Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00912-6 Three charts from the world of research, selected by Nature editors.
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On October 9, 2022, an intense pulse of gamma-ray radiation swept through our solar system, overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on numerous orbiting satellites, and sending astronomers on a chase to study the event using the most powerful telescopes in the world.
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The prized retro audio components are mostly manufactured in Russia and China. Now, a small Georgia company is rebooting US production.
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The bounds on Ramsey numbers, which describe relationships between nodes in a network, have been narrowed.
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The meatball is a one-off and has not been tasted, even by its creators, nor is it planned to be put into production. Instead, it was intended to get people talking about the future of meat. (Image credit: Mike Corder/AP)
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Scientists believe the gamma-ray emission, which lasted over 300 seconds, is the birth cry of a black hole, formed as the core of a massive and rapidly spinning star collapses under its own weight.
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Growing concerns over the potential health effects of exposure to phthalates have led to a search for safer alternatives. Researchers found that the chemical acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) might not be the best replacement.
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Sleep scientists' analyses show associations between early classes, less sleep, poor attendance and reduced grade point average. Studies in secondary and junior college students have shown that later start times can have positive impacts on grades.
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Weight loss was associated with decreased risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes for at least five years — even if some weight was regained, according to a review of research on behavioral weight loss programs.
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OG Netflix If you do happen to miss the event, it's not the end of the world…. "The nighttime sky is the original Netflix," she added.
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Good Guys, Bad Hack Hackers have discovered a chain of vulnerabilities that could allow them to remotely break into a Tesla, granting control over its infotainment system and letting them to turn off lights, pop the trunk, activate wipers, and even honk the horn, TechCrunch reports .
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Matt Kaminski stood on a road scarcely higher than the floodplain, glassy pools on all sides stretched out like something from a dream. In the distance, a storm lumbered over the Coast Ranges.
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Growing concerns over the potential health effects of exposure to phthalates have led to a search for safer alternatives. Researchers found that the chemical acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) might not be the best replacement.
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To understand Earth's changing climate, scientists often turn to science-based computer simulations. Researchers strive to make these Earth system models as accurate as possible. Factors such as wind currents, air quality, and weather patterns all play a role. But current modeling has often overlooked one important activity: agriculture.
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Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red color, implying the existence of two populations of asteroids in the region, according to a new study by an international team of researchers.
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The best sessions of Dungeons & Dragons walk the line between stirring tales of teamwork and achingly nerdy jokes. A barbarian, a bard, a sorcerer, and a druid walk into an inn—what happens next? Why, deeds of derring-do, of course, or at least a bit of hearty axe-swinging. The collaborative tabletop game invites every player to get creative; the most inspired renditions plop players into a fanta
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A gamma ray burst observed in 2022 was brighter than any explosion ever spotted before, and follow-up observations are threatening to break our understanding of how these blasts work
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Bioactive compounds present mostly in fruit and vegetables perform different bodily functions relating to health and well-being. Their effects are considered antioxidant, antidiabetic, antiaging and anticancer, among others.
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Bioactive compounds present mostly in fruit and vegetables perform different bodily functions relating to health and well-being. Their effects are considered antioxidant, antidiabetic, antiaging and anticancer, among others.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have developed a theoretical model for more efficient molecular-level simulations of cell membranes and their lipid-protein interactions, part of a multi-institutional effort to better understand the behavior of cancer-causing membrane proteins.
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Nasa satellites detected an explosion two billion light-years away which lit up the galaxy.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have developed a theoretical model for more efficient molecular-level simulations of cell membranes and their lipid-protein interactions, part of a multi-institutional effort to better understand the behavior of cancer-causing membrane proteins.
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A DNA editing tool adapted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists makes engineering microbes for everything from bioenergy production to plastics recycling easier and faster.
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The world's salty, tidal marshes are hotspots of carbon storage and productivity, building up sediments and plant material to stay above sea level. However, as sea level rises at an increasing rate, scientists debate whether it's possible for wetlands to win the race. New research reveals how salt marshes along the U.S. East Coast have responded to accelerating sea level rise by building elevation
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Free-range organic chicken or factory farming? Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a new detection method that can reveal such differences in husbandry. The so-called epigenetic method is based on the analysis of the characteristic patterns of chemical markers on the genome of the animals.
