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HIV anti-retroviral therapy is considered a treatment and not a cure because patients usually carry a reservoir of HIV-infected cells that can re-emerge if treatment stops. These reservoirs have long been thought to be dormant, but two independent groups of researchers report that a subset of these cells spontaneously produce HIV RNA and proteins that may impact patients' HIV-specific immune respo
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02828-7 Experiments at a simulated railway platform show people space themselves out regardless of obstacles.
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In a survey of cat owners, those who fed their cats vegan diets tended to report better health outcomes for their pets than those who provided meat-based diets, though the differences were not statistically significant. Andrew Knight of the University of Winchester, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 13.
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In a study involving several wolves and dogs, both animals performed better at finding hidden food if they had observed the food being hidden by a person—suggesting that they remembered where the food was, and did not rely solely on scent to find it. Sebastian Vetter of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE
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Tabet af arter er uigenkaldeligt, siger professor Katherine Richardson. Hun og et internationalt hold af forskere har opdateret analyser af de planetære grænser.
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In a survey of cat owners, those who fed their cats vegan diets tended to report better health outcomes for their pets than those who provided meat-based diets, though the differences were not statistically significant. Andrew Knight of the University of Winchester, U.K., and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on September 13.
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During the Later Stone Age in what is now Namibia, rock artists imbued so much detail into their engravings of human and animal prints that current-day Indigenous trackers could identify which animals' prints they were depicting, as well as the animals' general age and sex. Andreas Pastoors of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and colleagues report these findings in a new
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Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, UConn undergraduates have published the first full map of the unusual tree's DNA in G3 . It has been accepted for publication by Oxford University Press.
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Russian scientists have developed an anti-bacterial gel based on silver and sulfur-containing amino acids. It is a hundred times more effective than other silver-based counterparts that also fights bacteria causing nosocomial infections.
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One of the most interesting and important questions in cosmology is, "How much matter exists in the universe?" An international team, including scientists at Chiba University, has now succeeded in measuring the total amount of matter for the second time. Reporting in The Astrophysical Journal, the team determined that matter makes up 31% of the total amount of matter and energy in the universe, wi
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Paul Offit is not an anti-vaxxer. His résumé alone would tell you that: A pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine for infants that has been credited with saving “hundreds of lives every day” ; he is the author of roughly a dozen books on immunization that repeatedly debunk anti-vaccine claims. And from the earliest days of COVID-19 vaccine
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You wake up with a stuffy nose, so you head to the pharmacy, where a plethora of options awaits in the cold-and-flu aisle. Ah, how lucky you are to live in 21st-century America. There’s Sudafed PE, which promises “maximum-strength sinus pressure and nasal congestion relief.” Sounds great. Or why not grab DayQuil in case other symptoms show up, or Tylenol Cold + Flu Severe should whatever it is ge
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On Sunday, a Mediterranean storm brought record-setting rainfall to much of Libya, filling rivers, overwhelming dams, and sweeping away entire neighborhoods in several coastal towns. Local authorities said that more than 5,100 people have been killed by the powerful flooding. Derna was one of the worst-hit cities after two dams failed and torrents of water rushed through its streets, destroying d
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Russian scientists have developed an anti-bacterial gel based on silver and sulfur-containing amino acids. It is a hundred times more effective than other silver-based counterparts that also fights bacteria causing nosocomial infections.
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A new study from North Carolina State University and Duke University offers insights into the ways that education, work and motherhood shape the lives of women in the United States. In a longitudinal study of more than 8,100 women, the researchers found seven "pathways" that illustrate the way major life events can have long-term ripple effects.
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A new type of analysis suggests that droughts in Ohio were more severe from 2000 to 2019 than standard measurements have suggested.
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Quantum computers can solve certain computational problems much faster than ordinary computers by using specific quantum properties. The basic building blocks of such machines are called quantum-bits or qubits. Qubits can be realized using several physical platforms such as nuclear spins, trapped ions, cold atoms, photons, and using superconducting Josephson circuits.
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Almost a century ago, physicists Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein predicted a theoretical state of matter in which individual particles would, at extremely cold temperatures and low densities, condense into an indistinguishable whole. These so-called Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) would offer a macroscopic view into the microscopic world of quantum mechanics.
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A new climate study led by scientists at the University Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science found that temperature fluctuations in the tropical Atlantic Ocean temperature are largely driven by human-induced aerosol emissions, impacting rainfall in West Africa's Sahel region and hurricane formation in the Atlantic.
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Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, the question in astronomy focuses on finding life beyond our planet. Are we, as a species, and as a planet, alone? Or is there life somewhere else? Usually the question inspires visions of weird, green versions of humans. However, life is more than just us: animals, fish, plants, and even bacteria are all the kinds of things
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Time scales in my favourite soap opera Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this helps avid fans to normalise the concept of time dilation, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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The Karman Space Programme, set up by students at Imperial College London, will attempt to launch its Aurora rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometres, the generally accepted boundary of space
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Panama is looking into new sources of water for the Panama Canal, which moves six percent of global maritime trade but recently had to restrict traffic due to drought, its operator said.
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Populations of European bumblebees are projected to fall drastically in the coming decades due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers warned on Wednesday.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41398-0
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The attentive and endearing doggy head tilt may be a sign your dog is listening to you and trying to process what you are saying. 🔗 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-dogs-tilt-their-heads-to-the-side/ 🎤 Michael Mills 🎞️ Chris Schodt ✏️ Stephanie Pappas From: Scientific American
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Populations of European bumblebees are projected to fall drastically in the coming decades due to climate change and habitat loss, researchers warned on Wednesday.
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Dyslexia is the most common learning disability in the world, and up to 15 to 20% of the population has a language-based learning disability. If you don't have dyslexia yourself, you likely know someone who does.
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US movies perpetuate gender stereotypes in the medical field, a new study finds. The study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the portrayal of women as physicians in US films from 1990-2020 and found that representation of women physicians in movies was much lower than the growing proportion of women in medicine today. The researchers found women comprised only 18.6% of a
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There is ongoing concern about the impact of "helicopter parenting" on children's growth and development.
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July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. And now we know something even more alarming. This week, the European Space Agency announced the July heat pushed the global average temperatures 1.5℃ above the pre-industrial average.
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Den danske astronaut Andreas Mogensen svarede i eftermiddag på spørgsmål fra amerikanske skoleelever.
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Astronomers found evidence of multiple stellar-mass black holes lurking in the nearby Hyades cluster, just 150 light-years from Earth.
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Free teaching degrees to address shortage
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has opened a new front in the national campaign to attract and retain teachers. Amid ongoing teacher shortages, Victoria will offer fee-free education for high school teaching degrees from next year.
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Through an electron microscope they may look like the giant sandworms from Dune, but C. elegans nematodes are only 1 millimeter long.
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Electric Ride Students have built a tiny EV from scratch that can accelerate from 0 to 62 mph in a blistering 0.956 seconds — and it only a hair over 40 feet. Now, the team has gotten word from Guinness World Records confirming the stunning result, which cuts the previous record of 1.461 seconds set by students from the University of Stuttgart last year by almost a third. The stunt goes to show h
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Through an electron microscope they may look like the giant sandworms from Dune, but C. elegans nematodes are only 1 millimeter long.
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By developing an efficient way to compare all predicted protein structures in the AlphaFold database, researchers have revealed similarities between proteins across different species. This work aids our understanding of protein evolution and has uncovered new insights into the origin of human immunity proteins.
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Classis Car House finder både plads til designklassikere og et flot udvalg af de hverdagsbiler, som vi danskere havde råd til.
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By developing an efficient way to compare all predicted protein structures in the AlphaFold database, researchers have revealed similarities between proteins across different species. This work aids our understanding of protein evolution and has uncovered new insights into the origin of human immunity proteins.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02881-2 Researchers have developed a model trained similarly to ChatGPT that can be adapted to evaluate multiple health conditions.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02892-z Never-before-seen forms and unexpected connections among proteins revealed by analysis of their shapes.
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Nature, Published online: 12 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02889-8 Staff shortages and economic uncertainties caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine are disrupting distant research in Antarctica. Plus, why cats love tuna and how to produce trustworthy experimental results.
