. Now, he's the founder of Think of Us, an organization working to reform child welfare by centering kinship care, or placing a child with an extended family member or a
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Heat-stressed fish embryos release chemical signals that change the appearance, behavior, and development of fish embryos that were not heat stressed, according to a study. Stress during development can change how an embryo grows and which genes are activated. Katharina Wollenberg Valero and colleagues explored how stress might be communicated to other animals and what the consequences are. Their
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Heat-stressed fish embryos release chemical signals that change the appearance, behavior, and development of fish embryos that were not heat stressed, according to a study. Stress during development can change how an embryo grows and which genes are activated. Katharina Wollenberg Valero and colleagues explored how stress might be communicated to other animals and what the consequences are. Their
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A high court judge dismisses a legal challenge over the welfare of fast-growing chickens on farms.
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A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at incredible speeds—and may one day even deliver prescription drugs to hard-to-reach places inside the human body.
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In a ground-breaking experiment, scientists from the University of Groningen, together with colleagues from the Dutch universities of Nijmegen and Twente and the Harbin Institute of Technology (China), have discovered the existence of a superconductive state that was first predicted in 2017.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34810-8
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34375-6
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Designing the next generation of efficient energy conversion devices for powering our electronics and heating our homes requires a detailed understanding of how molecules move and vibrate while undergoing light-induced chemical reactions.
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CT scans revealed a layer of bony scales, or osteoderms, hidden beneath the skin of the tails in spiny mice.
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Social media users are likely to share posts that contain information that they feel has value to themselves or to the people they know, research finds. Merely encouraging people to consider the value led to increased activity in the areas of the brain associated with sharing decisions and increased a person’s motivation to share an article, the research finds. “A lot of prior research on what ma
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An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has uncovered new clues about the origin of paired appendages—a major evolutionary step that remains unresolved and highly debated.
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Exclusive: Archaeologist says 5th-century BC wine vase with modern decoration widely regarded as fake Days after Greece announced the recovery of hundreds of antiquities from a disgraced British dealer, its ministry of culture faces the accusation that one of those artefacts, a vase of the early 5th-century BC, bears a decoration that is in fact a “modern forgery” created in the 1990s. Christos T
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An international collaboration that includes scientists from the University of Colorado School of Medicine has uncovered new clues about the origin of paired appendages—a major evolutionary step that remains unresolved and highly debated.
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With the rise of extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent in our warming climate, accurate predictions are becoming more critical for all of us, from farmers to city-dwellers to businesses around the world. To date, climate models have failed to accurately predict precipitation intensity, particularly extremes. While in nature, precipitation can be very varied, with many extremes o
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Researchers just discovered that the spiny mouse was concealing bony plates beneath the skin over its tail.
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Virgin Orbit's failed launch in January was the start of the end for the company, which has now sold off its assets and shut down for good. But what does this mean for Richard Branson's other space firm, Virgin Galactic?
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A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a device that reads brainwaves and sends instructions to the spine to activate the right muscles. Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking his neck in a traffic accident in China, but has climbed stairs and walked for more than 100 meres at a time
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Pioneering research could help development of miniaturised devices for stroke patients and paralysed people A man who was paralysed in a cycling accident in 2011 has been able to stand and walk with an aid after doctors implanted a device that reads his brain waves and sends instructions to his spine to move the right muscles. Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, was told he would never walk again after breaking
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Hurtling down trails on two wheels might not be the most obvious way to cope with a life-changing news, but for Tracey Croke it helped her find inner peace It wasn’t the news my doctor expected from the scan. I could tell by the look on his face. Most partial hearing loss episodes are caused by infections. I was that rare, one-in-whatever-thousand case where they’d discovered a squatter – which I
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Brazil builds Amazon
In the depths of the Amazon, Brazil is building an otherworldly structure—a complex of towers arrayed in six rings, poised to spray mists of carbon dioxide into the rainforest. But the reason is utterly terrestrial: to understand how the world's largest tropical forest responds to climate change.
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When designing optoelectronic devices, such as solar cells, photocatalysts, and photodetectors, scientists usually prioritize materials that are stable and possess tunable properties. This allows them precise control over optical characteristics of the materials and ensures retention of their properties over time, despite varying environmental conditions.
