Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had so-called median eyes, single eyes on their foreheads, in addition to their compound eyes, research conducted by Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology and Professor Dr. Euan Clarkson at the University of Edinburgh has now found out.
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Technology is providing solutions but the climate forecast is worsening, scientists say in major report.
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00794-8 The sequencing of two bacterial species created a legacy that could be at risk without further investment, warn the region's genomic leaders.
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A new substance has proven useful for treating staphylococcus infections in people with skin lymphoma, a new study shows…. You may have had staphylococcus aureus in connection with a wound infection.
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Drifting along in ocean currents, jellyfish can be both predator and prey. They eat almost anything they can capture, and follow the typical oceanic pattern of "large eats small." Now a recent University of British Columbia study on these gelatinous globs suggests jellyfish may get more nutritious as they get bigger. The work is published in Ecosphere.
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Synecoculture is a new agricultural method advocated by Dr. Masatoshi Funabashi, senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL), in which various kinds of plants are mixed and grown in high density, establishing rich biodiversity while benefiting from the self-organizing ability of the ecosystem.
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University of Wyoming researchers' study of how microscopic creatures called tardigrades survive extreme conditions has led to a major breakthrough that could eventually make life-saving treatments available to people where refrigeration isn't possible.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31739-w
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A UN report on climate change released on Monday shows that the window to meet the goal of a 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit is narrowing, a senior UN climate official told AFP.
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New research conducted as part of the science verification phase of the Visible Spectropolarimeter (ViSP) instrument at the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is the first to use data from this instrument. It is hoped that the work will pave the way for future studies to enable a better understanding of the potential risks to key power and communications infrastructure.
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Synecoculture is a new agricultural method advocated by Dr. Masatoshi Funabashi, senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL), in which various kinds of plants are mixed and grown in high density, establishing rich biodiversity while benefiting from the self-organizing ability of the ecosystem.
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University of Wyoming researchers' study of how microscopic creatures called tardigrades survive extreme conditions has led to a major breakthrough that could eventually make life-saving treatments available to people where refrigeration isn't possible.
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The resulting fluid retention and swelling, called lymphedema, isn't just uncomfortable—it's also irreversible.
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With enforcement of San Diego's new ban on polystyrene foam food trays, pool toys and more scheduled to take effect April 1, city officials are scrambling to coach affected businesses, clarify the complex regulations and consider emergency waiver requests.
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A research team develops transfer-tattoo-like cell-sheet delivery induced by interfacial cell migration.
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Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the photosynthetic microbes responsible for most of the oxygen now in Earth's atmosphere
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Metasurfaces, as two-dimensional metamaterials, display fascinating ability in electromagnetic (EM) modulation within a sub-wavelength scale, opening up a new way for manipulating the properties of EM wave in a plane. Owing to the flexible modulation of EM wave, metasurfaces have spawned a number of enchanting applications, such as perfect absorbers, cloaking devices, planar meta-lens and meta-hol
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While it is a popular hobby for many, fishing is also a pastime full of uncertainty. Each time you have something on the line, you can never be completely sure what type of fish you've hooked until you pull it out of the water. In a similar way, scientists "fishing" for biomarkers—molecules whose health care applications include signaling for the presence of cancer—in biofluids such as blood can a
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Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990. However, a team of researchers working across the state found that human-caused mortality, primarily involving conflict with humans over livestock and collisions with vehicles, was more common than natural mortality for this protected large carnivore. Their findings were published March 20 in the Proce
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Optical manipulation and applications involve numerous fields, such as physics, information, materials and life sciences. It has been included in the national "14th Five-Year Plan" major engineering and projects. To better promote manipulation and application of the light beams, developing precision measurement technologies of optical parameters (such as intensity, phase, polarization and frequenc
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Future ocean warming and marine heatwaves could impact the growth and development of clownfish during their earliest life stages, suggests a new study recently published in Science of The Total Environment.
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A team including physicists has for the first time detected subatomic particles called neutrinos created by a particle collider, namely at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The discovery promises to deepen scientists' understanding of the nature of neutrinos, which are among the most abundant particles in the universe and key to the solution of the question why there is more matter than antimatt
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Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990. However, a team of researchers working across the state found that human-caused mortality, primarily involving conflict with humans over livestock and collisions with vehicles, was more common than natural mortality for this protected large carnivore. Their findings were published March 20 in the Proce
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Future ocean warming and marine heatwaves could impact the growth and development of clownfish during their earliest life stages, suggests a new study recently published in Science of The Total Environment.
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StarCrete Concrete Mars
Potato House British scientists say they've made fancy space concrete out of potato starch — and that it works much better than the stuff they made before, which would have needed both blood and urine to work. In a press release about the material, which they're calling "StarCrete," researchers at the University of Manchester in the UK bragged say the new compound is "twice as strong as regular c
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Researchers have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control.
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IQ scores have substantially increased from 1932 through the 20th century, with differences ranging from three to five IQ points per decade, according to a phenomenon known as the 'Flynn effect.' But a new study has found evidence of a reverse 'Flynn effect' in a large U.S. sample between 2006 and 2018 in every category except one. For the reverse Flynn effect, there were consistent negative slope
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Parasitic infections in salmonid fish can increase or decrease their vulnerability to angling, depending on their body condition.
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Researchers have devised a new concept of superconducting microwave low-noise amplifiers for use in radio wave detectors for radio astronomy observations, and successfully demonstrated a high-performance cooled amplifier with power consumption three orders of magnitude lower than that of conventional cooled semiconductor amplifiers. This result is expected to contribute to the realization of large
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The development of new information and communication technologies poses new challenges to scientists and industry. Designing new quantum materials — whose exceptional properties stem from quantum physics — is the most promising way to meet these challenges. An international team has designed a material in which the dynamics of electrons can be controlled by curving the fabric of space in which t
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Most people who ranked high in 'joy of missing out' or JOMO also reported high levels of social anxiety in a recent study. The term JOMO has been popularized as a healthy enjoyment of solitude in almost direct opposition to the negative FOMO, the 'fear of missing out' people may have when seeing others having fun experiences without them. In an analysis of two samples of adults, researchers found
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31756-9
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New research by an Oregon State University-led team is beginning to unravel the times of year and locations where whales are at greatest danger of entanglement in fishing gear on the Oregon Coast.
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Fossils uncovered in Australia belong to a newfound species of extinct eagle that was big enough to pick up hobbit-size prey, like the fictional giant eagles in "The Lord of the Rings."
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Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey recently captured the first close-up video of A81, an enormous iceberg that broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in January.
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Coding bootcamps are intensive courses designed to turn beginners into pro-coders. But are they worth it?
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We tested the Garmin Forerunner 265, an athlete-grade fitness watch with brilliant fitness tracking features.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an order Wednesday which instructs Missouri, along with 22 other states, to reduce its air pollution levels.
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X-ray technology has allowed researchers a glimpse at the reaches of the Yellowstone landmark's prized stone and its importance to Indigenous people.
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Researchers have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control.
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Cookie Kennedy was out for a walk with a friend one day this winter when she felt a familiar dread creep up on her. As the pair strolled the north shore of Indian Rocks Beach, the small Pinellas County city where Kennedy is mayor, they were forced to weave their way through a thickening crowd of beachgoers. The land where they stood had shrunk.