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The very first life on Earth is thought to have developed from "protocells"—liquid mixtures of many different types of molecules. Researchers from the University of Göttingen have now shown that in such mixtures, small imbalances in the number of molecules of different types can have an unexpected effect.
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A pioneering study has shed new light on North African humid periods that have occurred over the past 800,000 years and explains why the Sahara Desert was periodically green.
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Imagine a dark room packed full of furniture. Now imagine moving through it to get to the other side, using only your toe tips for guidance. While it may seem challenging (or unspeakably tedious) to us, this is a task that many cells in our body perform regularly while migrating through tissues. New research from the Diz-Muñoz group at EMBL Heidelberg has now identified a novel molecular pathway t
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Imagine a dark room packed full of furniture. Now imagine moving through it to get to the other side, using only your toe tips for guidance. While it may seem challenging (or unspeakably tedious) to us, this is a task that many cells in our body perform regularly while migrating through tissues. New research from the Diz-Muñoz group at EMBL Heidelberg has now identified a novel molecular pathway t
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Acetone is an essential chemical industry input and is used in the manufacturing of a wide array of products, such as adhesives, antibiotics, electronic components, solvents and removers, inks and vitamins, among others. Its production is complex and hazardous. To simplify the process and make it safer and cheaper, researchers in Brazil and Germany have developed an innovative method that uses onl
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New research suggests that owls in Texas have high rates of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR)—blood thinning rat poisons—in their systems. Jennifer Smith, a professor of integrative biology in the UTSA College of Sciences, co-authored a research article published recently in PLOS ONE, the world's first multidisciplinary open access journal.
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Most adhesives are made from fossil fuels and take thousands of years to biodegrade, but a new alternative derived from soya plants bonds metal, wood and synthetic surfaces just as strongly
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Mixing and matching various strands of DNA can create versatile biological computer circuits that can take the square roots of numbers or solve quadratic equations
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New research suggests that owls in Texas have high rates of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR)—blood thinning rat poisons—in their systems. Jennifer Smith, a professor of integrative biology in the UTSA College of Sciences, co-authored a research article published recently in PLOS ONE, the world's first multidisciplinary open access journal.
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Svajiga hälsostudier, hotade söktjänster och robotarnas intåg på redaktionerna Utdrag (ca 00:01:00): [Jakob Gudiol] “Jag hade önskat att man hade nyttjat intresset till att utbilda folk. Istället blir det att man vill överraska folk med varje rubrik. ‘Oj, nu var det här dåligt.’ ‘Oj, nu var det där bra.’ ‘Oj, det där var jätteeffektiv träning.’ … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och
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The weird gold dome-shaped object was found during an NOAA expedition to the Gulf of Mexico and is now being preserved in ethanol until it can be sent for laboratory analysis.
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Ny dramatisering av Estoniakatastrofen Utdrag: “I september 2020 sändes Henrik Evertssons dokumentärserie ”Estonia – fyndet som förändrar allt” med material från dykningar från Estonias vrak. Evertsson, som är från Östersund och tidigare har arbetat på LT, fick både ris och ros för serien. Han tilldelades Stora journalistpriset, men blev också utsedd till Årets förvillare av … Continued Inlägget
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Despite strong promotion of the green growth perspective by a variety of policymakers and international institutions, a new article led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) reveals widespread skepticism among climate policy researchers in high-income countries.
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A collision of two massive clusters of galaxies when the universe was half its current age should not have happened according to the standard theory of cosmology, says a new study by an international group of astronomers, including a physicist at the University of St Andrews.
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A new study published by researchers from the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) at CUNY SPH and colleagues presents BugSigDB, a community-editable database of manually curated microbial signatures from published studies.
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The decline in plankton abundance in the North East Atlantic over the past six decades should serve as a red flag to policy makers about the need to protect some of the planet's most critical forms of life, a new study has warned.
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A new study published by researchers from the CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health (ISPH) at CUNY SPH and colleagues presents BugSigDB, a community-editable database of manually curated microbial signatures from published studies.
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The decline in plankton abundance in the North East Atlantic over the past six decades should serve as a red flag to policy makers about the need to protect some of the planet's most critical forms of life, a new study has warned.
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More than a decade ago, when Holly Whitaker worked a director-level job at a Silicon Valley start-up, insecurities haunted her. She feared never being enough, never getting ahead. “There was just an inability to be with myself,” she told me, “and that manifested as fear.” She often sought comfort in alcohol. The relief would start even as she anticipated drinking; at the first sip, she began to f
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06622-3
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02891-0 A soya-oil-derived adhesive matches the strength of conventional glues, and reassessing the extent and impacts of childhood malnutrition.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06531-5 The bacterial effector proteins of the AvrE family function as membrane channels in plant cells, enabling the passage of water and solutes from host cells to support pathogen growth, and disrupting the viability of the host cell.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06484-9 Generic single-stranded oligonucleotides used as a uniform transmission signal can reliably integrate large-scale DNA integrated circuits with minimal leakage and high fidelity for general-purpose computing.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06555-x RETFound, a foundation model for retinal images that learns generalizable representations from unlabelled images, is trained on 1.6 million unlabelled images by self-supervised learning and then adapted to disease detection tasks with explicit labels.
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Clustering-predicted structures protein
Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06510-w The novel Foldseek clustering algorithm defines 2.30 million clusters of AlphaFold structures, identifying remote structural similarity of human immune-related proteins in prokaryotic species.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06339-3 We report the production of MoS2 nanosheets with high phase purity, showing that the 2H-phase templates facilitate epitaxial growth of Pt nanoparticles, whereas the 1T′ phase supports single-atomically dispersed Pt atoms.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06501-x Analysis of data from 33 longitudinal cohorts from low- and middle-income countries indicates that conditions during pre-conception, pregnancy and the first few months of life are crucial in determining the risk of growth faltering in young children.
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Autism genetics research using organoids
Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06473-y We develop a high-throughput CRISPR screening system in cerebral organoids and identify vulnerable cell types and gene regulatory networks associated with autism spectrum disorder from single-cell transcriptomes and chromatin modalities.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06393-x Analysis of a large dataset of scanning transmission X-ray microscopy images of carbon-coated lithium iron phosphate nanoparticles shows that the heterogeneous reaction kinetics of battery materials can be learned from such videos pixel by pixel.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06532-4 Structural and mutational studies and cellular assays show that the inflammasome sensor NLRP1 forms a complex with thioredoxin, which acts as a negative regulator of inflammasome activity.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06480-z An analysis of longitudinal cohort data across diverse populations suggests that the incidence of wasting between birth and 24 months is higher than previously thought, and highlights the role of seasonal factors that affect child growth.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06471-0 A quantitative study of past, present and future ecological suitability of Europe for bumblebees finds that for 38–76% of species now considered non-threatened, suitable territory could decrease by at least 30% by 2061–2080.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06509-3 A route to greatly elevate joint densities of states by introducing a flat-band electronic structure is demonstrated, showing metallic λ-Ti3O5 powders have a high solar absorptivity and offering insights into access to cost-effective solar-to-steam generation.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06520-8 A four-dimensional printable shape memory hydrogel with shape-shifting onset adjustable by changing the programming conditions is reported.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06528-0 Calcium-permeable GluA1 AMPA glutamate receptors are structurally and functionally distinct from the prototypical GluA2-containing AMPA receptors, impacting their role in signal transmission, synaptic plasticity and learning.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06542-2 A study presents a cross-species proteomic map of synapse development in neocortex and reveals that the human postsynaptic density assembly develops two to three times slower than that in macaques and mice.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06519-1 Vertebral osteoblasts in mouse and human are formed from a precursor skeletal stem cell population that is distinct from long bone skeletal stem cells in function, location and transcriptional programme.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06533-3 Aphid-transmitted viruses encode proteins that suppress the plant airborne defence response—which is triggered by volatile chemicals released by neighbouring plants after aphid attack—and the plants consequently become less repellent to aphids and more suitable for aphid survival, infestation and viral transmission.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06335-7 We present a sustainably sourced adhesive system, with performance comparable to that of current industrial products, made from epoxidized soy oil, malic acid and tannic acid, all biomass derived, low cost and readily available.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06418-5 A pooled analysis of longitudinal studies in low- and middle-income countries identifies the typical age of onset of linear growth faltering and investigates recurrent faltering in early life.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06489-4 Anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols dominate multidecadal variability in aspects of the tropical Atlantic climate, such as sea surface temperatures, Sahel rainfall and hurricanes.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02808-x Drilling down into why the UN Sustainable Development Goals are so hard to achieve, and showing policymakers pathways to follow, will help the planet and save lives.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02770-8 Plants communicate with neighbouring plants to activate an airborne defence against aphids. However, the genetic pathway underlying this defence mechanism is unknown. A signalling cascade centred around the gaseous form of the chemical methyl salicylate was found to control this interaction between plants.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02767-3 A wide range of harmful bacteria introduce proteins into plant cells. Some of these proteins move to the cell membrane and serve as channels for water and nutrients, creating favourable conditions for bacterial growth beside plant cells.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02768-2 Tumour cells tend to migrate to the vertebrae rather than to long bones, but the mechanism underlying this has been unclear. It emerges that the stem cells from which vertebrae are derived make a factor that attracts tumour cells.