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A trio of macro-biologists and life scientists, two with Queen's University Belfast and the third with Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, has found that the modern "sixth mass extinction" event is going to be even worse than prior research has shown.
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Almost half of mercury exposure comes from mercury embedded in global trade, according to an analysis of the global flows of the toxic metal. Mercury is a neurotoxin that harms human health in even very small doses.
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Scientists at EPFL have found a new way to create a crystalline structure called a "density wave" in an atomic gas. The findings can help us better understand the behavior of quantum matter, one of the most complex problems in physics. The research was published May 24 in Nature.
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On the morning of July 4, 2019, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Searles Valley in California's Mojave Desert, with impacts felt across Southern California. About 34 hours later on July 5, the nearby city of Ridgecrest was struck by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake, a jolt felt by millions across the state of California and throughout neighboring communities in Arizona, Nevada, and even Baja Califo
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Political ideology and user choice—not algorithmic curation—are the biggest drivers of engagement with partisan and unreliable news provided by Google Search, according to a study coauthored by Rutgers faculty published in the journal Nature.
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Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and scales of crocodiles, turtles, lizards, dinosaurs and fish, mammals long ago traded in their ancestral suit of armor for a layer of insulating hair.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38761-6 The two frequency-modulated superconducting qubits act as a trembling mirror for microwave photons with on-demand tunable directionality.
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A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it, thanks to electronic brain implants
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Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago.
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A trio of macro-biologists and life scientists, two with Queen's University Belfast and the third with Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, has found that the modern "sixth mass extinction" event is going to be even worse than prior research has shown.
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Mammals are a bit odd when it comes to bones. Rather than the bony plates and scales of crocodiles, turtles, lizards, dinosaurs and fish, mammals long ago traded in their ancestral suit of armor for a layer of insulating hair.
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bridge’ paraplegic walk
Neurotechnology restores natural gait with device that decodes brain’s signals for people with spinal injuries
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05977-x
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01658-x Nature introduces the finalists and those that made it on to the longlist for this year’s award.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01648-z The antibody drug is moving closer to being tested in people with advanced stages of cancer.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01650-5 Unusual vocal patterns can give clues that help to detect conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01646-1 A reproducible cell-culture system could help to evaluate new therapies for disorders that affect the brain.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01641-6 Clinical trials, industry partnerships and other milestones reached by previous finalists of The Spinoff Prize.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01660-3 An architecture for quantum computers based on parity is attracting money from government and industry.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01644-3 Alongside developing a quantum computer, one group of scientists is selling its components to other researchers.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01649-y Intermediate states show promise as drug targets.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01656-z High-resolution imaging quickly identifies blood clots before they inflict major damage.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01647-0 Photocatalysis using light-emitting diodes could reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by industrial chemical processes.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01659-w A method driven by renewable energy could end the need for fossil fuels in fertilizer production.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01661-2 A nature-inspired adhesive offers hope for wound healing and haemorrhage control.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01009-w Advances in materials yield safer, cheaper and denser energy storage.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01692-9 For now, absolutely nothing. But researchers and firms are optimistic about the applications.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01662-1 Manipulating genetic molecules could return cells to a younger state.
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Hey everyone, this year i will begin my university studies as a cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence major. For a very long time i wanted to pursue cognitive sciences and work in a human computer interaction related field after pursuing a master. The program i will study focuses on all areas of cognitive sciences while giving a strong base in computer sciences and artificial intelligenc
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Forskere har første gang målt den foton, der frigives, når thorium-229-kernen henfalder til laveste energitilstand fra en tilstand, hvor energien kun er ca. otte elektronvolt højere. Det er en af nøglerne til at bygge et thorium-kerneur.
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Killer whales in a group near Spain and Portugal may be teaching one another to mess with small boats. They sank their third vessel earlier this month
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Diplodiasjukan som skadar tallar upptäcktes i Sverige 2016. Varmare klimat är en bidragande faktor till att svampsjukdomen fått fäste, visar en avhandling som undersökt spridningen. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Not the croissants!! In a new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences , a team of French scientists has linked refined carbohydrates to worse cognitive function — even when consumed by young, healthy adults. Though some diet industry folks might tell you to steer clear from carbs entirely, that's not sound advice. Your body needs carbs for energy, as does your brain.