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Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Managers target loyal workers over less committed colleagues when dolling out unpaid work and additional job tasks.
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New research by an Oregon State University-led team is beginning to unravel the times of year and locations where whales are at greatest danger of entanglement in fishing gear on the Oregon Coast.
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France's top administrative court on Monday ordered the government to ban fishing in parts of the Atlantic to protect dolphins which have washed up dead in their hundreds.
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Liquid water is one of the most important ingredients for the emergence of life as we know it on Earth. Researchers of the ORIGINS Cluster from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry and biochemistry have now determined in a novel, interdisciplinary collaboration the necessary properties that allow moons around free-floating planets to retain liquid water for a sufficiently long time and thus
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BBC environment correspondent Matt McGrath outlines the key takeaways from the latest IPCC report.
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00820-9 East Palestine residents look to independent researchers to fill gaps left by authorities.
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France's top administrative court on Monday ordered the government to ban fishing in parts of the Atlantic to protect dolphins which have washed up dead in their hundreds.
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It's sometimes difficult to imagine how the planet we call home, with its megalopolis cities and serene farmlands, was once dominated by dinosaurs as big as buses and five-story buildings. But recent research has helped deepen our understanding of why dinosaurs prevailed: the answer may lie in their special bones, structured like Aero chocolate.
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It's sometimes difficult to imagine how the planet we call home, with its megalopolis cities and serene farmlands, was once dominated by dinosaurs as big as buses and five-story buildings. But recent research has helped deepen our understanding of why dinosaurs prevailed: the answer may lie in their special bones, structured like Aero chocolate.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36840-2 Faults responsible for the 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest, California earthquake likely evolved through reactivation of pre-existing Independence dike swarm structures. The inherited rupture geometry strongly controlled the earthquake slip distribution.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37046-2 Drosophila larvae may benefit each other at lower densities but compete at higher densities. Here, Verschut et al. identify a mechanism enabling Drosophila females to favor egg-laying sites containing medium concentrations of aggregation pheromones, which may facilitate choice of favorable sites.
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A new book looks at the political messages of the Marvel cinematic universe. In their new book, The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Duke University political scientist Nicholas Carnes and coauthor Lilly J. Goren of Carroll University ask, "What lessons are this entertainment juggernaut teaching audiences about politics, society, power, gender, and inequality?" Sanford School @ Duke ·
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The Thünen Institute now offers interactive forest maps through the Thünen Atlas (http://atlas.thuenen.de) that provide a nationwide overview of the stocked forest area—i.e., the area on which trees grow—and the dominant tree species. They are not limited to being important sources of information for public authorities, policy, NGOs and associations, but can also be used for further forest and env
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A swathe of the Amazon Rainforest almost twice the size of Luxembourg was destroyed by fire between 2003 and 2019. The area is in the southwest of Amazonas state, in Brazil's North region, and includes parts of nine municipalities with some of the worst sustainable development indicators in the country. Deforestation had been increasing in the area, largely owing to illegal logging and other activ
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Sunsets provide some of the most beautiful natural imagery anywhere on Earth. People flock from all over to see sunsets at specific places at specific times, such as when they perfectly align down a street in Manhattan. But sunsets on other planets wouldn't be nearly as spectacular.
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (IOLR) have succeeded in significantly increasing the ability of seaweed to produce healthy natural materials. The current study focused on enhancing the production of bio-active compounds that offer medical benefits to humans, such as antioxidants, the concentration of which in the seaweed was do
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Special cranial adaptations, including an asymmetrical 'wonky' skull and enlarged ears, may give the critically endangered ground-dwelling Night Parrot the edge it needs to make its way around the Outback in the dark— even with limited eyesight and a big "bluffy" head.
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A global mapping project led by University of Queensland researchers has revealed the major stressors placed upon global coastlines by human activity.
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The International Space Station, orbiting the Earth at about 17,150 miles per hour, is currently home to seven crew members. In recent months, the astronauts and cosmonauts of Expedition 67 and 68 have taken some amazing photographs of our lovely planet as they pass overhead, and I wanted to share more of these unique views here.
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A brown dog, muzzle gone gray—surely from a life well lived— tries to climb three steps but falters . Her legs give out, and she twists and falls. A Rottweiler limps around a kitchen . A golden retriever pants in a vet's office , then he's placed on a table, wrapped in medical tubes. "Bye, buddy," a voice says off camera. Nearby, a hand picks up a syringe. This is Dead-Dog TikTok. It is an algori
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PLUS. Teleskopet skal undersøge radiobølger fra universets mørke æra, der fulgte efter Big Bang.
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Ran-Dumb ChatGPT may be an eloquent speaker, bullshit artist , and purveyor of misinformation — but a mathematician it is not. Yes, you may be familiar with accounts of people convincing ChatGPT that 2+2=5 , but OpenAI's chatbot has other, more subtle ways that it will screw up simple, math-related tasks that could easily go unnoticed. One example? Generating random numbers. According to the find
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Clone Wars With a silly name and an even sillier startup cost, Stanford's Alpaca GPT clone costs only $600 to build and is a prime example of how easy software like OpenAI's may be to replicate. In a blurb spotted by New Atlas , Stanford's Center for Research on Foundation Models announced last week that its researchers had "fine-tuned" Meta's LLaMA 7B large language model (LLM) using OpenAI's GP
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute (IOLR) have succeeded in significantly increasing the ability of seaweed to produce healthy natural materials. The current study focused on enhancing the production of bio-active compounds that offer medical benefits to humans, such as antioxidants, the concentration of which in the seaweed was do
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Special cranial adaptations, including an asymmetrical 'wonky' skull and enlarged ears, may give the critically endangered ground-dwelling Night Parrot the edge it needs to make its way around the Outback in the dark— even with limited eyesight and a big "bluffy" head.
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Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust.
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When a family of five-ton elephants stomps and chomps its way through your crops, there's only one winner. And in the central African nation of Gabon, farmers are getting fed up with the giant animals trampling their fields—and their livelihoods.
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Some 70% of the World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island has been closed to non-essential visitors in response to a recurrence of the plant disease myrtle rust.
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Universal Basic Income (UBI), a program in which all adult citizens are given a regular amount of money to spend on what they choose, dominates the debate on the future of social policy. It is based on the idea that in the middle of plenty, millions of people still suffer from unemployment, underemployment, and a lack of means to have a meaningful life, and that a regular grant will provide a basi
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When a family of five-ton elephants stomps and chomps its way through your crops, there's only one winner. And in the central African nation of Gabon, farmers are getting fed up with the giant animals trampling their fields—and their livelihoods.
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Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish kill. And it's in almost the same location.
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In an increasingly digitalized and automated world, education organizations worldwide have recognized critical thinking as a vital and valued skill in the 21st century. It equips students with the ability to criticize and sift through the large amounts of information now at their fingertips, and analyze unique problems to create novel solutions.
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Twenty years ago, the United States led the "coalition of the willing" in an invasion of Iraq, in the shadow of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the US by militant Islamic network al-Qaeda.
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Australian schools have been under huge pressures in recent years. On top of concerns about academic progress and staff shortages, schools have faced significant, ongoing disruptions due to COVID and major flooding disasters.