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Normally, we have to make a choice in physics: Either we deal with big things—such as a metal plate and its material properties, or with tiny things—such as individual atoms. But there is also a world in between: The world of small but not yet tiny things, in which both effects of the macroscopic world and effects of the microscopic world play a role.
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How do clouds shape the planet's future? Clouds are not just fluffy white shapes in the sky. They are vital for regulating the Earth's climate, as they influence the water cycle, atmospheric dynamics and energy balance. However, studying clouds is not easy. One way to do so is to use spaceborne imagers, but these imagers still face challenges of efficiency and scalability.
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Who do children prefer to learn from? Previous research has shown that even infants can identify the best informant. But would preschoolers prefer learning from a competent robot over an incompetent human?
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Official Theory A Harvard professor and a ranking Pentagon official walk into a bar and start talking about alien motherships — stop me if you've heard this one before. No, this isn't a Mel Brooks joke — it's a description of the actual authors of a real-life paper , albeit one that's still pending peer review. Written by Harvard's firebrand UFOlogist Avi Loeb and Sean Kirkpatrick, the director o
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A DNA editing tool adapted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists makes engineering microbes for everything from bioenergy production to plastics recycling easier and faster.
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Free-range organic chicken or factory farming? Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have developed a new detection method that can reveal such differences in husbandry. The so-called epigenetic method is based on the analysis of the characteristic patterns of chemical markers on the genome of the animals.
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Excessive cholesterol absorption from intestinal lumen contributes to the pathogenesis of hypercholesterolemia, which is a well-established risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The absorption of intestinal cholesterol is primarily mediated by Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) protein, which is responsible for about 70% cholesterol absorption. NPC1L1-deficient mice are resistant to
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Pads incorporated into fresh meat packaging, whose function is to absorb the moisture generated in it, and that can cause food spoilage, are generally composed of plastic polymers derived from petroleum by-products.
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In two new studies, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have greatly improved the efficiency and power output of a series of chip-scale devices that generate laser light at different colors while all using the same input laser source.
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Excessive cholesterol absorption from intestinal lumen contributes to the pathogenesis of hypercholesterolemia, which is a well-established risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. The absorption of intestinal cholesterol is primarily mediated by Niemann-Pick C1-like 1 (NPC1L1) protein, which is responsible for about 70% cholesterol absorption. NPC1L1-deficient mice are resistant to
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The magnitude and dynamics of the global biodiversity crisis are hard to quantify and require rapid, reliable and repeatable biodiversity monitoring data which decision makers can use to evaluate policy options. Such information—from local to global level and within timescales relevant to policy—calls for improved integration of data on biodiversity from different sources such as museums, herbaria
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Following a series of winter storms that eased drought conditions across the state, Southern Californians celebrated a sight nobody has seen for several punishing years: water rushing into Diamond Valley Lake.
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The magnitude and dynamics of the global biodiversity crisis are hard to quantify and require rapid, reliable and repeatable biodiversity monitoring data which decision makers can use to evaluate policy options. Such information—from local to global level and within timescales relevant to policy—calls for improved integration of data on biodiversity from different sources such as museums, herbaria
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Researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University revealed the atomic flow behavior of nano-joints in AgNWs Interconnect Network. In order to further improve the joint quality, the thermal welding process and atomic evolution behavior of Ag nanowires were studied through a combination of in situ experimental and molecular dynamics simulations.
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H2O2 is not only a green oxidant that is widely used in environmental remediation, industrial synthesis, and medical healthcare, etc., but also an emerging energy carrier with a high energy density comparable to compressed H2.
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The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with some 40 research institutions worldwide, has released their latest discoveries on the brightest gamma-ray burst (dubbed as GRB 221009A) ever detected by humans.
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Australian astronomers have provided vital information in the global effort to understand the brightest-ever detected gamma ray burst, which swept through our solar system on October 9 last year.
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Fish can adjust their sensitivity to the actions of others—such as fleeing due to a false alarm—to reduce the risk of responding to misinformation, according to a new study. Other animals, including humans, may also have these decision-making mechanisms.