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Is Anyone There? A team of scientists at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute have put together a simulated alien signal to transmit from a spacecraft currently orbiting Mars back to Earth — to see if we have the ability to decode it. Scientists have long pondered why aliens — if they even exist — haven't reached out to us yet. In fact, there's always a chance they have a
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Killer whales in a group near Spain and Portugal may be teaching one another to mess with small boats. They sank their third vessel earlier this month
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The U.S. Census Bureau is considering a historic revision to the 2030 count that would recognize the distinct ethnicity of people of Middle Eastern and North African descent—primarily Arab Americans, who have been subject to post-9/11 discrimination and, until now, have been grouped into the nebulous American amalgam of “white” people. The census should make this simple and obvious change, but it
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The most notorious video of Anna Nicole Smith—and, to be clear, the category is competitive—emerged in early 2007, about two weeks after she died from an overdose of prescription drugs. Shot a year earlier in the Bahamas, when the Playboy model, diet-pill spokesperson, and object of tabloid obsession was eight months pregnant, it shows a near-catatonic Smith having clown makeup applied to her fac
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The exploding meteor, known as a bolide, also created a sonic boom that shook a nearby town.
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The tiny marsupials have a penchant for peanut butter, which researchers have used to help them monitor and conduct health checks on the population.
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Weed killers of the future could soon be based on failed antibiotics.
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For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the world, wiping out 90 species. Unlike the global COVID-19 pandemic, you may not even be aware of this "panzootic"—a pandemic in the animal world. Yet it's the world's worst wildlife disease.
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Mosses fuzzy climate
Moss, those tiny plants we often see on the ground or rocks, might be an important antidote to climate change, a new study suggests. Plant life plays a crucial role in fighting climate change by absorbing and transforming greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. For instance, over its lifetime, a tree can absorb more than a ton of carbon from the air and store it in wood and roots. The new study in
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Killer whales in a group near Spain and Portugal may be teaching one another to mess with small boats. They sank their third vessel earlier this month
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Prof. Liang Haojun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a new catalytic assembly approach to escape from metastable states in a far-from-equilibrium system of DNA-functionalized colloids. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Many of the biological materials that researchers are most interested in studying, including those associated with major diseases, don't lend themselves to the conventional methods that researchers typically use to probe a material's structure and chemistry.
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Promise AI
For years, we’ve debated the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) for society, but it wasn’t until now that people can finally see its daily impact. But why now? What changed that’s made AI in 2023 substantially more impactful than before? First, consumer exposure to emerging AI innovations has elevated the subject, increasing acceptance. From songwriting and composing images in ways previous
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Prof. Liang Haojun from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) proposed a new catalytic assembly approach to escape from metastable states in a far-from-equilibrium system of DNA-functionalized colloids. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38813-x Drosophila are able to survive for several weeks in the absence of glial glycolysis. Here, the authors show that glial cells can utilize fatty acids to supply neurons under restrictive conditions and glial cells act as a metabolic sensor and induce mobilization of peripheral energy stores.
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Weed killers of the future could soon be based on failed antibiotics.
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Particles known as extracellular vesicles play a vital role in communication between cells and in many cell functions. Released by cells into their environment, these "membrane particles" consist of a cellular membrane carrying a cargo of specific signaling molecules, proteins, nucleic acids and lipids. Unfortunately, only tiny quantities of the vesicles are formed spontaneously by cells.
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For the past 40 years, a devastating fungal disease has been ravaging frog populations around the world, wiping out 90 species. Unlike the global COVID-19 pandemic, you may not even be aware of this "panzootic"—a pandemic in the animal world. Yet it's the world's worst wildlife disease.
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Many of the biological materials that researchers are most interested in studying, including those associated with major diseases, don't lend themselves to the conventional methods that researchers typically use to probe a material's structure and chemistry.
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When most people consider the arctic, or high-altitude mountain landscapes, they think of endless snow, ice and bare rock. But pastel-colored flowers, sometimes just a few millimeters wide, bloom in these dramatic places too. The miniature flowers not only weather some of the toughest habitats on Earth, but can also help engineer the landscape for other species.
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Orcas living off Europe's Iberian coast recently struck and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. Scientists suspect that this is the third vessel this subpopulation of killer whales has capsized since May 2020, when a female orca believed to be the originator of this behavior suffered a traumatic encounter with a boat.
