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Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies
 
Pancake/flatbread with a 'nutty' taste is first evidence of complex cooking and food culture If you thought Neanderthals survived on a diet of foraged berries and uncooked animal flesh, think again. Charred remnants of what appear be the world's oldest cooked meal ever found have been unearthed in a cave complex in northern Iraq, prompting speculation that Neanderthals may have been foodies. "Our
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
World's heaviest flying bird may be self-medicating on plants used in traditional medicine
 
If you see a great bustard (Otis tarda) in the wild, you're unlikely to forget it. Massive, colorful, and impossible to mistake, they are the heaviest birds living today capable of flight, with the greatest size difference between the sexes. They are also "lek breeders," where males gather at chosen sites to put on an audiovisual show for the visiting females, who choose a mate based on his appear
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The Atlantic
My Family Oversimplified My Brother's Adoption Story
 
My brother arrived in my life like the rain always did: after fervent prayer and petitioning. My father was a crop duster in the Texas Panhandle, a land where memories of the Dust Bowl remained painfully fresh even as the farmers remained stubbornly persistent. And so we were always praying for rain, before Friday-night high-school football games, around the dinner table, at church on Sunday morn
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MIT Technology Review
The Download: Meta's diplomatic AI, and China's online comment censorship
 
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. Meta's game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy, a popular strategy game in which seven players compete for control of Europe by moving pieces around on a map. Unlik
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Phys.org
Spin correlation between paired electrons demonstrated
 
Physicists at the University of Basel have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that there is a negative correlation between the two spins of an entangled pair of electrons from a superconductor. For their study, the researchers used spin filters made of nanomagnets and quantum dots, as they report in the scientific journal Nature.
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Futurism
Someone's Converting Millions of the Stolen FTX Funds Into Bitcoin
 
Hackathon In the hours after the FTX cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy, opportunistic hackers — or possibly an insider — took advantage of the chaos and began looting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto. Now, it appears, they're hard at work laundering it. As CNBC reports , the exchange's new CEO, John Ray III, admitted when the company filed for bankruptcy earlier in the m
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ScienceDaily
Gene mutation leading to autism found to overstimulate brain cells
 
Scientists looking to understand the fundamental brain mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder have found that a gene mutation known to be associated with the disorder causes an overstimulation of brain cells far greater than that seen in neuronal cells without the mutation. The study, spanning seven years, employed some of the most advanced approaches available in the scientific toolbox, including
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The Atlantic
Will Flu and RSV Always Be This Bad?
 
In the Northern Hemisphere, this year's winter hasn't yet begun. But Melissa J. Sacco, a pediatric-intensive-care specialist at UVA Health, is already dreading the arrival of the one that could follow. For months, the ICU where Sacco works has been overflowing with children amid an early-arriving surge of respiratory infections. Across the country, viruses such as RSV and flu, once brought to nea
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The Atlantic
What The Vow Really Reveals
 
There was a moment a few years ago when I couldn't help but cringe a little every time I heard the word story , so wantonly was it being bandied about. This was during the Trump administration, when lots of people still sweetly believed that culture could counter raw political power, that protest art could engender a sense of shame among the shameless, even that satire might have the capacity to
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Futurity.org
Thigh bone evolution got dinos up on two feet
 
New research charts the radical evolutionary changes to the thigh bones of dinosaurs and birds that allowed them to stand on two feet. The findings resolve a longstanding question about dinosaur evolution and offer a prime example of how new physical features can pop up briefly during embryonic development and then give way to older, known features in adults. The new study shows how changes in th
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Quanta Magazine
AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
 
Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it. It's a little like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube in as few moves as possible — challenging, but alluring. Except that for a Rubik's Cube, the number of possible moves at each step is 18… Source
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ScienceDaily
Remdesivir reduces COVID-19 mortality in a real-world setting
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Researchers have found that administering remdesivir with corticosteroids to Asian patients who are critically ill with COVID-19 within 9 days of symptom onset reduces overall mortality. Starting treatment later did not have the same effect, suggesting that higher viral loads and serious lung damage impair the effectiveness of this treatment.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Closed Loop Pumped Hydro
 
I have been writing a lot recently about global warming and energy infrastructure. This is partly because there is a lot of news coming out of COP27, but also because both here and on the SGU there has been some lively and informative discussion on the issue. Also, this is a very complex issue and as people raise new points it sends me down different rabbit holes of information. I am trying to de
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Phys.org
Wild turkeys adapt movement to Maine's winter weather, study shows
 
Thanksgiving may be right around the corner, but Maine's wild turkeys have more to worry about than ending up on the kitchen table. Winter is coming, and with it, extremely cold temperatures and fewer resources for turkeys to thrive. According to a University of Maine study, wild turkeys will adjust their movements in inclement winter weather to increase their odds of survival, but their behaviors
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Phys.org
Hunting for Neanderthal spear tips under the sea
 
Submerged below the waves of the English Channel lies an important scientific record of undiscovered Neanderthal artifacts dating back to the last ice age. Collecting them from beneath the channel's cold waters is no easy feat, but UCL researchers found a way to get a brief peek at the otherwise hidden landscape.
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Singularity Hub
This Amazing Interactive Map of the Universe Takes You All the Way Back to the Big Bang
 
The early 2020s have been a chaotic time, with seemingly one crisis after another befalling humanity: the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation and supply chain upheaval, political instability and extremism, climate change…the list goes on. But what does it all really mean, or matter, when you zoom out and look at the big picture? An astronomy professor from Johns Hopkins University has given us the chanc
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Wild turkeys adapt movement to Maine's winter weather, study shows
 
Thanksgiving may be right around the corner, but Maine's wild turkeys have more to worry about than ending up on the kitchen table. Winter is coming, and with it, extremely cold temperatures and fewer resources for turkeys to thrive. According to a University of Maine study, wild turkeys will adjust their movements in inclement winter weather to increase their odds of survival, but their behaviors
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Nature
Folate transporter offers clues for anticancer drugs
 
