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A large asteroid will safely zoom between Earth and the Moon on Saturday, a once-in-a-decade event that will be used as a training exercise for planetary defense efforts, according to the European Space Agency.
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No former president of the United States has ever been indicted at either the federal or state level. That more-than-two-centuries-old record, if you want to call it that, looks like it could soon be broken—something that should have happened a long time ago. A few American presidents have certainly behaved questionably enough to meet the standard of probable cause needed for an indictment. Given
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Set For Sea Harvard physicist Avi Loeb — yep, the Oumuamua guy — hasn't given up on his quest to recover what he believes could be a potential alien artifact at the bottom of the Pacific. Based on a recent update, he and his team are closer than ever to finally getting their highly scrutinized $1.5 million Galileo Project expedition up and running, setting a date for some time this summer. "We ha
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Hello friends! As we all know, AI is rapidly increasing, and I am scared of it. I want to be a Front end developer and Later On, I want to be a full stack developer I heard that many jobs and careers will be affected in the future, like web development and software development, as we already know that ChatGPT and other software can write code easily. Now I need a genuine suggestion about what wou
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Jimmy and his crew head to Southern New Zealand to dive with Great White Sharks, which quickly becomes a very emotional experience! #discoveryplus #sharkweek Stream Full Episodes of Shark Week https://www.discoveryplus.com/dp/shark-week About Shark Week: From Dawn of the Monster Mako to The Haunting of Shark Tower, you can stream all Shark Week shows right now. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www
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For the past four months, people around the world have witnessed the macabre process of Russian forces making repeated assaults near the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut for only the tiniest of gains. By some counts, Russia has lost about five of its soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier lost—to say nothing of massive equipment losses. Although in theory a country can win a war by using its military forc
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37414-y Pure organic room-temperature phosphorescencent materials draw much attention but realising electroluminescence under electric excitation is challenging. Here the authors propose a donor-oxygen-acceptor molecular design realizing aggregation-induced organic room-temperature electrophosphorescence with high exte
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Profit, Shmofit With the help of a brand new $150 million dollar cash infusion from Andreessen Horowitz, a 16-month-old AI chatbot startup called Character.ai just reached a $1 billion market cap — despite having yet to generate any revenue . Founded by two ex-Googlers, the idea is to host various AI-powered personalities, from celebrities to anime characters to Twitch streams to historical figur
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Tea's Hot Like everyone else in the tech industry, SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has had a lot to say about OpenAI in recent weeks — as he probably should, considering that he was one of the firm's original founders, launching the former non-profit back in 2015 alongside figures like Reid Hoffman, Ilya Sutskever and, among others, OpenAI's current CEO, Sam Altman.
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Jaron Lanier is one of the foremost pioneers of VR technology — but he's also notorious for being one of Silicon Valley's harshest critics, in biting critiques that he characterizes as "dismal optimism." Lately, he's turning his gaze on the tech industry's latest obsession: AI. In a spicy interview with The Guardian , Lanier made it clear that he thinks questions over whether AI will take over th
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37298-y Generation of water as a byproduct in chemical reactions is often detrimental because it lowers the yield of the target product. Here, a thermally rearranged polybenzoxazole membrane has been developed, allowing for selective removal of water in chemical reactions.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37369-0 Efferocytosis inhibition leads to the release of immunogenic contents into the tumor microenvironment. Here the authors developed a nanosystem that inhibits MerTK-mediated efferocytosis and captures tumor-associated agents to enhance antitumour immunity.
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Hey everyone, I've been thinking about a phenomenon I've noticed and wanted to share it with you all. I've coined the term "Positive Paradox Phenomenon" (PPP) to describe it. The Positive Paradox Phenomenon (PPP) refers to a situation where a person's positive thinking or optimistic beliefs about a certain outcome (e.g., their favorite team winning a football match) paradoxically leads to the opp
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OpenAI Connects ChatGPT to the Internet Kyle Wiggers | TechCrunch "[This week, OpenAI] launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot's functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Easily the most intriguing plugin is OpenAI's first-party web-browsing plugin, which allows ChatGPT to draw data from around the web
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The brothers spent over a third of their last paycheck on a new turbo. Was it worth the investment?! #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.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37318-x Little is known about the synaptic organization of associative cortical structures such as the medial prefrontal cortex. Here, the authors use two-photon optogenetic stimulation to obtain a detailed cellular resolution map of functional synaptic connectivity of the mouse medial prefrontal cortex, finding unique
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W ould you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work ? The week at Retraction Watch featured: In unusual move, publishers remove authors victimized by forger Paper co-authored by controversial Australian journalist earns expression of concern Nearly 20 Hindawi journals delisted from leading index amid concerns of papermill activity A journal editor once told us authors were
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. Tattoos were once a sign of outsider status. But that's changed in the 21st century: "My doctor has both of his arms totally sleeved. I have a friend that's a corporate lawyer, and she's working on h
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After a long hiatus, the epic Ocean Race is back – but this year, as well as dodging icebergs, cracking masts and suffering the occasional 'hull sandwich failure', the teams are gathering crucial data from places even research vessels rarely reach The Southern Ocean is not somewhere most people choose to spend an hour, let alone a month. Circling the icy continent of Antarctica, it is the planet'
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37440-w The progression of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) from early to advanced stages requires comprehensive molecular characterisation. Here, the authors perform a proteogenomics analysis of ESCC patient samples across nine histopathological stages and three phases, identifying key alterations and paths
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37402-2 Electrochemical aptamer-based sensors typically exhibit limited sensitivity especially when the area of electrode is reduced for miniaturization. Here, the authors demonstrate electrochemical transistors as universal on-site amplifiers for enhancement in sensitivity of over 3 orders of magnitude.