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anti-nausea drug pain
Altering the chemical properties of an anti-nausea drug enables it to enter an interior compartment of the cell and provide long-lasting pain relief, according to a new study. The study illustrates how pain signaling occurs inside cells rather than at the surface, highlighting the need for drugs that can reach receptors within cells. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a large family of prote
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An extensive survey of people using Ashley Madison, a website for facilitating extramarital affairs, challenges widely held notions about infidelity. Married people who have affairs through the site find them highly satisfying, express little remorse, and believe the cheating didn’t hurt their otherwise healthy marriages , according to the paper in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior . “In po
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When most people consider the arctic, or high-altitude mountain landscapes, they think of endless snow, ice and bare rock. But pastel-colored flowers, sometimes just a few millimeters wide, bloom in these dramatic places too. The miniature flowers not only weather some of the toughest habitats on Earth, but can also help engineer the landscape for other species.
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Orcas living off Europe's Iberian coast recently struck and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. Scientists suspect that this is the third vessel this subpopulation of killer whales has capsized since May 2020, when a female orca believed to be the originator of this behavior suffered a traumatic encounter with a boat.
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The elaborate leather saddle is dated from between roughly 700 B.C. and 400 B.C. and may be the earliest ever found.
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Scientists use a novel application of chromosomal analysis to finally answer a question that has challenged biologists for over a century.
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Inostrancevia, a creature with tough skin like a rhino's, migrated 7,000 miles across the ancient supercontinent Pangaea and briefly dominated what is now South Africa before going extinct.
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Apple's cheapest iPad just got even cheaper at Amazon.
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Using various space telescopes, an international team of astronomers have observed a recently detected luminous quasar known as SMSS J114447.77-430859.3, or J1144 for short. Results of the observational campaign, available in the July 2023 edition of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, shed more light on the properties of this source.
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IBM Quantum quantum
Scalable photonic quantum computing architectures require photonic processing devices. Such platforms rely on low-loss, high-speed, reconfigurable circuits and near-deterministic resource state generators. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Patrik Sund and a research team at the center of hybrid quantum networks at the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Münster develop
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A team of space scientists affiliated with several institutions in Czechia, Japan and the U.S. has found evidence of lightning pulses on Jupiter that are similar to those found on Earth. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group examined years of data from the Juno space probe circling Jupiter.
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Those aren’t just lyrics from the Queen song “Bohemian Rhapsody.” They’re also the questions that the brain must constantly answer while processing streams of visual signals from the eyes and purely mental pictures bubbling out of the imagination. Brain scan studies have repeatedly found that seeing something and imagining it evoke highly similar… So
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Virtual reality experiences depend on goggles and headphones, transporting wearers to new places using sight and sound. Be it a peaceful meadow where the only sounds are birds chirping and the breeze blowing through the grass, or a packed stadium with thousands of fans cheering on a pro football team, what you see and hear are key components of an immersive experience. But they’re not the only on
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#shorts #moonshiners #discoveryplus From: Discovery
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38820-y Author Correction: Constrained catecholamines gain β 2 AR selectivity through allosteric effects on pocket dynamics
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38575-6 How synaptic plasticity affects neural coding reliability is not well understood. Here, the authors find that reducing neurotransmitter release probability triggers a homeostatic compensation to maintain neural coding and behavioral reliability.
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Correlated regions of systemic inter-individual epigenetic variation (CoRSIV) target-capture bisulfite sequencing allows researchers to identify disease-associated epigenetic variation.
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What year/timeframe do you think human cloning will start to become at least semi commonplace in the future? The cloning of animals is pretty much alreadya thing and has been a thing since Dolly was cloned in 1998. Cloning is not necessary that new of a technology Obviously the cloning process will need to be perfected first before cloning can be commonplace. That and there are various moral issu
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06238-7
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06196-0
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06224-z
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01687-6 A fresh perspective.
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Citations of Chinese research have risen because of sequencing of Covid-19 genome China has overtaken the US to become the biggest contributor to nature-science journals, in a sign of the country’s growing influence in the world of academic research. The Nature Index, which tracks data on author affiliations in 82 high quality journals, found that authors affiliated with Chinese institutions are
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Det kommer til at koste op mod, hvad er svarer til 11,7 billioner kroner i investeringer, hvis en tredjedel af den globale flyflåde skal drives af grøn brint i 2050.