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A new study has found that a professional development program helped teachers in a rural school district in the Southeast to collaborate and identify innovative solutions to serve multilingual learners, or students learning English as a second language.
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Fish can adjust their sensitivity to the actions of others—such as fleeing due to a false alarm—to reduce the risk of responding to misinformation, according to a new study. Other animals, including humans, may also have these decision-making mechanisms.
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Majestic and sturdy, the icon of the American South has offered protection time and again
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Researchers found that preschoolers prefer learning from what they perceive as a competent robot over an incompetent human. This study is the first to use both a human speaker and a robot to see if children deem social affiliation and similarity more important than competency when choosing which source to trust and learn from.
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Researchers identify the most promising advancements and greatest challenges of artificial mitochondria and chloroplasts. The team describes the components required to construct synthetic mitochondria and chloroplasts and identifies proteins as the most important aspects for molecular rotary machinery, proton transport, and ATP production. The authors believe it is important to create artificial c
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Researchers found that preschoolers prefer learning from what they perceive as a competent robot over an incompetent human. This study is the first to use both a human speaker and a robot to see if children deem social affiliation and similarity more important than competency when choosing which source to trust and learn from.
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Researchers identify the most promising advancements and greatest challenges of artificial mitochondria and chloroplasts. The team describes the components required to construct synthetic mitochondria and chloroplasts and identifies proteins as the most important aspects for molecular rotary machinery, proton transport, and ATP production. The authors believe it is important to create artificial c
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Astronomers have found the atmospheric compositions of giant planets out in the galaxy do not fit our own solar system trend.
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Australian Mammoth
Flesh Stunt You've heard of attempts to resurrect extinct animals , but this one might make your stomach turn. Vow, an Australian cultivated meat company, has cooked up in its lab one of the most exotic and downright bizarre sources of protein your taste buds could ever relish: mammoth meatballs. And no, "mammoth" isn't a descriptor of its size. We truly mean a meatball made from the flesh of a w
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Levi AI Models Lalaland.ai
Model Behavior AI has claimed its latest victim, now that Levi Strauss is apparently going to start outsourcing its model diversity to algorithms. Last week, Levi Strauss announced that it would be partnering with the artificial intelligence firm Lalaland.ai, which according to a press release is a "digital fashion studio that builds customized AI-generated models" in an effort to — and we promis
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Filters fitted to vehicle exhaust systems to remove particulate matter pollution have limited impact on ultrafine particles, new research shows.
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A cold sparkling water. Waves crashing on the beach. The crackle of a bonfire. Steam from a kettle.
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Me: I'd like to tell you a joke. GPT: Sure, I'd love to hear a joke! What's your joke? Me: A man walks into a bar and the bartender says "I'm sorry, we don't allow dogs in the bar." The man says "it's a seeing eye dog." The bartender says "they gave you a chihuahua?" The man says "they gave me a chihuahua??" GPT: Haha, that's a funny one! Thanks for sharing it with me! Me: Why do you think that's
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Oh did I say chatGPT? I actually meant thoughtspot, a company that's been around since 2012. It's a $4.2 billion company and it's widely used throughout data science teams, yet I'm not aware of data scientists being massively put out of work since 2012. The way it works is you connect your company's data and then either executives or interns with no real technical skills can type in questions and
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AI-generated Pope Francis images viral
Being alive and on the internet in 2023 suddenly means seeing hyperrealistic images of famous people doing weird, funny, shocking, and possibly disturbing things that never actually happened. In just the past week, the AI art tool Midjourney rendered two separate convincing, photographlike images of celebrities that both went viral. Last week, it imagined Donald Trump's arrest and eventual escape
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A team of researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the University of Vienna, and Sirius University of Science and Technology has published a study in the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design that presents guidelines for enhancing the drug discovery process by utilizing multitask learning techniques.
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Scientists are taking a closer look at the afterglow left by the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, and what they see doesn't fit with any theoretical models.
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Discoveries of albino animals have a unique ability to capture the public imagination, often leading to flurries of social media and news coverage. (Think Migaloo, the famous white humpback whale.)