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I n the summer of 2015, one of my best friends died at work. Shannon was 38, childless, single and thriving, and working as an executive at a global public-relations firm, where she handled a major client. She was set to take a family vacation—treating her nephews to a Disney trip or some such—when her boss sent down an edict that no one on her account was allowed to take time off. Saying no to y
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When the Washington State–based travel guide and TV host Rick Steves decided to return to Europe in early 2022, he wasn't sure how many of his favorite local spots had survived two years of pandemic life. Steves, who has hosted Rick Steves' Europe for the past two decades and operates tours aimed at introducing American travelers to the continent, was pleasantly surprised by what he found: Many o
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This article contains spoilers for the entire first season as well as the second-season premiere of Yellowjackets . Leave it to Yellowjackets to make a game of MASH creepy. In the second-season premiere of the breakout Showtime thriller, best friends Shauna (played by Sophie Nélisse) and Jackie (Ella Purnell) are joking over Shauna's results. (She's going to live in an apartment in New Jersey wit
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37396-x Here, the authors present an expanded version of the Cultivated Genome Reference (CGR), termed CGR2, a catalog that includes 3324 high-quality draft genomes based on gut bacterial isolates from Chinese individuals, and classifies 527 species from 8 phyla, including 179 previously unidentified species, and provi
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There's been a lot of talk lately about how AI is gonna take over our jobs and lead us to a dark future. That's just a bunch of overblown exaggeration imo. We've seen this before when personal computers came and led to the decline of many old jobs. But in reality computers changed the game and opened up all sorts of new industries. Same thing with AI – it could actually create a bunch of new job
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A lot of discussions regarding AI and human like actions and reactions seem to me to focus on some absolute uniqueness of every human that requires a special definition to explain. The rationale seems to be that humans are not machines and that we have some internal mechanism (soul, spirit, humanity, whatever) that gives us the power to operate as uniquely free operators – free from our biology a
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Whether it's based on hallucinatory beliefs or not, an artificial-intelligence gold rush has started over the last several months to mine the anticipated business opportunities from generative AI models like ChatGPT. App developers, venture-backed startups, and some of the world's largest corporations are all scrambling to make sense of the sensational text-generating bot released by OpenAI last
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37349-4 Large-scale disease-association data are widely used for pathomechanism mining, even if disease definitions used for annotation are mostly phenotype-based. Here, the authors show that this bias can lead to a blurred view on disease mechanisms, highlighting the need for close-up studies based on molecular data f
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37363-6 Most insights into deubiquitinase (DUB) substrate specificity originate from studies with isolated di-ubiquitins (diUb), but in cells diUbs with different linkage types coexist. Here, the authors develop a mass spectrometric DUB activity assay that can probe all diUbs simultaneously under substrate competition
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37315-0 Nanomedicine is important in cancer therapy, but loading, drug release, and therapeutic effectiveness issues limit the translation to the clinic. Here, authors report a full-API nanodrug with an ideal API content and pH-responsive release for continuous spatiotemporal cancer therapy based on PpIX-heme-CO/Fe2+/B
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Exclusive: Surgeons raise concerns that people using jabs are unaware of risks of redundant skin From unbearable side-effects to cravings curbed: readers on weight-loss jabs A surge in the number of people using slimming jabs to lose weight could lead to a rise in patients travelling abroad for tummy tucks or other surgery to remove excess skin, surgeons have said. Drugs such as liraglutide and s
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Nature Communications, Published online: 25 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37356-5 High hyperdiploid acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (HeH ALL) is driven by nonrandom chromosomal gains, which have been suggested to arise early – even before birth. Here, the authors use single-cell whole genome sequencing and in silico modelling to show that HeH ALL aneuploidies could originate early and follow p
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Amazon employees that have managed to cling onto their jobs after two devastating rounds of layoffs in the space of three months may feel like they've survived the worst of a brutal period in tech. They're not off the hook yet: Workers will have to fight tooth and nail to prove their worth. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made this much clear when announcing on Monday that the company will be laying off ar
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. My colleague Alan Taylor has published thousands of photo essays in his time at The Atlantic . I spoke with him about the art of telling a visual story and which photos have stuck with him over the yea
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Existing sensor probes for microelectrical devices can measure only their average electric properties, providing no information on their spatial distribution. Liquid crystal droplets (LCDs) — microscopic droplets of soft matter that respond to electric field — are promising in this regard. Accordingly, researchers recently visualized the electric field and electrostatic energy distribution of mi
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I looked at the data in engineering, and I have to admit: the ratios are more extreme than I expected. The vast majority of affected persons were ICs. That isn't particularly surprising, but take a look at how extreme the ratios actually are: Meta: 92% ICs, 7% middle managers (management below VPs) Google: 93% ICs, 5% middle managers . So for every affected engineering manager at Google, 18.6 IC
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Okay, first off, I am not an expert in this field, I am just a concerned individual considering the risks of such rapid development in this AI world. As far as I know, many AI algorithms like GPT, are trained on data sets that are taken from people without their consent. Doesn't this mean that AI is explicitly stealing from people? Besides the obvious, that so many jobs are going to be taken from
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Existing sensor probes for microelectrical devices can measure only their average electric properties, providing no information on their spatial distribution. Liquid crystal droplets (LCDs) — microscopic droplets of soft matter that respond to electric field — are promising in this regard. Accordingly, researchers recently visualized the electric field and electrostatic energy distribution of mi
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In an innovative new study, researchers used a series of prompts and questions to encourage ChatGPT to produce the type of content commonly seen in academic publications. Researchers say in their paper's discussion section — which was written without the software's influence — that it demonstrates the new levels of sophistication which AI now offers and also the opportunities and challenges it p
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A new study found drought and heat waves could make air pollution worse for communities that already have a high pollution burden in California, and deepen pollution inequalities along racial and ethnic lines. The study also found financial penalties for power plants can significantly reduce people's pollution exposure, except during severe heat waves.