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Forskare har tagit fram en ny metod som dödar cancercellerna i den aggressiva hjärntumören glioblastom. Det görs med hjälp av en molekyl som blockerar vissa funktioner i cancercellerna. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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With the Montreal Protocol, life on Earth dodged a bullet we didn’t even know was headed our way
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On the island of Kauai, wherever humans go, chickens go too. Hens and chicks kick around in grocery-store parking lots and parks. They’re visitors to cookouts and picnics. On popular hikes, many people are rewarded at the end of the trail with a picturesque view of the island and a small flock of chickens. The birds kick up newly planted condo landscaping and community gardens. Restaurants hand-p
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K ate Akyuz is a Girl Scout troop leader who drives a pale-blue Toyota Sienna minivan around her island community—a place full of Teslas and BMWs, surrounded by a large freshwater lake that marks Seattle’s eastern edge. She works for the county government on flood safety and salmon-habitat restoration. But two years ago, she made her first foray into local politics, declaring her candidacy for Me
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Debt ceiling negotiations and impact
W ith negotiations over the debt ceiling dragging on and the country running low on cash, many Democrats have urged President Joe Biden to take a unilateral action that will make those negotiations moot: Simply declare the debt limit unconstitutional. Last week, dozens of progressive House members signed a letter urging him to do so, and over the weekend, Biden expressed cautious sympathy for the
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F orty-year-old Josh Epperson works 10 to 15 hours a week and makes about $100,000 a year. After more than a decade in the corporate world and seven years working at a global brand consultancy, he has spent the past three years running what he calls “The Experiment.” The Experiment has three precepts. First, Epperson accepts only work that he finds meaningful. Second, he accepts only work that pa
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H ow do you persuade the whole world to stop eating meat? I have been trying for half a century. My book Animal Liberation was published in 1975, when I was 29 years old. I argued that our treatment of animals is ethically unjustifiable: If it’s wrong to cause unnecessary suffering, then it’s wrong regardless of the sufferer’s species. On that basis, I urged readers to stop eating meat. Though I
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Trump Donald Dominion
During a CNN town hall earlier this month, Donald Trump acted as expected. He used the phrase “wack job” to describe E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in damages because a jury unanimously concluded that Trump had sexually abused and defamed her. His statement elicited applause and laughter from the mostly pro-Trump crowd. He also described the January 6 insurrection as a “beautiful day
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say violence gun
Photographs by Spencer Ostrander Over the course of two years, Spencer Ostrander made several trips around the country to take pictures of the sites of more than 30 mass shootings. This is a small selection from that body of work. The numbers of those killed and injured in each incident do not include the perpetrators. A ccording to a recent estimate by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Res
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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. Everything you need to know about the wild world of alternative jet fuels The aviation industry is responsible for about 3% of all human-caused global warming. One way it hopes to reduce that is by using new fuels, which could help it meet its climate target:
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01640-7 The government has backed down from its unpopular proposal — but has made a new one.
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Nature, Published online: 23 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01730-6 A device implanted in the brain has recorded, for the first time, objective signs of chronic pain. Plus, how a genetic switch turns scales into feathers and gene analysis reveals the ancestor of all animals.
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Nature, Published online: 22 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01720-8 Average temperatures are likely to pass 1.5 ℃ temporarily soon — what does that mean for the Paris agreement goal? Plus, shredded nappies can replace sand in concrete and how sloppy science helps to spread disinformation.
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Researchers have made a breakthrough toward reducing the energy consumption of the photonic chips used in data centers and supercomputers.
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Scientists have successfully conducted a simultaneous marine and atmospheric measurements at multiple locations directly beneath a violent, Category 5, which is the strongest class, typhoon in the North-West Pacific, before it reached land.
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A non-toxic method to prevent mice from devouring wheat crops has been shown to drastically reduce seed loss.
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Bacteria Unnatural Amino
Researchers have engineered bacteria to synthesize an amino acid that contains a rare functional group that others have shown to have implications in the regulation of our immune system. The researchers also taught a single bacterial strain to create the amino acid and place it at specific sites within target proteins. These findings provide a foundation for developing unique vaccines and immunoth
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A new study concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of ~24-125 years of the country's industrial emissions. For context, in 2022 a total of 42.6 megatons (0.0426 gigatons) of carbon dioxide was removed from the atmosphere by international carbon capture and storage efforts, according to the Global CCS Ins
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A new study has revealed how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35321-2
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34917-y
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BMW i5 electric
The i5 has at last arrived with a good range, impressive speed, and even in-car gaming to banish charging boredom. But there’s an issue if you’re in the UK.
