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The Atlantic
The Chinese Balloon and the Disappointing Reality of UFOs
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Residents of Billings, Montana, encountered a rather strange sight this week: A giant white ball hovering in the sky in broad daylight. The ball drifted between clouds and shimmered in the sun. It looked almost like a second moon. American military officials suspect that the floating mystery object is a Chinese spy balloon. The high-altitude object, they say, traveled from China to Alaska and the
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Scientific American News
Chinese Spy Balloon Has Unexpected Maneuverability
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An expert explains why it's so odd that the suspected Chinese spy balloon can change course
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Wired
The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
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A popular military tool during the Cold War, spy balloons have since fallen out of favor—for good reason.
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Nature Communications
Chiral excitonic order from twofold van Hove singularities in kagome metals
 
Here, the authors use perturbative renormalization group calculations to find that the leading instability in a model of TvHS is a chiral condensate of electron-hole pairs, breaking time-reversal symmetry.
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Nature Communications
Evidence for a rosiaite-structured high-pressure silica phase and its relation to lamellar amorphization in quartz
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 04 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36320-7 Rapid compression experiments on quartz provide evidence for a metastable high-pressure phase with rosiaite structure. The phase forms as lamellae and breaks down to glass during decompression. These discoveries may solve the enigma of lamellar amorphization of quartz during impact events.
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Nature Communications
Evolutionary route of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis and its clinical significance
 
04 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-35995-2 It is critical to understand the factors that are associated with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) progression, metastasis and response to therapy.
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Nature Communications
Atomically dispersed iridium catalysts on silicon photoanode for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 04 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36335-0 Single atom catalysts not only maximize the atomic efficiency of noble metal but also introduce unconventional geometric and electronic structures. Here, the authors demonstrate the decoration of iridium single atoms on silicon photoanodes to boost the photogenerated charge carrier kinetics.
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Nature Communications
ESCRT-dependent STING degradation inhibits steady-state and cGAMP-induced signalling
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 04 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36132-9 STING is an intracellular sensor of pathogen- or host-derived DNA. In this study, the authors identify an ESCRT complex that regulates STING degradation, thus acting as a homeostatic regulator of STING signalling and type-I interferon responses.
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Future(s) Studies
Vanadium redox flow batteries can provide cheap, large-scale grid energy storage. Here's how they work.
 
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ScienceAlert
We Can Now Hear The 'Sound' of One of The Most Beautiful Stars
 
A new perspective on a beloved friend.
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Future(s) Studies
What will the next 10 years look like for the average worker?
 
I've been following tech and AI for a while. Been playing around with Chatgpt and midJourney lately. For me I feel like the next 5-10 years will be revolutionary in the tech world and will continue to expand at a blistering pace. But that brings up the thoughts about us not evolving fast enough with it and the impact it will have one the work force. Already so many jobs are being automated and do
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ScienceAlert
No One Likes Commutes, But They May Actually Be Good For Mental Health, Study Finds
 
A chance to reset.
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NYT > Science
How to Stay Safe in Extreme Cold Weather
 
Experts offer tips to protect against common health hazards as temperatures plummet.
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NYT > Science
Brazil Says It's Started Sinking an Old Warship, Hazardous Material and All
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The navy said it had begun an operation to send the aircraft carrier São Paulo to the bottom.
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The Atlantic
Society Needs Scary Computer Games
 
As the nuclear threat receded and threats to our health, such as AIDS, began to dominate our fears, pop culture—including games—spoke to those fears…. Amazon is working on a series based on an even bigger end-of-the-world franchise:
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Discovery (uploads) on YouTube
Mike Rowe Rehabs a Roach Infested Manhole In a McDonald's Parking Lot! | Dirty Jobs
 
Mike Rowe traveled to Murphy's Burrow, Tennessee to rehab a manhole in a McDonald's parking lot. Stream Dirty Jobs on discovery+ ► https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/dirty-jobs #DirtyJobs #Discovery #MikeRowe Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@Discovery We're on Instagram! https://instagram.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https
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cognitive science
I'm terrified that I'm dumb
 
I don't think I'm dumb but I'm worried about discovering the actual limits of my intelligence I consider my ability to engage academically (thinking and reading) quite ok and it's an area I want to pursue in life but I have this overwhelming sense that I'm stupid. My intelligence just seems to be something I've cultivated as opposed to something that came naturally to me, and even that intelligen
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ScienceAlert
Scientists Discover Ants Can Sniff Out Cancer in Urine
 
This is incredible.
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Phys.org
New England knows winter, but why so dangerously cold?
 
New Englanders are used to cold temperatures, but a combination of extreme cold accompanied by powerful winds is downright dangerous, and enough to send even bundled-up skiers scampering indoors.
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Phys.org
Jupiter's moon count jumps to 92, most in solar system
 
Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92.
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Phys.org
When you buy at a discount online, are you really paying more?
 
A study published in a recent issue of INFORMS journal Marketing Science has found evidence of a questionable practice that tricks consumers into thinking they are getting a discount when they are actually paying more.
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Future(s) Studies
Pathwai.org – Visualizing Our Path to Human-Level Sentient AGI in 2039
 
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Future(s) Studies
Neural link future
 
When neural link gets going, how long will it be before they can implant memories and help you learn a new language or skill or even turn us into zombie workers who don't get bored or question things. On the other side of the coin how long until it can erase memories so that if you have commited a crime it can erase the memory of it there for you are not guilty and the prison system doesn't need
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Future(s) Studies
The future of altered and virtual reality and the effect on our minds.
 
Many of us are going to live through world-changing tech advancements in many areas including virtual and altered reality, are we going to lose our minds to fake realities? will it enhance the quality of life or be too much for our fragile brains to handle? what do you guys think about hyper-real virtual reality and what kind of effect do you think it will have on us when it's mainstream? submitt
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Future(s) Studies
What is your take on reading human brain waves
 
**What is your take on using brain wave readers to protect and enhance employee performance** I just saw a WEF 2023 presentation showing some interesting tech in there, some ear buds and a scarf aimed at monitoring and applying shocks when conditions are met. Is this the future? I cannot post a link in here, the other post got taken down, search youtube for WEF 2023 Neurotechnology or see my comm
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Futurism
Scientists Discover World's Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain
 
Blob Dylan Thanks to a keen eye and some good fortune, researchers have stumbled across a brain believed to be over 319 million years old, making it the oldest well-preserved vertebrate brain ever discovered. And what primeval secrets it must contain. "This is such an exciting and unanticipated find," Sam Giles of the Natural History Museum in London and coauthor of the resulting study published
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New Scientist
US megadrought has led to more air pollution from power plants
 
The ongoing drought in the western US depleted reservoirs and reduced hydropower generation. Fossil fuel power plants filled the gap but that has led to increased air pollution
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Human Brain Organoids Transplanted Into Rats Respond to Visual Stimuli
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The organoids could one day be used to treat brain injuries in humans.
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Livescience
The moon has a hidden tide that pulls on Earth's magnetosphere, new study reveals
 
Researchers have detected fluctuations in Earth's magnetosphere created by the same tidal forces that the moon exerts on the oceans.
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Futurism
Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Lean Hard Into AI
 
Bottle Feeding After roughly a year and a half of really, really pissing off his stakeholders, Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally said something to make investors happy. Bloomberg reports that in a call with investors on Wednesday, the sword-brandishing CEO promised, like pretty much everyone else in Silicon Valley , to make Meta's AI development a priority — a critical factor in hi
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Wired
MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the First Time
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Many are celebrating Australia's decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain.
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ScienceAlert
Astronomers Studied More Than 5,000 Black Holes to Figure Out Why They Twinkle
 
Not all that glitter are bright.
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The Atlantic
The Case of the Unknowable Human
 
World War I is over. Humanity has gone through hell and emerged strung between merry, hectic giddiness and entrenched, unspeakable grief. And Lord Peter Wimsey—scion of the aristocracy; military hero; buoyant connoisseur of wine, rare books, piano music, and women—is on the hunt for his next beguiling case. I first encountered Wimsey, the most famous creation of the mystery novelist Dorothy L. Sa
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The Atlantic
No Need to Pop This Balloon
 
The Chinese spy balloon observed over Montana is not a new departure. It is a provocative measure because countries claim more rights over the lower atmosphere above their territory than they do over the space beyond that. But the balloon's presence is not exactly a step on the road to World War III. In fact, this type of surveillance is much more likely to prevent, rather than provoke, conflict.
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The Atlantic
Why the U.S. Isn't Shooting Down the Chinese Spy Balloon
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Montana balloon crisis sounds a lot less dramatic than its Cuban-missile counterpart, and not just because the Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over Big Sky Country last night is inherently less threatening than Soviet weaponry just off the coast of Florida in 1962. This situation isn't a crisis. It isn't even close. Although the U.S. government had to acknowledge the presence of the balloon
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The Atlantic
The 15 Indie Films to Put on Your 2023 Watch List
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After two years of virtual screenings, the Sundance Film Festival debuted a hybrid event for the first time, welcoming both in-person and online attendees to enjoy a fresh helping of titles. As ever, the festival, which The Atlantic tuned in to from home, set the stage for the year to come in indie movies: Veteran directors debuted their latest work, newcomers hit the ground with impressive ideas
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The Atlantic
Who Will Replace Dianne Feinstein?
 