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Two cosmonauts and an astronaut who were supposed to leave the International Space Station this month will be brought back to Earth in late September, doubling their time aboard the orbiting laboratory to more than a year, Russia's space agency announced Friday.
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Phosphorus is a natural mineral that is essential for plant growth and development, and Earth's agricultural-grade phosphorus reserves are expected to be depleted in 50 to 100 years. A new discovery by researchers at Michigan State University and the Carnegie Institution for Science is changing their understanding of iron toxicity in plants caused by low phosphorus levels.
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Phosphorus is a natural mineral that is essential for plant growth and development, and Earth's agricultural-grade phosphorus reserves are expected to be depleted in 50 to 100 years. A new discovery by researchers at Michigan State University and the Carnegie Institution for Science is changing their understanding of iron toxicity in plants caused by low phosphorus levels.
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Move Over, Oumuamua Remember Oumuamua, that weird and allegedly alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017 , when we were all so young and starry-eyed? Now, some scientists have a new and boring explanation for what it was — and reader, it may have nothing to do with aliens. In a new study published in the journal Nature this week, astronomy researchers out of Cornell and Berkeley suggested t
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Older adults with depression are actually aging faster than their peers, researchers report. They also have poor cardiovascular and brain health.
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Bark With Bite Ubisoft, one of the world's largest video game developers known for titles like the "Assassin's Creed" franchise, is moving to partially automate writing in-game dialog by developing an AI tool called Ghostwriter. In video games, non-player characters (NPCs) often speak in what are known as "barks": short, often shouty lines of dialogue triggered by in-game events — a "Watch those
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37076-w Berry curvature sits at the heart of both the anomalous hall effect and topological hall effect, with the former arising from a momentum space berry curvature, while the latter arises from a real space berry curvature. Here, Li et al present an intriguing example of a combined real and reciprocal space berry cu
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36741-4 Here, using hypergraph modeling the authors show that surprising research (in terms of unexpected combinations of research contents and contexts) is associated with impact and arises from scientific outsiders solving problems in distant disciplines.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36845-x Ecosystem responses to prehistoric sea-ice loss are poorly known. Using marine sedimentary ancient DNA form the Bering Sea covering the last ~20,000 years, this study reveals a transition from a sea ice-adapted ecosystem, characterized by diatoms, copepods and codfish, to an ice-free Holocene with cyanobacteria
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Abstract Chronic nonhealing wounds are one of the major and rapidly growing clinical complications all over the world. Current therapies frequently require emergent surgical interventions, while abuse and misapplication of therapeutic drugs often lead to an increased morbidity and mortality rate. Here, we introduce a wearable bioelectronic system that wirelessly and continuously monitors the phys
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Abstract An important paradigm in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantations (allo-HCTs) is the prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) while preserving the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) activity of donor T cells. From an observational clinical study of adult allo-HCT recipients, we identified a CD4 + /CD8 + double-positive T cell (DPT) population, not present in starting grafts, whose p
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Abstract The onset and rates of continental growth are first-order indicators of early Earth dynamics, and whether substantial crust existed in the Hadean or much later has long been debated. Here, we present a theoretical analysis of published Hf and Nd isotopic data representing the depleted mantle and demonstrate that continental growth must have started in the early Hadean. Whereas the tradit
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Abstract Most bacteriophages present a tail allowing host recognition, cell wall perforation, and viral DNA channeling from the capsid to the infected bacterium cytoplasm. The majority of tailed phages bear a long flexible tail ( Siphoviridae ) at the tip of which receptor binding proteins (RBPs) specifically interact with their host, triggering infection. In siphophage T5, the unique RBP is loca
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Abstract Little is known about how evolved hydrogen affects the cycling of Li batteries. Hypotheses include the formation of LiH in the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) and dendritic growth of LiH. Here, we discover that LiH formation in Li batteries likely follows a different pathway: Hydrogen evolved during cycling reacts to nucleate and grow LiH within already deposited Li metal, consuming a
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Abstract Lateral flight membranes, or patagia, have evolved repeatedly in diverse mammalian lineages. While little is known about patagium development, its recurrent evolution may suggest a shared molecular basis. By combining transcriptomics, developmental experiments, and mouse transgenics, we demonstrate that lateral Wnt5a expression in the marsupial sugar glider ( Petaurus breviceps ) promote
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Abstract Approximately 5 million dengue virus–infected patients progress to a potentially life-threatening severe dengue (SD) infection annually. To identify the immune features and temporal dynamics underlying SD progression, we performed deep immune profiling by mass cytometry of PBMCs collected longitudinally from SD progressors (SDp) and uncomplicated dengue (D) patients. While D is character
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Abstract CRISPR-Cas systems are prokaryotic acquired immunity mechanisms, which are found in 40% of bacterial genomes. They prevent viral infections through small DNA fragments called spacers. However, the vast majority of these spacers have not yet been associated with the virus they recognize, and it has been named CRISPR dark matter. By analyzing the spacers of tens of thousands of genomes fro