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Climate change doesn't care about ideological divides, says policy analyst and China expert Changhua Wu. Here's what she says the US can learn from the progress China has made on the clean energy revolution — and why collaboration instead of competition is the key to avoiding climate catastrophe.
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A pair of biologists at Australian National University, working with one colleague from the University of Queensland and another from James Cook University, has found that male palm cockatoos tap out unique rhythms on tree branches using custom-made drumsticks. In their project, reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, R. Heinsohn, C. N. Zdenek, D. Appleby and J. A. Endler studied the wild
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A pair of biologists at Australian National University, working with one colleague from the University of Queensland and another from James Cook University, has found that male palm cockatoos tap out unique rhythms on tree branches using custom-made drumsticks. In their project, reported in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, R. Heinsohn, C. N. Zdenek, D. Appleby and J. A. Endler studied the wild
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A new study led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified what may be a novel biological approach for removing extremely small and potentially dangerous plastic particles from water.
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Only 1.1 percent of autistic adults in the U.S. access key publicly funded employment services. A broken disability service system is why
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A new study led by Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified what may be a novel biological approach for removing extremely small and potentially dangerous plastic particles from water.
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Forget the “be here now” concept, which stresses focus on the present. Allowing your mind to wander freely has its own benefits.
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A new study finds that a natural compound found in many plants inhibits the growth of drug-resistant Candida fungi—including its most virulent species, Candida auris, an emerging global health threat. The journal ACS Infectious Diseases published the discovery led by scientists at Emory University.
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A new study finds that a natural compound found in many plants inhibits the growth of drug-resistant Candida fungi—including its most virulent species, Candida auris, an emerging global health threat. The journal ACS Infectious Diseases published the discovery led by scientists at Emory University.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41366-8
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41334-2 How spatial organisation in the brain affects function is not well understood. Here, the authors show that function changes gradually across sensory cortex, more rapidly across association cortex, and that these changes are related to variation in intracortical myelination.
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As veterinary students go through coursework, their beliefs about dog breeds’ pain sensitivity and trustworthiness can align with those of practicing clinicians and faculty, research finds. The work is important in understanding how veterinary attitudes and culture are being transmitted to future veterinarians , particularly in cases where the culture may be at odds with reality. “In a previous s
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Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food supply use a common strategy to cause disease: they inject a cocktail of harmful proteins directly into the plant's cells.
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Join Josh Gates on an extraordinary adventure as he embarks on an epic quest to uncover the resting place of a forgotten WW1 minesweeper. Prepare to be captivated by the thrill of exploration and the unraveling of historical mysteries. #discovery #expeditionunknown Stream Full Episodes of Expedition Unknown https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/expedition-unknown About Expedition Unknown: Josh Gates
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Only 1.1 percent of autistic adults in the U.S. access key publicly funded employment services. A broken disability service system is why
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Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food supply use a common strategy to cause disease: they inject a cocktail of harmful proteins directly into the plant's cells.
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Glue holds the world together. Without adhesives, much of modern human civilization—including our cellphones, cars, furniture, walls and the packages arriving on our doorstep—would simply fall apart.
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The discovery of a hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1985 led to a worldwide effort to heal it. Are there lessons that can be applied to today’s treaty talks on climate change? From: Scientific American
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Biodiversity is dwindling at a rapid pace across the globe. As one key remedy, we are protecting areas around the world, hoping that they will suffice to save what is left. While protected areas have undoubtedly contributed to slowing the overall biodiversity loss, it is unclear how well they work across multiple species concurrently. To explore this, researchers at the University of Helsinki exam
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The term "quantum transport" may conjure images of a fantastic futuristic commuting option. In condensed matter physics, however, this is a fundamental concept in the hydrodynamics of electrons in solid and fluid materials.
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For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction—something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets of ice floating on the seas around the snowy continent are a crucial component of Earth's climate processes.
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When individuals suffer a loss of resources due to the actions of others, they often aim to recoup these resources directly from those responsible.
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Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have created a process that can upcycle most plastics into chemical ingredients useful for energy storage, using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a commercially available catalyst, all at room temperature.
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Biodiversity is dwindling at a rapid pace across the globe. As one key remedy, we are protecting areas around the world, hoping that they will suffice to save what is left. While protected areas have undoubtedly contributed to slowing the overall biodiversity loss, it is unclear how well they work across multiple species concurrently. To explore this, researchers at the University of Helsinki exam
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As in, is it worth starting uni for economics and then a masters at this point? ~ I apologize if these questions are repetitive, but I would really appreciate some insight. I know that there are a lot of very different career paths in economics, but I'd love to hear about any of them or just generally. Economists (that I've asked) usually say that it's unlikely, but I think most people would say
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A new species of spiny mouse has been discovered in Ecuador, making it the 14th of its genus to be identified in the past five years. Neacomys marci, which was previously confused with another species, is around the length of a tennis ball, with a long tail, pale suede belly fur and a white throat.
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Nebraska researchers are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the bioeconomy.
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A new species of spiny mouse has been discovered in Ecuador, making it the 14th of its genus to be identified in the past five years. Neacomys marci, which was previously confused with another species, is around the length of a tennis ball, with a long tail, pale suede belly fur and a white throat.
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Nebraska researchers are converting plant wastes into antimicrobial agents that could help prevent pathogenic infections and death while significantly lowering the cost of antimicrobial treatments and being a boon to the bioeconomy.
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A research team led by Prof. Xie Zhouqing and Prof. Le Fange from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed that the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) is a dominant source of atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), and proposed a mechanism for the summertime peak of GEM in the Arctic. Their work was published in Nature Communications.
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Reversible nanohelix transformation is one of the most exquisite and important phenomena in nature. Nanomaterials rarely form helical crystals. Due to the irreversibility of the twisting forces studied so far, untwisting is more difficult than retwisting crystalline nanohelices. Therefore, many reversible twist transformations between two stable crystalline products are rare and require a sensitiv
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A review of COVID-19 studies globally has revealed reductions in breast cancer screening participation during 2020, with differences between geographic regions and healthcare settings.
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COVID-19 Immunity reduces
Nearly one in three people exposed to SARS-CoV2 is infected, and as many as two in five with the Omicron variant. In the case of immunity — conferred by vaccination, infection or a combination of the two — this rate drops to one in ten. However, immunity disappears within a few months, confirms a team of researchers, after revisiting epidemiological data collected in Geneva. While protection fol
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When the iconic entertainment site The A.V. Club started publishing AI-generated articles earlier this summer at the directive of its owner, G/O Media, the backlash was intense. " The A.V. Club used to be a benchmark for pop culture writing on the net and now it's a private equity ghost town pumping out AI generated listicles," wrote film journalist Luke Dunne. "MST3K" writer Tammy Golden called
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Tesla Semi excels in tests
On and On Data is finally starting to come in about the Tesla Semi truck. Specifically, a demonstration called " Run on Less ," undertaken by the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) and focusing on new electric trucks' performance in real-world conditions, has been garnering some promising stats about three of PepsiCo's Tesla Semi fleet. Though there are still a few weeks to go,
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists studied hot springs on different continents and found similarities in how some microbes adapted despite their geographic diversity.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists studied hot springs on different continents and found similarities in how some microbes adapted despite their geographic diversity.