Senator Dianne Feinstein hasn't yet announced whether she's retiring, but the race to replace her has already begun. The 2024 contest will be the first wide-open Democratic Senate primary in California since 1992, when Feinstein, who is now 89 years old, was first elected to the seat. The field is quickly getting crowded: U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff and Katie Porter have announced their cand
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The Atlantic
I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me
 
A few weeks ago, a three-inch square of plastic and metal began, slowly and steadily, to upend my life. The culprit was my new portable carbon-dioxide monitor, a device that had been sitting in my Amazon cart for months. I'd first eyed the product around the height of the coronavirus pandemic, figuring it could help me identify unventilated public spaces where exhaled breath was left to linger an
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Futurism
Self-Driving Car Plowed Into Active Fire Scene, Forcing Firefighters to Smash Its Window
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Inappropriate Visit A driverless GM Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month, and didn't come to a halt until firefighters smashed its front window, the San Francisco Chronicle reports . It's yet another hair-raising incident that highlights the dangers of letting autonomous vehicles roam free in a crowded urban environment. City officials are now warning th
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Identification of procathepsin L (pCTS-L)–neutralizing monoclonal antibodies to treat potentially lethal sepsis | Science Advances
 
Abstract Antibody-based strategies have been attempted to antagonize early cytokines of sepsis, but not yet been tried to target inducible late-acting mediators. Here, we report that the expression and secretion of procathepsin-L (pCTS-L) was induced by serum amyloid A (SAA) in innate immune cells, contributing to its late and systemic accumulation in experimental and clinical sepsis. Recombinant
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Sensing single domains and individual defects in scaled ferroelectrics | Science Advances
 
Abstract Ultra-scaled ferroelectrics are desirable for high-density nonvolatile memories and neuromorphic computing; however, for advanced applications, single domain dynamics and defect behavior need to be understood at scaled geometries. Here, we demonstrate the integration of a ferroelectric gate stack on a heterostructure tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) with subthermionic operation. On
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Cytidine deaminases catalyze the conversion of N(S,O)4-substituted pyrimidine nucleosides | Science Advances
 
Abstract Cytidine deaminases (CDAs) catalyze the hydrolytic deamination of cytidine and 2′-deoxycytidine to uridine and 2′-deoxyuridine. Here, we report that prokaryotic homo-tetrameric CDAs catalyze the nucleophilic substitution at the fourth position of N 4 -acyl-cytidines, N 4 -alkyl-cytidines, and N 4 -alkyloxycarbonyl-cytidines, and S 4 -alkylthio-uridines and O 4 -alkyl-uridines, converting
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Cardiolipin coordinates inflammatory metabolic reprogramming through regulation of Complex II disassembly and degradation | Science Advances
 
Abstract Macrophage metabolic plasticity enables repurposing of electron transport from energy generation to inflammation and host defense. Altered respiratory complex II function has been implicated in cancer, diabetes, and inflammation, but regulatory mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, we show that macrophage inflammatory activation triggers Complex II disassembly and succinate dehyd
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Reversal of hyperactive higher-order thalamus attenuates defensiveness in a mouse model of PTSD | Science Advances
 
Abstract Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly prevalent and debilitating psychiatric disease often accompanied by severe defensive behaviors, preventing individuals from integrating into society. However, the neural mechanisms of defensiveness in PTSD remain largely unknown. Here, we identified that the higher-order thalamus, the posteromedial complex of the thalamus (PoM), was overac
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Epistasis between promoter activity and coding mutations shapes gene evolvability | Science Advances
 
Abstract The evolution of protein-coding genes proceeds as mutations act on two main dimensions: regulation of transcription level and the coding sequence. The extent and impact of the connection between these two dimensions are largely unknown because they have generally been studied independently. By measuring the fitness effects of all possible mutations on a protein complex at various levels
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Topological screen identifies hundreds of Cp190- and CTCF-dependent Drosophila chromatin insulator elements | Science Advances
 
Abstract Drosophila insulators were the first DNA elements found to regulate gene expression by delimiting chromatin contacts. We still do not know how many of them exist and what impact they have on the Drosophila genome folding. Contrary to vertebrates, there is no evidence that fly insulators block cohesin-mediated chromatin loop extrusion. Therefore, their mechanism of action remains uncertai
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
3D imaging of a nuclear reactor using muography measurements | Science Advances
 
Abstract The inspection of very large or thick structures represents one of the biggest challenges for nondestructive techniques. For such objects, a particularly powerful technique is muography, which makes use of free, natural cosmic-ray muons. Among other applications, this technique has been applied to provide two-dimensional (2D) images of nuclear reactors, pyramids, or volcanos. Recently, 3
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
CTCF, BEAF-32, and CP190 are not required for the establishment of TADs in early Drosophila embryos but have locus-specific roles | Science Advances
 
Abstract The boundaries of topologically associating domains (TADs) are delimited by insulators and/or active promoters; however, how they are initially established during embryogenesis remains unclear. Here, we examined this during the first hours of Drosophila embryogenesis. DNA-FISH confirms that intra-TAD pairwise proximity is established during zygotic genome activation (ZGA) but with extens
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty | Science Advances
 
Abstract Uncertainty around age at death, or lifetime uncertainty, is a key public health indicator and a marker of inequality in survival. How does the extent of violence affect lifetime uncertainty? We address this question by quantifying the impact of violence on dispersion in the ages at death, the metric most used to measure lifetime uncertainty. Using mortality data from the Global Burden o
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Observational constraints on the process and products of Martian serpentinization | Science Advances
 
Abstract The alteration of olivine-rich rocks to serpentine minerals, (hydr)oxides, and aqueous hydrogen through serpentinization is long thought to have influenced the distribution of habitable environments on early Mars and the evolution of the early Martian hydrosphere and atmosphere. Nevertheless, the planetary importance of Martian serpentinization has remained a matter of debate. To constra
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Nucleic DHX9 cooperates with STAT1 to transcribe interferon-stimulated genes | Science Advances
 
Abstract RNA helicase DHX9 has been extensively characterized as a transcriptional regulator, which is consistent with its mostly nucleic localization. It is also involved in recognizing RNA viruses in the cytoplasm. However, there is no in vivo data to support the antiviral role of DHX9; meanwhile, as a nuclear protein, if and how nucleic DHX9 promotes antiviral immunity remains largely unknown.
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Spatial regulation of the glycocalyx component podocalyxin is a switch for prometastatic function | Science Advances
 
Abstract The glycocalyx component and sialomucin podocalyxin (PODXL) is required for normal tissue development by promoting apical membranes to form between cells, triggering lumen formation. Elevated PODXL expression is also associated with metastasis and poor clinical outcome in multiple tumor types. How PODXL presents this duality in effect remains unknown. We identify an unexpected function o
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Spatial metabolomics reveals skeletal myofiber subtypes | Science Advances
 
Abstract Skeletal muscle myofibers are heterogeneous in their metabolism. However, metabolomic profiling of single myofibers has remained difficult. Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a powerful tool for imaging molecular distributions . In this work, we optimized the workflow of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)–based MSI from cryosectioning to metabolomics data analysis to per
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AAAS: Science Advances: Table of Contents
Lactate promotes endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition via Snail1 lactylation after myocardial infarction | Science Advances
 
Abstract High levels of lactate are positively associated with the prognosis and mortality in patients with heart attack. Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndoMT) plays an important role in cardiac fibrosis. Here, we report that lactate exerts a previously unknown function that increases cardiac fibrosis and exacerbates cardiac dysfunction by promoting EndoMT following myocardial infarction
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Futurity.org
Super ancient fish skull holds oldest backboned animal brain fossil
 
A 319-million-year-old fossilized fish skull holds the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. Scientists pulled the skull from a coal mine in England more than a century ago. The brain and its cranial nerves are roughly an inch long and belong to an extinct bluegill-size fish. The discovery opens a window into the neural anatomy and early evolution of the major group of fishes alive
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Futurism
"AI Will Never Replace Journalism," Says Magazine CEO Replacing Journalists With AI
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Pot/Kettle The parent company of Sports Illustrated has announced that its magazines will begin using artificial intelligence to churn out garbage content in the absolute most oxymoronic fashion. In a completely tone-deaf press release , the Arena Group — which owns properties like SI , Parade and Men's Journal — gleefully announced that it's embarking on "strategic development partnerships" with
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Futurism
OpenAI CEO Says His Tech Is Poised to "Break Capitalism"
 
Marx's Revenge In what ' s perhaps an attempt to head off bad press — or, at very least, convince people he's not the bad guy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has given Forbes an interview in which he claims that his for-profit company is ultimately going to bring about capitalism's downfall. First, some context. Altman, who is also the president of the uber-influential Y Combinator startup incubator, is
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Futurity.org
Smart diapers could tell you when baby needs changing
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A new wearable sensor is so cheap and simple to produce it can be hand-drawn with a pencil onto paper treated with sodium chloride. The sensor could clear the way for wearable, self-powered monitors to predict major health concerns like cardiac arrest and pneumonia. And it could even let you know when your baby's diaper needs a change. "Our team has been focused on developing devices that can cap
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Phys.org
Ice cores show even dormant volcanoes leak abundant sulfur into the atmosphere
 
Volcanoes draw plenty of attention when they erupt. But new research led by the University of Washington shows that volcanoes leak a surprisingly high amount of their atmosphere- and climate-changing gases in their quiet phases. A Greenland ice core shows that volcanoes quietly release at least three times as much sulfur into the Arctic atmosphere than estimated by current climate models.
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Phys.org
Experiments to complete scientific understanding of how reduced gravity affects boiling and condensation
 
With temperatures on the moon ranging from minus 410 to a scorching 250 degrees Fahrenheit, it's an understatement to say that humans will need habitats with heat and air conditioning to survive there long term.
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Phys.org
The first stars may have held up to 100,000 times the mass of the sun
 
The universe was simply different when it was younger. Recently astronomers have discovered that complex physics in the young cosmos may have led to the development of supermassive stars, each one containing up to 100,000 times the mass of the sun.
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Phys.org
Analyzing the relationship between olive roots and Verticillium wilt
 
A new method developed at the University of Córdoba has tested how substances secreted by the roots of olive trees impact infection by the Verticillium dahliae fungus, and studied its effects on different varieties of olive trees
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Phys.org
Research measures political polarization in Europe through parties' Facebook pages
 
Scientists from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed a new methodology to analyze political polarization through the Facebook posts of European parties. They have also created a website openly displaying these results, where it is possible to make comparisons by country at different times.
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Nature
Volcanic quartet linked to bad times in ancient Egypt
 
Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00262-3 Models show that four closely spaced eruptions would have interfered with Nile River patterns that aided farmers.
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Phys.org
Two/quasi-two-dimensional perovskite-based heterostructures: Construction, properties and applications
 
Van der Waals heterostructures integrated from various two-dimensional (2D) layered materials provide fundamental building blocks for optoelectronic devices with novel functionalities, such as photovoltaic solar cells, light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors. Two-dimensional and quasi-two-dimensional perovskites (abbreviated as 2D perovskites hereafter) exhibit unique properties, such as l
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Phys.org
Life in a violent country can be years shorter and much less predictable, even for those not involved in conflict
 
How long people live is less predictable and life expectancy for young people can be as much as 14 years shorter in violent countries compared to peaceful countries, according to a new study today from an international team, led by Oxford's Leverhulme Center for Demographic Science. It reveals a direct link between the uncertainty of living in a violent setting, even for those not directly involve
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Future(s) Studies
Europe looks to geothermal energy as gas alternative
 
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Future(s) Studies
What is your take on reading human brain waves
 
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Future(s) Studies
After Tyre Nichols' death, can this bodycam AI make police more accountable?
 
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Future(s) Studies
A spaceflight disaster was narrowly avoided in 1972. A series of intense solar flares exploded in August, just months before the launch of Apollo 17. Any astronauts on the moon at that time would have died from radiation. As NASA's new lunar missions progress, the threat of radiation still looms.
 