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Abstract Biofilms are multicellular communities with a spatial structure. Different from single-cell scale diffusion in planktonic systems, the diffusion distance becomes the dimension of multicellular clusters in a biofilm. Such differences in diffusion behavior affect the tolerance and response to exogenous stress. Here, we found that at the same doses of exogenous hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ),
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Abstract To compete in certain low-light environments, some cyanobacteria express a paralog of the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein, allophycocyanin (AP), that strongly absorbs far-red light (FRL). Using cryo–electron microscopy and time-resolved absorption spectroscopy, we reveal the structure-function relationship of this FRL-absorbing AP complex (FRL-AP) that is expressed during acclimation t
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Abstract Mesoscale volumetric imaging is of great importance for the study of bio-organisms. Among others, optical projection tomography provides unprecedented structural details of specimens, but it requires fluorescence label for chemical targeting. Raman spectroscopic imaging is able to identify chemical components in a label-free manner but lacks microstructure. Here, we present a dual-modali
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Abstract The primate brain is equipped to learn and remember newly encountered visual stimuli such as faces and objects. In the macaque inferior temporal (IT) cortex, neurons mark the familiarity of a visual stimulus through response modification, often involving a decrease in spiking rate. Here, we investigate the emergence of this neural plasticity by longitudinally tracking IT neurons during s
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Abstract Isoenzyme divergence is a prevalent mechanism governing tissue-specific and developmental stage-specific metabolism in mammals. The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) isoenzyme spectrum reflects the tissue-specific metabolic status. We found that three tetrameric isoenzymes composed of LDHA and LDHB (LDH-3/4/5) comprise the LDH spectrum in T cells. Genetically deleting LDHA or LDHB altered the
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Abstract MESSENGER (Mercury, Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) mission to Mercury led to the discovery of hollows. These geological landforms have no close counterpart on other airless silicate bodies. Multispectral images and geochemical measurements by MESSENGER suggest that hollows are formed by the loss of volatile-bearing minerals. We investigated the mineralogical compo
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Abstract Long-term memory formation is energetically costly. Neural mechanisms that guide an animal to identify fruitful associations therefore have important survival benefits. Here, we elucidate a circuit mechanism in Lymnaea , which enables past memory to shape new memory formation through changes in perception. Specifically, strong classical conditioning drives a positive shift in perception
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On Monday, as Americans considered the possibility of a Donald Trump indictment and a presidential perp walk, Eliot Higgins brought the hypothetical to life. Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, an open-source investigations group, asked the latest version of the generative-AI art tool Midjourney to illustrate the spectacle of a Trump arrest. It pumped out vivid photos of a sea of police officers
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Trade , at least between different continents and countries with vastly different cultures and regimes, I see as having more or less maxed out relative to GDP. The reasons mainly have to do with the issues in maintaining supply chains that run across continents as well as the willingness of regimes to interfere with the internal affairs of their partners. I don't see a mass reversal of globalizat
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TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in front of Congress yesterday. As many tech CEOs have done before him, he had to defend his company against an hours-long stream of sometimes fair, sometimes flawed, and sometimes just outright ridiculous questions from American representatives. Among that last category was a line of questioning from North Carolina Republican Richard Hudson, who really
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Hey everyone, I wanted to share my new project with you all and get some feedback. I'm currently working on a freemium website with brain enhancing games, inspired by websites like Lumosity and BrainScale. However, I noticed that these websites often target a too childish audience or have a too complex interface for new users. So, I'm creating a new whole website with these types of games, but wi
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Chief scientist told former incumbent Sir David King the similarity would lead to mixed messaging The government's chief scientist warned a former incumbent not to confuse the public during the Covid pandemic by naming an independent expert panel after the group convened to advise ministers on the crisis. Sir Patrick Vallance revealed the clash in an interview at the Institute for Government on F
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A new Paper Park Index (PPI) developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia's Sea Around Us initiative helped identify 55 marine protected areas (MPAs) across the world where enough fishing takes place to contravene the protection status officially assigned to such sites.
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Scientists test device that can monitor and stimulate burns, diabetic ulcers and non-healing surgical wounds A smart bandage that can monitor chronic wounds and help them to heal has been developed by scientists who say the device could aid people with diabetic ulcers, burns and non-healing surgical wounds. According to figures from 2018 , there are 2.2 million people in the UK with chronic wound
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The name of the game is customer satisfaction, especially in the airline industry where companies are constantly jockeying for business by promising better service than their competitors. Now a professor at the University of Missouri has used artificial intelligence to sort through thousands of customer reviews and identify where airlines are falling short.
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The Institute for Systems and Robotics and the Interactive Technologies Institute, both represented by the Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS), are proud to announce their participation in the upcoming AMADEE-24 mission to Mars. The mission, organized by the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF), aims to advance the development of space exploration through international collaboration and
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. When its sample capsule parachutes down into the Utah desert on Sept. 24, OSIRIS-REx will become the United States' first-ever mission to return an asteroid sample to Earth.