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For many organizations, innovation is focused on a few strategically prioritized initiatives and often is incremental by design. Change and the surprises it brings can be a grudgingly accepted necessity. Savvy companies, however, acknowledge that innovation must also be part of a firm’s strategy and deployed through every department. The value of most companies in the market, for example, is base
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Kim prioritizes Russia-North Korea ties
Leaders meet at far-eastern base, which most recently hosted ill-fated launch of Luna-25 spacecraft For his meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, Vladimir Putin has chosen to show off one of his pet projects: a modern cosmodrome he had built in the remote forests of eastern Russia to demonstrate his great aspirations in space exploration. The Vostochny cosmodrome came into service in 2016 and
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In this webinar, Kelly Wolfe will discuss the dos and don’ts of protein electrophoresis and western blotting.
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For ecologists, tropical rainforests hold many enigmas. A single hectare can contain hundreds of tree species, far more than in forests closer to the poles. Somehow these species coexist in such dizzying abundance that, as naturalists and ecologists have sometimes noted, tropical forests can feel like botanical gardens, where every plant is something new. For such throngs of species to be packed.
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A recent examination of Vivitrol’s clinical trial data uncovered many hidden overdoses. Its preferential use in the criminal justice system must stop
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A new study identifies a potential way to remove microplastics from water with fungi. “Although fungal pelletization has been studied for algae harvesting and wastewater treatment in the past decade, to the best of our knowledge, it has not yet been applied for the removal of microplastics from an aqueous environment,” says Susie Dai, an associate professor in the plant pathology and microbiology
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Mechanics from St Petersburg University have developed a mathematical model that takes into account non-equilibrium processes occurring at high velocities in the gas flow and on the surface. This model can be used for detailed modeling of the interaction of gas with the surface of a spacecraft, which is extremely important when designing its thermal protection. The paper is published in the journa
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Blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), which can be used in smartphones, televisions or other devices, are still difficult to manufacture today. A team of researchers led by Gert-Jan Wetzelaer of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has now developed a new material concept that allows blue OLEDs to be manufactured easily and cost-effectively.
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The footage of a puma hunting sheep was captured with thermal imaging cameras in the Patagonian wilderness as part of a new National Geographic show.
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The prolific street-lit author’s X-rated books went viral on TikTok. Many believed he was a white writer profiting off Black culture. That was just the beginning.
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I wrote back in July about the lawsuits being filed against the drug-price-setting provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act, and now we're starting to see the outlines of the dispute. Merck had asked for summary judgment in the case, which is a standard maneuver that they surely did not actually expect to work. That's pretty much what it sounds like – you petition the court to save everyone's ti
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Chemotherapy may awaken dormant cancer
A standard chemotherapy drug injures surrounding non-cancer cells, which can then awakens dormant cancer cells and promotes cancer growth, according to a new study. The finding is important for understanding cancer recurrence and may point to important new targets to prevent it.
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Growing several plant varieties in the same field for disease resistance is a longstanding agricultural practice, but can have unpredictable results. A study suggests that plant-to-plant interactions may confer disease immunity in both wheat and rice.
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Hear from young researchers about their experiences in the Human Brain Project. From: HumanBrainProject
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A man walks into a Minneapolis-area Target, angry about coupons his teenage daughter received for baby clothes and cribs. “Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?” he asks a store manager. Except, his daughter really was pregnant. Target had tuned a marketing-prediction model so tightly that it could successfully tell what was happening inside her body, before even the girl’s family knew
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After growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, Jenisha Watts came to New York City as a young journalist determined to make sure that no one would ever know her past. But Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic , now writes with remarkable candor about the heartrending circumstances of her life for the first time in the cover story of The Atlantic ’s October issue. In “ Jenisha From Kentucky ,” Watts de
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my ex wanted a pet pig, so we imagined it. even gave the thing a name, rubbed its invisible head before bed— years later, on a rooftop, my ex confesses she cheated on me: the city stretching out before us filled with brightly locked doors. the harm’s far enough away i don’t notice it. a footnote swallowed ages ago. the pig would have been beautiful—then grown too large for our small home, would h
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Scientists are trying to raise as many long-spined sea urchins in the lab as possible. The urchins are known as “the lawn mowers of the reefs” because they eat algae that could otherwise smother reef ecosystems and kill corals. Aaron Pilnick, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida Tropical Aquaculture Lab (TAL), led a new study that identifies substrates that help long-spined sea
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Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in mercury-contaminated waterways, they can pass the metal along to the spiders that feed on them.
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Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in mercury-contaminated waterways, they can pass the metal along to the spiders that feed on them.
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Static droplet array (SDA) is a necessary and integral tool when it comes to high-capacity screening tests, or assays, for identifying and targeting specific cells or analytes (substances whose chemical composition is the target of identification). However, extraction and collection of the target droplets that contain unique analytes or cells from the SDA remains one major technical bottleneck tha
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Static droplet array (SDA) is a necessary and integral tool when it comes to high-capacity screening tests, or assays, for identifying and targeting specific cells or analytes (substances whose chemical composition is the target of identification). However, extraction and collection of the target droplets that contain unique analytes or cells from the SDA remains one major technical bottleneck tha
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Reports of increasing suicidal behaviors in children in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic may be due to changes in screening and reporting by health professionals, a study in one state suggests. “One reason we did this study was to better understand what was happening with regard to the reported increase in suicidal behavior among young people,” says Adriana Corredor-Waldron, coauthor of th
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People who used e-cigarettes before pregnancy were more likely to stop smoking later while pregnant than those using nicotine replacement therapy, according to a new study. The risks of smoking during pregnancy for both maternal and fetal health are well documented, but only about half of pregnant people quit smoking on their own. To learn more about how e-cigarette or nicotine replacement therap
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Sunlight is an inexhaustible source of energy, and utilizing sunlight to generate electricity is one of the cornerstones of renewable energy. More than 40% of the sunlight that falls on Earth is in the infrared, visible and ultraviolet spectra; however, current solar technology utilizes primarily visible and ultraviolet rays. Technology to utilize the full spectrum of solar radiation—called all-so
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Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) radio telescope of the Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) in Pushchino, Russia, astronomers have detected two new rotating radio transients (RRATS). The finding is reported in a research paper published September 2 on the pre-print server arXiv.
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Richard Schwartz, a mathematician at Brown University has found a solution to the problem of how small a Möbius band can be made without intersecting itself—at least for a smooth piece of paper. The paper is published on the arXiv preprint server.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41444-x Here, the authors show that microsecond time-resolved cryo-EM can be used to observe real-life protein dynamics, which they demonstrate by capturing the pH-induced contraction of the CCMV capsid.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41247-0 The plant pathogen Phytophthora sojae requires exogenous thiamine for growth. Here, Li et al. show that soil myxobacteria inhibit Phytophthora’s growth by scavenging thiamine through the secretion a thiaminase via outer membrane vesicles.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41390-8 Chiral receptors with an endo-functionalized cavity for chiral recognition are of interest in the field of molecular recognition. Here, the authors develop chiral naphthotubes containing a bis-thiourea endo-functionalized cavity to effectively recognize neutral chiral molecules with high enantioselectivity.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41445-w The bacterial insertase BAM is a key target for novel antibiotics that are urgently needed. Here, we describe the implementation of an assay that allows screening for BAM inhibitors in the native membrane in high-throughput format.
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On their mission to seek out new life, scientists have named three new spider species Kirk, Spock and McCoy — after characters from the original “Star Trek” series.
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The United States has the largest age gap in voter turnout among advanced democracies. Youth voter turnout remained low, at 48%, in 2020. Scholars, educators, and policymakers often recommend civic education as a solution to low youth voter turnout.
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What does the author and lifestyle guru have in common with the mathematician Stan Ulam—and Benjamin Franklin?