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Caught Ya! Ever seen lightning shoot upwards ? If not, you're in luck. Last year, researchers in São José dos Campos, Brazil were able to capture the exact moment that several buildings' lightning rods reached out to meet descending lightning bolts in midair. In other words: the lightning rod managed to contain lightning — with lightning. And while the pictures of the event, first published in th
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Discoveries of albino animals have a unique ability to capture the public imagination, often leading to flurries of social media and news coverage. (Think Migaloo, the famous white humpback whale.)
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Spring is planting time for home gardeners, landscapers and public works agencies across the U.S. And there's rising demand for native plants—species that are genetically adapted to the specific regions where they are used.
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Spring is planting time for home gardeners, landscapers and public works agencies across the U.S. And there's rising demand for native plants—species that are genetically adapted to the specific regions where they are used.
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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus will briefly appear in a planetary alignment near the crescent moon after sunset Five planets will align in the night sky for an extraordinary view on Tuesday in a phenomenon dubbed a "planetary parade". The planets – Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars – will come together on the western horizon, near the crescent moon, for a brief display after suns
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Throw another mammoth on the barbie? An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech treat.
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In medical research and diagnostics, the microbiome, i.e. the microbial colonization of the intestine, is increasingly gaining attention. A stool sample can be used to precisely analyze the complex microbial ecosystem of the gut. There are basically two methods for this: traditional cultivation on plates with specific culture media or the quite expensive DNA analysis of the stool sample.
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The idea that sharks bite us because we look like seals may not be the only reason. Learn why sharks attack humans.
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In medical research and diagnostics, the microbiome, i.e. the microbial colonization of the intestine, is increasingly gaining attention. A stool sample can be used to precisely analyze the complex microbial ecosystem of the gut. There are basically two methods for this: traditional cultivation on plates with specific culture media or the quite expensive DNA analysis of the stool sample.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32044-2
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Stories Lost Slavery
In the 1700s, a boy was born into slavery in Colonial America. He spent his life working in the coastal city of Charleston, South Carolina. And when he died in middle age, he was buried alongside 35 other slaves.
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In their recent publication in the Journal of Human Evolution, UConn Department of Anthropology Professor Christian Tryon and Shara Bailey, Director of the Center for the Study of Human Origins at New York University, detail new findings about 40,000-year-old teeth unearthed in the 1930s from a site called Ksâr 'Akil in Lebanon.
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05975-z
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00911-7 The results of a US case could dictate how broad patents are, and have knock-on effects for those developing drugs.
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The COVID-19 lockdowns, which began on March 23, 2020, brought overnight changes in working conditions for millions of people all over the world. Domestic abuse service providers (DASPs) were one group of frontline workers who had to navigate remote working during lockdown home-life as they continued acting as a source of safety and security for those at elevated risk of harm.
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Bad bookkeeping's been in the news a lot lately. Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX crypto empire came crashing down amid news that an $8 billion shortfall was being tracked in a sloppy Excel spreadsheet. The Brazilian retailer Americanas has been engulfed in crisis since it revealed a $3.8 billion accounting "irregularity": Its cash reserves had suddenly vanished. The former CEO of the German payments firm
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The number of Queensland women and children experiencing homelessness would now be much higher than the just-released Census data due to the impact of COVID, population movement into the state, lack of supply of affordable housing and cost of living pressures says a QUT academic.
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Last year was a "bumper" one for Australia's environment on the back of significant rainfall, but climate change, habitat destruction and invasive species remain ongoing threats, according to the latest edition of Australia's Environment Report.
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Don't let financial shame be your ruin: Open conversations can help ease the burden of personal debt
Nearly two-thirds of New Zealanders are worried about the cost of living, and a quarter are worried about putting food on the table. But the shame that can come with financial stress is preventing some people from seeking help.
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With the launch of ChatGPT to the public, post-secondary institutions are aware of the seismic impact this could have on both the business and art of education.
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Early this month, the Daily Mail published a story online implying three Chinese men taking photos at the Avalon Airshow in Melbourne were spies. After complaints and an open letter condemning the paper for racially profiling the Chinese communities and throwing around baseless accusations, the story disappeared from the Mail's site without explanation.