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Pesticide use must be reduced. The EU has set a target to reduce pesticide use by 50% by 2030. Therefore, a strong focus on integrated weed management must be maintained in the coming years. When it comes to weeds, the focus has mainly been on improving the efficacy of pesticides, replacing or complementing them with mechanical treatments in the field.
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Photosynthesis drives all life on Earth. Complex processes are required for the sunlight-powered conversion of carbon dioxide and water to energy-rich sugar and oxygen. These processes are driven by two protein complexes, photosystems I and II. In photosystem I, sunlight is used with an efficiency of almost 100%. Here a complex network of 288 chlorophylls plays the decisive role.
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Chemical and isotopic analysis of copper artifacts from southern Africa reveals new cultural connections among people living in the region between the 5th and 20th centuries, according to a new study. People in the area between northern South Africa and the Copperbelt region in central Africa were more connected to one another than scholars previously thought, says Jay Stephens, a postdoctoral fe
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Nursing homes that conducted staff surveillance testing more regularly experienced significantly lower rates of COVID infections and deaths among residents, according to a new study. "Testing is a key part of any infectious disease response, surveillance testing in particular," says Brian McGarry, an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences at the University of Rochester Medical
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Photosynthesis drives all life on Earth. Complex processes are required for the sunlight-powered conversion of carbon dioxide and water to energy-rich sugar and oxygen. These processes are driven by two protein complexes, photosystems I and II. In photosystem I, sunlight is used with an efficiency of almost 100%. Here a complex network of 288 chlorophylls plays the decisive role.
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There's a reason Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site for the Perseverance Rover: it is considered one of the likeliest places to find any evidence if Mars was ever habitable for long periods of time. In this great new flyby video from ESA, you can get a birds-eye look at Perseverance's home.
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Research from a team in India published in the International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management looks at the notion of "emotional intelligence" in the context of virtual teams. While it demonstrates an obvious relationship, the literature is still in the nascent stage and so precludes solid conclusions.
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Nature, Published online: 23 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00883-8 Geneticists discover that the composer was particularly susceptible to liver disease. Plus, a United Nations conference tackles the long-neglected water crisis, and how to create more-concise presentations in four steps.
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Red Handed On Wednesday, we reported that Google's finally unveiled Bard AI wasted no time to start spewing ridiculous conspiracy theories and fabricating non-existent citations to back them up. But as it turns out, citing bogus sources is just the beginning of its problems. Now , Tom's Hardware reports that it caught the Bard AI blatantly plagiarizing without citing any sources at all — which Ba
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More children have been diagnosed with autism than at any time since monitoring began more than two decades ago, according to new federal studies. About 4% of 8-year-old boys and 1% of 8-year-old girls, in the United States have autism, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These estimates are the highest since the CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monito
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In a new study, researchers have found that little brown bats suffering from white-nose syndrome (WNS) greatly increased their foraging activity at artificial bug buffets. The buffets, located near hibernation sites, will help bats to increase their fat reserves before and after hibernation. This should help them to survive the disease.
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Keeping track of all the cases Donald Trump has caught can be hard. There's the Georgia election-fraud investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 results in that state, which he lost; there's the New York civil investigation into alleged financial fraud by the Trump Organization ; there's the Manhattan district attorney's inquiry into possible campaign-finance violations from Trump'
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Many years ago, when picking up my teenage daughter from an outdoor mall, I found myself surrounded by her friends. "You're verified ," one of them said, gushing. At first I thought this was some new youth slang term for "cool" or even "uncool." But alas, she was referring to Twitter. I had a blue check on the service. That kind of verified. My kid's friends would have found it impressive to be v
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When Lenovo set out to transition into a services-led company, they began by looking internally, says Art Hu, Lenovo's senior vice president & global chief information officer. He also serves as the chief technology and delivery officer of Lenovo's Solutions & Services Group. To offer products and services that provide valuable business outcomes rather than traditional one-off hardware delivery,
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Does a "magic bullet" exist in regenerative medicine? Researchers have long wished to design a cutting-edge gene therapy that regenerates tissues damaged by disease or trauma. That wish may come true now that a research team has developed a polymeric gene delivery therapy that promotes new bone formation after traumatic inflammation.
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The modern world runs on electricity, and wires are what carry that electricity to every light, television, heating system, cellphone and computer on the planet. Unfortunately, on average, about 5% of the power generated at a coal or solar power plant is lost as the electricity is transmitted from the plant to its final destination. This amounts to a US$6 billion loss annually in the U.S. alone.
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Fungicide application, while helpful in controlling plant diseases, has complicated limitations that may cost growers both peace of mind and quantity of yield. Plant pathogens which would otherwise be killed off by fungicides can evolve to avenge their dead siblings, developing resistance that renders the standard dose of fungicide application ineffective.
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Thirty years ago, I traveled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China's Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang's old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways, arched stone bridges, and cobbled streets. Just north of the city—about five hours by road—is Lugu Lake, and the villages of the Mosuo, one of the world's oldest continuing matriarchal societies.
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Canine cognition expert Alexandra Horowitz offers a peek inside the mind of your dog, sharing solutions to common "misbehaviors" that are often simply the result of a pup's attempt to communicate in a world that's very different from their own. Hear about the evolution and psychology behind your dog's actions — and how to give them a happier, healthier life.