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You've probably heard about the "great resignation" which saw large numbers of people resigning from their jobs in the US in 2021 and 2022.
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Human life on Earth is utterly dependent on biodiversity but our activities are driving an increase in extinctions. Yet some extinct species continue to hold our fascination. New methods in genetics and reproductive biology hold the promise that de-extinction—resurrecting extinct species—could soon be possible.
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Lawmakers call for an investigation into the SVB collapse, fearing hostile foreign governments will use social media to manipulate markets.
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05950-8
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05958-0
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00789-5 Political endorsements might not always win hearts and minds, but when candidates threaten a retreat from reason, science must speak out.
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00799-3 In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people's views of the candidates, but caused some to lose confidence in Nature and in US scientists generally.
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To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC's latest climate report
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Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them
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In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31103-y
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Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish kill. And it's in almost the same location.
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The answer to today's typing teaser Earlier today I set you the following puzzle, based on the idea that a monkey sat at a typewriter bashing random keys will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Here it is again with the solution. The magic word Continue reading…
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AI LLaMA Language Models
Large language models are infamous for spewing toxic biases, thanks to the reams of awful human-produced content they get trained on. But if the models are large enough, and humans have helped train them, then they may be able to self-correct for some of these biases. Remarkably, all we have to do is ask. That's the finding of an experiment out of AI lab Anthropic, described in a non-peer-reviewe
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Human life on Earth is utterly dependent on biodiversity but our activities are driving an increase in extinctions. Yet some extinct species continue to hold our fascination. New methods in genetics and reproductive biology hold the promise that de-extinction—resurrecting extinct species—could soon be possible.
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Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, politicians continue to repeat the errors of the past by taking information from security briefings that they want to hear.
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Throughout Russia's war against Ukraine, there have been countless reports of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. Now, there are also allegations of genocide involving the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
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Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to tolerate and what sacrifices to ask your citizens to bear.
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Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37301-6
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37302-5
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Hummingbirds use the hibernation-like state of torpor in varying ways, depending on their physical condition and what is happening in their environment, according to new research.
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Scientists developing new biomaterials often try to mimic the body's natural proteins, but a chemist shows that simpler polymers — based on a handful of plastic building blocks — also work well. Using AI, her team was able to design polymer mixtures that replicate simple protein functions within biological fluids. The random heteropolymers dissolve and stabilize proteins and can support cells' n
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Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods.
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Researchers have identified several links between various risk factors and feline litterbox issues. Identifying a range of risk factors makes it possible to modify conditions in the cat's environment, thus preventing and reducing litterbox issues.
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A new way of describing the connections in real-world systems such as food webs or social networks could lead to better methods for predicting and controlling them.
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The flavor of beer begins to change as soon as it's packaged, prompting a debate among afficionados: Does the beverage stay fresher in a bottle or a can? Now, researchers report that the answer is, well, complicated, and depends on the type of beer. An amber ale stayed fresher in bottles, whereas container choice made much less difference to the stability of an India Pale Ale (IPA).
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Synecoculture, a new farming method, involves growing mixed plant species together in high density. However, it requires complex operation since varying species with different growing seasons and growing speeds are planted on the same land. To address this need, researchers have developed a robot that can sow, prune, and harvest plants in dense vegetation growth. Its small, flexible body will help
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With spring settling in across the U.S. and days lengthening, many people are ready to spend more time outside. But after a walk outdoors, have you ever found seeds clinging to your clothes? Lodged in your socks and shoelaces? Perhaps tangled in your pet's fur? While most of us don't give these hitchhikers much thought, seeds and burrs may be the first signs of invasive plant spread.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified specific proteins and amino acids that could control bioenergy plants' ability to identify beneficial microbes that can enhance plant growth and storage of carbon in soils. The research is published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
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Estonia, a small country in northern Europe, reached a digital milestone when the country headed to the polls on March 5, 2023.
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With spring settling in across the U.S. and days lengthening, many people are ready to spend more time outside. But after a walk outdoors, have you ever found seeds clinging to your clothes? Lodged in your socks and shoelaces? Perhaps tangled in your pet's fur? While most of us don't give these hitchhikers much thought, seeds and burrs may be the first signs of invasive plant spread.
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The pandemic has exacerbated the problem of school absences. When schools reopened, fewer pupils went to school than before the COVID-19 school closures.
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As a victim or suspect of a crime, or witness to an offense, you may find your actions, behavior and character scrutinized by the police or a barrister using CCTV footage. You may assume all the relevant footage has been gathered and viewed. You may sit on a jury and be expected to evaluate CCTV footage to help determine whether you find a defendant guilty or innocent.
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Scientists developing new biomaterials often try to mimic the body's natural proteins, but a chemist shows that simpler polymers — based on a handful of plastic building blocks — also work well. Using AI, her team was able to design polymer mixtures that replicate simple protein functions within biological fluids. The random heteropolymers dissolve and stabilize proteins and can support cells' n
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A new way of describing the connections in real-world systems such as food webs or social networks could lead to better methods for predicting and controlling them.
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Australian workers are exhausted, unwell, at risk of quitting, and largely unprepared for future workplace challenges driven by automation and artificial intelligence, a new report from the University of Melbourne Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative reveals.
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New research led by the University of St Andrews reveals that multinational organizations that pay their share of in-country taxes contribute positively to tackling global poverty and international human rights.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have identified specific proteins and amino acids that could control bioenergy plants' ability to identify beneficial microbes that can enhance plant growth and storage of carbon in soils. The research is published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.
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The UN's final IPCC report warns that drastic action must be taken immediately, but staving off disaster is within humanity's grasp.
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To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC's latest climate report
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A newly published UNSW Sydney research report provides a comprehensive roadmap to confront Queensland's housing and rental crisis, with many of its recommendations applicable and adaptable Australia-wide.
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In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources.
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Astronomers urge people to stand up to 'big light' industry amid unchecked brightening of night sky A ban on megaconstellations of low-altitude satellites – arrays such as Elon Musk's Starlink – should be considered, astronomers have said, in an effort to reduce light pollution and preserve our ability to study the skies. In a series of papers and opinion pieces published in the journal Nature As
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Certain personality traits are associated with satisfaction in life, and despite the changes people may experience in social roles and responsibilities over the course of their adult lives, that association is stable regardless of age, according to new research.
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Gene therapy has been heralded as the new frontier of medicine, but there are still many limitations to current technologies; among them, how to deliver therapeutic genes to specific cells, and only activate them in the right context. A team has created a new RNA-based tool called DART VADAR to bring gene editing out of the 'dark side' of those problems and into the light. Using an engineered form
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Muscle degeneration, the most prevalent cause of frailty in hereditary diseases and aging, could be caused by a deficiency in one key enzyme in a lipid biosynthesis pathway. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences characterize how the enzyme PCYT2 affects muscle health in disease and aging in laboratory mouse models. The findings are publi
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Whether or not animals can taste basic or alkaline food and how they do it has remained a mystery until now. A research group led by Yali Zhang, Ph.D., principal investigator at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, recently addressed this question, as they similarly did for sour taste in 2021 on the lower end of the pH scale. Their work, published today in Nature Metabolism, identified a previously
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Efforts to understand the effects of immigration enforcement on crime have largely been informed by police crime statistics. In a new study, researchers used longitudinal data from the U.S. National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to assess the impact of federal immigration policies on local communities. They found that activation of two policies—the Secure Communities Program and 287(g) task fo
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Muscle degeneration, the most prevalent cause of frailty in hereditary diseases and aging, could be caused by a deficiency in one key enzyme in a lipid biosynthesis pathway. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences characterize how the enzyme PCYT2 affects muscle health in disease and aging in laboratory mouse models. The findings are publi
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Figuring out a lie has never been easier: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is. This is the core of a new approach to lie detection, say researchers from the University of Amsterdam's Leugenlab (Lie Lab) in collaboration with researchers from Maastricht University and Tilburg University.