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AI turns Harry Potter Balenciaga
Balenci Potter An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga, a vision so lifelike and convincing, we wish we could get our hands on a feature-length and Alejandro Jodorowksy-directed reenvisioning of the hit fantasy series. The clip, titled " Harry Potter by Balenciaga " and created by Patreon user demonfl
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Musk Twitter April 15
Big Mad Elon Musk's latest Twitter gambit is so convoluted, even some of his biggest fans hate it. After announcing that Twitter would soon only allow verified accounts onto Twitter's "For You" suggestions feed — and for some reason to vote in polls — folks began coming out of the woodwork to condemn it, including serious Musk fanboys. "The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swa
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32252-w Author Correction: Isolation of dissolved organic matter from aqueous solution by precipitation with FeCl 3 : mechanisms and significance in environmental perspectives
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Bernard Bedford, Dr Andrew Hill and Andrew Scaife respond to an article by Devi Sridhar on the dangers of vaccine scepticism, especially with regard to children I wholeheartedly agree with Devi Sridhar's concern about dwindling childhood protection from infectious diseases ( In a sceptical era, understand this: vaccines do work – and our children need them, 27 March ). Coming from a small hamlet
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Claims that children recover from brain damage faster than adults are misleading, argues David A Johnson Dr Annie Hickox's letter ( Early diagnosis of brain damage is key for recovery, 15 March ) confuses the benefits of early diagnosis with the misleading notion that it is better to have your brain damage early in life. This misconception, often referred to mistakenly as the "Kennard principle",
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Toby Green and Thomas Fazi take issue with a critique of their book on the pandemic We're grateful that you have brought attention to our book The Covid Consensus through Richard Seymour's critical commentary ( Three years on, there is a new generation of lockdown sceptics – and they're rewriting history, 23 March ), following Larry Elliott's supportive one last month ( The price Britain paid for
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Due to climate change, many deciduous trees leaf-out earlier. However, the risk of late spring frosts remains high and the frequency of extreme droughts is clearly increasing. Tree species able to quickly recover after frost damage may be advantaged in the future, shows a study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.
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Mitigation of seal-fishery conflict requires a broad knowledge base and better understanding between key stakeholders, particularly between the coastal fisheries sector and conservation organizations. A new report from Finland supports the development of a seal management plan covering the Baltic Sea.
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By monitoring oceans and peering into ponds, European projects seek to protect an array of animal and plant life.
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Owing to global warming effects, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region has experienced drastic changes in its land surface, characterized by melting glaciers, loss of snow cover, and vegetation greening. These, in turn, have led to a darkening of the land surface, characterized by a lower surface albedo and higher absorption of shortwave radiation.
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Due to climate change, many deciduous trees leaf-out earlier. However, the risk of late spring frosts remains high and the frequency of extreme droughts is clearly increasing. Tree species able to quickly recover after frost damage may be advantaged in the future, shows a study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL.
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Mitigation of seal-fishery conflict requires a broad knowledge base and better understanding between key stakeholders, particularly between the coastal fisheries sector and conservation organizations. A new report from Finland supports the development of a seal management plan covering the Baltic Sea.
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Among the many difficulties imposed upon America by the pandemic, the scourge of anti-vaccine sentiment—and the preventable deaths caused as result—ranks among the most frustrating, especially for infectious-disease doctors like me. People who are hospitalized with COVID-19 rarely refuse therapy, but acceptance of vaccines to help prevent infection has been considerably more limited. Seventy perc
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Scientists detected water trapped inside glass spherules on the moon after analyzing soil samples brought back by China's Chang'e-5 mission.
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Heavy rain in Australia has led to an influx in venomous spiders being washed into people's swimming pools. Species found include funnel-web spiders, the venom of which is so toxic it can kill a child in just 15 minutes.
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Get one of the best iPads around at a discount at Amazon, with up to $70 off the iPad Air M1.
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Research will aid independent assessment of potential animal link to virus outbreak
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Plastic KIPPRA
We need more solutions like this.