Nature, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-03767-5 Structural insights into a long-studied folate-transport protein provide evidence that might lead to entirely new targeted anticancer treatments, or boost the success of immunotherapy approaches to tackling tumours.
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Futurity.org
Virtual 3D tours of homes can violate privacy
 
Virtual 3D tours on real estate websites, such as Zillow and Redfin, could pose privacy risks to the current residents. Sometimes the homes in these tours are staged, but other times they contain evidence of current residents' lives. University of Washington researchers were curious about whether personal belongings visible in 3D tours could introduce privacy risks. The team examined 44 3D tours
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Phys.org
Climate plays large role in carbon release from streams, researchers find
 
There is a less obvious source of carbon emissions than cars and factories: rivers and streams. Inland waters release carbon in the atmosphere, but their contributions depend on their concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from minerals and other sources. But what factors impact DIC concentrations? A team of Penn State engineers has now determined that both water discharge—or the volume
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Dagens Medicin
Jens Winther Jensen: Hvornår er variation i sundhedsvæsenet et problem?
 
På bagkant af amputationssagen bør vi diskutere variation i sundhedsvæsenet. For er variation i sundhedsvæsenets behandling og resultater altid et problem, eller er variation faktisk grundlaget for læring og udvikling? Efter amputationssagen er der behov for at få en nuanceret debat om variation i sundhedsvæsenet og at variation også er en mulighed for læring og udvikling.
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Phys.org
Using satellites for faster flood information
 
Researchers at The University of Queensland have used satellites with radar imaging sensors to see through clouds and map flooding and say the technique could provide faster, more detailed information to keep communities safe.
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Phys.org
Astronomers detect new Jupiter-like exoplanet
 
Using radial velocity measurements, astronomers from Japan and China have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a G-type giant star. The newfound alien world is similar in mass to Jupiter but much hotter than the solar system's biggest planet. The discovery is reported in a paper published November 12 on the arXiv pre-print server.
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ExtremeTechExtreme Archives – ExtremeTech
Perseverance Rover Finds Sandstone Bedrock That Could Contain Evidence of Life
 
The Perseverance rover has experienced more than 600 Martian days since its landing in February 2021. During its 8-mile (13-kilometer) drive, the robot has collected more than a dozen samples that are destined for Earth in the next few years. NASA now reports that Perseverance has spotted an alluring bit of bedrock to add to its collection. The rock outcrop, in an era called Yori Pass, could cont
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ScienceDaily
New way to synthesize mRNAs enhancing effectiveness of mRNA drugs and vaccines
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A team of synthetic biologists has recently discovered a way that could increase synthetic mRNA's protein production efficiency by up to 10 times, which means the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines and drugs — such as those used against cancer, COVID-19 or other genetic diseases, will be greatly boosted with even less dosage of the mRNAs.
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Wired
The World Needs Processed Food
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The stigma against processed food is growing, but there's no way to sustainably feed 8 billion people without it.
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Futurity.org
Method puts circuits onto curved surfaces
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Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces. The work paves the way for a variety of new soft electronic technologies, and researchers have used the technique to create prototype "smart" contact lenses, pressure-sensitive latex gloves, and transparent electrodes. (Credit: Yuxuan Liu) "There are many existing technique
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Futurity.org
Maternal health risks increase where rent is high
 
Women living in high-cost rental areas are more likely to suffer hemorrhage, heart failure, and other life-threatening outcomes during labor and delivery, new research in New Jersey shows. Researchers found an even greater discrepancy for those women without a high school education with 260 life-threatening maternal health outcomes for every 10,000 deliveries in New Jersey, including heart failur
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Nature Communications
Thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34668-w Population-based studies can provide information on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Here the authors report the rates thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom and compare them with the background (expected) rates in the general population.
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The Atlantic
Thanksgiving's Most Underrated Food
 
Since the start of 2022, I've consumed more than my body weight in sweet potatoes. The average American eats closer to the equivalent of one (1) fry a day, but for the past decade, I've had at least half a pound of the roots at almost every dinner. I travel with sweet potatoes more reliably than I travel with my spouse. All I need in order to chow down is a microwave and something to cushion my h
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The Atlantic
What You Learn From Eating Alone
 
"No food is sadder than personal pizza" is something I once read and promptly disagreed with. There are hundreds of objectively sadder foods. An unsold pie in a deli case, for example, is a celebratory food that should be shared at a bustling table but is now wasting away in isolation. There is the sadness of an unattended lemonade stand or of free samples when no one takes any. An untouched tray
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The Atlantic
The Crime Spike Is No Mystery
 
In the more than two years since gun violence suddenly began to rise in cities all across the country, researchers have been asked repeatedly to explain what caused the rapid increase and what can be done to reverse it. The urgency behind the question is warranted: Gun homicides rose by 34 percent from 2019 to 2020, and then rose again in 2021. In Chicago alone, over 250 more people were murdered
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ScienceDaily
Birth choices after previous cesarean and risk of pelvic floor surgery
 
Vaginal birth after a previous cesarean section is associated with an increased risk of pelvic floor surgery compared with planning another cesarean, according to a new study. The findings provide useful information to help women who have had a previous cesarean section when planning how to give birth in their next pregnancy.
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ScienceDaily
Challenging guidelines on pregnancy interval following miscarriage or abortion
 
Conception within three months of a miscarriage or an abortion is not associated with increased risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to new research. The study suggests that, contrary to current advice, women could attempt pregnancy after a previous miscarriage or induced abortion without elevated perinatal risks and reassures those who want to try again sooner than guidelines recommend.
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Nature
Entanglement
 
Nature, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-03734-0 Brought to book.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Guiding worm locomotion with magnetically reconfigurable microtopographies
 
The living worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has ~60% gene similarity to humans. This similarity has been studied to develop therapies for age-induced diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. However, the research investigating these worms needs advancement to reveal relationships between locomotion abilities and sensory neurons.
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Phys.org
Guiding worm locomotion with magnetically reconfigurable microtopographies
 