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Future(s) Studies
CRISPR gene editing can treat heart disease and repair damaged tissue after a heart attack
 
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Future(s) Studies
China is testing designs for a hypersonic passenger jet to travel in near space at Mach 5, transport people to any point on the planet in 2 hours & act as a two-stage-to-orbit launch platform for rocket-powered space planes
 
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Signal transmission in the immune and nervous system through NEMO
 
A cascade of various events is required for the transmission of signals within cells. These include several modifications of proteins to switch their function on or off. In order to ensure rapid signal transmission, signaling proteins transiently accumulate at specific sites in the cell, where they can form biomolecular condensates.
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Scientific Reports
Author Correction: Assessing the United Nations sustainable development goals from the inclusive wealth perspective
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29318-0
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Scientific Reports
Author Correction: High probability of successive occurrence of Nankai megathrust earthquakes
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29306-4
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Phys.org
The spillover effects of rising energy prices following 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
 
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine from February 24, 2022, energy prices rose by up to 20% worldwide for five months. WTI crude oil was $92.77 per barrel on February 24, 2022, but rose and averaged $106.96 (+15.3%) from February 28 to August 3.
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Phys.org
Signal transmission in the immune and nervous system through NEMO
 
A cascade of various events is required for the transmission of signals within cells. These include several modifications of proteins to switch their function on or off. In order to ensure rapid signal transmission, signaling proteins transiently accumulate at specific sites in the cell, where they can form biomolecular condensates.
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Phys.org
Improved estimates of carbon sinks and sources of northern ecosystems
 
A new study shows that a calculation method used by international measurement networks creates a systematic bias in carbon balance estimates for northern ecosystems. The study, led by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, shows that a machine learning method can be used to substantially reduce the error.
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Phys.org
Paper explores how researchers have responsibility for the stories they request and retell
 
Anette Bringedal Houge uses experiences from her own research projects to discuss ethical dilemmas researchers face when working on sensitive topics.
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Futurism
Wall of Lasers Cuts Across Hawaii's Night Sky
 
Rain On Me It's a bird! It's a plane! It's… a wall of lasers? Hawaiians have been mystified by the bizarre light show that's played across their skies in recent weeks — and as The Debrief reports , the "Matrix Code"-esque lasers' origins are terrestrial in nature, even if they did come from space itself. Captured on January 28 by the Subaru-Asahi camera that livestreams the night sky from the B
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Nature Communications
Author Correction: Genome-wide association study identifies Sjögren's risk loci with functional implications in immune and glandular cells
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36369-4
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Phys.org
Remapping the superhighways traveled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent
 
New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul—the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today—took 10,000 years.
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Phys.org
Nano drug delivery breakthrough reveals new possibilities for the treatment of pulmonary fibrosis
 
A recent breakthrough publication by scientists at the Masonic Medical Research Institute have discovered a novel way of treating pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive incurable disease that results in the stiffening of the lungs through scarring, using nanoparticles.
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Phys.org
Long-delayed ExoMars mission still dreams of 2028 launch
 
War, budget cuts, a pandemic and a crash: For all its trials, Europe's ExoMars mission might be more deserving of the name Perseverance than NASA's Martian rover.
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Futurity.org
Lack of sleep linked to college student suicide risk
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A new study identifies a link between sleep problems and suicidal thoughts, as well as behaviors that may help reduce suicide risk in young adults. In 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported suicide was the second leading cause of death among people ages 10-14 and 25-34, accounting for more than 9,000 deaths. Suicide also was the third leading cause of death among people age
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Livescience
Eye drops recalled after CDC links them to vision loss, 1 death
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An eye drop product linked to a cluster of serious bacterial infections has been voluntarily recalled by its manufacturer.
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Phys.org
Bird flu detected in mammals but risk to humans low: experts
 
Experts have warned that the recent detection of bird flu in mammals including foxes, otters, minks, seals and even grizzly bears is concerning but emphasized that the virus would have to significantly mutate to spread between humans.
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Phys.org
Outflows from baby star affect nearby star formation
 
Baby stars don't always play nice with their siblings. New observations show an outflow of high-speed gas from one baby star colliding with a nearby dense cloud of gas where other stars are in the process of being born. These observations clearly show the outflow from a baby star affecting a neighboring star forming cloud. It is still unknown if it disrupts or enhances star-formation when a baby s
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Phys.org
New herb plant species found in Yunnan, China
 
Ceropegia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae family, native to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. According to a recent phylogenetic study, Ceropegia contains more than 700 species in 63 sections. Ceropegia sect. Chionopegia is mainly distributed in the Himalaya region, Pakistan and India eastwards to China. About 18 Ceropegia species belong to sect. Chionopegia in China.
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Phys.org
First assessment of livestock predation risk from brown bears in Romania
 
Brown bear management and conservation are the core of heated debates in Romania. As the country harboring the largest population of brown bears in Europe, coexistence between bears and people has always been at the forefront of brown bear management and conservation. Livestock predation is the main source of conflict in rural communities in the Romanian Carpathians, as domestic animals are the fo
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ScienceDaily
Social isolation, loneliness increase risk for heart failure
 
A new study shows that both social isolation and loneliness are associated with higher rates of heart failure but whether or not a person feels lonely is more important in determining risk than if they are actually alone.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
New herb plant species found in Yunnan, China
 
Ceropegia is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae family, native to Africa, southern Asia, and Australia. According to a recent phylogenetic study, Ceropegia contains more than 700 species in 63 sections. Ceropegia sect. Chionopegia is mainly distributed in the Himalaya region, Pakistan and India eastwards to China. About 18 Ceropegia species belong to sect. Chionopegia in China.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
First assessment of livestock predation risk from brown bears in Romania
 
Brown bear management and conservation are the core of heated debates in Romania. As the country harboring the largest population of brown bears in Europe, coexistence between bears and people has always been at the forefront of brown bear management and conservation. Livestock predation is the main source of conflict in rural communities in the Romanian Carpathians, as domestic animals are the fo
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
A protein structure reveals how replication of DNA coding for antibiotic resistance is initiated
 
In all living organisms, DNA replication is essential to ensure the genetic fidelity of the next generation. However, bacteria can also transfer genetic information horizontally to other bacteria. Many species of pathogenic bacteria have transmissible antibiotic resistance plasmids, which are often reproduced through a rolling circle replication machinery. Plasmid pMV158, which is present in the g
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Futurity.org
Elastic material could protect flexible batteries from gases
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A new technique uses liquid metal to create an elastic material that is impervious to both gases and liquids. Applications for the material include flexible batteries and other packaging for high-value technologies that require protection from gases. "This is an important step because there has long been a trade-off between elasticity and being impervious to gases," says Michael Dickey, professor
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Phys.org
A protein structure reveals how replication of DNA coding for antibiotic resistance is initiated
 
In all living organisms, DNA replication is essential to ensure the genetic fidelity of the next generation. However, bacteria can also transfer genetic information horizontally to other bacteria. Many species of pathogenic bacteria have transmissible antibiotic resistance plasmids, which are often reproduced through a rolling circle replication machinery. Plasmid pMV158, which is present in the g
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Phys.org
Improving social access beyond the inner city
 
Improving suburban public transport access has a societal benefit through better health, increased employment and reduced crime, according to a new study from the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies at the University of Sydney Business School.
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Phys.org
Interaction between two filaments plays a key role in sympathetic filament eruptions
 
Solar sympathetic filament eruptions usually involve two or more filament eruptions that occur simultaneously or successively within a relatively short time interval with a certain causal linkage. The eruption of one filament may have an effect on another one, thus resulting in the eruption of the other filament simultaneously or successively.
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Phys.org
A possible strategy for a tabletop chiral attosecond laser
 
When molecules form from many atoms, the atoms can combine in different ways. Two forms of the same molecule can have the same composition but have different arrangements of atoms, giving rise to isomers. Some isomers may have structures that are mirror images of each other. Such molecules are called chiral molecules. Scientists are interested in studying such molecules, for example, penicillin, b
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Phys.org
Development of a versatile method to synthesize functional mRNAs with diverse 5' cap structures
 
Synthetic mRNAs are explored rigorously for their potential as an effective genetic vector for basic research and clinical applications. Natural mRNAs have a structure on their leading (5') ends—called the 5' cap—that regulates their stability and translational activity. As such, there is a tremendous effort to devise new methods to chemically modify and generate functional 5' cap structures.
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Phys.org
Revegetation in extremely degraded grassland improves permafrost stability on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
 
As the dominant vegetation type in the permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), alpine grassland provides important ecosystem service functions, such as permafrost conservation. Over the last few decades, about 90% of alpine grassland has already suffered obvious degradation due to climate warming and overgrazing, which led to extensive permafrost degradation.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Development of a versatile method to synthesize functional mRNAs with diverse 5' cap structures
 
Synthetic mRNAs are explored rigorously for their potential as an effective genetic vector for basic research and clinical applications. Natural mRNAs have a structure on their leading (5') ends—called the 5' cap—that regulates their stability and translational activity. As such, there is a tremendous effort to devise new methods to chemically modify and generate functional 5' cap structures.
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ScienceDaily
Mistaken fossil rewrites history of Indian subcontinent for second time
 
Scientists discovered the first-ever Dickinsonia fossil in India two years ago, changing our understanding of how the continent came to be. Now, new research shows the 'fossil' was just a beehive all along, changing our understanding for a second time, and the original scientists now support the new findings.
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ScienceDaily
Passive radiative cooling can now be controlled electrically
 
Energy-efficient ways of cooling buildings and vehicles will be required in a changing climate. Researchers have now shown that electrical tuning of passive radiative cooling can be used to control temperatures of a material at ambient temperatures and air pressure.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Revegetation in extremely degraded grassland improves permafrost stability on Qinghai-Tibetan plateau
 
As the dominant vegetation type in the permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), alpine grassland provides important ecosystem service functions, such as permafrost conservation. Over the last few decades, about 90% of alpine grassland has already suffered obvious degradation due to climate warming and overgrazing, which led to extensive permafrost degradation.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Reference epigenome reveals transcription and chromatin state reprogramming during wheat embryogenesis
 
Embryogenesis is one of the most fundamental and remarkable processes in both animals and plants. It's amazing that after fertilization, a single maternal egg cell can develop into an organism with a multilayered body plan only in just a few weeks. Cell fate transition is largely determined by the expression of the associated genes and the epigenetic state, which can influence gene expression. The
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MIT Technology Review
AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images
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Popular image generation models can be prompted to produce identifiable photos of real people, potentially threatening their privacy, according to new research . The work also shows that these AI systems can be made to regurgitate exact copies of medical images and copyrighted work by artists. It's a finding that could strengthen the case for artists who are currently suing AI companies for copyr
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Biochemistry Research News — ScienceDaily
New research computes first step toward predicting lifespan of electric space propulsion systems
 