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Next Level MetaHuman Animator, the next-gen version of Epic Games' MetaHuman avatar tool , is here — and we gotta say, it looks pretty remarkable. Epic's MetaHuman tool, which was first unveiled back in 2021, was already impressively good at generating hyperrealistic avatars of people. But actually animating those characters was still a difficult, time-consuming process. But not anymore, it seems
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Newly developed mRNA vaccines against Zika virus and HIV-1 produced strong antibody responses that transferred from pregnant rabbits to their offspring, researchers report in the journal Molecular Therapy. As noted by the authors, the results support further development of their vaccine platform, LION/repRNA, for maternal and neonatal settings to protect against mother-to-child transmission of pat
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In flood-prone areas of New York state, non-white homeowners are more likely than white homeowners to take active, sometimes-costly measures—such as finding a way to protect a furnace, a water heater or installing a sump pump—to prepare for a possible deluge, according to a new Cornell study.
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Feeding 8 billion humans requires ingenuity and innovation. Zhenlei Xiao is an associate professor in residence in the UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources Department of Nutritional Sciences and her research focuses on tiny, nutrient-dense, and fast-growing microgreens, which could help in feeding the growing population, both on Earth and potentially in space.
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Imagine an AI that is able to manage every farm in the world and manage the robots to water, plant, rotate soil, etc… Imagine an AI that manages all the labs that grow lab-grown meat from culture I"m sure I can't be the first person to have this idea? Is this called anything? Anywhere I can read more about this kind of thing? submitted by /u/not-bilbo-baggings [link] [comments]
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During a recent sociopolitical discussion with a group of friends who held different viewpoints, I consciously took the following approach: rather than attempting to disprove their opinions, I chose to make an genuine effort to understand the rationale behind their beliefs, similarly to what Jordan Peterson proposes in this vídeo . I tried to ask thoughtful questions and provide feedback to encou
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What companies/ technology do you think will play a major role in solving the climate crisis? submitted by /u/ComfortableSea3715 [link] [comments]
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Travel, meditation, training and exposure to culture have a greater effect on artistic output From Hunter S Thompson's infamous daily pre-writing routine of cocaine, Chivas Regal and acid to Vincent Van Gogh's love for absinthe and Andy Warhol's prescription drugs habit, the idea that drugs and alcohol produce great art is deeply culturally ingrained. Yet researchers have found this is likely to
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Feeding 8 billion humans requires ingenuity and innovation. Zhenlei Xiao is an associate professor in residence in the UConn's College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources Department of Nutritional Sciences and her research focuses on tiny, nutrient-dense, and fast-growing microgreens, which could help in feeding the growing population, both on Earth and potentially in space.
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The former president is fighting with the police. He's yelling. He's running. He's resisting. Finally, he falls, that familiar sweep of hair the only thing rigid against the swirl of bodies that surround him. When I first saw the images , I did a double take: The event they seem to depict—the arrest of Donald Trump—has been a matter of feverish anticipation this week, as a grand jury decides whet
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Donald Trump is back in his presidential—or at least modern-day-presidential —form, posting unhinged threats on social media in the middle of the night. Early today, he posted on his Truth Social site: What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for th
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Our audience research team would love to hear about your newsletter experience. To share feedback on The Books Briefing, please fill out this survey . Flipping through old photo albums, enjoying long conversations with grandparents—these experiences are familiar and treasured parts of family life. But they can have a significance that transcends personal connection as way of creating and preservi
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Livin' on a Prayer As America's upcoming election cycle continues to take shape, one thing's for sure: fans of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump love themselves some image generators, and they're not afraid to use 'em. Trump, in fact, isn't afraid to hit the share button on AI-generated fan art of him self , either. Amid the Trump-stirred frenzy surrounding the form
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Think of the tune to "Pop Goes the Weasel." Now sing these lyrics: Neg-a-tive b, plus or minus The square root of b squared mi-nus four a c All! over two a This jingle has helped generations of algebra students recall the quadratic formula that solves every equation of the form $latex ax^2+bx+c=0$. The formula is as useful as it is likely to appear in the dictionary under "math anxiety… Source
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A team of climate scientists and biologists from Universidade do Porto, in Portugal, working with colleagues from the University of Montana and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, both in the U.S., has found that jackrabbits living in mountainous areas, such as the Rockies, that have higher variability in color genes may be better prepared for snow loss due to climate change. In their study, re
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Inflation hit rural household budgets harder throughout much of 2022, but the rural-urban gap evened out by the end of the year, a report shows. The widely cited inflation data released monthly by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the common benchmark for tracking price changes. It's a crucial gauge that swings financial markets and drives policy decisions. But as a national measurement,
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Jimmy swims for his life after a great white shark break's his cage! #discoveryplus #sharkweek Stream Full Episodes of Shark Week https://www.discoveryplus.com/dp/shark-week About Shark Week: From Dawn of the Monster Mako to The Haunting of Shark Tower, you can stream all Shark Week shows right now. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@discovery About Discovery: Dedicated to bringing
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A team of climate scientists and biologists from Universidade do Porto, in Portugal, working with colleagues from the University of Montana and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, both in the U.S., has found that jackrabbits living in mountainous areas, such as the Rockies, that have higher variability in color genes may be better prepared for snow loss due to climate change. In their study, re
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A team led by Dr. Ha Yoon-Cheol, a Principal Researcher of Next Generation Battery Research Center at the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) and Dr. Cheol-Min Park, a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering at Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT), has developed a low-cost production technology for silicon disulfide (SiS2) for solid-state electrolytes (argyro
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Another new mosquito species has made its way across the tropics into Florida, researchers report. The findings concern scientists because of the rate of new mosquitoes arriving in the state, the potential for them to transmit diseases, and because there has not been enough research on the species. The mosquito, known only by its scientific name, Culex lactator , was first discovered in Miami-Dad
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Cursed Ping Pong Here's a nightmare scenario for our digital futures: the internet becomes so laden with AI-generated misinformation that its nearly unusable, in part because chatbots and other AI systems keep volleying hallucinated, mangled, or otherwise false or misconstrued information back at one another until our entire information landscape is shattered into tiny, blurry pieces and nothing
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Large-scale afforestation in arid and semi-arid areas is one of the most effective approaches to combat desertification at present. Afforestation by aerial sowing is an effective measure that can promote vegetation restoration without subsequent artificial management, and can be widely employed in other ecosystems with similar vegetation degradation problems in the short term.