The living worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has ~60% gene similarity to humans. This similarity has been studied to develop therapies for age-induced diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. However, the research investigating these worms needs advancement to reveal relationships between locomotion abilities and sensory neurons.
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Biochemistry Research News — ScienceDaily
Silicone sponge captures unknown bacteria
 
From human intestines to the bottom of the sea: Microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in biotechnology. Most of these organisms, however, are unknown, because they cannot be cultivated. To make better use of this 'microbial dark matter', a team of researchers has now developed a 'sponge' made of poro
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ScienceDaily
New insight into how long-banned chemicals (PCBs) unleash their toxicity inside the body
 
In the past, PCBs were utilized in a vast range of industrial and commercial products. These highly carcinogenic chemical compounds remain in our environment and accumulate inside organisms. Chiral PCBs are particularly dangerous because they have more chlorine atoms, which are hard for the body to break down, so they can accumulate in the body easily. Also, their isomers are metabolized different
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ScienceDaily
Great potential for aquifer thermal energy storage systems
 
Aquifer thermal energy storage systems can largely contribute to climate-friendly heating and cooling of buildings: Heated water is stored in the underground and pumped up, if needed. Researchers have now found that low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage is of great potential in Germany. This potential is expected to grow in future due to climate change.
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ScienceDaily
Scientists unlock nature's secret to super-selective binding
 
Researchers have discovered that it is not just molecular density, but also pattern and structural rigidity, that control super-selective binding interactions between nanomaterials and protein surfaces. The breakthrough could help optimize existing approaches to virus prevention and cancer detection.
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ScienceDaily
Psychology: What gazes reveal about us
 
A new study shows that eye movements during the processing of tasks provide information about what the respective person is currently occupied with and what goals are being pursued within the task. These findings could play a role in the organization of screen work in the future.
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ScienceDaily
Changing feelings can boost creativity for conventional thinkers
 
Even people who tend to think conventionally, such as accountants or insurance adjusters, can be creative, a recent study suggests, if they can look at emotional situations in a different light. In a set of experiments, researchers found that conventional thinkers, those who rank low on openness to new ideas and experiences, came up with more creative ideas than peers after they practiced 'emotion
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ScienceDaily
Unexpected cognitive deteriorations in epilepsy
 
In severe epilepsies, surgical intervention is often the only remedy — usually with great success. While neuropsychological performance can recover in the long term after successful surgery, on rare occasions, unexpected declines in cognitive performance occur. Researchers have now been able to show which patients are at particularly high risk for this.
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ScienceDaily
Silicone sponge captures unknown bacteria
 
From human intestines to the bottom of the sea: Microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in biotechnology. Most of these organisms, however, are unknown, because they cannot be cultivated. To make better use of this 'microbial dark matter', a team of researchers has now developed a 'sponge' made of poro
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Nature Communications
Primate-specific transposable elements shape transcriptional networks during human development
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34800-w The human genome harbors more than 4.5 million transposable element (TE)-derived insertions, the result of recurrent waves of invasion and internal propagation. Here they show that TEs belonging to evolutionarily recent subfamilies go on to regulate later stages of human embryonic development, notably condit
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Nature Communications
Construction of a synthetic methodology-based library and its application in identifying a GIT/PIX protein–protein interaction inhibitor
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34598-7 Chemical libraries with skeleton diversity are important for drug discovery. Here, the authors establish a synthetic methodology-based compound library (SMBL), and apply it to identify a small-molecule inhibitor to interrupt a challenging target: the protein–protein interaction (PPI) of GIT1/β-Pix.
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MIT Technology Review
Meta's game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human
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Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy, a popular strategy game in which seven players compete for control of Europe by moving pieces around on a map. Unlike other board games that AI has mastered, such as chess and Go , Diplomacy requires players to talk to each other—forming alliances, negotiating tactics—and spot when others are bluffing. The AI, called C
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ExtremeTechExtreme Archives – ExtremeTech
Volcanic Eruptions May Have Caused the 'Heat Death' of Venus
 
For the first time in human history, we have rudimentary planetary defense technology that could someday prevent a major asteroid impact. However, a new study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies calls attention to a more likely and harder-to-solve apocalypse: volcanoes. The study points to Venus as an example, suggesting that a period of volcanic activity lasting millions of years may
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Dagens Medicin
Thomas Berthou fandt balancen nordpå
 
Kort transporttid, afslappet kultur og en fantastisk hjælpsomhed var, hvad familien Berthou mødte, da de flyttede til Klaksvik på Færøerne. »Vi flytter ikke tilbage til Danmark,« siger Thomas Berthou, speciallæge i almen medicin.
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The Atlantic
The Cults of Sam Bankman-Fried
 
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week . Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the trading platform FTX, was a member of two cults. Or, more precisely, he was a figurehead of two movements that outsiders considered cultish. One of these movements I have criticized
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The Atlantic
Housing Breaks People's Brains
 
A nyone who's been in a dumb recurring fight knows that the entire problem could be cleared up if everyone could just agree on exactly what was said or done . But you can't, so you end up stuck in a cycle of relitigation. Housing-policy discussions are like that. They descend into crushing bickering because even the basic facts are up for debate. The most basic fact about the housing crisis is th
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forskning.se
Så kan vi prata om sex i skolan
 
Från och med i höst ska skolans sexualundervisning vara mer anpassad till den verklighet som eleverna faktiskt möter. Samtidigt har frågorna egentligen inte förändrats så mycket sedan femtiotalet visar en studie från Stockholms universitet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Wired
How to Get Started on Hive Social
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While it was launched in 2019, the viral Twitter alternative grew to over a million users almost overnight. Here's how it works.
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Nature Communications
Functionally integrating nanoparticles alleviate deep vein thrombosis in pregnancy and rescue intrauterine growth restriction
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34878-2 There is still an unmet need for effective and safe drugs to treat deep vein thrombosis during pregnancy, a life-threatening condition for the mother and fetus. Here, the authors show that engineered multifunctional nanoparticles can site-specifically dissolve thrombi and reverse deep vein thrombosis-mediate
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Dagens Medicin
Klinikere i brechen for patienter med pletskaldethed: Nu sker der noget
 