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The long and tortuous effort to regulate toxic chemicals in America has now come up against an ironic obstacle: anti-environmental lobbying by the manufacturers of batteries and other renewable energy technologies that rely on toxic substances. The successful effort by the chemical industry to resist regulation picked up steam in the 1980s.
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Whether or not animals can taste basic or alkaline food and how they do it has remained a mystery until now. A research group led by Yali Zhang, Ph.D., principal investigator at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, recently addressed this question, as they similarly did for sour taste in 2021 on the lower end of the pH scale. Their work, published today in Nature Metabolism, identified a previously
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For the first time, scientists at the University of Sydney and the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated the ability to manipulate and identify small numbers of interacting photons—packets of light energy—with high correlation.
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Mortality rates of orphaned koala joeys could be greatly reduced by a non-invasive stress test kit being trialed by University of Queensland researchers.
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Shigellosis, a highly contagious diarrheal disease, is caused by Shigella bacteria circulating in industrializing countries but also in industrialized countries. Scientists from the French National Reference Center for Escherichia coli, Shigella and Salmonella at the Institut Pasteur who have been monitoring Shigella in France for several years have detected the emergence of extensively drug-resis
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UGCA 307 hangs against an irregular backdrop of distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The small galaxy consists of a diffuse band of stars containing red bubbles of gas that mark regions of recent star formation and lies roughly 26 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Corvus. Appearing as just a small patch of stars, UGCA 307 is a diminutive dwarf
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Even though Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters (SWEETs) have been found in every plant genome, a comprehensive understanding of their functionality is lacking. An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has therefore investigated the role that SWEETs play in barley grain development and looked into the question of which substrates are transported by the SWEET prot
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A lack of detail may be the best indication that someone is lying to you, according to an investigation that found this single measure was more accurate at identifying falsehoods than considering multiple factors
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An imaging technique has allowed researchers to record detailed three-dimensional video of small creatures, including ants, flies and zebrafish larvae
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Habitat and hunting protections have helped orca numbers rebound globally, but a group in the North Pacific Ocean is still shrinking – probably because it is isolated from other populations
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Manhattan Bragg Trump
Prominent Republicans disagree about a lot these days, but on one point they have found consensus: Getting charged with a crime would be great news for Donald Trump. After the former president predicted that he will be arrested in Manhattan tomorrow—a forecast that seems questionable, though an indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg does seem to be imminent—conventional wisdom qu
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Imagine that someone—perhaps a man from Florida, or maybe even a governor of Florida— criticized American support for Ukraine. Imagine that this person dismissed the war between Russia and Ukraine as a purely local matter, of no broader significance. Imagine that this person even told a far-right television personality that "while the U.S. has many vital national interests … becoming further en
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I scored a 130 on the Raven Progress Matrice set 2 and have yet to test by other abilities so I'll guesstimate and say I have a score of 115. The issue is that I want to major in bioengineering and physics and those majors have an average in the high 120s, which I am capable of doing if my Raven Progress Matrice IQ is correct, but if my IQ is lower than that then I worry. This may seem like a dum
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Mortality rates of orphaned koala joeys could be greatly reduced by a non-invasive stress test kit being trialed by University of Queensland researchers.
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Shigellosis, a highly contagious diarrheal disease, is caused by Shigella bacteria circulating in industrializing countries but also in industrialized countries. Scientists from the French National Reference Center for Escherichia coli, Shigella and Salmonella at the Institut Pasteur who have been monitoring Shigella in France for several years have detected the emergence of extensively drug-resis
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Even though Sugars Will Eventually be Exported Transporters (SWEETs) have been found in every plant genome, a comprehensive understanding of their functionality is lacking. An international research team led by the IPK Leibniz Institute has therefore investigated the role that SWEETs play in barley grain development and looked into the question of which substrates are transported by the SWEET prot
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Orbio Earth Methane
Time is running short to address climate change, but there are feasible and effective solutions on the table, according to a new UN climate report released today. Despite decades of warnings from scientists, global greenhouse-gas emissions are still climbing, hitting a record high in 2022 . If humanity wants to limit the worst effects of climate change, we will have to reverse that trend, and qui
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This is a recording of the panel debate on future perspectives on responsible brain science at "Future of Responsible Brain Research" event organised by the Human Brain Project's Ethics & Society team on 2nd of February 2023. In the closing session, community leaders from a diversity of backgrounds give us their perspective on future directions for more responsible brain science, and for working
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This is a recording of the keynote speak by Marcello Ienca at "Future of Responsible Brain Research" event organised by the Human Brain Project's Ethics & Society team on 2nd of February 2023. Abstract: Neuroscience is increasingly relying on the collection of large volumes of differently structured data and the use of machine learning algorithms for data analytics. In parallel, the ubiquitous co
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This is a recording of the panel debate on interdisciplinary collaboration at "Future of Responsible Brain Research" event organised by the Human Brain Project's Ethics & Society team on 2nd of February 2023. Interdisciplinary collaboration remains one of the major challenges for responsible brain research. To align research with societal expectations, it is important that knowledge is co-produce
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This is a recording of the panel debate on RRI at "Future of Responsible Brain Research" event organised by the Human Brain Project's Ethics & Society team on 2nd of February 2023. In this session we explore novel approaches to steering research and innovation towards socially desirable goals. Arguably social desirability and sustainability where two of the central ambitions formulated with the f
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Ice surfaces have a thin layer of water below its melting temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. Such premelting phenomenon is important for skating and snowflake growth. Similarly, liquid often crystallizes into a thin layer of crystal on a flat substrate before reaching its freezing temperature, i.e. prefreezing. The thickness of the surface layer usually increases and diverges as approaching the pha
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Rivers Andean Andes
Researchers show that rivers in the Andean mountains contribute 35% and 72% of riverine emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and methane (CH4 ) in the Amazon basin, the world's largest river.
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Human activities are accelerating biodiversity change and promoting a rapid turnover in species composition. A team of researchers has now shown that more widespread species tend to benefit from anthropogenic changes and increase the number of sites they occupy, whereas more narrowly distributed species decrease. Their results, which were published in Nature Communications, are based on an extensi
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Human activities are accelerating biodiversity change and promoting a rapid turnover in species composition. A team of researchers has now shown that more widespread species tend to benefit from anthropogenic changes and increase the number of sites they occupy, whereas more narrowly distributed species decrease. Their results, which were published in Nature Communications, are based on an extensi
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Ice surfaces have a thin layer of water below its melting temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. Such premelting phenomenon is important for skating and snowflake growth. Similarly, liquid often crystallizes into a thin layer of crystal on a flat substrate before reaching its freezing temperature, i.e. prefreezing. The thickness of the surface layer usually increases and diverges as approaching the pha
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Breaking a longstanding impasse in our understanding of olfaction, scientists have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odor molecule activates a human odorant receptor, a crucial step in deciphering the sense of smell.