Electric space propulsion systems use energized atoms to generate thrust. The high-speed beams of ions bump against the graphite surfaces of the thruster, eroding them with each hit, and are the systems' primary lifetime-limiting factor. Researchers used data from low-pressure chamber experiments and large-scale computations to develop a model to better understand the effects of ion erosion on car
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Phys.org
Reference epigenome reveals transcription and chromatin state reprogramming during wheat embryogenesis
 
Embryogenesis is one of the most fundamental and remarkable processes in both animals and plants. It's amazing that after fertilization, a single maternal egg cell can develop into an organism with a multilayered body plan only in just a few weeks. Cell fate transition is largely determined by the expression of the associated genes and the epigenetic state, which can influence gene expression. The
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Phys.org
Using diamonds to generate ultrashort THz pulses
 
The advent of intense ultrashort coherent light pulses has revolutionized the spectroscopy field. They allow easy observation of various nonlinear optical effects and facilitate the characterization of materials with nonlinear optical spectroscopy. Additionally, they provide a means for strong selective excitation of materials and optical manipulation of material structure, and enhance properties
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Phys.org
Rabi oscillations in a stretching molecule
 
Over eighty years ago, Rabi oscillations were proposed to describe the strong coupling and population transfer in a two-level quantum system exposed to an oscillatory driving field. As compared to atoms, molecules have an extra degree of vibration, which adds an additional knob to the Rabi oscillations in light-molecule interactions. However, how such a laser-driven Rabi oscillation during the str
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Phys.org
Savanna plants show high physiological resilience to extreme drought
 
Extreme drought events can affect the physiological function and growth of plant. Understanding the physiological mechanisms of how plants respond to extreme drought is crucial for predicting plant performance under future climate change. In 2019, a valley savanna in Yuanjiang, China experienced an extreme drought. It provided a unique opportunity to test how woody plants of different functional g
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Phys.org
Researchers uncover a new method for generating spinning thermal radiation
 
Researchers at Purdue University have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of thermal radiation, uncovering a new method for generating spinning thermal radiation in a controlled and efficient manner using artificially structured surfaces, known as metasurfaces.
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Futurism
Duke Professor Welcomes the "Promising" Future of Employers Reading Your Brain
 
Are you ready for "brain transparency?" That's the question posed in a lecture given by Duke University professor Nita Farahany at this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And she doesn't mean your head looking like one of those see-through fish at the bottom of the ocean. Instead, Farahany, a high-profile scholar and legal ethicist focused on emerging tech, r
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Futurism
New Law Would Let Prisoners Donate Their Organs to Get Out Early
 
Two Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a bill that would allow inmates to donate organs or bone marrow for reduced prison sentences. It's an ethically dubious idea that has critics crying foul, pointing out that it'd be exploiting already vulnerable individuals for the medical benefit of others, the BBC reports . The lawmakers argue that allowing prisoners to give up parts of their
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Savanna plants show high physiological resilience to extreme drought
 
Extreme drought events can affect the physiological function and growth of plant. Understanding the physiological mechanisms of how plants respond to extreme drought is crucial for predicting plant performance under future climate change. In 2019, a valley savanna in Yuanjiang, China experienced an extreme drought. It provided a unique opportunity to test how woody plants of different functional g
13h
Nature Communications
A scoping review of the impacts of COVID-19 physical distancing measures on vulnerable population groups
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36267-9 Physical distancing measures introduced to control the spread of COVID-19 had socio-economic trade-offs that may have particularly impacted vulnerable population groups. Here, the authors perform a scoping review and summarise the impacts on different vulnerable groups described in 265 studies.
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Phys.org
AI helps scientists decipher cellular structures
 
To the untrained eye, a cryo-electron tomogram looks more like traces in sand than the detailed snapshot of a cell it is.
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Phys.org
Male school inspectors award more lenient grades than female inspectors, says paper
 
Male school inspectors are more likely to award higher Ofsted grades than female inspectors when inspecting similar primary schools, according to new research by UCL and the University of Southampton.
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Phys.org
Police traffic stops can alienate communities and lead to violent deaths like Tyre Nichols'—is it time to rethink them?
 
The killing of Tyre Nichols has raised questions about the use and risks of a routine part of U.S. policing: the traffic stop.
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Scientific Reports
Low frequency electrical waves in ensembles of proteinoid microspheres
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29067-0
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Scientific Reports
Yoghurt as a deglutition aid for oral medication: effects on famotidine powder dissolution rate and pharmacokinetics
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29258-9
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Scientific Reports
Visibility of early gastric cancers by texture and color enhancement imaging using a high-definition ultrathin transnasal endoscope
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29284-7
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Biochemistry Research News — ScienceDaily
Novel device enables high-resolution observation of liquid phase dynamic processes at nanoscale
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In situ observation and recording of important liquid-phase electrochemical reactions in energy devices is crucial for the advancement of energy science. A research team has recently developed a novel, tiny device to hold liquid specimens for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) observation, opening the door to directly visualizing and recording complex electrochemical reactions at nanoscale in
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ScienceDaily
Entangled atoms cross quantum network from one lab to another
 
Trapped ions have previously only been entangled in one and the same laboratory. Now, teams have entangled two ions over a distance of 230 meters. The nodes of this network were housed in two labs at the Campus Technik to the west of Innsbruck, Austria. The experiment shows that trapped ions are a promising platform for future quantum networks that span cities and eventually continents.
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ScienceDaily
New research computes first step toward predicting lifespan of electric space propulsion systems
 
Electric space propulsion systems use energized atoms to generate thrust. The high-speed beams of ions bump against the graphite surfaces of the thruster, eroding them with each hit, and are the systems' primary lifetime-limiting factor. Researchers used data from low-pressure chamber experiments and large-scale computations to develop a model to better understand the effects of ion erosion on car
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ScienceDaily
New approach to 'punishment and reward' method of training artificial intelligence offers potential key to unlock new treatments for aggressive cancers
 
A new 'outside-the-box' method of teaching artificial intelligence (AI) models to make decisions could provide hope for finding new therapeutic methods for cancer, according to a new study.
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The Atlantic
Sports Offer More Than Winning
 
A certain amount of discomfort is required for growth. That's, in part, where expressions such as no pain, no gain come from—but in sports, that pain is frequently literal. Athletes push their body in order to shave a few seconds off a race time, or gain a point on a routine. In her memoir, Good for a Girl , the accomplished runner Lauren Fleshman shows how this demand for perfection is detriment
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The Atlantic
What Is It About Pamela Anderson?
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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. W hen the subject of Pamela Anderson comes up, understatement likely isn't the first word that comes to mind. And yet, as her entirely self-authored memoir, Love, Pamela , makes clear, it is actually her preternatural
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The Atlantic
This Is Not 1943
 
Yesterday Vladimir Putin went to Stalingrad. It was the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the city once named after the Soviet dictator. The current Russian dictator solemnly bowed his head and knelt before a wreath laid to honor the heroes of the battle that turned the tide of World War II. The day before the ceremony, a bronze bust of Joseph Stalin had been unveiled in
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The Atlantic
The Good News About Vaccine Hesitancy
 
T he world has just seen the largest vaccination campaign in history. At least 13 billion COVID shots have been administered—more injections, by a sweeping margin, than there are human beings on the Earth. In the U.S. alone, millions of lives have been saved by a rollout of extraordinary scope. More than three-fifths of the population elected to receive the medicine even before it got its full ap
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Phys.org
Rocket industry could undo decades of work to save the ozone layer
 
The ozone layer is on track to heal within four decades, according to a recent UN report, but this progress could be undone by an upsurge in rocket launches expected during the same period.
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Livescience
What is cadence in running and why is it important?
 
From step rates to stride lengths, here's everything you need to know about cadence in running.
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Science
First heart patients diagnosed using new fibre optic technology
 
Researchers say device developed in London could help thousands suffering from vascular disease
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Phys.org
France pledges not to conduct anti-satellite missile tests but leaves other options open
 
Driven by concerns over space debris, in late November the French Ministry for the Armed Forces formally committed not to conduct anti-satellite missile tests. And yet, France's space strategy of 2019 resolved to "toughen" the country's space capabilities.
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Phys.org
Working for cash in hand can be a vital career step and a way out of poverty
 
Being paid for work in cash is often frowned upon in the UK. It can be seen as a way of avoiding tax, or cheating the system, and detrimental to economic growth.
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Phys.org
Losing the natural world comes with major risks for Australia's super funds and banks
 
As the economist Herman Daly pithily said, the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment—not the reverse. Nature makes our lives possible through what scientists call ecosystem services. Think healthy food, clean water, feed for livestock, building materials, medicine, flood and storm control, recreation, and attractions for tourists.
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Science | The Guardian
Bear-clawed cavern discovered in Spain 'opens new door on prehistory'
 
Researchers hail 'world-class discovery' that suggests cave bears may have lived farther south than thought Researchers exploring a cave system in south-east Spain have discovered a huge cavern, sealed off for millennia, hung with huge stalactites and gouged by the claws of long-extinct cave bears, which, they claim, "opens a new door on prehistory". The find was made at the Cueva del Arco, a col
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Futurism
ChatGPT's Explosive Popularity Makes It the Fastest-Growing App in Human History
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Making History According to reporting from Reuters , OpenAI's ChatGPT is now the fastest-growing app in human history, reaching an estimated 100 million active monthly users in just the two months since its November release. "In 20 years following the internet space," UBS analysts reportedly wrote in a note to Reuters , citing a report from web traffic analytics firm SimilarWeb, "we cannot recall
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Futurism
Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System
 
Saturn Return Planetary scientists have a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which they say may be home to a "stealth" underground ocean that's been hidden from our best observations. In a press release out of the Southwest Research Institute , principal scientist Dr. Alyssa Rhoden said that NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn had "identified a curious libration, or oscillat
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TED Talks Daily (SD video)
Could fungi actually be the key to humanity's survival? | David Andrew Quist
 
After a billion years of evolution, fungi are masters of invention and resilience. What wisdom can we draw from their long, remarkable existence? Mycologist David Andrew Quist explores how fungi's innate biointelligence, penchant for collaboration and incredible regeneration abilities can show us new ways to think about complex problems — and may hold the secret to humanity's survival on Earth.
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Phys.org
Remote working improves the lives of female managers, but at a cost
 