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Large-scale afforestation in arid and semi-arid areas is one of the most effective approaches to combat desertification at present. Afforestation by aerial sowing is an effective measure that can promote vegetation restoration without subsequent artificial management, and can be widely employed in other ecosystems with similar vegetation degradation problems in the short term.
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Graphene is one of the strongest materials. On top of that, it is exceptionally good at conducting heat and electrical currents, making it one of the most special and versatile materials we know. For all these reasons, the discovery of graphene was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.
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A group of scientists from the University of Seville, in collaboration with experts from the University of the Basque Country, has led the first detailed study of the evolution of the discontinuity of Venus's clouds, a gigantic atmosphere wave with the appearance of a "tsunami" that is propagated in the planet's deepest clouds and which, it is believed, may be playing a very significant role in th
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Metabolic pathways consist of a series of biochemical reactions in cells that convert a starting component into other products. There is growing evidence that metabolic pathways coupled with external stress factors influence the health of cells and tissues. Many human diseases, including retinal or neurodegenerative diseases, are associated with imbalances in metabolic pathways.
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There's a common perception that artificial intelligence (AI) will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out the need for some jobs altogether. But in a study of science laboratories I carried out with three colleagues at the University of Manchester, the introduction of automated processes that aim to simplify work—and free people's time—can also make that work more c
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The escalating confrontation between the parties over the federal budget rests on a fundamental paradox: The Republican majority in the House of Representatives is now more likely than Democrats to represent districts filled with older and lower-income voters who rely on the social programs that the GOP wants to cut. A much larger share of Republican than Democratic House members represent distri
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Jules Feiffer and I were born 94 years ago in the Bronx, two months apart. We both grew up to be terrible at sports, and we both started to draw characters from the comics when we were 8 or 9 years old. We both became cartoonists, and last year, both of us ended up in different emergency rooms with heart failure, in the same week. After four or five days, we were both discharged from the hospital
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Prof. Huang Qing's group from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has made progress on red-light-promoted photoautotrophic growth of Haematococcus pluvialis (H. pluvialis) and the related carbon fixation mechanism. The study was published in Aquaculture.
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The videos of the first moon landing with astronauts bouncing around the lunar surface are looking like a lot of fun—but jumping around on the moon could also be good for astronaut's muscles, bones and the cardiorespiratory system.
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Jewish-Muslim relations have been complicated for centuries, but assumptions that all Jews and Muslims are eternal enemies are proven wrong by a comprehensive survey review conducted by a researcher in Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.
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Renewable electricity-driven carbon dioxide (CO2) electrolysis can convert CO2 into valuable fuel and chemicals. However, one of the key challenges hindering CO2 electrolysis toward practical application is the severe carbon loss under alkaline and neutral conditions, resulting in low CO2 utilization efficiency (
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In the past decade, optical sensing tasks have become more demanding. As a result, it has become critical to build miniaturized, inexpensive sensors that can be integrated on-chip to enable mobile applications in smart phones, autonomous vehicles, robots, and drones. Also, algorithms are playing an increasingly important role in sensing, and many recent developments have utilized machine-learning
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A white dwarf star can explode as a supernova when its mass exceeds the limit of about 1.4 solar masses. A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching and involving the University of Bonn has now found a binary star system in which matter flows onto the white dwarf from its companion.
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The process of liquid-to-glass transition is a complex procedure in science, as is the glass-to-liquid transition known as glass melting. In a new report published in Science Advances, Qi Zhang and a research team in physics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China assembled colloidal glasses via vapor deposition and melted them to observe the glass transition dynamics.
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Kittens and cats, whether they live indoors or outdoors, can be exposed to diseases caused by viruses or bacteria. Vaccinations help protect our feline friends by preventing the spread of these diseases and boosting their body's defense against potentially fatal illnesses.
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Cyanobacteria are the earliest known oxygenic photosynthetic organisms on Earth, and they played decisive roles in the evolution of the environment and the life on our planet. Cell morphology and cell size of different cyanobacteria species vary widely, but each species has inheritable and distinct cell morphology and cell size that are stably maintained through the generations. The underlying mec
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Different types of exercise encourage the formation of different types of muscle fibers, or the cells that make up your muscles. Slow twitch muscle fibers support endurance activities like long-distance running, while fast twitch fibers are needed for short, powerful movements such as those involved in heavy weight lifting. Now, researchers in Japan have shed new light on a family of proteins invo
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Hailey-Hailey disease is a rare, inherited condition characterized by patches of blisters appearing mainly in the skin folds of the arm pits, groin and under the breasts. It is caused by a mutation in the gene that codes for a specific protein involved in the transportation of calcium and manganese ions from the cell cytoplasm and into a sac-like organelle called the Golgi apparatus.