Der har været stor usikkerhed blandt patienter og læger om, hvad der sker med JAK-hæmmeren Oluminant, som trods forsommerens godkendelse mod pletskaldethed ikke havde udsigt til at nå danske patienter. Efter stort pres har firmaet bag lægemidlet og de danske myndigheder taget sagen op. Om behandlingen ender på sygehus eller i primærsektor, er dog endnu uklart.
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MIT Technology Review
The Chinese government's problematic quest to judge online comments
 
China Report is MIT Technology Review's newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. This morning, I published an explainer on China's social credit system. The government released a draft law on November 14 that will eventually serve as the top-level guidance on how the country builds the system. That's right, the national Chinese social c
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Nature Communications
Thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in Catalonia, Spain
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Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34669-9 Population-based studies can provide information on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Here the authors report the rates of thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in Catalonia, Spain and compare them with the background (expected) rates in the general population
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Ethiopian crop 'enset' identified as climate coping strategy in drought-prone regions
 
In a new study published in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, UK, the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT (the International Center for Tropical Agriculture), and Hawassa University, Ethiopia, have found that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia grow more of the indigenous cro
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Phys.org
Ethiopian crop 'enset' identified as climate coping strategy in drought-prone regions
 
In a new study published in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, UK, the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT (the International Center for Tropical Agriculture), and Hawassa University, Ethiopia, have found that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia grow more of the indigenous cro
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Nature
Daily briefing: COP27 frustration — but a silver lining
 
Nature, Published online: 21 November 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-03812-3 The final text from the global climate conference fell flat on fossil fuels but delivered a long-sought agreement on 'loss and damage'. Plus, say goodbye to the 'leap second' and learn how to protect your ideas from getting scooped.
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Phys.org
Overcoming challenges in the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics
 
Nucleic acid therapies involving DNA or RNA have significant potential to treat genetic disorders, infectious diseases, and cancer; however, research suggests that less than 1% of injected nucleic acid doses reach target cells in an active form. An article in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology highlights two of the major barriers to this therapeutic strategy, and how they might be overcome.
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forskning.se
Snabb ökning av uppvärmningen i Europa
 
Uppvärmningen i Europa under sommarhalvåret går betydligt snabbare än temperaturökningen för jorden som helhet. Utsläpp av växthusgaser innebär att klimatet också blivit torrare, framför allt i södra Europa. Utvecklingen innebär en ökad risk för fler värmeböljor och bränder. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Phys.org
Quantum algorithms save time in the calculation of electron dynamics
 
Researchers have investigated the capability of known quantum computing algorithms for fault-tolerant quantum computing to simulate the laser-driven electron dynamics of excitation and ionization processes in small molecules. Their research is published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
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Science | The Guardian
Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention
 
Many of the world's most inspiring solutions have been created by scientists who stole their ideas from the natural world Read more: What happens when humans meddle with nature? Over millions of years of evolution, nature has worked out solutions to many problems. Humans have arrived late in the day and pinched them. For example, Velcro was invented after a Swiss engineer marvelled at the burdock
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Science | The Guardian
Terrawatch: storms can cause landslides days later, scientists find
 
Changes in atmospheric pressure can set soils in motion hours or even days after heavy rain Can a change in the weather trigger a landslide? Sometimes, yes, according to research. Most landslides are set in motion by an earthquake or torrential rain, but some have no obvious trigger. In 2009, scientists were stunned to discover that the stop-start Slumgullion landslide in the Rocky Mountains – wh
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Nature Communications
The nonequilibrium cost of accurate information processing
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34541-w Storage of information, in any form, relies on patterns standing out from thermal fluctuations. In this work, the authors highlight a fundamental tradeoff quantifying the minimum amount of nonequilibrium resources needed to achieve a target level of accuracy in the processing of information.
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Vetenskap och Hälsa
Så triggas virusinfekterade bakterier att begå självmord
 
Bakteriofager är virus som angriper bakterier. Bakterierna har dock utvecklat försvarsstrategier för att skydda sig mot virusangreppen. För att kunna använda bakteriofager i terapier mot antibiotikaresistenta bakteriella infektioner, är det centralt att förstå hur bakteriens försvar mot bakteriofager fungerar. Nu har ett internationellt forskarteam upptäckt en tidigare okänd försvarsmekanism och k
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Nature Communications
Unraveling sulfur chemistry in interstellar carbon oxide ices
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34949-4 The authors report photolytic H atom transfer reactions of HOSO• in astronomical CO & CO2 ices, forming reactive acyl radicals & molecular complexes with SO & SO2. Connecting the photochemistry of S oxides & C oxides in cold molecular clouds in the interstellar medium.
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Science | The Guardian
Discovered in the deep: the squid that makes a decoy out of its own skin
 
Self-camouflage is just one of the tricks of Brenner's bobtail squid, a newly found species that is also helping research into microbes in the human gut Bobtail squid are the second smallest group of squid in the world, at between 1cm and 5cm from neck to rounded, stumpy butt, and they only come out at night. In 2019 , scientists named a new species, Brenner's bobtail squid ( Euprymna brenneri ),
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Phys.org
World's heaviest flying bird may be self-medicating on plants used in traditional medicine
 
If you see a great bustard (Otis tarda) in the wild, you're unlikely to forget it. Massive, colorful, and impossible to mistake, they are the heaviest birds living today capable of flight, with the greatest size difference between the sexes. They are also "lek breeders," where males gather at chosen sites to put on an audiovisual show for the visiting females, who choose a mate based on his appear
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Science | The Guardian
Oldest cooked leftovers ever found suggest Neanderthals were foodies
 