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a question that would have been unthinkable a few years ago: do we really need to be in the office all the time?
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New Scientist
Sperm-sorting device aims to find healthy samples to boost IVF success
 
Healthier sperm are normally selected for IVF using a centrifuge, which can damage the cells, but an alternative method can do the job gently by creating a current for them to swim against
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Nature Communications
Universal epitaxy of non-centrosymmetric two-dimensional single-crystal metal dichalcogenides
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36286-6 Recent studies have reported the growth of 2D non-centrosymmetric single crystals on substrates with surface steps, but the mechanisms are still unclear. Here, the authors demonstrate a method to grow unidirectionally aligned transition metal dichalcogenide grains on various types of substrates, showing the
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Nature Communications
Rational design of N-heterocyclic compound classes via regenerative cyclization of diamines
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36220-w Introducing unknown compound classes is the key to extent the chemical space qualitatively. Here the authors report on a concept to design heterocyclic compound classes rationally and the synthesis of unknown classes of N-heterocyclic compounds
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Nature Communications
Engineering β-ketoamine covalent organic frameworks for photocatalytic overall water splitting
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36338-x Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are an emerging type of crystalline and porous photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution. Here, the authors report a β-ketoamine COF by systematically engineering N-sites, architecture, and morphology for improved water splitting activity.
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Phys.org
NASA tests new ride for science studies from Wallops
 
NASA will test a new capability for supporting science research in the mesosphere with the launch of two rockets from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia on Feb. 9, 2023. The two Improved-Orion suborbital sounding rockets will launch about 30 minutes apart between 8-10 a.m. EST.
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Phys.org
How can we know if we're looking at habitable exo-Earths or hellish exo-Venuses?
 
The differences between Earth and Venus are obvious to us. One is radiant with life and adorned with glittering seas, and the other is a scorching, glowering hellhole, its volcanic surface shrouded by thick clouds and visible only with radar. But the difference wasn't always clear. In fact, we used to call Venus Earth's sister planet.
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Phys.org
Grit or quit? How to help your child develop resilience
 
Grit. Don't quit.
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Phys.org
Why do black holes twinkle? Study examines 5,000 star-eating behemoths to find out
 
Black holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great, it bends space around them so tightly that nothing can escape, even light itself.
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Phys.org
Viewpoint: Our economic future depends on young reformers, not ineffective revolutionaries
 
Many of our capitalist institutions have been damaged by cronyism, greed and a short-term mindset. But capitalism is more than its faults and the unpleasant outcomes brought on by a selfish class.
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Phys.org
Fossils in a northern Alberta riverbed may reveal new facts about dinosaur evolution
 
Alberta has been ground zero for dinosaur discoveries in Canada since the 1880s, when several Geological Survey of Canada expeditions collected dinosaur bones from the southern part of the province.
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Phys.org
Engineer discovers method to improve pharmaceuticals through dolphin research
 
In the body, crystals—made of things such as calcium or a collection of urine—form masses that can cause pain and serious health conditions. A University of Houston crystals expert, Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Professor of Chemical Engineering, known globally for his seminal breakthroughs using innovative methods to control crystals to help treat malaria and kidney stones, is reporting a new
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Scientific Reports
DNA quality evaluation of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded heart tissue for DNA methylation array analysis
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29120-y
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Scientific Reports
The effect of temporal expectation on the correlations of frontal neural activity with alpha oscillation and sensory-motor latency
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29310-8
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Biochemistry News – Chemistry News
Engineer discovers method to improve pharmaceuticals through dolphin research
 
In the body, crystals—made of things such as calcium or a collection of urine—form masses that can cause pain and serious health conditions. A University of Houston crystals expert, Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Professor of Chemical Engineering, known globally for his seminal breakthroughs using innovative methods to control crystals to help treat malaria and kidney stones, is reporting a new
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Nature
A row is raging over Africa's largest dam — science has a solution
 
Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00289-6 Benefit-sharing is the best way out of the Nile-dam deadlock between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, study finds.
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Nature
Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways
 
Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00334-4 Some bacteria appear to encase their genomes in proteins called histones — which weren't thought to exist in bacterial cells.
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The Scientist RSS
Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don't Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?
 
The Scientist spoke with Jonathan Kagan about his idea that immune cells respond to "errors" made by unsuccessful pathogens, not the pathogens themselves.
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Phys.org
New study has important implications for survival of the critically endangered kākāpō parrot
 
A new study published in PeerJ has provided crucial insights into the factors that affect the fertility of the critically endangered kākāpō, a flightless parrot species native to New Zealand.
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cognitive science
3 Secrets to Make Chat GPT Write Like a Human
 
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cognitive science
OpenAI GPT-4 Powered Microsoft Chatbot Search Engine To Compete With Google | New Nvidia PADL AI Controls Video Game Characters With Natural Language | New Wearable Robotics For Transhumans
 
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Science | The Guardian
Hormone shots could be used as treatment for low sex drive
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Kisspeptin found to bolster sexual responses by increasing brain activity linked to arousal and attraction People with a low sex drive could benefit from injections of a hormone called kisspeptin, according to clinical trials that found the shots can boost sexual responses. The trials are the first to show the hormone can increase activity in brain regions linked to arousal and attraction in men
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Phys.org
Mushrooms emerge from the shadows in pesticide-free production push
 
From stir-frys to stroganoffs, the tasty fungus central to health-conscious cuisine may be cultivated in greener ways.
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Phys.org
Zebrafish research helps reveal the origins of scoliosis
 
University of Oregon scientists have uncovered new clues to the genetic basis for scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine.
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Phys.org
Deep in a South Dakota gold mine, physicists prospect for dark matter
 
Nestled in the mountains of western South Dakota is the little town of Lead, which bills itself as "quaint" and "rough around the edges." Visitors driving past the hair salon or dog park may never guess that an unusual—even otherworldly—experiment is happening a mile below the surface.
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Phys.org
Decline in wild bee species richness associated with honey bee abundance in an urban ecosystem
 
A new study published in PeerJ has provided insights into how western honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in urban areas may represent a new threat to wild bee communities. On the Island of Montréal, Canada there has been a particularly large increase in beekeeping across the city.
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Futurity.org
Oldest bone weapon in Americas is stuck in a mastodon rib
 
The Manis bone projectile point is the oldest weapon made of bone ever found in the Americas, say researchers. The team studied bone fragments embedded in a mastodon rib bone that Carl Gustafson discovered during an excavation at the Manis site in Washington state from 1977 to 1979. Using a CT scan and 3D software, Michael Waters, professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University, and his team is
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Ingeniøren
Bagsiden: Hvad er halvandet kilo afrundet messing?
 
Grete Græsbøll ligger inde med en dims, der ved første øjekast kunne ligne en æske til piller eller et ur. Men den er ret stor og tung.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Decline in wild bee species richness associated with honey bee abundance in an urban ecosystem
 
A new study published in PeerJ has provided insights into how western honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in urban areas may represent a new threat to wild bee communities. On the Island of Montréal, Canada there has been a particularly large increase in beekeeping across the city.
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Phys.org
Stuck in the rough: How aging reactor walls may exhibit lower erosion
 
As plasma circulates in a fusion device, the surface of the device that faces the plasma erodes. This releases particles of surface material. Most erosion occurs through a process called sputtering, where a particle strikes a surface and results in the ejection of atoms from that surface. The number of atoms eroded for each incident particle, known as the sputtering yield, varies depending on the
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Phys.org
Rates of hatching failure in birds almost twice as high as previously estimated
 
Hatching failure rates in birds are almost twice as high as experts previously estimated, according to the largest ever study of its kind by researchers from the University of Sheffield, Institute of Zoology, and University College London (UCL).
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Phys.org
Phosphorus shortage could affect worldwide crop yields
 
While phosphorus is an essential element for plant metabolism and growth, its future supply under elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is uncertain. A shortage of this important nutrient could lead to lower crop yields, especially in poorer countries.
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Phys.org
A new understanding of reptile coloration
 
Snakes and mice don't look alike. But much of what we know about skin coloration and patterning in vertebrates generally, including in snakes, is based on lab mice. However, there are limits to what mice can tell us about other vertebrates because they don't share all of the same types of color-producing cells, known as chromatophores. For example, snakes have a type of chromatophore called iridop
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Rates of hatching failure in birds almost twice as high as previously estimated
 
Hatching failure rates in birds are almost twice as high as experts previously estimated, according to the largest ever study of its kind by researchers from the University of Sheffield, Institute of Zoology, and University College London (UCL).
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Phosphorus shortage could affect worldwide crop yields
 
While phosphorus is an essential element for plant metabolism and growth, its future supply under elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide is uncertain. A shortage of this important nutrient could lead to lower crop yields, especially in poorer countries.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
A new understanding of reptile coloration
 
Snakes and mice don't look alike. But much of what we know about skin coloration and patterning in vertebrates generally, including in snakes, is based on lab mice. However, there are limits to what mice can tell us about other vertebrates because they don't share all of the same types of color-producing cells, known as chromatophores. For example, snakes have a type of chromatophore called iridop
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Phys.org
How smoke generated from large wildfires can impact local weather and make fires worse
 
A team of atmospheric scientists at Nanjing University, working with two colleagues from Tsinghua University and another from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, has found that the impact of smoke generated by large wildfires can result in increased fire intensity. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group used a variety of tools to measure the impact of soot and other partic
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Futurity.org
Robots can't fully regain human trust after 3 mistakes
 
Humans are less forgiving of robots after they make multiple mistakes—and the trust is difficult to get back, according to a new study. Similar to human coworkers, robots can make mistakes that violate a human's trust in them. When mistakes happen, humans often see robots as less trustworthy, which ultimately decreases their trust in them. The study examines four strategies that might repair and
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Futurity.org
IRS sends Black taxpayers at least 2.9X more audit notices
 
Researchers have long wondered if the IRS uses its audit powers equitably. New findings show that it does not. Black taxpayers receive IRS audit notices at least 2.9 times (and perhaps as much as 4.7 times) more often than non-Black taxpayers , according to the working paper . The disparity is unlikely to be intentional on the part of IRS staff, says study author Daniel E. Ho, professor of law at
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New Scientist
Neolithic complex dubbed 'Stonehenge of the North' opens to UK public
 
Two sections of the Thornborough Henges near Ripon, UK, have been donated to the public body Historic England in an effort to preserve the millennia-old monuments
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Futurism
China Says "Spy Balloon" Soaring Over America Is Completely Innocent
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a UFO? US defense officials are tracking what they suspect is a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon floating above the United States, CNN reports . According to Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder, the ballon has spent several days soaring over the northern United States, "traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a mili
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Phys.org
Robots and AI team up to discover highly selective catalysts
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Researchers used a chemical synthesis robot and computationally cost-effective AI model to successfully predict and validate highly selective catalysts. Their results are published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
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Phys.org
Salmon deplete fat stores while stopped at dams, study shows
 
Restoration of the critically endangered Atlantic salmon is an important issue in the rivers of Maine. Dams on Maine rivers have long been known to impact fish populations, but a new study led by the University of Maine quantifying the time and energy lost by Atlantic salmon stopped by dams indicate that the structures might have even more of an impact than once thought.
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Future(s) Studies
Scientists Use Exotic DNA To Help Create "Climate-Proof" Crops
 
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Future(s) Studies
Google said to expect their response to ChatGPT in a few weeks. An AI arms race? That could get very interesting very quickly.
 