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Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom, including some that look very much like REM
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Everyone loses their temper from time to time — but the stakes are dizzyingly high when the focus of your fury is your own child. Clinical psychologist and renowned parenting whisperer Becky Kennedy is here to help. Not only does she have practical advice to help parents manage the guilt and shame of their not-so-great moments but she also models the types of conversations you can have to be a bet
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Yoga har större effekt på den kognitiva hälsan än styrke- och konditionsträning. Enligt en ny studie kan yoga även bidra till att förebygga demens hos personer över 55 år. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest supermassive black holes from the early universe are more massive in relation to their galaxies compared with those near us
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02664-9 The next move.
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A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.
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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. Google has a new tool to outsmart authoritarian internet censorship The news: Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran’s government during the 2022 protests, the company has exclusively told MIT Technology Revie
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Researchers create an embryo model from human embryonic stem cells. The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.
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Fires that raged in the days following the 1 September 1923 magnitude 7.9 Kant earthquake killed roughly 90% of the 105,000 people who perished in and around Tokyo, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in history — comparable to the number of people killed in the World War II atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The story of the conflagration, not well-known outside of Japan, holds important
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41179-9 Bacterial remineralization of algal organic matter promotes algal growth but is rarely quantified. Here, Mayali et al. quantify bacterial incorporation of algal-derived organic carbon and nitrogen, and algal incorporation of remineralized carbon and nitrogen, for 15 bacterial co-cultures growing with the di
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41200-1 The bacterial Tight adherence (Tad) secretion system assembles surface pili that drive cell adherence and biofilm formation. Here, authors show the mechanism of assembly for the outer membrane secretin RcpA and how it recruits its pilotin TadD.
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A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.
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in individuals with depression while improving overall memory function, research indicates. The study appears in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience . It examines how antidepressant use in depressed individuals affects memories, both good and bad. Stephanie Leal, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at Rice University, is the study’s lead author. She says the study’s main fin
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Den nye iPhone 15 har droppet lightning-oplader og port til fordel for USB-C efter pres fra EU, og det samme kommer til at gælde alle telefoner, tablets og kameraer, der sælges i EU.
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In early June, a state board in Oklahoma did something that seemed obviously unconstitutional: It approved a new, openly Catholic charter school. Students at the proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would receive religious instruction, and the online school would participate in “the evangelizing mission of the Church,” according to St. Isidore’s application to the state. By law
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Illustrations by Didier Viodé This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Ms. Brown didn’t tell me where we were going. I knew we would be visiting someone important, a literary figure, because we took a gypsy cab instead of the subway. It would probably be some
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, two men apparently starving for both attention and meaning, have lately been promising to fight each other in a “cage match.” Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic ’s in-house expert on this relationship (he has other responsibilities as well), recently wrote , “As the result of an inexplicable series of firing neurons, Musk managed to not only type but also send the followi
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Four years ago, The New York Times Magazine ’s 1619 Project , a series of essays aiming to place “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative,” sparked heated debate. Some criticisms of the essays were substantive , others less so. The backlash, however, has endured long after the initial arguments died down. Following the 2020
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Despite efforts to make a planned city in the Saudi Arabian desert sustainable, its layout could create problems
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The stone spheres were crafted by early hominins who were trying to create symmetry in the objects, a new study suggests.
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Reduced by 20%, you can now get the Garmin Venu Sq 2 smartwatch for under $200 at Amazon. It’s bright, accurate, and has a great battery life.
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The Sunny Health and Fitness bike has been reduced by 27% on Amazon. It looks like a typical spinning bike at the gym, and is extremely quiet and sturdy.
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Despite efforts to make a planned city in the Saudi Arabian desert sustainable, its layout could create problems
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På en exoplanet 120 lysår borte er fundet indikation af dimethylsulfid i atmosfæren – et molekyle forbundet med biologisk aktivitet. Nye observationer er nødvendige for at eftervise rigtigheden af tilstedeværelsen.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41433-0 To date the performance of molecular electronics compared to silicon limits their applications. Yang et al. develop the first mechano-optoelectronic switch based on mechanically controlled aggregation-induced emission of the self-assembled molecules, which can be reversibly switched at high speed.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41374-8 The relevance of non-coding somatic mutations in cancer remains elusive. Here, the combination of mass spectrometry-based proteomics and whole genome sequencing data across multiple cancer types helps to assess the effects of somatic structural variant breakpoint patterns on protein expression of nearby gen
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41266-x Electron microscopy of native hydrated biological samples close to physiological temperature is challenging. Here, authors encapsulate proteins and cells as an efficient, cost-effective complement to other microscopy technique in addressing biological questions at the molecular level.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41396-2 Alkali bicarbonate precipitation hinders electrochemical CO2 reduction in acidic electrolytes. Here, the authors report CO2 reduction in a metal cation-free acidic electrolyte by covering the catalyst with crosslinked polyelectrolyte, achieving 36-hour stability in a flow cell.
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Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01660 Abstract: With their recent development, large language models (LLMs) have been found to exhibit a certain level of Theory of Mind (ToM), a complex cognitive capacity that is related to our conscious mind and that allows us to infer another's beliefs and perspective. While human ToM capabilities are believed to derive from the neural activity of a broadly i
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The hydrocarbon methane is highly abundant on Earth, yet its release is now known to contribute to surges in temperature and climate change. In recent years, researchers have been trying to devise reliable methods to directly convert methane into other fuels and chemicals with valuable real-world applications.
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Nasa's James Webb Telescope may have discovered a molecule thought only to be produced by life.
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A new report lays out a modern way to search for E.T., calling for better use of big data and machine learning techniques.
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Cory Doctorow talks about everything that threatens to make the internet “a toxic waste dump”—and the ways you can regain control of your choices online.
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Apple ignored the tech industry's obsession with generative AI at the new iPhone launch, offering subtler AI features that make everyday tasks like photography and phone calls better.
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Why does some wildlife thrive in the city? Figuring this out is the first step to boosting urban biodiversity. And that's good for everyone.
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Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?
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Der er åbnet op for helt nye linjeføringer for en potentiel bro eller tunnel mellem Als og Fyn, der er vurderet til at koste over 20 mia. kroner.
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Moderna expands mRNA medicine field
Trial finds latest version elicited better immune response than existing jabs
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02882-1 The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among human-evolution researchers.
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This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. When China announced back in July that it was restricting exports of germanium and gallium, it was a reminder of the leverage that China holds in the global supply chain for critical minerals, a group of 50 materials determined by
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Cancer treatments aim to kill tumor cells, and the immune system is tasked with getting rid of the resulting corpses.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41122-y This study characterizes the CSF proteome changes underlying Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and identifies pathophysiological and diagnostic leads associated to this cause of dementia. Findings have been translated into a biomarker panel that could identify DLB patients with high accuracy across different
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41073-4 Protected areas are vital for conserving biodiversity, but their effectiveness is often unknown. A study on 638 species in Finland’s protected and unprotected sites finds mixed impacts; only a subset of species benefit from protection, mainly experiencing slower declines within protected areas.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41312-8 In this work, the authors mapped putative interactions between protein domains encoded by the SARS-CoV-2 and intrinsically disordered regions of the human proteome. From the data, peptides with antiviral properties targeting Nsp9 and Nsp16 were identified.
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Der er åbnet op for helt nye linjeføringer for en potentiel bro eller tunnel mellem Als og Fyn, der er vurderet til at koste over 20 mia. kroner.
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Det næsten emissionsfrie containerskib fra Mærsk har sejlet på grøn metanol siden afrejsen fra Ulsan i Sydkorea.
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A scandal unfolding in Argentina shows the dangers of implementing facial recognition—even with laws and limits in place.
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Glaciären på Kebnekaises sydtopp blir allt mindre. Under det senaste året har den krympt med mer än en meter. Även andra svenska glaciärer smälter snabbt, visar mätningar. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Korruption og inkompetence får skylden for, at tusinder af mennesker i den libyske kystby Derna er omkommet i en ulykke, hvor to dæmninger kollapsede og sendte enorme mængder vand ind over byen.
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Nature, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02806-z The United Nations has ambitious aims to end poverty and clean up the planet by 2030. See whether you know how the world is faring on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Farming fundamentally altered the way humans live, eventually changing people from nomadic hunter-gatherers to sedentary city-dwellers.