Pancake/flatbread with a 'nutty' taste is first evidence of complex cooking and food culture If you thought Neanderthals survived on a diet of foraged berries and uncooked animal flesh, think again. Charred remnants of what appear be the world's oldest cooked meal ever found have been unearthed in a cave complex in northern Iraq, prompting speculation that Neanderthals may have been foodies. "Our
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
World's heaviest flying bird may be self-medicating on plants used in traditional medicine
 
If you see a great bustard (Otis tarda) in the wild, you're unlikely to forget it. Massive, colorful, and impossible to mistake, they are the heaviest birds living today capable of flight, with the greatest size difference between the sexes. They are also "lek breeders," where males gather at chosen sites to put on an audiovisual show for the visiting females, who choose a mate based on his appear
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Phys.org
Astronomers detect new Jupiter-like exoplanet
 
Using radial velocity measurements, astronomers from Japan and China have detected a new exoplanet orbiting a G-type giant star. The newfound alien world is similar in mass to Jupiter but much hotter than the solar system's biggest planet. The discovery is reported in a paper published November 12 on the arXiv pre-print server.
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The Atlantic
My Family Oversimplified My Brother's Adoption Story
 
My brother arrived in my life like the rain always did: after fervent prayer and petitioning. My father was a crop duster in the Texas Panhandle, a land where memories of the Dust Bowl remained painfully fresh even as the farmers remained stubbornly persistent. And so we were always praying for rain, before Friday-night high-school football games, around the dinner table, at church on Sunday morn
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MIT Technology Review
The Download: Meta's diplomatic AI, and China's online comment censorship
 
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. Meta's game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy, a popular strategy game in which seven players compete for control of Europe by moving pieces around on a map. Unlik
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Phys.org
Spin correlation between paired electrons demonstrated
 
Physicists at the University of Basel have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that there is a negative correlation between the two spins of an entangled pair of electrons from a superconductor. For their study, the researchers used spin filters made of nanomagnets and quantum dots, as they report in the scientific journal Nature.
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Futurism
Someone's Converting Millions of the Stolen FTX Funds Into Bitcoin
 
Hackathon In the hours after the FTX cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy, opportunistic hackers — or possibly an insider — took advantage of the chaos and began looting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of crypto. Now, it appears, they're hard at work laundering it. As CNBC reports , the exchange's new CEO, John Ray III, admitted when the company filed for bankruptcy earlier in the m
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ScienceDaily
Gene mutation leading to autism found to overstimulate brain cells
 
Scientists looking to understand the fundamental brain mechanisms of autism spectrum disorder have found that a gene mutation known to be associated with the disorder causes an overstimulation of brain cells far greater than that seen in neuronal cells without the mutation. The study, spanning seven years, employed some of the most advanced approaches available in the scientific toolbox, including
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The Atlantic
Will Flu and RSV Always Be This Bad?
 
In the Northern Hemisphere, this year's winter hasn't yet begun. But Melissa J. Sacco, a pediatric-intensive-care specialist at UVA Health, is already dreading the arrival of the one that could follow. For months, the ICU where Sacco works has been overflowing with children amid an early-arriving surge of respiratory infections. Across the country, viruses such as RSV and flu, once brought to nea
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The Atlantic
What The Vow Really Reveals
 
There was a moment a few years ago when I couldn't help but cringe a little every time I heard the word story , so wantonly was it being bandied about. This was during the Trump administration, when lots of people still sweetly believed that culture could counter raw political power, that protest art could engender a sense of shame among the shameless, even that satire might have the capacity to
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Futurity.org
Thigh bone evolution got dinos up on two feet
 
New research charts the radical evolutionary changes to the thigh bones of dinosaurs and birds that allowed them to stand on two feet. The findings resolve a longstanding question about dinosaur evolution and offer a prime example of how new physical features can pop up briefly during embryonic development and then give way to older, known features in adults. The new study shows how changes in th
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Quanta Magazine
AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication
 
Mathematicians love a good puzzle. Even something as abstract as multiplying matrices (two-dimensional tables of numbers) can feel like a game when you try to find the most efficient way to do it. It's a little like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube in as few moves as possible — challenging, but alluring. Except that for a Rubik's Cube, the number of possible moves at each step is 18… Source
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ScienceDaily
Remdesivir reduces COVID-19 mortality in a real-world setting
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Researchers have found that administering remdesivir with corticosteroids to Asian patients who are critically ill with COVID-19 within 9 days of symptom onset reduces overall mortality. Starting treatment later did not have the same effect, suggesting that higher viral loads and serious lung damage impair the effectiveness of this treatment.
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NeuroLogica Blog
Closed Loop Pumped Hydro
 
I have been writing a lot recently about global warming and energy infrastructure. This is partly because there is a lot of news coming out of COP27, but also because both here and on the SGU there has been some lively and informative discussion on the issue. Also, this is a very complex issue and as people raise new points it sends me down different rabbit holes of information. I am trying to de
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Phys.org
Wild turkeys adapt movement to Maine's winter weather, study shows
 
Thanksgiving may be right around the corner, but Maine's wild turkeys have more to worry about than ending up on the kitchen table. Winter is coming, and with it, extremely cold temperatures and fewer resources for turkeys to thrive. According to a University of Maine study, wild turkeys will adjust their movements in inclement winter weather to increase their odds of survival, but their behaviors
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Phys.org
Hunting for Neanderthal spear tips under the sea
 
Submerged below the waves of the English Channel lies an important scientific record of undiscovered Neanderthal artifacts dating back to the last ice age. Collecting them from beneath the channel's cold waters is no easy feat, but UCL researchers found a way to get a brief peek at the otherwise hidden landscape.
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Singularity Hub
This Amazing Interactive Map of the Universe Takes You All the Way Back to the Big Bang
 
The early 2020s have been a chaotic time, with seemingly one crisis after another befalling humanity: the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation and supply chain upheaval, political instability and extremism, climate change…the list goes on. But what does it all really mean, or matter, when you zoom out and look at the big picture? An astronomy professor from Johns Hopkins University has given us the chanc
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Wild turkeys adapt movement to Maine's winter weather, study shows
 