It is either terrifying or wonderful. Either way, could be exceedingly interesting. submitted by /u/circular_file [link] [comments]
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Future(s) Studies
Heart Disease Breakthrough: New Immune Target Discovered. Heart disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Research has identified suPAR as a protein that contributes to the development of atherosclerosis and kidney disease, offering new opportunities for treatment.
 
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Future(s) Studies
Fully autonomous passenger planes are inching closer to takeoff
 
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Future(s) Studies
AI algorithm pinpoints 8 radio signals that may have come from aliens
 
submitted by /u/Gari_305 [link] [comments]
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Salmon deplete fat stores while stopped at dams, study shows
 
Restoration of the critically endangered Atlantic salmon is an important issue in the rivers of Maine. Dams on Maine rivers have long been known to impact fish populations, but a new study led by the University of Maine quantifying the time and energy lost by Atlantic salmon stopped by dams indicate that the structures might have even more of an impact than once thought.
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Dagens Medicin
Lægeforeningen: Akutpakke risikerer at udhule det offentlige sygehusvæsen
 
I dag præsenterede SVM-regeringen dele af sin akutplan, der fokuserer på nedbringelse af ventelister, flere opgaver til privathospitalerne og hjælp til landets akutmodtagelser. Regeringen skal huske at gå balanceret til værks, siger Lægeforeningen.
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Science | The Guardian
Let me mansplain: studies reveal impact of condescension
 
Exclusive: US research using actors and volunteers finds women have negative outcomes but men are less affected Have you been mansplained to? Take the quiz to find out Let me explain this to you slowly, to make sure you understand. Mansplaining is a made-up word, that combines the words man and explaining to describe when a person – usually a man – provides a condescending explanation of somethin
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ExtremeTechExtreme Archives – ExtremeTech
This Week in Space: Drag Sails, Cosmic Rays, and 'Space Cushions'
 
Hello, readers, and welcome to your Friday morning digest of space news from this week. If you're looking for unalloyed good news, you've come to the right place. This week we've got astronauts of exceptional bravery, a tractor beam in a box, and a new way to clean up space junk. We'll also hear from Perseverance and discuss a report that some asteroids might be more like "space cushions." SpaceX
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Singularity Hub
AI Is Helping Astronomers Search for Intelligent Alien Life—and They've Found 8 Strange New Signals
 
Some 540 million years ago, diverse life forms suddenly began to emerge from the muddy ocean floors of planet Earth. This period is known as the Cambrian Explosion, and these aquatic critters are our ancient ancestors. All complex life on Earth evolved from these underwater creatures. Scientists believe all it took was an ever-so-slight increase in ocean oxygen levels above a certain threshold. W
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Livescience
This MacBook Air M1 deal is the cheapest way to get a new MacBook right now
 
Grab a student laptop bargain as Best Buy slashes the price of the MacBook Air M1.
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forskning.se
Så kan rymdens kyla minska energiförbrukningen
 
Ett förändrat klimat kräver nya energieffektiva sätt att kyla byggnader och fordon. Nu kan forskare visa hur kyla från rymden skulle kunna användas för att reglera temperaturer. Tekniken bygger på passiv utstrålande kylning som kan styras elektriskt. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Futurity.org
Microbes engineer rock-to-life cycle
 
Microbes are "active engineers" in Earth's rock-to-life cycle, research shows. The name "critical zone" may give off 1980s action thriller vibes, but it's the term scientists use to refer to the area of Earth's land surface responsible for sustaining life. A relatively small portion of the planetary structure, it spans from the bedrock below groundwater all the way up to the lower atmosphere. "Th
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Phys.org
Mountain lion mortality maps show rough road for cougars
 
As Los Angeles prepares to celebrate the life of beloved mountain lion P-22 this weekend, mountain lion mortality maps from the University of California, Davis, show that many cougars suffer similar fates along California's roads and highways.
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Phys.org
Understanding and embracing intercultural tensions and differences in teams
 
"Teamwork makes the dream work." It's a popular phrase used to describe the merits of working in teams to get things done. When applied successfully, creating and collaborating with coworkers can produce results that surpass a single individual's contribution.
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Phys.org
A new downside to coffee? It pollutes
 
I love coffee. I love it so much that I don't even want to tell you this:
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Nature Communications
Macromolecular sheets direct the morphology and orientation of plate-like biogenic guanine crystals
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-35894-6 Animals precisely control the morphology and assembly of guanine crystals to produce diverse optical phenomena but little is known about how organisms regulate crystallization to produce optically useful morphologies. Here, the authors demonstrate that pre-assembled, fibrillar sheets in developing scallop ey
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Harnessing an innate protection against Ebola
 
In their evolutionary battle for survival, viruses have developed strategies to spark and perpetuate infection. Once inside a host cell, the Ebola virus, for example, hijacks molecular pathways to replicate itself and eventually make its way back out of the cell into the bloodstream, where it can spread further.
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Futurism
OpenAI's CEO Once Bragged About His Hoard of Guns and Gas Masks
 
Altman's Matrix With ChatGPT's hype cycle barrelling into its third consecutive month , it's pretty easy to forget not only that Elon Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI , the artificial intelligence firm that spawned the chatbot, but also that its other co-founders are fairly eccentric themselves. Take this New Yorker profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman , published in October 2016, before Don
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Phys.org
Harnessing an innate protection against Ebola
 
In their evolutionary battle for survival, viruses have developed strategies to spark and perpetuate infection. Once inside a host cell, the Ebola virus, for example, hijacks molecular pathways to replicate itself and eventually make its way back out of the cell into the bloodstream, where it can spread further.
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Phys.org
Astronomers find rare Earth-mass rocky planet suitable for the search for signs of life
 
A newly discovered exoplanet could be worth searching for signs of life. Analyses by a team led by astronomer Diana Kossakowski of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy describe a planet that orbits its home star, the red dwarf Wolf 1069, in the habitable zone.
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Phys.org
New species of voiceless frog discovered in Tanzania
 
Researchers discovered a new species of frog in Africa that has an unusual trait: it's completely silent.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Structure of amyloid protein offers clues to rare disease cause
 
Researchers at the UAB have determined the structure of amyloid fibers formed by the protein hnRNPDL-2, implicated in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3, using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). They have concluded that the inability of the protein to form amyloid fibers, and not aggregation, would be the cause of the disease. This is the first amyloid structure determined at h
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Biochemistry News – Chemistry News
Snail mucus yields natural adhesive for wound healing
 
Land snails and their mucus were used in ancient times by Hippocrates and Pliny to treat pain associated with burns, abscesses and other wounds. Inspired by this ancient therapy, Prof. Wu Mingyi and his team at the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a natural biological adhesive from snail secretions, evaluated its in vitro adhesion properties and studi
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Scientific Reports
Plasmodium falciparum infection prevalence among children aged 6–59 months from independent DHS and HIV surveys: Nigeria, 2018
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28257-0
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Scientific Reports
Dynamics of fatty acid and non-volatile polar metabolite profiles in colostrum and milk depending on the lactation stage and parity number of sows
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28966-6
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Nature
Daily briefing: The surprising chemicals used to embalm Egyptian mummies
 
Nature, Published online: 02 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00343-3 Pots from a 2,500-year-old embalming workshop reveal mummification ingredients. Plus, what it will take to put a solar power station in space and how to write a popular science bestseller.
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Phys.org
Snail mucus yields natural adhesive for wound healing
 
Land snails and their mucus were used in ancient times by Hippocrates and Pliny to treat pain associated with burns, abscesses and other wounds. Inspired by this ancient therapy, Prof. Wu Mingyi and his team at the Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a natural biological adhesive from snail secretions, evaluated its in vitro adhesion properties and studi
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Phys.org
Structure of amyloid protein offers clues to rare disease cause
 
Researchers at the UAB have determined the structure of amyloid fibers formed by the protein hnRNPDL-2, implicated in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 3, using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). They have concluded that the inability of the protein to form amyloid fibers, and not aggregation, would be the cause of the disease. This is the first amyloid structure determined at h
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Phys.org
Scientists develop new device to detect brain tumors using urine
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Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have used a new device to identify a key membrane protein in urine that indicates whether the patient has a brain tumor. This protein could be used to detect brain cancer, avoiding the need for invasive tests, and increasing the likelihood of tumors being detected early enough for surgery. This research could also have potential implications for detecting
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Phys.org
Researchers identify the neurons that synchronize female preferences with male courtship songs in fruit flies
 
When it comes to courtship, it is important to ensure that one is interacting with a member of the same species. Animals use multiple sensory systems to confirm that potential mates are indeed suitable, with acoustic communication playing an important role in their decision making.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Researchers identify the neurons that synchronize female preferences with male courtship songs in fruit flies
 
When it comes to courtship, it is important to ensure that one is interacting with a member of the same species. Animals use multiple sensory systems to confirm that potential mates are indeed suitable, with acoustic communication playing an important role in their decision making.
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Science | The Guardian
The green comet: how to see a once-in-50,000-years event in Australia's night skies
 
The speeding C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and its icy tail will not be visible from most parts of Australia until 5 February – and won't be visible again from Earth for a long, long time Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A highly anticipated comet, currently in its closest approach to Earth in 50,000 years, will finally be visible from Australian skies in the coming da
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Wired
Startup T2 Wants to Terminate Twitter
 
Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a "2007 Twitter" community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies.
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Wired
What Would Earth's Temperature Be Like Without an Atmosphere?
 
If you want to know what the cloud of gas that surrounds the planet is really doing for us, you have to see what the world would be like without it.
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Wired
A New Drug Switched Off My Appetite. What's Left?
 