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Dekan på DTU vil gentænke hele studiestartskonceptet for at forhindre frafald.
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Google is launching new anti-censorship technology created in response to actions by Iran’s government during the 2022 protests there, hoping that it will increase access for internet users living under authoritarian regimes all over the world. Jigsaw, a unit of Google that operates sort of like an internet freedom think tank and that creates related products, already offers a suite of anti-censo
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The truth is out there??
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Det næsten emissionsfrie containerskib fra Mærsk har sejlet på grøn metanol siden afrejsen fra Ulsan i Sydkorea.
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Cancer vaccine improves lung survival
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I'm someone who just couldn't get into coding or most stem fields (not everyone has the brain for it) but I have always been interested in psychology. I'm a first year psychology student, but I keep worrying if I made the right decision or not. I feel like psychology has a relatively low risk for being automated (though who knows) so as a long term plan it makes sense. But I know that it's a real
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Det næsten emissionsfrie containerskib fra Mærsk har sejlet på grøn metanol siden afrejsen fra Ulsan i Sydkorea.
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Updated versions of the mRNA vaccines roll out this week. Experts say they offer good protection against current COVID variants. Who should get them, and when's the best time to roll up your sleeve? (Image credit: Frederick J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
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A smoky haze blanketed Australia's scenic Sydney Harbour on Wednesday, as a ring of controlled blazes burned on the city's fringes in preparation for the looming bushfire season.
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More heavy rain was in the forecast Wednesday in New England, where residents were cleaning up after downpours dropped nearly 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain in six hours and flooded parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
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Håbet er, at ensretning af ladestik vil betyde mindre elektronisk affald.
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Higher oxytocin levels could be why women find it easier to spot facial features in inanimate objects after having baby, say researchers Whether it’s seeing Jesus in burnt toast, a goofy grin in the grooves of a cheese grater, or simply the man in the moon, humans have long perceived faces in unlikely places. Now researchers say the tendency may not be fixed in adults, suggesting it appears to be
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Some scientists are "horrified".
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The trick was spotting the trapezoid within.
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E. coli generates electricity breakthrough
Energy from waste.
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A new HPV vaccine may drastically change cervical cancer management in India and other middle and lower-income countries. But the government rollout has hit delays, and health care workers also face vaccine hesitancy. Cervical cancer screening, meanwhile, will still be necessary for many women.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41432-1 Collective motion arises from the coordination of individuals and entails the adjustment of their respective velocities. Yet, how individuals achieve this coordination is often not understood. For migrating cells and motorized agents, Riedl et al. show that the synchronization of the intrinsic oscillator th
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41388-2 The natural product BE-43547A2 (BE) could potentially serve as a template of hypoxia target strategy for treating pancreatic cancer, but the unsatisfactory pharmacokinetics profile and severe toxicity impeded the application of BE or its derivatives. Here the authors report a supramolecular dual hypoxia-res
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Cross-national research carried out by the University of Southampton and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) into public opinion on LGBT+ rights has shown that anti-immigrant prejudices, particularly towards Muslims, contributes to explaining some of the widespread shifts in tolerance towards the LGBT+ community. Findings of a new study show this was especially evident among socially conservative v
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Contributing to 5.5 million deaths each year.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41407-2 Tools for gaining long-term genetic access to mu-opioid receptor (MOR) neural cell types are limited. Here, the authors develop a suite of adeno-associated viral tools allowing selective genetic access to MOR cell types, and showcase their use across species.
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Chinese artificial intelligence startups say uncertain regulation, chip shortages, and a slowing economy will make it tough to compete.
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The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are so chaotic that researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. This finding emerges from simulations by three astronomers based in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The researchers have published their findings in two papers in the International Journal of Moder
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This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy . It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Burning fossil fuels is heating the planet. But if we quit our fossil fuel habit and stop emitting greenhouse gases… what happens then? Answers seem to vary from "global warming will stop" to "we can exp
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Over 5.300 personer er omkommet efter store oversvømmelse i Libyen, og dødstallet frygtes at stige.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41352-0 T cells can become exhausted during chronic virus infection or repeated stimulation by tumour antigens. Here the authors show that High-Mobility Group Box 2 (HMGB2) protein promotes CD8+ T cell memory cell generation in acute viral infection and exhaustion stemness in chronic infection.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 13 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41309-3 The water-to-land transition of vertebrates is a landmark event in evolutionary history. This work utilizes single-cell RNA sequencing to explore the adaptations in African lungfish lungs and gills to terrestrialization.
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COVID booster autumn
At least three descendants of Omicron have scientists on alert and vaccination programmes speeding up
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Palm cockatoos fashion sticks for drumming on trees by snapping off branches and whittling them with their beaks, and the males design their tools with their own personal style
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Even if we attained Star Trek replicators and an abundant energy supply with which to power them, there is still a finite amount of space on Earth. In a moneyless society, are there any reasonable propositions as to how we would decide who gets how much space and where? It's plausible that without the need to work many people would leave densely populated cities and spread further out, but even t
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I was in the shower and the thought came to me: Solid light water that could clean me without using real water by a device that acts like a showerhead. I quickly realized I was mistaken, because hologram light isn't solid. But what if that could be? How would that even work? So stepping out of the shower I thought about it for a minute while drying off. Maybe it would work by having separate lase
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Flere eksperter advarer om, at Kina kan misbruge kablets optiske fibre og hulrum til overvågning og sabotage.
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Danfoss har ambitiøse målsætninger for produkter med kunstig intelligens og skruer op for den kunde- og klimavenligheden.
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Nature, Published online: 12 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02840-x Many countries heading into autumn are targeting high-risk people for vaccinations, leaving lower-risk people uncertain about the right choice.
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Nature, Published online: 07 September 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-02826-9 Air pockets trapped between ice crystals are an underappreciated factor in the melting at the glacier–ocean boundary.
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How would it take control? By what means? Keep in mind the means put a limit on the effects. What would be the probable outcome of each scenario? submitted by /u/Awkward_Drive_6808 [link] [comments]
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2024 Ford F-150: New Features
For environmentalists, hybrid vehicles can feel like a compromise. But demand for hybrid pickup trucks is surging—and they may be the greenest practical option.
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A new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to analyze fish and zooplankton communities.
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A new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to analyze fish and zooplankton communities.
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Some annoyances in life are unavoidable: the creak in your knees as you age, the tax code, Pete Davidson. Others are foisted on you by corporations hell-bent on leveraging their market power for financial gain. The iPhone cord is the latter. For more than a decade, Apple’s Lightning cable has been something like the avocado of consumer electronics: wildly expensive relative to its shelf life. The
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As Kevin McCarthy made his televised declaration earlier today that House Republicans were launching an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, the House speaker stood outside his office in the Capitol, a trio of American flags arrayed behind to lend an air of dignity to such a grave announcement. But McCarthy looked and sounded like a hostage, and for good reason. That the Republican major
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Eminent legal scholars think the Constitution makes Donald Trump ineligible for office; critics of the idea worry that using the Fourteenth Amendment will create an uncontrollable political weapon. Fir
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FDA approves updated COVID boosters
Here’s what to know about the fall COVID boosters, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended for all people aged six months and older
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CDC recommends updated COVID shots
Here’s what to know about the fall COVID boosters, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended for all people aged six months and older
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A study shows 60 environmental activists were killed in Colombia in 2022 out of 177 murdered worldwide.
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While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life.
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Gemini II earbuds
The most remarkable thing about these new in-ear high-end headphones is how overpriced they are.
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A new study published in Biology Letters by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While they suffered some species loss, the devastating event helped flowering plants become the dominant type of plant they are
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MIT engineers enhance RNA vaccines
By adding synergistic self-adjuvanting properties to COVID-19 RNA vaccines, researchers showed they could significantly boost the immune response generated in mice.
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A new study published in Biology Letters by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. While they suffered some species loss, the devastating event helped flowering plants become the dominant type of plant they are
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A team of gastroenterologists and hepatologists examine psychosocial factors in older Americans with gastrointestinal conditions.
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Researchers are taking fast charging for electric vehicles, or EVs, to new extremes.
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Apple expands iCloud storage options
New iPhones, sure. But the company’s compelling new service lures you even deeper into its ecosystem.