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By statistically analyzing data from around the world, scientists have determined that multiple natural and human stressors are reducing levels of biodiversity and soil functioning in soil ecosystems. The number and specific combination of those stressors are determining factors in this interaction. This is the conclusion that has been reached by an international team of scientists led by Matthias
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We have just published evidence in Nature Astronomy for what might be producing mysterious bursts of radio waves coming from distant galaxies, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs.
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By statistically analyzing data from around the world, scientists have determined that multiple natural and human stressors are reducing levels of biodiversity and soil functioning in soil ecosystems. The number and specific combination of those stressors are determining factors in this interaction. This is the conclusion that has been reached by an international team of scientists led by Matthias
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Tiny materials one hundred thousand times smaller than the width of a strand of hair could be used to improve solar cell technology.
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Since late last year, artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT have become a growing topic of conversation on college campuses, with students using the technology for everything from class assignments to essays.
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Artificial intelligence technologies like ChatGPT are seemingly doing everything these days: writing code, composing music, and even creating images so realistic you'll think they were taken by professional photographers. Add thinking and responding like a human to the conga line of capabilities. A recent study from BYU proves that artificial intelligence can respond to complex survey questions ju
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Urban green areas, including parks and gardens, are a fundamental part of our cities and are, on many occasions, the only contact that humans have with nature.
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Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red color, implying the existence of two populations of asteroids in the region, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. The research is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
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Schools are an obvious place to do mental health work with young people. This is important, as about one in seven young Australians are diagnosed with a mental illness. This includes issues like psychological distress, anxiety, depression, school refusal, and complex trauma.
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00879-4 Neurons involved in stimulating appetite become more active right after fasting ends, animal experiments show.
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While most people survive contact with 10 million volts, few walk away without lasting effects. Find out what happens when you get struck by lightning.
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Fire in the Sky Floridians on early Thursday morning were stunned by an epic display of what appeared to be fireballs streaking across the night sky. The American Meteor Society received 18 reports from different eyewitnesses, almost all within Florida. "It appeared to me that it was something breaking up in our atmosphere," one witness reported , noting that there were small dots leading the "el
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone with essential functions in plant physiology. It is involved in developmental and growth processes and the adaptive stress response. Thus, the plant adaptation to stress situations caused by water deficit can be favored by activating this phytohormone pathway. In this project, the teams led by Pedro Luis Rodríguez at the IBMCP in Valencia and Armando Albert a
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When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the University of Kansas, the replacement of steam-powered trains with diesel and electric engines, as well as cars and trucks, might be a model of how some species in the fossil record died out.
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The discovery of a small molecule in the research lab of Bradley McConnell, professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, may well be the genesis of new medication which could shorten the course of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Unlike Pfizer's antiviral treatment Paxlovid, which is only useful during the first three days of showing symptoms, this possible new medication could
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Abscisic acid (ABA) is a plant hormone with essential functions in plant physiology. It is involved in developmental and growth processes and the adaptive stress response. Thus, the plant adaptation to stress situations caused by water deficit can be favored by activating this phytohormone pathway. In this project, the teams led by Pedro Luis Rodríguez at the IBMCP in Valencia and Armando Albert a
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When the Kinks' Ray Davies penned the tune "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains," the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the University of Kansas, the replacement of steam-powered trains with diesel and electric engines, as well as cars and trucks, might be a model of how some species in the fossil record died out.
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Just four sectors contribute to at least a third of global deaths — they should be held accountable
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The discovery of a small molecule in the research lab of Bradley McConnell, professor of pharmacology at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, may well be the genesis of new medication which could shorten the course of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Unlike Pfizer's antiviral treatment Paxlovid, which is only useful during the first three days of showing symptoms, this possible new medication could
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A quartet of climate scientists, two from the University of Gothenburg, and one each from Yale University and the University of Cambridge, has found that educating people about the benefits of being Earth-friendly may not be the best approach to improving Earth-friendly behaviors. Instead, as Magnus Bergquista, Maximilian Thiel, Matthew Goldberg and Sander van der Linden explain in their paper pub
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Vault New Data Insights
Greater speed and agility are helping organizations address an increasingly competitive marketplace, heightened customer expectations, and the lingering impact of the pandemic. To compete more effectively, companies are gathering and analyzing increasingly large and disparate sets of data. But only with cloud solutions, like Microsoft Azure, can this data provide insight into every corner of the
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06006-7
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00878-5 A design strategy that relies on virtual lattices allows scientists to recreate biological shapes in a wide variety of materials.