Mounjaro did what decades of struggle with managing weight couldn't. Welcome to the post-hunger age.
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Wired
'The Last of Us' Is All I Want to Talk About Right Now
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Episode 3 sparked the kind of lively discourse only the internet can deliver.
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Ingeniøren
Lækkede notater: Forsvaret og Nato vil have et solidt missilforsvar af Danmark
 
PLUS. Ifølge TV 2 viser hemmeligholdte notater, at der bliver lagt op til et kort- og langtrækkende forsvar af Danmark.
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MIT Technology Review
The Download: fighting pregnancy misinformation, and the ethics of organ donations
 
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. How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women Across India, an all-women cadre of 1 million community health-care workers are responsible for making public health care accessible to people from remote areas and marginalized communities. Th
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New Scientist
Neolithic complex named UK's 'Stonehenge of the North' opens to public
 
Two sections of the Thornborough Henges near Ripon, UK, have been donated to the public body Historic England in an effort to preserve the millennia-old monuments
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Nature Communications
The value of applied science
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36307-4 Every area of science can contribute to the changes that are required for a sustainable future through the application of its fundamental discoveries. While some fields have clear paths to application, Nature Communications believes that there is great potential for utility and application to be found in, an
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Nature Communications
Photothermal bleaching of nickel dithiolene for bright multi-colored 3D printed parts
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35195-4 Most NIR radiation absorbers used in multi jet fusion 3D printing have an intrinsic dark color which prevents printing parts with variable colors. Here, the authors design an activating fusing agent containing a strong NIR absorbing dye that turns colorless after harvesting irradiation energy during the 3D p
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Nature Communications
Direct regeneration of degraded lithium-ion battery cathodes with a multifunctional organic lithium salt
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36197-6 Sustainable recycle of spent Li ion batteries is an effective strategy to alleviate environmental concerns and support resource conservation. Here, authors report the direct regeneration of LiFePO4 cathode using multifunctional organic lithium salts, leading to high environmental and economic benefits.
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Nature Communications
Origins of Barents-Kara sea-ice interannual variability modulated by the Atlantic pathway of El Niño–Southern Oscillation
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36136-5 This paper finds that the winter sea-ice over the Barents-Kara Seas has exhibited strengthened interannual variations in recent decades likely due to increased amplitudes of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate.
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Dagens Medicin
Principielt mangler akutafdelingen ikke hænder – alligevel får de for mange patienter
 
Dagens Medicin har været på reportage på Akutafdelingen på Nordsjællands Hospital, hvor afdelingen trods en succesfuld transformation stadig bliver truet af et for højt antal patienter. Overbelægning er til fare for patienterne, skader arbejdsmiljøet og skræmmer yngre læger væk fra specialet. Og der er ikke meget, afdelingen selv kan gøre ved det.
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Dagens Medicin
Cheflæge: Akutafdelingens tværsektorielle team sænker muren til det kommunale
 
Det tværsektorielle team på Akutafdelingen på Nordsjællands Hospital spiller en uvurderlig rolle, når afdelingen modtager patienter med ikke-akutte problemstillinger, fortæller cheflæge Jesper Juul Larsen. Måske kan teamet endda også forebygge, at indlæggelsen sker igen.
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Nature
C. David Allis (1951–2023)
 
Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00346-0 Biologist who revolutionized the chromatin and gene-expression field.
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Scientific American Content
A Secret Weapon in Preventing the Next Pandemic: Fruit Bats
 
New research links bat habitat destruction with the spillover of their viruses to humans
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ExtremeTechExtreme Archives – ExtremeTech
MIT Engineers Invent Vertically Stacked MicroLEDs With Highest-Ever Pixel Density
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The screens on today's electronic doodads come in all shapes, sizes, and resolutions, but they have one important thing in common: the red, blue, and green sub-pixels are arranged side-by-side. Even with smaller pixels packed as tightly as possible, this flat arrangement is reaching its theoretical density limit. The next step may be the stackable LED technology developed by a team at MIT . Using
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New Scientist
Smart cladding could control whether buildings retain or emit heat
 
A new material changes its infrared colour when a small electric current is applied, raising the possibility of buildings that store or release heat depending on outside temperatures
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NeuroLogica Blog
Oldest Vertebrate Fossilized Brain
 
Researchers report a 3D scan of the oldest vertebrate fossil brain yet discovered – in the head of a 319 million year old ray-finned fish. The specimen was actually found a hundred years ago in a coal mine in England, and has been sitting in a museum draw after it was initially described. It is a skull bone only, and the only specimen of this species (Coccocephalus wildi). New technology now allo
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forskning.se
300 år gammal litteraturgåta kan vara löst
 
Diktarpseudonymen Skogekär Bergbo har gäckat litteraturvetare i över 300 år. Nu pekar forskning mot att en förmodad upphovsman till diktverken får träda tillbaka. Istället kliver en bror fram ur historiens skuggor. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Futurity.org
Healthiest noise level for the office is about 50 decibels
 
Too much or too little noise in the office can harm our well-being, research finds. The ideal amount is about 50 decibels, comparable to moderate rain or birdsong. "Everybody knows that loud noise is stressful, and, in fact, extremely loud noise is harmful to your ear," says study coauthor Esther Sternberg, director of the University of Arizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance. "But wh
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Nature Communications
The scaled-invariant Planckian metal and quantum criticality in Ce1−xNdxCoIn5
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36194-9 The Planckian metal is a special case of a strange metal, in which the linear-in-temperature scattering rate reaches a universal limit. Here the authors study this state in a heavy-fermion superconductor in magnetic field and propose a microscopic mechanical based on quantum criticality of the Kondo hybridiz
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Nature Communications
Shark nanobodies with potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing activity and broad sarbecovirus reactivity
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36106-x SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern continue to emerge, reducing vaccine efficacy and limiting therapeutic options. Here, Chen and colleagues describe the identification and design of shark nanobodies with pansarbecovirus activity.
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Wired
Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess
 
As unsecured docs pile up, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is itching to overhaul the nation's secret secret-sharing operation.
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Ingeniøren
PODCAST Atomur gør en ende på Danmarks ulovlige tid
 
26. marts lægges den danske lov fra 1893 om tidens bestemmelse i graven. I ugens Transformator taler vi også med civilingeniør Henrik Møller Jørgensen, som ved hjælp af AI og en lang række datakilder er i stand til at leve en detaljeret prognose for morgendagens elpriser.
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Scientific American Content
Mystery Portrait May Be a Raphael, Artificial Intelligence Suggests
 
A mysterious portrait of the Virgin Mary and Jesus may have been painted by the master Raphael, facial recognition finds. But many art historians reject the claim
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The Atlantic
The Economy Is Still Very, Very Weird
 
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 . So, maybe I should start with an apology. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, my economic analysis has devolved into what I imagine must be a frustrating theme for readers: Everything is just weird, okay? I said the rental mark
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The Atlantic
How Did It Come to This?
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On Sunday morning, the Reverend Earle Fisher was trying to keep his sermon toned down. He's the pastor at Abyssinian Baptist, but he was guest-preaching at the more buttoned-down Trinity Christian Methodist Episcopal. The thing is that low-energy Earle Fisher still outpaces most ministers at their most fervid, and this was no typical Sunday. Fisher, one of Memphis's most prominent criminal-justic
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The Atlantic
Another Putin Foe Meets a Grim Soviet-Era Fate
 
Sixteen months after his arrest, Mikheil Saakashvili has lost more than 90 pounds and needs a walker to move around his prison hospital. The former Georgian president was for a time, on a hunger strike, which helps explain his weight loss and his exhaustion. But it does not explain the traces of arsenic, mercury, and other toxins that a doctor found in his hair and nail clippings. It does not exp
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Science-Based Medicine
There is really nothing super about Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea
 
Reports out of Massachusetts are raising concerns of a highly resistant strain of gonorrhea being seen for the first time in the United States. Are we close to living in a reality where there are no more effective treatments for this nasty, and potentially deadly, infection? The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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Scientific American News
Mystery Portrait May Be a Raphael, Artificial Intelligence Suggests
 
A mysterious portrait of the Virgin Mary and Jesus may have been painted by the master Raphael, facial recognition finds. But many art historians reject the claim
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Wired
Boeing's 747 Should Have Been Retired Years Ago
 
The last jumbo jet was delivered in January, but it has been obsolete for decades.
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Wired
The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years
 
Scientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cement—which could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today.
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Wired
Quoting Taylor Swift Lyrics Is an Actual Linguistic Thing
 
Call it a fanilect.
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Future(s) Studies
Robotaxis
 
Cruise (GM) and Waymo (Google) are testing robotaxis in Phoenix and San Francisco. Baidu (Chinese Google) in Wuhan and Chongqing. Uber is linking up with Motional and thereby entering the battle for the $3 trillion robotaxi market. Tesla and BYD don't have robotaxis as of now, but a production of EVs running at scale. Which one of the above companies do you will win the robotaxi race? submitted b
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Future(s) Studies
Columbian judge uses ChatGPT in ruling, makes humane decision | The judge ruled in favor of the child stating that the child's medical expenses and transport costs should be paid by his medical plan, considering his parents' limited income.
 
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Future(s) Studies
Global warming may make fungi more dangerous for humans
 
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Future(s) Studies
Despite Russian energy blackmail, Renewables overtook Gas and Coal in EU in 2022
 
submitted by /u/Surur [link] [comments]
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Future(s) Studies
Why are we not experimenting with new economic, political and mass media system models?
 
Tech is penetrating and researching pretty much all areas except economy, politics and mass media system models. Why are those topics a public taboo? For example if you browse through github topics you would notice that there is almost no activity in those areas. submitted by /u/shanoshamanizum [link] [comments]
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Future(s) Studies
New blood test to identify infections could reduce global antibiotic overuse
 
submitted by /u/hibott77 [link] [comments]
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Dagens Medicin
Ny direktør for Statens Institut for Folkesundhed på Syddansk Universitet
 
Professor Morten Hulvej Rod hentes ind fra Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen.
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Ingeniøren
En kvart milliard i tabte billetindtægter: Metro mangler 30 millioner passagerer i 2022
 
PLUS. Cityringen i København bruges meget mindre end forudsagt.
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Ingeniøren
Teknologisk Institut i spidsen for internationalt projekt: Plasma til fremstilling af grøn ammoniak
 
PLUS. I stedet for at bruge den traditionelle Haber-bosch-proces, kan grøn ammoniak fremstilles i en ioniseret gas.
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forskning.se
Nanokikare spanar in i cellen − och ser hur läkemedel fungerar
 
Forskare har tagit fram en metod för att på nanonivå kunna se var i cellerna ett läkemedel hamnar, och hur molekylerna beter sig. Tekniken gör det möjligt att på sikt utveckla nya läkemedel och skräddarsydda behandlingar. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Livescience
8 possible alien 'technosignatures' detected around distant stars in new AI study
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Eight signals from far-off stars probably aren't aliens, but the machine learning method that found them holds promise in the search for real extraterrestrials.
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Retraction Watch
Prominent Korean heart doctor earns two retractions in a month
 
Hui-Nam Pak Two Korean journals last month pulled papers by a prominent cardiologist at Yonsei University, Professor Hui-Nam Pak , with one retraction notice citing "issues related to scientific misconduct." Commenters on PubPeer had raised several concerns about data integrity, "mixed-up" data and "statistical nonsense" in " eNOS3 Genetic Polymorphism Is Related to Post-Ablation Early Recurrence
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Ingeniøren
Ugens debat: PFAS på panden
 
PLUS. Da PFAS dukkede op i økologiske æg, gik alvoren op for alle.
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Nature Communications
Author Correction: Repositioning tolcapone as a potent inhibitor of transthyretin amyloidogenesis and associated cellular toxicity
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36239-z
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forskning.se
Skalbaggar ställer krav på mikroklimatet i sin bostad
 
Mikroklimatet är viktigt för insekter som lever i död ved – och temperaturen ska gärna vara lite högre och stabil. Det visar två studier som undersökt de rödlistade skalbaggarna raggbock och läderbagge. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Livescience
When did Rome fall?
 