Thanksgiving may be right around the corner, but Maine's wild turkeys have more to worry about than ending up on the kitchen table. Winter is coming, and with it, extremely cold temperatures and fewer resources for turkeys to thrive. According to a University of Maine study, wild turkeys will adjust their movements in inclement winter weather to increase their odds of survival, but their behaviors
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Nature
Folate transporter offers clues for anticancer drugs
 
Nature, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-03767-5 Structural insights into a long-studied folate-transport protein provide evidence that might lead to entirely new targeted anticancer treatments, or boost the success of immunotherapy approaches to tackling tumours.
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Futurity.org
Virtual 3D tours of homes can violate privacy
 
Virtual 3D tours on real estate websites, such as Zillow and Redfin, could pose privacy risks to the current residents. Sometimes the homes in these tours are staged, but other times they contain evidence of current residents' lives. University of Washington researchers were curious about whether personal belongings visible in 3D tours could introduce privacy risks. The team examined 44 3D tours
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Phys.org
Climate plays large role in carbon release from streams, researchers find
 
There is a less obvious source of carbon emissions than cars and factories: rivers and streams. Inland waters release carbon in the atmosphere, but their contributions depend on their concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from minerals and other sources. But what factors impact DIC concentrations? A team of Penn State engineers has now determined that both water discharge—or the volume
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Dagens Medicin
Jens Winther Jensen: Hvornår er variation i sundhedsvæsenet et problem?
 
På bagkant af amputationssagen bør vi diskutere variation i sundhedsvæsenet. For er variation i sundhedsvæsenets behandling og resultater altid et problem, eller er variation faktisk grundlaget for læring og udvikling? Efter amputationssagen er der behov for at få en nuanceret debat om variation i sundhedsvæsenet og at variation også er en mulighed for læring og udvikling.
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Phys.org
Using satellites for faster flood information
 
Researchers at The University of Queensland have used satellites with radar imaging sensors to see through clouds and map flooding and say the technique could provide faster, more detailed information to keep communities safe.
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ExtremeTechExtreme Archives – ExtremeTech
Perseverance Rover Finds Sandstone Bedrock That Could Contain Evidence of Life
 
The Perseverance rover has experienced more than 600 Martian days since its landing in February 2021. During its 8-mile (13-kilometer) drive, the robot has collected more than a dozen samples that are destined for Earth in the next few years. NASA now reports that Perseverance has spotted an alluring bit of bedrock to add to its collection. The rock outcrop, in an era called Yori Pass, could cont
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ScienceDaily
New way to synthesize mRNAs enhancing effectiveness of mRNA drugs and vaccines
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A team of synthetic biologists has recently discovered a way that could increase synthetic mRNA's protein production efficiency by up to 10 times, which means the effectiveness of mRNA vaccines and drugs — such as those used against cancer, COVID-19 or other genetic diseases, will be greatly boosted with even less dosage of the mRNAs.
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Wired
The World Needs Processed Food
Food Health Pollan
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The stigma against processed food is growing, but there's no way to sustainably feed 8 billion people without it.
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Futurity.org
Method puts circuits onto curved surfaces
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Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces. The work paves the way for a variety of new soft electronic technologies, and researchers have used the technique to create prototype "smart" contact lenses, pressure-sensitive latex gloves, and transparent electrodes. (Credit: Yuxuan Liu) "There are many existing technique
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Futurity.org
Maternal health risks increase where rent is high
 
Women living in high-cost rental areas are more likely to suffer hemorrhage, heart failure, and other life-threatening outcomes during labor and delivery, new research in New Jersey shows. Researchers found an even greater discrepancy for those women without a high school education with 260 life-threatening maternal health outcomes for every 10,000 deliveries in New Jersey, including heart failur
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Nature Communications
Thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34668-w Population-based studies can provide information on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Here the authors report the rates thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom and compare them with the background (expected) rates in the general population.
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The Atlantic
Thanksgiving's Most Underrated Food
 
Since the start of 2022, I've consumed more than my body weight in sweet potatoes. The average American eats closer to the equivalent of one (1) fry a day, but for the past decade, I've had at least half a pound of the roots at almost every dinner. I travel with sweet potatoes more reliably than I travel with my spouse. All I need in order to chow down is a microwave and something to cushion my h
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The Atlantic
What You Learn From Eating Alone
 
"No food is sadder than personal pizza" is something I once read and promptly disagreed with. There are hundreds of objectively sadder foods. An unsold pie in a deli case, for example, is a celebratory food that should be shared at a bustling table but is now wasting away in isolation. There is the sadness of an unattended lemonade stand or of free samples when no one takes any. An untouched tray
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The Atlantic
The Crime Spike Is No Mystery
 
In the more than two years since gun violence suddenly began to rise in cities all across the country, researchers have been asked repeatedly to explain what caused the rapid increase and what can be done to reverse it. The urgency behind the question is warranted: Gun homicides rose by 34 percent from 2019 to 2020, and then rose again in 2021. In Chicago alone, over 250 more people were murdered
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ScienceDaily
Birth choices after previous cesarean and risk of pelvic floor surgery
 
Vaginal birth after a previous cesarean section is associated with an increased risk of pelvic floor surgery compared with planning another cesarean, according to a new study. The findings provide useful information to help women who have had a previous cesarean section when planning how to give birth in their next pregnancy.
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ScienceDaily
Challenging guidelines on pregnancy interval following miscarriage or abortion
 
Conception within three months of a miscarriage or an abortion is not associated with increased risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes, according to new research. The study suggests that, contrary to current advice, women could attempt pregnancy after a previous miscarriage or induced abortion without elevated perinatal risks and reassures those who want to try again sooner than guidelines recommend.
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Nature
Entanglement
 
Nature, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-03734-0 Brought to book.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Guiding worm locomotion with magnetically reconfigurable microtopographies
 