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New eggs determine
It’s possible to sex fertilize chicken eggs by “sniffing” volatile chemicals emitted through the shell, report researchers. The researchers, from the University of California, Davis, and the startup company Sensit Ventures Inc., report their work in PLOS ONE . The study shows that it is feasible to sort eggs by sex, early in incubation, based on volatile organic chemicals, says professor Cristina
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38625-z In the variety of biological and social networks, the validation of experimental data is done by comparing an overlap with reference networks. The authors introduce a positive statistical benchmark corresponding to the best possible overlap between two networks to threshold and validate new experimental datasets.
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Det har hänt att skolor med hög andel elever med invandrarbakgrund stängs i syfte att minska segregation. Men metoden fungerar sällan, enligt forskning. Det finns nämligen en viktig hake. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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An exploding star spotted in the Pinwheel galaxy, 21 million light years from Earth, offers a rare chance to watch a supernova unfolding in real time
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What you pay for tests, vaccines, and medicine will change
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After reading a Scientific American editorial on sleep and school start times, students and their teacher wrote to the editors about their experiences. Their district listened, and school will start later next year
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New Zealand's prime minister on Wednesday joined a chorus of Kiwis complaining about the treatment of their national bird by a Miami zoo.
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What you pay for tests, vaccines, and medicine will change
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New Zealand's prime minister on Wednesday joined a chorus of Kiwis complaining about the treatment of their national bird by a Miami zoo.
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South Korea canceled its planned launch Wednesday of its first commercial-grade satellite due to a technical issue, days after rival North Korea reaffirmed its push to place its first military spy satellite into orbit.
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01704-8 Research will satisfy Africa’s demand for energy — but only if the continent is allowed to invest more in its science and innovation.
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Conversation around generative AI tends to focus on whether its development is open or closed. It's more responsible to envision releases along a gradient.
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Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling.
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We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of “The Pitchfork Review,” about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.
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Women’s health care and outcomes have long come a poor second to those of men. But new initiatives and a wave of healthtech innovators may finally rebalance this.
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De svenske miljømyndigheder har bedt den danske miljøstyrelse redegøre for, hvordan den vil kompensere for Lynetteholms blokering af Østersøen.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34691-x
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38579-2 Commonly used protein-based tools to monitor intracellular RNA and DNA can impact steric accessibility and native nucleic acid biology. Here, the authors show that fluorogenic uridine-rich internal loop tagging bPNA probes can be used to label nucleic acids in fixed and live cells.
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China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Last week, I told you about my adventure at Tencent’s customer service center. But the quest to get my QQ account back wasn’t the only reason I went to Shenzhen. While I was in China, I learned that the dominant Chinese food delivery platform, Meituan, has
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The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike
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The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01663-0 From underground exploration to brain science and air-traffic control, the sensing potential of quantum devices is enormous. But they must first get out of the laboratory.
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Inside the strange world of podcasts made by artificial intelligence, where even creators aren’t sure who wants to hear robot chit-chat.
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Verden er på grund af massivt tab af biodiversitet på vej mod masseudryddelse, vurderer forskere bag nyt studie.
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Om det er godt eller dårligt for klimaet at fælde gamle bøgeskove er et udfordrende spørgsmål, som blev behandlet i en artikel i Ingeniøren i december 2022 med overskriften ”For klimaets skyld: Fæld den gamle bøgeskov”. Intuitionen tilsiger da også, at det rent klimamæssigt er en god idé at fælde gamle skove, der ikke længere binder kulstof, præcis som artiklen dengang slog fast.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35557-y
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35288-0
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35667-7
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34545-6
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34500-5
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35036-4
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-34790-9
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-35635-1
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Fuels sustainable fuels
Tech Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more here . The future of flying might depend on french fries, trash, and sunlight. Aviation accounts for about 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions , and once you add in other polluting gases, the industry is responsible for about 3% of all human-caused g
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James Webb-teleskopet har fundet kemiske spor fra supermassive stjerner, der eksisterede blot 440 millioner år efter Big Bang.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38549-8 Identifying topological defects in disordered materials has a profound effect on predicting when and where the material will break. Matteo Baggioli comments a recent publication in Nature Communications, which confirms the existence of defects in glasses and their crucial role for plasticity.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38547-w It remains challenging to understand the relation between mechanical properties of glasses close to the yielding point and plastic behaviors at microscales. Wu et al. examine the plasticity using topological properties of the vibrational modes and identify a correlation between defects and plastic events.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38526-1 Cleft lip and palate is a common birth defect thought to involve both genetic and environmental components in its etiology. Here they identify a mechanism involving inflammation and E-cadherin mutations that reduces neural crest migration, leading to craniofacial defects.