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Researchers found that copepod genomes adapt in distinct ways when simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental conditions.
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Researchers discover new idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis risk factors with multi-ancestry analyses that increase representation of understudied populations.
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In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons
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A gruesome discovery in the Benjamin Franklin House has us wondering if Ben Franklin was a serial killer. Get the scientific context behind the findings.
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The United States has long touted itself as a nation built by immigrants. Yet there has never been a precise measure of immigrants' contribution to the country's economic and technological progress. Around the time that President Donald Trump was moving to curb employment visas for skilled foreigners, economist Rebecca Diamond and a team of researchers set out to examine this unresolved question.
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A quartet of seismologists at The Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, has found that an earthquake that struck near the town of Woods Point, in Victoria, Australia, back in 2021, was due to a blind fault. In their paper published in Seismological Research Letters, Sima Mousavi, Babak Hejrani, Meghan Miller and Michelle Salmon describe their analysis of seismological data collec
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Criteria used to assess adults for multiple sclerosis may fail to identify the illness in children, a new study shows. That oversight could delay treatment of the disease at its earliest stages, the researchers say. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the primary tool used for diagnosis of MS , and doctors have applied various standards over the years to classify those most likely to develop the
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37329-8 Despite their high brightness and long-lived emission, lanthanide based circularly polarised luminophores have not been fully exploited for real-life application. Here, the authors present an all solid-state circularly polarised luminescence camera to facilitate ad hoc time-resolved enantioselective differentia
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An easy way of altering compact semiconductor lasers to make them more practical for illumination and holography has been demonstrated by KAUST scientists. The research is published in the journal Optica.
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Not only has population growth and aging infrastructure put a strain on existing stormwater drainage systems in Texas, but climate change impacts have also made extreme one-day rainfall events more common.
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In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found they could separate blended cotton and polyester fabric using enzymes—nature's tools for speeding chemical reactions. Ultimately, they hope their findings will lead to a more efficient way to recycle the fabric's component materials, thereby reducing textile waste.
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Global fires have widespread impacts on the global carbon cycle and atmospheric environment with immediate direct carbon emissions. Fire carbon emission has substantial spatiotemporal variabilities and contributes to the dynamics of global CO2 distributions and variances.
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The upper range limits of tree species are extremely sensitive to climate change, and global climate warming has already had profound effects on the recruitment dynamics of alpine treelines worldwide. Previous studies have only considered the effects of daily mean temperature increases on alpine treeline recruitment, without considering of the asymmetric effects of daytime and nighttime warming.
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Invasion by introduced species has been listed as one of the main threats to freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Invasive species have resulted in reduced abundance and diversity of native species in invaded natural habitats.
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Invasion by introduced species has been listed as one of the main threats to freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Invasive species have resulted in reduced abundance and diversity of native species in invaded natural habitats.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on wealthy countries Monday to move up their goals of achieving carbon neutrality as close as possible to 2040, mostly from 2050 now, in order to "defuse the climate time bomb."
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Angling, a type of fishing, is a popular pastime across the world, and is known to be 40,000 years old. Angling usually takes place in natural bodies of water, which may have populations of wild fish, or be stocked with cultured fish. Fish caught by angling may either be consumed, or may be immediately released.
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The development of new information and communication technologies poses new challenges to scientists and industry. Designing new quantum materials—whose exceptional properties stem from quantum physics—is the most promising way to meet these challenges. An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and including researchers from the universities of Salerno, Utrecht and Delft, has d
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Angling, a type of fishing, is a popular pastime across the world, and is known to be 40,000 years old. Angling usually takes place in natural bodies of water, which may have populations of wild fish, or be stocked with cultured fish. Fish caught by angling may either be consumed, or may be immediately released.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31318-z
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Safety and effect of pipeline flex embolization device for complex unruptured intracranial aneurysms
Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31638-0
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Spring's burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature
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Extraterrestrial life has the potential to exist on distant exoplanets inside a special area called the "terminator zone," according to a new study. The terminator zone is a ring on planets that have one side that always faces its star and one side that is always dark. "These planets have a permanent day side and a permanent night side," says lead author Ana Lobo, a postdoctoral researcher in the
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00795-7 Luis Fonseca leads research into micro-, nano- and photonic chip technologies that could kill cancer cells, protect the environment and facilitate space research.
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Devastating climate impacts are hitting faster than expected as the world teeters on reaching the 1.5 degree Celsius warming limit in a little over a decade, the UN said Monday.
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Ensuring all people have unrestricted access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) is central to realizing development policies worldwide. Poor WaSH facilities plague many low- and middle-income countries as one of the biggest causes of illness and death. In order to ease these problems, our approach to providing acceptable levels of WaSH access must be re-examined.
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Wheat, which includes bread wheat and its relatives, is a staple food crop that feeds about 35% of the world's population. As one of the first ancient crops to appear in the Fertile Crescent, wheat has been cultivated for over 10,000 years since the "Neolithic Revolution" and is considered a transformative force in human society. Despite its economic importance and intimate bond with humanity, how
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Wheat, which includes bread wheat and its relatives, is a staple food crop that feeds about 35% of the world's population. As one of the first ancient crops to appear in the Fertile Crescent, wheat has been cultivated for over 10,000 years since the "Neolithic Revolution" and is considered a transformative force in human society. Despite its economic importance and intimate bond with humanity, how
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As one of the major blue carbon ecosystems, mangroves provide critical ecosystem services in mitigating global climate change. However, future complex and variable climate conditions may lead to the uncertainty in trajectories of blue carbon capacity. Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations (eCO2) is projected to become a prominent driver of mangrove blue carbon in the future.
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After Tyson's unexpected departure, Mitch and Tyson must move Big Red to a new cut on their own. #discoveryplus #goldrush Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/gold-rush About Gold Rush: Motivated by a depressed economy, hard-working gold miners get to work both in America and across the globe in an attempt to strike it rich. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.yout
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The flavor of beer begins to change as soon as it's packaged, prompting a debate among afficionados: Does the beverage stay fresher in a bottle or a can? Now, researchers report in ACS Food Science & Technology that the answer is, well, complicated, and depends on the type of beer. An amber ale stayed fresher in bottles, whereas container choice made much less difference to the stability of an Ind
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A new way of describing the connections in real-world systems such as food webs or social networks could lead to better methods for predicting and controlling them.
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Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had so-called median eyes, single eyes on their foreheads, in addition to their compound eyes, research conducted by Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology and Professor Dr. Euan Clarkson at the University of Edinburgh has now found out.
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As one of the major blue carbon ecosystems, mangroves provide critical ecosystem services in mitigating global climate change. However, future complex and variable climate conditions may lead to the uncertainty in trajectories of blue carbon capacity. Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations (eCO2) is projected to become a prominent driver of mangrove blue carbon in the future.
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Netflix Mighty Quest
The streaming giant gave an update on upcoming releases and why it's (ahem) playing the long game.
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Cart Life was a lauded indie darling. Then it vanished from Steam. Its creator finally opens up about why he pulled it, and why it's coming back.