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Hello. I'm curious if it would be possible in the near or far future to manipulate our genes to change our body hair growth pattern. For example changing the density and thickness of the body hair and even the color. Targeting the genes which are responsible for body hair growth. And I don't mean for new borns or embryos but for us grown up human beings. submitted by /u/Moha196 [link] [comments]
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I created 4 unique t-shirts within just 3 minutes with the help of Ai art using mobile phone. I believe the whole fashion will be personalized in the future, what do you think? submitted by /u/tekmen0 [link] [comments]
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Putin praises Elon Musk's talent
Bully 4 U Russian President Vladimir Putin has weighed in on Elon Musk — and unsurprisingly, he's bullish. "As far as private business and Elon Musk is concerned," Putin said at Russia's Eastern Economic Forum, per a Reuters translation , "he is undoubtedly an outstanding person. This must be recognized, and I think it is recognized all over the world." Putin added that he thinks Musk is "an acti
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Scientist who cloned Dolly dies
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Pneumonia is an infection of the lung alveoli caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. It is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, representing a clinical and economic burden and a global public health problem. The microbial ecosystem (or microbiome) of the human respiratory tract colonizes different niches. The respiratory tract microbiome is of interest to scientists as it
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Researchers have developed a non-invasive method for mapping the human auditory pathway, which could potentially be used as a tool to help clinicians decide the best surgical strategy for patients with profound hearing loss.
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A resource economist finds mandated in-school Body Mass Index assessments adopted in varying forms by 24 states to combat childhood obesity have the potential to improve the health of some students while introducing body-image issues for others. The research is believed to be the first to assess these policies as a whole, rather than in single states or school districts.
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Researchers have produced a comprehensive picture of insulin signalling in mice and suggest that it is shaped by entangled effects of genetics and diet.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a neurological disorder characterized by repeated behaviors such as cleaning and checking despite clear objective evidence of cleanliness, orderliness, and correctness. Although the disease is often mischaracterized as a disorder of 'fussiness,' the disorder actually stems from difficulty in processing uncertainty. However, the neural underpinnings of that ab
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I keep doing the same mistakes, Always forgetting roads I do everyday…in Always with Google Maps and I really cant Remember when I should change direction to get to a point. Also I Always forget where I park my car, usually I take some indications but sometimes I forget about It and I literally start searching for my Cars for hours. One time I even forget what was the name of a garage where I p
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Finding the right medication regimen to treat Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex healthcare challenge. Wearable health trackers provide physicians with a detailed window into patients' symptoms, but translating this complex data into useful treatment insights can be difficult. New research accomplishes just that. Researchers found that combining wearable health tracker data with state-of-the-ar
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Phenylephrine decongestant effectiveness reev
The Food and Drug Administration reviewed data on phenylephrine, an ingredient in many popular decongestants, and deemed it ineffective when taken orally.
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Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to the edge of space a major ethical breach.
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Scientists have developed a nuclear fuel source no larger than a seed, which NASA will test for use in future moon missions.
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Researchers have uncovered new genetic insights into Staphylococcus aureus, revealing what makes the bacterium so dangerous when it enters the blood.
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Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections. The innovation — which has undergone advanced pre-clinical trials — is effective against a broad range of drug-resistant bacterial cells, including 'golden staph', which are commonly referred to as superbugs.
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Physicists begin to shed light on one of the most important questions regarding quantum spin liquids, and they do so by introducing a new phase of matter.
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Neuroscientists have explored the impacts of an emerging technique called transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), and showed targeted treatments using it can induce significant changes in GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) concentration within the brain's posterior cingulate cortex in the hour following ultrasound treatment. They believe the study could pave the way towards treatment of conditions
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Researchers develop sleep
New method can predict risks of cardiovascular disease, mortality in sleep apnea patients.
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PCOS treatment using stem cells
Researchers recently unveiled a potential new PCOS treatment that restored ovarian function and improved hormonal and metabolic regulation in mice.
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Since its inception in 2021, the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), has made significant gains towards its ambitious goal of sequencing 100,000 endemic African species within the next 10 years. Recently, AfricaBP reported the successful implementation of the Open Institute in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
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Since its inception in 2021, the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP), has made significant gains towards its ambitious goal of sequencing 100,000 endemic African species within the next 10 years. Recently, AfricaBP reported the successful implementation of the Open Institute in the journal Nature Biotechnology.
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Using a remote operated vehicle, NOAA scientists on the Okeanos Explorer encountered a shiny golden orb deep in the Gulf of Alaska.
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The pace and scale of behavior change required to meet the UK's Net Zero targets will require the UK Government to do much more to support people to make greener choices, say the authors of a newly published review.
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Physicists begin to shed light on one of the most important questions regarding quantum spin liquids, and they do so by introducing a new phase of matter.
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Scientists from the University of Rhode Island and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center have made significant progress in understanding the stranding locations of cold-stunned sea turtles in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts.
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Scientists from the University of Rhode Island and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center have made significant progress in understanding the stranding locations of cold-stunned sea turtles in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts.
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It's commonly accepted that U.S. and Chinese companies treat financial reporting and disclosure differently.
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Abortion bans face legal challenges
New cases say fear and confusion about abortion bans in three states are causing doctors and hospitals to deny medically necessary abortions.
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A major study suggests that a possible cause of spontaneous brain haemorrhage could be transmitted via blood transfusion. At the same time, it is very unlikely that anyone should suffer a brain haemorrhage after receiving donated blood.
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When you're under stress, your brain may release its own cannabinoid molecules to calm you, activating the same brain receptors as THC derived from cannabis plants. But the brain activity regulated by these cannabinoid molecules were not well known. A new study in mice has discovered a key emotional brain center, the amygdala, releases cannabinoid molecules under stress that dampen the incoming st
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Researchers have used machine learning to explore the links between sedentary behavior and dementia, finding that the total time spent sedentary matters for brain aging.
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Replacing 50% of meat and milk products with plant-based alternatives by 2050 can reduce agriculture and land use related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 31% and halt the degradation of forest and natural land, according to new research.
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Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here. Last week, I asked , “What roles should ‘color-blindness’ and race-consciousness play in personal interactions?” Replies have been edited for length and clarity. Adam is
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While the UK has been experiencing warm autumnal weather, a team of planetary scientists has found that Saturn's late northern summer is experiencing a cooling trend, as huge planetary-scale flows of air have reversed direction as autumn approaches.
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Venice officials agreed Tuesday to test a fee on day tourists to the overcrowded historic center, weeks after UNESCO warned it could list the city as an at-risk world heritage site.
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Boeing CEO commutes by private jet
Jet Set Managers at aerospace giant Boeing are still trying to get employees to come back to the office, a common corporate theme in a post-pandemic world. Yet CEO David Calhoun, who took over the reins in January 2020, never really made the move after the company moved its headquarters to Virginia — and started commuting to work in a private jet, The Wall Street Journal reports , from his two la
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The story of Qi Chen's research is full of serendipity. In the first year of her Ph.D., she was hanging out with friends at the University's Zernike campus, discussing the topics of their research. Chen told them she was going to study foam-like materials. A friend was casually peeling the stem of a grass-like plant, thereby revealing its insides that appeared to have an open and airy structure. H
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Accelerometers that read behavior of wild boars can detect when they are infected with a fatal virus
Behavioral sensors attached to wild boars have been used to detect when animals are sick with African Swine Fever, a fatal viral disease that affects both boar and domestic pigs. Accelerometer sensors, which measure tiny changes in movement, showed that wild boars reduced their daily activity by up to 20% when infected with the virus.
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The newly named Darwinibacteriales is one of the most abundant taxonomic groups of microorganisms involved in anaerobic digestion, the decomposition of organic matter which creates biogas.
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On behalf of the Mesdag Zuivelfonds, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have measured within which radius around dairy farms the nitrogen emitted by the farm is deposited. By far the largest part of the emitted nitrogen (≈ 90%) ends up in higher air layers of the atmosphere and will precipitate elsewhere. Within the measured area, with a radius of 500 meters around the farm, most of the
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Accelerometers that read behavior of wild boars can detect when they are infected with a fatal virus
Behavioral sensors attached to wild boars have been used to detect when animals are sick with African Swine Fever, a fatal viral disease that affects both boar and domestic pigs. Accelerometer sensors, which measure tiny changes in movement, showed that wild boars reduced their daily activity by up to 20% when infected with the virus.