The living worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has ~60% gene similarity to humans. This similarity has been studied to develop therapies for age-induced diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. However, the research investigating these worms needs advancement to reveal relationships between locomotion abilities and sensory neurons.
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Phys.org
Guiding worm locomotion with magnetically reconfigurable microtopographies
 
The living worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has ~60% gene similarity to humans. This similarity has been studied to develop therapies for age-induced diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. However, the research investigating these worms needs advancement to reveal relationships between locomotion abilities and sensory neurons.
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Biochemistry Research News — ScienceDaily
Silicone sponge captures unknown bacteria
 
From human intestines to the bottom of the sea: Microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in biotechnology. Most of these organisms, however, are unknown, because they cannot be cultivated. To make better use of this 'microbial dark matter', a team of researchers has now developed a 'sponge' made of poro
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ScienceDaily
New insight into how long-banned chemicals (PCBs) unleash their toxicity inside the body
 
In the past, PCBs were utilized in a vast range of industrial and commercial products. These highly carcinogenic chemical compounds remain in our environment and accumulate inside organisms. Chiral PCBs are particularly dangerous because they have more chlorine atoms, which are hard for the body to break down, so they can accumulate in the body easily. Also, their isomers are metabolized different
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ScienceDaily
Great potential for aquifer thermal energy storage systems
 
Aquifer thermal energy storage systems can largely contribute to climate-friendly heating and cooling of buildings: Heated water is stored in the underground and pumped up, if needed. Researchers have now found that low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage is of great potential in Germany. This potential is expected to grow in future due to climate change.
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ScienceDaily
Scientists unlock nature's secret to super-selective binding
 
Researchers have discovered that it is not just molecular density, but also pattern and structural rigidity, that control super-selective binding interactions between nanomaterials and protein surfaces. The breakthrough could help optimize existing approaches to virus prevention and cancer detection.
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ScienceDaily
Psychology: What gazes reveal about us
 
A new study shows that eye movements during the processing of tasks provide information about what the respective person is currently occupied with and what goals are being pursued within the task. These findings could play a role in the organization of screen work in the future.
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ScienceDaily
Changing feelings can boost creativity for conventional thinkers
 
Even people who tend to think conventionally, such as accountants or insurance adjusters, can be creative, a recent study suggests, if they can look at emotional situations in a different light. In a set of experiments, researchers found that conventional thinkers, those who rank low on openness to new ideas and experiences, came up with more creative ideas than peers after they practiced 'emotion
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ScienceDaily
Unexpected cognitive deteriorations in epilepsy
 
In severe epilepsies, surgical intervention is often the only remedy — usually with great success. While neuropsychological performance can recover in the long term after successful surgery, on rare occasions, unexpected declines in cognitive performance occur. Researchers have now been able to show which patients are at particularly high risk for this.
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ScienceDaily
Silicone sponge captures unknown bacteria
 
From human intestines to the bottom of the sea: Microorganisms populate nearly any habitat, no matter how hostile it is. Their great variety of survival strategies is of huge potential in biotechnology. Most of these organisms, however, are unknown, because they cannot be cultivated. To make better use of this 'microbial dark matter', a team of researchers has now developed a 'sponge' made of poro
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Nature Communications
Primate-specific transposable elements shape transcriptional networks during human development
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34800-w The human genome harbors more than 4.5 million transposable element (TE)-derived insertions, the result of recurrent waves of invasion and internal propagation. Here they show that TEs belonging to evolutionarily recent subfamilies go on to regulate later stages of human embryonic development, notably condit
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Nature Communications
Construction of a synthetic methodology-based library and its application in identifying a GIT/PIX protein–protein interaction inhibitor
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34598-7 Chemical libraries with skeleton diversity are important for drug discovery. Here, the authors establish a synthetic methodology-based compound library (SMBL), and apply it to identify a small-molecule inhibitor to interrupt a challenging target: the protein–protein interaction (PPI) of GIT1/β-Pix.
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MIT Technology Review
Meta's game-playing AI can make and break alliances like a human
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Meta has created an AI that can beat humans at an online version of Diplomacy, a popular strategy game in which seven players compete for control of Europe by moving pieces around on a map. Unlike other board games that AI has mastered, such as chess and Go , Diplomacy requires players to talk to each other—forming alliances, negotiating tactics—and spot when others are bluffing. The AI, called C
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ExtremeTechExtreme Archives – ExtremeTech
Volcanic Eruptions May Have Caused the 'Heat Death' of Venus
 
For the first time in human history, we have rudimentary planetary defense technology that could someday prevent a major asteroid impact. However, a new study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies calls attention to a more likely and harder-to-solve apocalypse: volcanoes. The study points to Venus as an example, suggesting that a period of volcanic activity lasting millions of years may
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Dagens Medicin
Thomas Berthou fandt balancen nordpå
 
Kort transporttid, afslappet kultur og en fantastisk hjælpsomhed var, hvad familien Berthou mødte, da de flyttede til Klaksvik på Færøerne. »Vi flytter ikke tilbage til Danmark,« siger Thomas Berthou, speciallæge i almen medicin.
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The Atlantic
The Cults of Sam Bankman-Fried
 
This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week . Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the trading platform FTX, was a member of two cults. Or, more precisely, he was a figurehead of two movements that outsiders considered cultish. One of these movements I have criticized
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The Atlantic
Housing Breaks People's Brains
 
A nyone who's been in a dumb recurring fight knows that the entire problem could be cleared up if everyone could just agree on exactly what was said or done . But you can't, so you end up stuck in a cycle of relitigation. Housing-policy discussions are like that. They descend into crushing bickering because even the basic facts are up for debate. The most basic fact about the housing crisis is th
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forskning.se
Så kan vi prata om sex i skolan
 