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CPAP machines treat sleep apnea, but many patients don't use them as directed. A new study finds "morning people" use theirs more during the night than others. Most people with obstructive sleep apnea—a condition in which normal breathing is regularly interrupted during sleep—are prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine as treatment. Yet many people do not use their devi
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When the paleontologist Michael D'Emic cut into the bones of Majungasaurus, a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed Madagascar 70 million years ago, he suspected that surprises might be hiding in them. But what he found defied all expectations. Majungasaurus adults measured up to 7 meters from snout to tail and could weigh 1,000 kilograms. Paleontologists had thought that big dinosaurs like..
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Panels Years SolarCycle
Solar power is going to play a major role in combating climate change, but it requires huge amounts of land. Floating solar panels on top of reservoirs could provide up to a third of the world's electricity without taking up extra space, and also save trillions of gallons of water from evaporating. So called "floating photovoltaic" systems have a lot going for them. The surface of reservoirs can'
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The apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions. The annual amount of fiber production reached 113 million tons in 2021 and the demand is increasing every year. However, almost 90% of post-consumer fiber wastes are disposed of through incineration or deposition in landfills.
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The increase in gun violence in the United States has put pressure on law enforcement and others to find ways to reduce it. In 2022, there were 647 mass shootings, up from 383 in 2016. There has also been a three-fold increase in active shooter events between 2000 and 2016. These are defined as "one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area."
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Sign up for Kaitlyn and Lizzie's newsletter here. Kaitlyn: Are you familiar with the concept of imposter syndrome? The opposite of it is when you know that there's no reason you would be anything but terrible at an activity, yet you can't help wondering: What if I'm randomly really good at that? I am afflicted with this problem, and it has become even more obvious since I started watching Survivo
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A clearer understanding about the markers and drivers of cancer cell proliferation has emerged from research that identifies new opportunities to overcome convergence with complex enzymes, known as kinases. The work paves the way for new approaches to study the molecular drivers of disease states such as cancer.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37300-7
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Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and even generate movement.
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A clearer understanding about the markers and drivers of cancer cell proliferation has emerged from research that identifies new opportunities to overcome convergence with complex enzymes, known as kinases. The work paves the way for new approaches to study the molecular drivers of disease states such as cancer.
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Researchers have devised a new concept of superconducting microwave low-noise amplifiers for use in radio wave detectors for radio astronomy observations, and they have successfully demonstrated a high-performance cooled amplifier with power consumption three orders of magnitude lower than that of conventional cooled semiconductor amplifiers. This result is expected to contribute to the realizatio
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Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and even generate movement.
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Besvär i vulva och vagina drabbar många kvinnor och kan försämra sexlivet. Det visar en studie som även konstaterar att negativa erfarenheter av gynekologiska undersökningar inte är ovanligt. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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PLUS. Menneskeskabt global opvarmning er et faktum, men at begrænse den er en mulighed, lyder det overordnede budskab fra FN's klimapanel.
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Curious if Elon Musk is a scientist? Take a closer look at Musk's background and education to determine if he actually qualifies as a scientist.
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A new 3D-printed customized insole uses integrated sensors to measure the pressure on the sole of the foot directly in the shoe during various activities. In elite sports, fractions of a second sometimes make the difference between victory and defeat. To optimize their performance, athletes use custom-made insoles. But people with musculoskeletal pain also turn to insoles to combat their discomfo
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The sixth synthesis report from the IPCC once again warns that without immediate and massive emissions reductions, limiting global warming to 1.5°C will be beyond reach
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change isn't due to produce its next report until 2028, which could allow political focus to move away from global warming, campaigners have warned
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California is once again being deluged by atmospheric rivers that have unleashed major flooding across the state, with river number 12 scheduled to dump more precipitation the week of March 19.
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New research indicates that a small percentage of financial landlords, like private equity firms and institutional investors, own four times more of Montreal's rental housing stock than was previously estimated. Neighborhoods with more financial landlords are also experiencing higher housing stress levels.
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By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, a group of experimental researchers has found that X-ray transitions previously thought to have been unpolarized according to atomic physics, are in fact highly polarized, reports a new study published in Physical Review Letters on March 15.
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In an effort to mitigate accidental detonations of stored explosives, a multidisciplinary team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists developed a way to create "switchable" high explosives that won't detonate unless activated by being filled with an inert fluid, such as water. Their findings were published March 17 in Physical Review Letters.
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Using the Guillermo Haro Observatory (OAGH) in Mexico, astronomers have performed spectroscopic observations of a dwarf nova known as U Geminorum. Results of the observational campaign, published March 10 on the arXiv pre-print repository, yield important insights into the properties of this object.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31522-x
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31511-0 The relationship between physical exercise and smoking behavior among Chinese residents aged 16 years and older
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31212-8
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Spring's burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00792-w Biochemist who invented recombinant DNA technology.
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Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00786-8 I learnt the benefits of reaching out through e-mail while I was a student, now I receive many cold e-mails myself. Here's how to write a good one.
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How much individuals express their religious beliefs in the workplace depends on how much power they hold there, according to new research. The study, which used survey data from a nationally representative sample of employed US adults, was published in a recent edition of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion . Expressions of religion that were measured included displaying faith with
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UN IPCC United Nations
Risks of warming and irreversible changes to the planet greater than thought in previous assessment in 2014
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IPCC UN Climate Report
The IPCC's synopsis of the state of climate science warns that we're running out of time to avoid ever-worsening disaster.
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A new U.N. report says it is still possible to hold global warming to relatively safe levels, but doing so will require global cooperation, billions of dollars and big changes.
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Catalyst Helps Turn
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that gold nanoparticles supported on a zirconium oxide surface help turn waste materials like biomass and polyester into organosilane compounds, valuable chemicals used in a wide range of applications. The new protocol leverages the cooperation between gold nanoparticles and the amphoteric (both acid and base) nature of the zirconium oxide
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De politiske valg, der bliver truffet i dag, kommer til at bestemme, hvor varm verden bliver for både nuværende og fremtidige generationer, slår FN fast.
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RSV Vaccine Pfizer GSK
Decades of failed attempts have given way to several successful vaccines and treatments for the respiratory disease RSV
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Over the past few decades, the field of data processing and transferring technology has advanced at a rapid pace. This growth can be attributed to Moore's Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a microchip will double roughly every two years, enabling the semiconductor industry to make electronic devices smaller, faster, and more efficient.
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För att ta extremt högupplösta mikroskopbilder på exempelvis celler måste man veta exakt var man ska rikta mikroskopet så att man avbildar just det man är intresserad av. Inte så lätt när det man letar efter är levande biologiskt material. Forskare vid Lunds universitet utvecklat en mjukvarumetod för smart, datadriven mikroskopi, som gör detta möjligt.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37281-7 Ion mobility is used in mass spectrometers for structure analysis of biomolecules. Here, the authors show that ion mobility analysis in an ion trap under ultra-high fields enables isomer separation at resolutions over 10,000, wich they demonstrate for isomers of disaccharides, phospholipids, and peptides.