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The newly named Darwinibacteriales is one of the most abundant taxonomic groups of microorganisms involved in anaerobic digestion, the decomposition of organic matter which creates biogas.
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On behalf of the Mesdag Zuivelfonds, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have measured within which radius around dairy farms the nitrogen emitted by the farm is deposited. By far the largest part of the emitted nitrogen (≈ 90%) ends up in higher air layers of the atmosphere and will precipitate elsewhere. Within the measured area, with a radius of 500 meters around the farm, most of the
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Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections.
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Most coastal communities will encounter 100-year floods annually by the end of the century, even under a moderate scenario where carbon dioxide emissions peak by 2040, a new study finds. And as early as 2050, regions worldwide could experience 100-year floods every nine to fifteen years on average.
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Climate experts project a decline in the frequency of future tropical storms but an increase in their strength across the Ganges and Mekong basins allowing for better future planning.
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Conventional crop breeding is not time-efficient for creating inbred lines with desired genetic traits owing to the diploid nature of plants, wherein they have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, double haploid technology utilizes gene-edited haploid inducer plants to create double haploid crops that have two sets of chromosomes from a single parent. This revolutionary agri
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A study by the University of Cordoba confirms that soil properties are only altered slightly, or even improved, in the short term after controlled burning
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Can a coastal area have a drought? Yes, but it'll look different than an inland drought, according to new research from team based at Fudan University in China. More surprising than the geographically influenced characteristics of droughts, the researchers said, was the revelation that only 40% of droughts are accompanied by a heat wave.
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New findings from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) research indicate short duration lairage can maximize productivity for the grain fed supply chain. The duration of time and location where cattle are housed between arrival at an abattoir and slaughter is termed "lairage."
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A team of researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences at UNIST has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding how brain proteins can help alleviate complications arising from DNA replication stress. This discovery holds immense potential for advancing treatments for various diseases, including cancer, neurological disorders, and age-related conditions that result from disrupti
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The latest vaccines are designed to target XBB.1.5, the dominant variant throughout much of 2023—until now.
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Conventional crop breeding is not time-efficient for creating inbred lines with desired genetic traits owing to the diploid nature of plants, wherein they have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, double haploid technology utilizes gene-edited haploid inducer plants to create double haploid crops that have two sets of chromosomes from a single parent. This revolutionary agri
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New findings from Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) research indicate short duration lairage can maximize productivity for the grain fed supply chain. The duration of time and location where cattle are housed between arrival at an abattoir and slaughter is termed "lairage."
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A team of researchers from the Department of Biological Sciences at UNIST has achieved a significant breakthrough in understanding how brain proteins can help alleviate complications arising from DNA replication stress. This discovery holds immense potential for advancing treatments for various diseases, including cancer, neurological disorders, and age-related conditions that result from disrupti
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Sleep-tracker data from 35 countries shows that people in Western countries tend to have longer lie-ins at the weekend than people in Asia, and they go to bed earlier
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Lower-income countries did not get the COVID vaccines they needed. So the World Bank and other partners tapped a South African company to cook up the (undisclosed) recipe for the Moderna mRNA vaccine. (Image credit: Tommy Trenchard for NPR)
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Artificial embryo grown without reproduction
In Israel, a lab fine-tuned the process needed to concoct a synthetic human embryo, which could be used to study birth defects and more.
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The company debuted the iPhone 15, two new Apple Watches, new AirPods Pro, and some enhanced services.
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New research shows that amplified global warming in the Canadian High Arctic drove a profound shift in the structure of a river network carved into a permafrost landscape in only 60 years.
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Accelerometers reading the behavior of wild boars can pick up when animals are infected with a fatal virus.
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Entrepreneurs are often told that they need to boost the visibility of their businesses to attract more customers and grow. But in developing countries with high rates of crime, greater visibility can make them a target.
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While the public release of the artificial intelligence-driven large-language chatbot, ChatGPT, has created a great deal of excitement around the promise of the technology and expanded use of AI, it has also seeded a good bit of anxiety around what a program that can churn out a passable college-level essay in seconds means for the future of teaching and learning.
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Glaciers could become a powerful tool for monitoring some volcanoes, according to new research that shows for the first time how the altitude of glaciers located on volcanoes could signal future unrest including the threat of an eruption.
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Most people consider climate change to consist only of the warming of the atmosphere, the consequences of which primarily affect land regions. However, this is a human-centered view and does not go far enough.
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Say goodbye to the mute switch and the Lightning port. The new iPhone lineup packs USB-C, but it’s the Pro models that have the spotlight.
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A study of people's ability to detect "deepfakes" has shown humans perform fairly poorly, even when given hints on how to identify video-based deceit.
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New data from the Center on the Dynamics of Ethnicity at The University of Manchester has revealed disturbing ethnic inequalities in rates of financial hardship in the U.K.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 12 September 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-41183-z This multidisciplinary fingerprinting study, using isotopic, structural and genetic fingerprints, has shown that the suspended particulate matter in the Great Barrier Reef does not have terrestrial origin but produced locally by marine phytoplankton
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Forget sperm meets egg. Using human stem cells, scientists have created human embryo-like structures inside petri dishes. These lab-grown blobs develop multiple structures that mimic a human embryo after implantation into the uterus—a major milestone for fertility—and last at least 14 days. A decade ago, manufacturing embryo-like structures, or embryoids, without reproductive cells would have see
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In this webinar, Chris Ashdown will discuss how low-intensity vibration affects T cells and how this mechanical stimulation could improve CAR T cell therapy.
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A cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to detect blockages in sewers has shown an almost 90% accuracy rate in a recent trial. Early identification of sewer blockages is essential to reduce pollution incidents affecting our rivers.
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Rising sea levels due to climate change and artificial irrigation cause soil salinity to increase. This has a negative impact on agriculture, including viticulture. The plants die, yields decrease.
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Rising sea levels due to climate change and artificial irrigation cause soil salinity to increase. This has a negative impact on agriculture, including viticulture. The plants die, yields decrease.
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The experience of being bullied and its link to social confidence among young people with disabilities is complicated, and efforts to curb bullying shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all, according to a recent study. The findings may inform strategies to combat bullying in schools, also referred to as peer victimization, especially for students with developmental disabilities. Bullying and social confide
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IPhone 15 kommer i fire varianter, der alle skal oplades med USB-C, siger Apple på pressemøde.
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AI art copyright controversy persists
Soap Opera Remember that guy who won the Colorado State Fair's fine art competition with an AI-generated painting? Just over a year ago, a guy named Jason Allen submitted an artwork titled "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial," a depiction of a sci-fi-inspired scene of an opera performance, to the competition — and won first prize, pissing off a lot of artists across the globe in the process. Why? Because Al
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Apple's desktop line-up gets some love, and it's students that will win out with the Mac Mini M2 and Mac Mini M2 Pro.
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A new study from an ILR School expert offers a pathway to reducing bias in hiring while preserving managers' autonomy—by encouraging hiring managers to avoid receiving potentially biasing information about applicants.
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Camellia ptilophylla, a low-caffeine or decaffeinated tea, is increasingly being recognized for its potential health benefits. However, there is intraspecific diversity in purine alkaloid and catechins components in C. ptilophylla populations. Analyzing the mechanisms behind the accumulation of these metabolites is important for improving tea quality.
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Camellia ptilophylla, a low-caffeine or decaffeinated tea, is increasingly being recognized for its potential health benefits. However, there is intraspecific diversity in purine alkaloid and catechins components in C. ptilophylla populations. Analyzing the mechanisms behind the accumulation of these metabolites is important for improving tea quality.
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Scientists have discovered a missing evolution puzzle piece in 130-million-year-old rocks. The discovery is a result of an international collaboration, in which the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) is involved.
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Scientists have discovered a missing evolution puzzle piece in 130-million-year-old rocks. The discovery is a result of an international collaboration, in which the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) is involved.
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