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Regnekraften i verdens kraftigste computere står stille, viser ny rangliste over supercomputere.
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Restoring seagrass meadows is one tool that coastal communities can use to address climate change, both by capturing emissions and mitigating their effects.
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You too could be Jodie Foster as astronomers organize a practice run in communicating with aliens.
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Snapchats chatbot, MY AI, vil, hvis adspurgt rigtigt, komme med en detaljeret guide til, hvordan man gør skade på sig selv.
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Antibody treatments that target amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's have shown promise in trials, but questions about their side effects and practicality remain
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Studies show too much noise, particularly loud, irregular noise, can hurt a child's brain development, because if sound is irregular, it distracts our brains and makes concentration more difficult. (Image credit: LA Johnson/NPR)
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38757-2 In solid-state lithium metal batteries, the crystallization of Li-ions deposited at interfaces remains unclear. Here, authors use molecular dynamics simulations to reveal lithium crystallization pathways and energy barriers, guiding improved interfacial engineering and accelerated crystal growth.
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A volcano southeast of the Mexican capital spewed more gas and ash into the sky on Tuesday as authorities maintained their warning level at one step below red alert.
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Typhoon Mawar roared over the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, bringing destructive winds to the Pacific military outpost.
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Two people were killed and several others were hurt Tuesday afternoon when a home that was under construction collapsed as strong storms hit north of Houston in the Conroe area.
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South Korea to conduct satellite launch as North Korea pushes to fire its 1st military spy satellite
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South Korea was set to launch its first commercial-grade satellite Wednesday as rival North Korea pushed plans forward to place its first military spy satellite into orbit.
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Alaska market oil
Alaska's push to become a bigger player in the clean energy market is in the spotlight this week at a conference convened by its Republican governor, even as the state continues to embrace new fossil fuel production, including the controversial Willow oil project on the petroleum-rich North Slope.
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Many species were named after people during the early days of scientific collecting, which was partially fueled by the broader colonization programs of European powers throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Over the past few years, however, that history has come under increased scrutiny.
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Those needing extra sleep often reach for the bottle of melatonin, but Mississippi State scientists are discovering a host of other proven and potential health benefits for cattle who receive the supplement.
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Those needing extra sleep often reach for the bottle of melatonin, but Mississippi State scientists are discovering a host of other proven and potential health benefits for cattle who receive the supplement.
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The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama partnered with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in India to develop and validate a new test for chytridiomycosis strains, offering new insights into a wildlife disease that caused dramatic declines of over 500 amphibian species and the extinction of 90 others. Their nove
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The Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama partnered with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in India to develop and validate a new test for chytridiomycosis strains, offering new insights into a wildlife disease that caused dramatic declines of over 500 amphibian species and the extinction of 90 others. Their nove
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38760-7 Orbital order that does not break the overall crystal lattice symmetry is difficult to observe. Here, the authors use scanning tunneling microscopy on the superconductor CeCoIn5 to detect a signature of the orbital order in quasiparticle interference which is enhanced in the superconducting state, as predicted th
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38426-4 The tumour microenvironment in signet ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) remains to be characterised. Here, the authors perform single-cell RNA sequencing and reveal distinct features compared to moderately/poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma.