Från och med i höst ska skolans sexualundervisning vara mer anpassad till den verklighet som eleverna faktiskt möter. Samtidigt har frågorna egentligen inte förändrats så mycket sedan femtiotalet visar en studie från Stockholms universitet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Wired
How to Get Started on Hive Social
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While it was launched in 2019, the viral Twitter alternative grew to over a million users almost overnight. Here's how it works.
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Nature Communications
Functionally integrating nanoparticles alleviate deep vein thrombosis in pregnancy and rescue intrauterine growth restriction
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34878-2 There is still an unmet need for effective and safe drugs to treat deep vein thrombosis during pregnancy, a life-threatening condition for the mother and fetus. Here, the authors show that engineered multifunctional nanoparticles can site-specifically dissolve thrombi and reverse deep vein thrombosis-mediate
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Dagens Medicin
Klinikere i brechen for patienter med pletskaldethed: Nu sker der noget
 
Der har været stor usikkerhed blandt patienter og læger om, hvad der sker med JAK-hæmmeren Oluminant, som trods forsommerens godkendelse mod pletskaldethed ikke havde udsigt til at nå danske patienter. Efter stort pres har firmaet bag lægemidlet og de danske myndigheder taget sagen op. Om behandlingen ender på sygehus eller i primærsektor, er dog endnu uklart.
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MIT Technology Review
The Chinese government's problematic quest to judge online comments
 
China Report is MIT Technology Review's newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. This morning, I published an explainer on China's social credit system. The government released a draft law on November 14 that will eventually serve as the top-level guidance on how the country builds the system. That's right, the national Chinese social c
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Nature Communications
Thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in Catalonia, Spain
Sars Cov 2 Infection
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Nature Communications, Published online: 23 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34669-9 Population-based studies can provide information on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Here the authors report the rates of thrombosis and thrombocytopenia after vaccination against and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in Catalonia, Spain and compare them with the background (expected) rates in the general population
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Ethiopian crop 'enset' identified as climate coping strategy in drought-prone regions
 
In a new study published in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, UK, the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT (the International Center for Tropical Agriculture), and Hawassa University, Ethiopia, have found that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia grow more of the indigenous cro
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Phys.org
Ethiopian crop 'enset' identified as climate coping strategy in drought-prone regions
 
In a new study published in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, UK, the Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT (the International Center for Tropical Agriculture), and Hawassa University, Ethiopia, have found that smallholder farmers in Ethiopia grow more of the indigenous cro
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Nature
Daily briefing: COP27 frustration — but a silver lining
 
Nature, Published online: 21 November 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-03812-3 The final text from the global climate conference fell flat on fossil fuels but delivered a long-sought agreement on 'loss and damage'. Plus, say goodbye to the 'leap second' and learn how to protect your ideas from getting scooped.
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Phys.org
Overcoming challenges in the delivery of nucleic acid therapeutics
 
Nucleic acid therapies involving DNA or RNA have significant potential to treat genetic disorders, infectious diseases, and cancer; however, research suggests that less than 1% of injected nucleic acid doses reach target cells in an active form. An article in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology highlights two of the major barriers to this therapeutic strategy, and how they might be overcome.
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forskning.se
Snabb ökning av uppvärmningen i Europa
 
Uppvärmningen i Europa under sommarhalvåret går betydligt snabbare än temperaturökningen för jorden som helhet. Utsläpp av växthusgaser innebär att klimatet också blivit torrare, framför allt i södra Europa. Utvecklingen innebär en ökad risk för fler värmeböljor och bränder. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Phys.org
Quantum algorithms save time in the calculation of electron dynamics
 
Researchers have investigated the capability of known quantum computing algorithms for fault-tolerant quantum computing to simulate the laser-driven electron dynamics of excitation and ionization processes in small molecules. Their research is published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
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Science | The Guardian
Velcro, bullet trains and robotic arms: how nature is the mother of invention
 
Many of the world's most inspiring solutions have been created by scientists who stole their ideas from the natural world Read more: What happens when humans meddle with nature? Over millions of years of evolution, nature has worked out solutions to many problems. Humans have arrived late in the day and pinched them. For example, Velcro was invented after a Swiss engineer marvelled at the burdock
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Science | The Guardian
Terrawatch: storms can cause landslides days later, scientists find
 
Changes in atmospheric pressure can set soils in motion hours or even days after heavy rain Can a change in the weather trigger a landslide? Sometimes, yes, according to research. Most landslides are set in motion by an earthquake or torrential rain, but some have no obvious trigger. In 2009, scientists were stunned to discover that the stop-start Slumgullion landslide in the Rocky Mountains – wh
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Nature Communications
The nonequilibrium cost of accurate information processing
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34541-w Storage of information, in any form, relies on patterns standing out from thermal fluctuations. In this work, the authors highlight a fundamental tradeoff quantifying the minimum amount of nonequilibrium resources needed to achieve a target level of accuracy in the processing of information.
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Vetenskap och Hälsa
Så triggas virusinfekterade bakterier att begå självmord
 
Bakteriofager är virus som angriper bakterier. Bakterierna har dock utvecklat försvarsstrategier för att skydda sig mot virusangreppen. För att kunna använda bakteriofager i terapier mot antibiotikaresistenta bakteriella infektioner, är det centralt att förstå hur bakteriens försvar mot bakteriofager fungerar. Nu har ett internationellt forskarteam upptäckt en tidigare okänd försvarsmekanism och k
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Nature Communications
Unraveling sulfur chemistry in interstellar carbon oxide ices
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 22 November 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34949-4 The authors report photolytic H atom transfer reactions of HOSO• in astronomical CO & CO2 ices, forming reactive acyl radicals & molecular complexes with SO & SO2. Connecting the photochemistry of S oxides & C oxides in cold molecular clouds in the interstellar medium.
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Science | The Guardian
Discovered in the deep: the squid that makes a decoy out of its own skin
 
Self-camouflage is just one of the tricks of Brenner's bobtail squid, a newly found species that is also helping research into microbes in the human gut Bobtail squid are the second smallest group of squid in the world, at between 1cm and 5cm from neck to rounded, stumpy butt, and they only come out at night. In 2019 , scientists named a new species, Brenner's bobtail squid ( Euprymna brenneri ),
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