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Cyanobacteria are the earliest known oxygenic photosynthetic organisms on Earth, and they played decisive roles in the evolution of the environment and the life on our planet. Cell morphology and cell size of different cyanobacteria species vary widely, but each species has inheritable and distinct cell morphology and cell size that are stably maintained through the generations. The underlying mec
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Different types of exercise encourage the formation of different types of muscle fibers, or the cells that make up your muscles. Slow twitch muscle fibers support endurance activities like long-distance running, while fast twitch fibers are needed for short, powerful movements such as those involved in heavy weight lifting. Now, researchers in Japan have shed new light on a family of proteins invo
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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. Newly-revealed coronavirus data has reignited a debate over the virus's origins This week, we've seen the resurgence of a debate that has been swirling since the start of the pandemic—where did the virus that causes covid-19 come from? For the most part, scien
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Act opens door to technology being used to create cats and dogs with extreme features, says charity Pets could be subjected to gene editing under a new government act, the RSPCA has warned. The animal charity has said that the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act applies to all vertebrate animals, not only farmed animals, and that it could lead to cats and dogs being gene-edited to include
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Hailey-Hailey disease is a rare, inherited condition characterized by patches of blisters appearing mainly in the skin folds of the arm pits, groin and under the breasts. It is caused by a mutation in the gene that codes for a specific protein involved in the transportation of calcium and manganese ions from the cell cytoplasm and into a sac-like organelle called the Golgi apparatus.
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Earth's climate has undergone abrupt transitions in the past, which are often linked to the crossing of tipping points. Understanding how and why this has happened is urgent because anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses could potentially trigger similar tipping points in this century, causing irreversible changes in the climate and the environment.
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Accurate and fast calculation of heat flow (heat transport) due to fluctuations and turbulence in plasmas is an important issue in elucidating the physical mechanisms of fusion reactors and in predicting and controlling their performance.
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While recent studies and polls indicate the nation is in the midst of a mental health crisis, the situation in academia is even more grim: Within the high-stress, high-pressure, often socially isolated world of advanced education, graduate students experience depression and anxiety at six times the rate of the general population.
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An international team of astronomers has detected repeating outbursts from a young stellar object (YSO) known as SPICY 97589 and analyzed their properties. Results of the study, presented in a paper published March 16 on the arXiv pre-print repository, shed more light on the nature of this YSO.
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This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the foreground. The Precision Breeding Act will now allow gene-edited plants to be developed and marketed in England (not Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland). The innovation is that the law makes a distinction between genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and gene-edited organisms. This has already happened i
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37314-1 Accurately estimating the burden of tuberculosis is challenging due to incomplete registration systems and the relationship with HIV. Here, the authors develop a Bayesian modelling strategy accounting for these factors that estimates age- and country-specific annual risks of infection and the proportion resulti
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T he sanctuary buzzed as Mike Pence climbed into the elevated pulpit, standing 15 feet above the pews, a Celtic cross over his left shoulder. The former vice president had spoken here, at Hillsdale College, the private Christian school tucked into the knolls of southern Michigan, on several previous occasions. But this was his first time inside Christ Chapel, the magnificent, recently erected cam
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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Last December, during a Christmas Eve celebration with my in-laws in California, I observed what I now realize was the future of COVID for older people. As everyone crowded around the bagna cauda , a hot dipping sauce
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Marriage is work : I've lost count of how many times I've heard that saying. In my personal life, I heard it from youth pastors at Bible camp, from well-meaning aunts at bridal showers, even from the woman who threaded my eyebrows the week before my wedding. In popular culture, I've seen the adage espoused on Martha Stewart's website and by Ben Affleck on the Oscars stage. The idea has the sheen
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This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Sign up here to get it every week . Last week, I saw a new paper in the journal Nature Human Behavior called "Negativity Drives Online News Consumption." That seems bad , I thought. Naturally, I clicked. In a randomized study of 105,000 headlines and 370 million im
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Äldre alkoholmissbrukare är långt ifrån en enhetlig grupp. Stora skillnader kan ses i hur länge missbruket pågått, om fler sjukdomar finns och hur det sociala nätverket ser ut. Det innebär att de äldre missbrukarna har varierade och komplexa vårdbehov, visar en avhandling. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Hey everyone, Have you ever wondered what the future holds for us? As we continue to progress as a society, the possibilities seem endless. That's where futurology comes in, the study of possible futures based on current trends and innovations. Futurology isn't about predicting the future, but rather exploring different scenarios and possibilities. It involves looking at current and emerging tech
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Plus, a fresh perspective on the origin of time, Lord Pannick cracks, and happiness is a life lived in Finland Jon Snow must have exceptional reserves of stamina. In an interview with Saga, the 75-year-old news presenter has been talking about becoming a father again two years ago. He feels completely at ease with a toddler around the house, he says. Almost as if the whole experience is stress fr
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This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here . This week, coronavirus has been back in the news in a big way. We've seen the resurgence of a debate that has been swirling since the start of the pandemic—where did the virus that causes covid-19 come from? For the most part, scientists have maintained t
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Nature Communications, Published online: 24 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37237-x Induced proximity can be used to control diverse cellular processes. Here, the authors develop nanobody-based proximity inducers called SNACIPs, which can be used to regulate either tagged or endogenous proteins, and demonstrate their use in blocking microtubule nucleation for tumour growth inhibition in vivo.
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