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The British billionaire's bankrupt satellite launch firm had been looking for
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Research on gulls in Brighton found birds can work out which scraps are worth snaffling by watching what humans are eating It will take more than a bunch of signs declaring “do not feed the birds” to deter gulls from swooping down to pinch people’s snacks, a study has suggested. Research on herring gulls at Brighton beach found that the birds can work out which kinds of scraps are worth snaffling
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Radar imagery collected during Nasa’s Magellan mission in 1990s used to develop volcano database Our planet has more than 1,500 volcanoes – but if you think that’s a lot then take a look at Venus. A new map, created from radar imagery collected during Nasa’s Magellan mission in the 1990s, catalogues more than 85,000 volcanoes on Venus, 99% of which are less than 5km in diameter. “Our new database
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En robot er flyttet ind i mange børn og unges yndlingsmedie, og den kan være direkte skadelig, lyder det fra Red Barnet.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38740-x PTEN has tumor suppressive functions. Here the authors report that PTEN C-tail hyperphosphorylation promotes neoplastic growth through oncogenic activation of WNT signalling.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38609-z Brain vascular impairment may occur early in diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Here the authors longitudinally study brain vascular dynamics in mice using advanced optical coherence tomography and deep learning algorithms, which enables tracking of slow vascular decline in aging and models of disease.
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Governments and some pharma companies try to tackle problem linked with drug resistance
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Nature, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01697-4 Bacteria that snip fluorine–carbon bonds can degrade certain kinds of PFAS, a class of environmental pollutant.
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Virgin Orbit shuts
California-based company will fold after selling off its assets and filing for bankruptcy in the US Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch company founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, will permanently cease operations, just months after a major mission failure. The California-based firm, which had already filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States in early April, has a
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Energinet har øget sit beredskab for dårligt designede endemuffer på højspændingsnettet. Italiensk leverandør ønsker ikke at svare på kritik.
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DSB følger den europæiske standard i valget af stikkontakt til de nye IC5-tog, der i modsætning til IC3 bliver udstyret med schuko.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38707-y Following interaction with antigen-presenting cells, T cell receptors (TCR) can be internalized via endocytosis. In contrast to this established mechanism, this study shows that T cell activation can be followed by TCR shedding, leading to enhanced TCR expression, metabolic activity and proliferation.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 May 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38614-2 The cleavage and functionalization of C-S bonds has become a hot topic. Here the authors report a novel and efficient protocol that enables direct oxidative cleavage and ammoxidation of organosulfur compounds by heterogeneous nonprecious-metal Co-N-C catalyst comprising graphene encapsulated Co nanoparticles and
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A study led by Queen's University Belfast finds 48% of species are undergoing population declines.
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Strange but true.
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Four primate species in Uganda have been found to have 97 chemical pollutants in their faeces, which are associated with hormonal changes that can disrupt development and reproduction
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Given a choice between two crisp packets, herring gulls pick the same colour as one a nearby human is eating from 95 per cent of the time
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Archaeologists begin excavation of two 500-year-old vessels filled with porcelain and timber Two 500-year-old shipwrecks in the South China Sea, filled with Ming-era porcelain and stacked timber, provide significant clues about the maritime Silk Road trade routes, Chinese archaeologists have said. The two shipwrecks were discovered in October, and cultural and archaeological authorities have now
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Break out those fancy eclipse glasses!
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With the use of electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage systems on the rise, the need to explore alternatives to lithium-ion batteries has never been greater. Researchers have recently developed a prototype calcium metal rechargeable battery capable of 500 cycles of repeated charge-discharge — the benchmark for practical use. The breakthrough was made thanks to the development of a copper
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Though prescribed burns reduce wildfire threats and even improve habitat for some animals, new research shows these fires also spread stinknet, an aptly named weed currently invading superblooms across the Southwestern U.S.
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Researchers have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive candidates for both solid-state battery electrolytes and thermoelectric energy converters. The discoveries — and the machine learning approach used to make them — could help usher in a new era of energy storage for applications such as household battery walls and fast-charging electric v
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In 1978, Indigenous professor Jack D. Forbes published Columbus and Other Cannibals , outlining his theory regarding the nature of war, imperialism, exploitation, and oppression throughout history; namely that they are not caused by immutable elements of human nature, but by an exogenous (and now endemic) force he referred to as wétiko, named after a supernatural entity in Cree legend (also known
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Researchers have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive candidates for both solid-state battery electrolytes and thermoelectric energy converters. The discoveries — and the machine learning approach used to make them — could help usher in a new era of energy storage for applications such as household battery walls and fast-charging electric v
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