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The following results are from maximizing each policy in isolation using En-ROADS v23.2.1 Policy Temperature increase by 2100 Status quo scenario (no policy) 3.6 ºC (6.4 ºF) Maximally tax bioenergy 3.5 ºC (6.4 ºF) Highly reduced deforestation 3.5ºC (6.3 ºF) Very highly tax natural gas 3.5 ºC (6.3 ºF) High growth afforestation 3.5 ºC (6.2 ºF) Highly subsidize nuclear 3.5 ºC (6.2 ºF) Highly incen
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I'm not talking about the movie trope of putting on a headset and you are in the game feeling everything etc but something like the sims where you live in a town/map/world with 80-100 other simulated people, using AI which gives them personalities and can have conversations with the player. Also remember stuff that happens to them or that players do and they have real effects on the player's rela
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This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Weight-loss injections have taken over the internet. But what does this mean for people IRL? Over the course of the last year, so-called "miracle" weight-loss drugs have blown up across the internet. Although celebrity users have boosted their standing, they o
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RSV Vaccine Pfizer
Decades of failed attempts have given way to several successful vaccines and treatments for the respiratory disease RSV
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Engrossing insights into dilemmas from fossil fuels to flying — and the political questions they pose
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In this episode we speak to Steven Laureys, a leading scientist in the Human Brain Project. He speaks about his research on consciousness, his early fascination with the human mind, and the importance of mindfulness. Laureys is also Director of the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège, and Research Director at the Belgian National Fund of Scientific Research. He is the author of ' The No
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RSV Vaccine Pfizer
Decades of failed attempts have given way to several successful vaccines and treatments for the respiratory disease RSV
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Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the "pigeonhole principle," first conceived in 1622
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Nature, Published online: 17 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00839-y GPT-4 has stunned people with its ability to generate human-like text and images from almost any prompt. Plus, the first 3D map of the odour receptor that lets us smell cheese, and how stem cells make a brain.
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Nature, Published online: 16 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00775-x People scrolling online news are 1% less likely to click on an article for each positive word in its title.
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Nature, Published online: 16 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00829-0 Sugar substitute sucralose suppresses mouse immune system. Plus, how the Nord Stream gas-pipeline explosion stirred up long-buried toxins and a volcano was spotted erupting on Venus.
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Did UFO reporting increase during the pandemic? A group of researchers set out to answer that question, and recently published their results . Their hypothesis was two-fold, including the notion that people had more free time during the shutdown and perhaps spent more time out doors, and therefore had a greater opportunity to see anomalous things in the sky. I would add that more free time might
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The 2023 vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere occurs on 20 March, but it's not strictly true that this means day and night are the same length
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37251-z Thermocatalytic alkynol semi-hydrogenation often uses high-pressure H2 and Pd-based catalysts. Here, using a Cu-based electrode, the authors investigate the electrocatalytic alkynol semi-hydrogenation to alkenols with water as the hydrogen source.
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Ukraine Putin NATO
The next president will almost certainly inherit some kind of peace in Ukraine. As the economist Herb Stein said, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop." This war cannot go on forever, certainly not at its current intensity. It will stop or dwindle into a cease-fire, official or otherwise. The potential contenders for the 2024 U.S. presidential election talk about how to deal with the
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During Barack Obama's first term, the American right became fixated on the supposed threats of communism and socialism. At the time, it felt like another weird throwback trend from the Cold War, along with flared jeans, gated reverb , or Jell-O molds. The proximate causes were clear enough—huge government spending to bolster the economy (by, uh, bailing out banks, but whatever) and efforts to exp
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Much of the plot of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop is lost to me, though I consider it one of my favorite books. I have a sense that it involves a young priest rising through the ranks of the Catholic Church as New Mexico is flooded by settlers, and I also know that—spoiler alert!—he dies at the end. But what remain indelible are two oddly mathematical vistas. In the novel's openin
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W hat with everything going on in the world, stewing over an obscure, century-old maritime law might seem odd. But the Jones Act really does warrant such consternation. It's not just a terrible law that hurts you, me, and everyone we know—especially if they live in Puerto Rico or drive to work on the East Coast. It's also a cautionary tale against government industrial policies, which can have un
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Wyoming Texas Abortion
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here . There's been a quiet shift in the abortion fight in the US. Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court last June, laws that make most abortions illegal have passed in 13 states . Efforts to restri
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Det har stået småt til med information om fejlen, og derfor har borgere forsøgt at hjælpe hinanden på sociale medier.
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PLUS. Kvantekommunikation skal afprøves i netværk i hovedstadsområdet med en forbindelse til Odense.
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En ny mennesketype har set dagens lys på LinkedIn: workfluenceren, der er influencerens sleske slægtning, som gør sig til reklamesøjle for sin arbejdsplads på sociale medier.
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Män som utsatts för psykiskt våld upplever ofta stress, ångest och depression. De riskerar också sämre stöd eftersom de inte vill anmäla eller prata om våldet. Forskare bakom en studie beskriver situationen som en tyst epidemi. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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PLUS. 100 millioner kroner er afsat på den ny finanslov til fortsat udrulning af bredbånd.
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Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the "pigeonhole principle," first conceived in 1622
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37083-x Antibodies directed against DNA in systemic lupus erythematosus are functionally diverse. This study demonstrates that DNAse1L3 is the primary target of a subset of autoantibodies previously considered specific for double-stranded DNA.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36996-x Resolving the stoichiometry of membrane protein interactions is challenging but is vital to understand cell signalling. Using lipid-bound DNA receptors as a model for membrane proteins, the authors present a platform to achieve stoichiometric, spatial and temporal control over their interactions.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36944-9 Sensitive and accurate approaches for protein detection have many potential applications. Here the authors show how engineered protein nanopore sensors, consisting of a monobody fused to a single-polypeptide nanopore, can be used for highly specific detection of proteins in complex biofluids.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36985-0 Efficient spatial targeting of interventions could reduce the spread of infections in transportation hubs. Here, the authors assess the optimal locations to target in Heathrow airport using disease transmission models informed by a contact network based on anonymised location data from 200,000 individuals.
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Space China Saltzman
In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China.
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PLUS. Aabenraa lægger sig klart i toppen med åbningen af solcelleparken Kassø på 108 MW.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31068-y
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29714-6
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29026-9
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31813-3
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31661-1
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-31710-9
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Guido Schmitz A journal editor who disdains anonymous concerns about research integrity has just seen an article in his journal retracted, thanks to the work of a pseudonymous sleuth. The paper at issue, " An experimental investigation into the effects of Cr2O3 and ZnO2 nanoparticles on the mechanical properties and durability of self-compacting mortar ," was published in 2015 in International Jo
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Long-tailed macaques at risk of being killed, or laundered or re-trafficked if returned to Cambodia, animal welfare groups say More than a thousand Cambodian monkeys at the center of a US government investigation into wildlife trafficking are at risk of being killed or returned to their country of origin, laundered and re-trafficked, animal welfare groups say. The monkeys' plight first came to li
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For many of us, it has been a cold and traumatic year. But, as one reader found, difficult times can lead to new and revolutionary ways of thinking Walking into the NHS clinic where I work as a psychotherapist, I saw that the daffodils by the path had finally flowered. My heart lifted: new life; spring springing; winter ending. But the change in the seasons may bring little relief to those whom t
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From mice with two fathers to cures for debilitating diseases, the transformative power of genomic technology requires some big decisions on what we want to do with it
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California One Minnesota
Universities boost revenue by partnering with unregulated, for-profit providers. But when a boot camp went bust, some students took the fall.