Many historians consider the fall of the Western Roman Empire to have been when the emperor Romulus Augustulus abdicated, but not all historians agree.
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NPR
Yale honors the work of a 9-year-old Black girl whose neighbor reported her to police
 
Bobbi Wilson went on a mission to save New Jersey's trees, capturing spotted lanternflies. That frightened her neighbor, who called the cops. Now, her bug collection is part of a Yale museum. (Image credit: Andrew Hurley/Yale University)
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Ingeniøren
Facaden på nybygget 100 meter højt tårn står til totalrenovering
 
PLUS. Der er fundet en helt del fejl i projekteringen og materialerne på det kun fem år gamle højhus i den københavnske carlsbergby.
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Scientific Reports
Clinical relevance of leukocyte-associated endotoxins measured by semi-automatic synthetic luminescent substrate method
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29199-3
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Scientific Reports
Comparison of [18F]FIMP, [11C]MET, and [18F]FDG PET for early-phase assessment of radiotherapy response
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29166-y Comparison of [ 18 F]FIMP, [ 11 C]MET, and [ 18 F]FDG PET for early-phase assessment of radiotherapy response
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Scientific Reports
Enhanced bacterial clearance in early secondary sepsis in a porcine intensive care model
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28880-x
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Scientific Reports
Simulation-based architecture of a stable large-area $$JDBD$$ JDBD atmospheric plasma source
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29143-5 Simulation-based architecture of a stable large-area atmospheric plasma source
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Scientific Reports
Digital manufacturing of personalised footwear with embedded sensors
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29261-0
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Scientific Reports
TEMPRANILLO homologs in apple regulate flowering time in the woodland strawberry Fragaria vesca
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29059-0
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Scientific Reports
Graphene-based optofluidic tweezers for refractive-index and size-based nanoparticle sorting, manipulation, and detection
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29122-w
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Scientific Reports
Development of a treatment for water contaminated with Cr (VI) using cellulose xanthogenate from E. crassipes on a pilot scale
 
Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28292-x
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NYT > Science
New Form of Ice Discovered Unexpectedly During Experiment
 
The research illustrates how much scientists still have to learn about a molecule as simple as water.
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Nature
When the immune system bites back, and biodiversity v. capitalism: Books in brief
 
Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00333-5 Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.
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Science | The Guardian
Blobs of human brain planted in rats offer new treatment hope
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Scientists suggest patient's own cells could be grown in the lab and used to repair stroke or trauma injuries Blobs of human brain tissue have been transplanted into the brains of rats in work that could pave the way for new treatments for devastating brain injuries. The groundbreaking study showed that the "human brain organoids" – sesame seed-sized balls of neurons – were able to integrate into
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Science | The Guardian
Forgotten 'Stonehenge of the north' given to nation by construction firm
 
Two sections of the Thornborough Henges come off Historic England's at-risk register after donation Two enormous and thrillingly mysterious ancient monuments, part of a complex regarded as the Stonehenge of the north, have been given to the nation and will come off England's heritage at-risk register. The Thornborough Henges , near Ripon, in North Yorkshire, are three huge, human-made, enclosed e
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Viden | DR
Ny undervisning i atomkraft glæder virksomhed: 'Jeg ville ønske, at alle danskere fulgte kurset'
 
DTU har sat atomkraft på skoleskemaet efter en stigende efterspørgsel.
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Dagens Medicin
PLO varetager medlemmernes interesser gennem dialog, samarbejde og bedre aftaler
 
Det er 'helt forkert' at opfatte PLO som en velgørende organisation, fastslår formand.
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Nature
ChatGPT: five priorities for research
 
Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00288-7 Conversational AI is a game-changer for science. Here's how to respond.
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Phys.org
The two-century-old mystery of Waterloo's skeletal remains
 
More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them to peer back to that moment in history.
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Phys.org
Study details timing of past glacier advances in Northern Antarctic Peninsula
 
Receding glaciers in the northern Antarctic Peninsula are uncovering and reexposing black moss that provides radiocarbon kill dates for the vegetation, a key clue to understanding the timing of past glacier advances in that region.
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Biology News – Evolution, Cell theory, Gene theory, Microbiology, Biotechnology
Playtime is purr-fect for your cat's welfare
 
Play is often considered an indicator and promotor of animal welfare. Playing with your cat may also nurture closer cat-human bonds. In a new study, scientists have investigated these links by applying in-depth empirical methods to analyze data gathered from around the world.
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Phys.org
Probing researchers strike gold to stop the trots in pigs
 
Gold nanorod probes combined with an optical microscope can now be used to detect signs of a highly contagious and lethal virus that poses a major threat to the swine industry worldwide.
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Phys.org
Playtime is purr-fect for your cat's welfare
 
Play is often considered an indicator and promotor of animal welfare. Playing with your cat may also nurture closer cat-human bonds. In a new study, scientists have investigated these links by applying in-depth empirical methods to analyze data gathered from around the world.
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Phys.org
Researchers identify oldest bone spear point In the Americas
 
A team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University professor has identified the Manis bone projectile point as the oldest weapon made of bone ever found in the Americas at 13,900 years.
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MIT Technology Review
A Massachusetts bill could allow prisoners to swap their organs for their freedom
 
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here . What is the value of a human organ? It's a question that's been on my mind since I heard about a disturbing proposed change to the law in Massachusetts that would allow incarcerated people to swap their body parts for reduced prison sentences. That's righ
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MIT Technology Review
How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women
 
Hirabai Koli's medical reports were normal—but she wasn't happy. She had been monitoring her weight over the first two months of her pregnancy, and she surprised community health-care worker Suraiyya Terdale when she asked why she wasn't gaining more. (To protect her safety and private health information, Koli is being identified by a pseudonym.) "It was an odd question—something I heard for the
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Skeptical Science
Cranky Uncle could use your help to learn more languages!
 
Our Cranky Uncle Game can already be played in eight languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. About 15 more languages are in the works at various stages of completion or have been offered to be done. To kick off the new year, we checked with how our teams are doing and whether some help for their volunteer efforts is needed. The result is this "Call for
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Nature
India pledges $4 billion for green energy to cut carbon emissions
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Nature, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00285-w But researchers say much more is needed to achieve the country's climate goals.
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Undark Magazine
Book Review: The Stuff We're Made Of
 
Dan Levitt's "What's Gotten Into You" is a lively, deeply researched history of of how our atoms journeyed from the beginning of time all the way to our bodies. Along the way, Levitt pays homage to the scientists across the centuries whose advances helped to nail down our origin story.
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Future(s) Studies
Apprentice Bard: Google's artificial intelligence to end the ChatGPT threat
 
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Vetenskap och Hälsa
Ökad kunskap om hormonsystemet ger diabetesforskare nya svar
 
Hur mycket vatten behöver vi dricka för att vi ska hålla oss friska? Vilken effekt får olika dieter på ämnesomsättningen? Studier av olika hormoner i kroppen ger diabetesforskare nya svar. Förhoppningen är att utveckla individanpassade behandlingar och kostråd som kan minska risken att utveckla fetma och sjukdomar som typ 2-diabetes.
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ScienceAlert
Astronomers Find What May Be a Habitable World 31 Light-Years Away
 
Could it be?
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Nyheder – Forskning – Videnskab
Danmark skal lede forvandlingen af hele EU's fødevaresystem
 
Københavns Universitet står i spidsen for et nyt omfattende EU-projekt, CLEVERFOOD, som på…
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RealClimate
2022 updates to model-observation comparisons
 
Our annual post related to the comparisons between long standing records and climate models. As frequent readers will know, we maintain a page of comparisons between climate model projections and the relevant observational records , and since they are mostly for the global mean numbers, these get updated once the temperature products get updated for the prior full year. This has now been complete
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The Atlantic
Photos of the Week: Salmon Blessing, Masquerade Games, Polar Night
 
A figure-skating championship in Finland, a rugby tournament in Afghanistan, the Magh Mela festival in India, a soldier's funeral in Ukraine, an ice storm in Texas, a winding river in Brazil, a luge championship in Germany, and much more
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Nature Communications
Learning local equivariant representations for large-scale atomistic dynamics
 
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 February 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36329-y The paper presents a method that allows scaling machine learning interatomic potentials to extremely large systems, while at the same time retaining the remarkable accuracy and learning efficiency of deep equivariant models. This is obtained with an E(3)- equivariant neural network architecture that combines
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ScienceAlert
Bar Graphs Induce a Hidden Bias in Interpretation, Experiment Shows
 
Looks can be deceiving.
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For Better Science
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – Where have all retractions gone?
 
Schneider Shorts 3.02.2023 – German trachea transplanters forgot to retract 7 papers, a bullying psychologist in Sweden, a colossal wanker with a dodo, ERC thanks an expert, German EiC leaves havoc behind, an EMBO editor has some explaining to do, and finally, how ethics at Cambridge and Oxford University Presses work.
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Vetenskap och Folkbildning
Flashback Forever (podcast), 31 januari 2023
 
#136 Den fräcka krabban Utdrag: [Emma] "Så när jag började mitt arbete med Bigfoot så började helt enkelt med att faktakolla […]. Så jag surfade in på er favorithemsida, VoF, … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och Folkbildning .
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ScienceAlert
This Small Australian Marsupial Is Quite Literally Dying For Sex
 
An uncontrollable urge.
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