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In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China.
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Wegovy Ozempic Weight
Michael Edenfield's doctor calls him the Incredible Shrinking Man. Between Thanksgiving 2021 and Christmas 2022, the 49-year-old aviation worker shed 129 pounds. Also gone: his sleep apnea machine, his high-blood-pressure medication, and a diuretic pill he had used to alleviate fluid retention in his legs. This is thanks to the only medication Edenfield takes today: Wegovy, a weight-loss drug he
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Däggdjur som blivit mindre eller större än sina släktingar löper större risk för utrotning. Det visar en stor studie av arter som lever på isolerade öar. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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To the naked eye, the night sky reveals only one moon. But how many moons have ever orbited Earth?
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If you're in your 20s, 30s or 40s, you need to know the signs to watch for and when to seek screening or treatment for colorectal cancer. (Image credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fight Colorecta)
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With half the world experiencing water scarcity for at least part of the year, the huge dams being built by some countries to boost their power supplies while their neighbors go parched are a growing source of potential conflict.
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The United Nations was poised to release a capstone report Monday distilling nearly a decade of published science on the impacts and trajectory of global warming, and the tools available to prevent climate catastrophe.
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Hey guys, Just came across this article in MarketWatch about the German startup Niostem ( https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/niostem-the-revolutionary-solution-for-hair-regrowth-2023-02-20 ). They seem to be gaining momentum with news sites picking up their story – as their solution seems to be drug-free and non-invasive. I also checked on their website and saw that pre-orders are official
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In the future, robotaxis will become reality. What strategies do you think manufacturers will adopt? Will they produce and maintain the fleet for their own gain or will robotaxis be sold to us consumers so that we can generate income by managing the robotaxis? Also feel free to comment on what you think each of the EV manufacturers strategies will be. submitted by /u/RolfEjerskov [link] [comments
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In the realm of climate diplomacy, it's the little engine that could, the 80-to-1-odds Kentucky Derby winner, the low-budget multiverse fantasy that came out of nowhere to sweep the Oscars.
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With its cactus-filled garden and breathtaking views of the rocky peaks of the Arizona desert, Wendy and Vance Walker's home in the Rio Verde Foothills seemed to be a little slice of paradise.
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Archaeologists said Monday they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates.
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Go ape with your brain The infinite monkey theorem states that if you let a monkey hit the keys of a typewriter at random an infinite amount of times, eventually the monkey will type out the entire works of Shakespeare. Today's puzzle involves a monkey typing out something a little shorter. Continue reading…
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Mange ved ikke, at demens kan forebygges. Det kan spare den enkelte for mange lidelser og samfundet for millioner.
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Recycled Plastic Film
To ease the plastics problem, new laws require companies to include recycled materials in their products. But enforcement will be difficult, experts say, without a reliable way to track these materials across a convoluted supply chain. A team in the U.K. is testing whether fluorescent dyes might help.
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Faecal transplants might help treat illnesses such as arthritis, diabetes and cancer. And one day it could be as simple as taking a pill made from a stranger's poo. Our writer volunteers a sample To my fellow travellers, I'm sure the package I'm carrying looks like a lunchbox. Circular, and dark blue, with a Tupperware-style lid, it is precisely the kind of vessel you'd transport a soup or salad
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A recent VICE story described a Telegram channel devoted to promoting veterinary ivermectin to treat autism. It has echoes of autism quackery going back at least to the use of MMS (a kind of bleach) to "cure" autism by eliminating "parasites." The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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Kan det regna fisk och grodor? Alltsedan antiken och ännu längre tillbaka förekommer berättelser om grodor eller fiskar som oförklarligt regnat ner från himlen. Plinius den äldre talar på 100-talet … Continued Inlägget dök först upp på Vetenskap och Folkbildning .
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Hidden deep off the coasts of North America.
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Open source intelligence researchers are verifying and debunking opaque claims about who ruptured the gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
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A set of Soyuz spacecraft coolant leaks hints that Roscosmos is struggling as the space agency loses international partnerships and funding.
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I dag udkommer FN's klimapanel med en hovedrapport, der bliver afgørende for klimaet frem mod 2030.
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New moon will be the thinnest of all crescents with just 5% of its surface illuminated A reward awaits those making their way home, or elsewhere, in the evening later this week. The chart shows the view looking due west from London at 18.50 GMT on Thursday 23 March. The tiny sliver of the new moon will sit between the brightly shining planets of Venus and Jupiter. The former will be high in the t
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I think that physical media will make a comeback at some point. But then then I wonder if internet speeds will increase so much that compression won't be a thing. Like perfect 8k picture. submitted by /u/Daveyb003 [link] [comments]
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I'm currently an undergrad majoring in cog sci with a focus on (psycho)linguistics and hearing. I really love the subject and I'm not entirely sure what to do with my degree, but I want to stick with my current focuses. My main contender right now for grad school is to go for audiology, but I'm also considering a PhD. Is a PhD lucrative, or a waste of my time? Are there better alternatives to cat
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PLUS. Et dansk-spansk droneprojekt vil give brandmænd på jorden bedre muligheder for at sætte deres ressourcer ind i kampen mod Europas skovbrande.
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PLUS. Aarhus Kommune har fremlagt en havneudvidelse som klimaneutral på et usikkert og forkert grundlag, vurderer forsker og klimaorganisationer.
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The right food may be all you need.
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I know wealth inequality is a problem that is set to get worse in the near term future and with automation and wealthy people hoarding resources, and technology to potentially fight back will we ever come to a somewhat equitable society within the United States? What do you think? submitted by /u/account1237890 [link] [comments]
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May mga alternative job ba na pwede applyan pag registered criminologist sa pinas na high paying job? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks. submitted by /u/Sensensi [link] [comments]
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AI should be capable to look up every social media comment of any person and create an avatar based on the material. Maybe we could also add video. With enough data, any personality could be recreated in theory. submitted by /u/just-a-dreamer- [link] [comments]
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This is incredible. Never would I have thought that this would be possible today. It's basically a text-based version of The Matrix. I used GPT 4 to act as a text-based game creator so that I can play as an ensign on the Enterprise D. I'm living on the Enterprise and can interact with all the characters of TNG. I asked Ensign Ro Laren to dinner, but she declined as she wants to remain focused on
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It almost looks like a targeted attack!
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To celebrate the launch of our new Essential Guide all about exercise, New Scientist editors have selected some of our most insightful premium articles about the science of physical fitness
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This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Sarah Wesseler Poor air quality is a long-standing problem in Los Angeles, where the first major outbreak of smog during World War II was so intense that some residents thought the city had been attacked by chemical weapons. Cars were eventually discovered to be a leading cause of smog, but they weren't the only ones. In 1978, the regional air qu
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When you look up at the night sky, can you see the stars? If you live in a large city or near one, the answer is probably no. The culprit is not just clouds and weather — it's light pollution.
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A lab leak was once dismissed by many as a conspiracy theory. But the idea is gaining traction, even as evidence builds that the virus emerged from a market.
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Chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station, moved at 17,000 miles per hour, making for a nighttime spectacle.
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