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00886-5 The UN's first water conference in decades put the spotlight on a vital and troubled resource. But to widen access and resolve disputes, one thing is needed above all: data.
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They are small, have a high reproductive output and live in the forests of Madagascar. During the 5-month rainy season, offspring are born and a fat pad is created to survive the cool dry season when food is scarce. But what happens when the rainy season becomes drier and the dry season warmer? Can mouse lemurs adapt to climate change thanks to their high reproductive output?
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Novel, ultrathin nanomaterials exhibit remarkable properties. If you stack individual atomically thin layers of crystals in a vertical assembly, for example, fascinating physical effects can occur. For instance, bilayers of the wonder material graphene twisted by the magic angle of 1.1 degrees may exhibit superconductivity. And researchers are also focusing their attention on bilayer semiconductin
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Forbrugerelektronik og professionelt AV-udstyr nærmer sig hinanden.
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The Food and Drug Administration is expected this week to allow the overdose-reversal medication to be sold without a prescription, a step toward making it a common emergency tool.
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They are small, have a high reproductive output and live in the forests of Madagascar. During the 5-month rainy season, offspring are born and a fat pad is created to survive the cool dry season when food is scarce. But what happens when the rainy season becomes drier and the dry season warmer? Can mouse lemurs adapt to climate change thanks to their high reproductive output?
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China Water Glass Moon
Moonal Beads China's Chang'e-5 lander successfully drilled into the surface of the Moon back in 2020, culminating in the first successful sample return mission since the 1970s. Now that scientists are poring over the data, examining the 3.7 pounds of lunar regolith that were returned by the mission in 2021, they say they've made an exciting discovery. They found an entirely new source of water in
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32066-w
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Microsoft SC Copilot AI
The new tool aims to deliver the network insights and coordination that "AI" security systems have long promised.
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Male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are attracted to people despite not drinking blood, suggesting they hang around us to find thirsty females
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37422-y Omicron strains of SARS-CoV-2 have displayed high transmissibility and immunological escape to antibody responses derived from natural infection and vaccination. Here the authors compare the antibody response to vaccination and natural infection, assessing neutralisation after vaccine doses and analyse the repe
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36859-5 Old Masters used paints containing mixtures of oils and proteins, but we lack an understanding on how and why proteins were used. Here, the authors use egg yolk in combination with two pigments to evaluate how different repartition of proteinaceous binder can be used to control the flow behaviour as well as dry
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Some people have the apprehension that the rich or the 1% will only keep the AI to themselves and block the access to the public. That would make sense, if they actually have an AI that's on the level of human intelligence or an AGI. An AGI is basically a golden-egg laying goose for the corporation. They can just use the AGI to produce as much innovations as possible. If it really has human-level
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Dig into the three different types of rock, and discover why only one of these types features fossils.
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The Atlantic has named a new host for its flagship podcast, Radio Atlantic : Hanna Rosin, a former Atlantic writer who was a co-host of NPR's Invisibilia and most recently the editorial director for audio at New York magazine. Hanna will bring her formidable talent and deep curiosity to Radio Atlantic , which will relaunch in the spring. Radio Atlantic will resume a weekly cadence in late May. Th
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Netanyahu Jewish Israel
Every visit I've ever made to Israel has included a screaming match with my relatives there. I know: They're Israelis. It's to be expected. It's how they show love. But the fights always resulted from the gentlest of prodding on my part—about the occupation, about the expanding role of religious authorities, about why Israeli taxi drivers can seem so obnoxious. They would respond with disproporti
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Researchers believe egg was used by likes of Botticelli and Da Vinci for fine-tuning of oil paint properties It pays to go to work on an egg when painting with oils, researchers have found, as the addition of yolk can prevent wrinkling, yellowing and problems with humidity. The use of egg as a binding medium for pigments, a form of paint known as egg tempera, has a long history, turning up in wor
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Earnings calls and industry convergence
When seemingly disparate fields, industries, and ways of thinking merge, a convergence happens, which, has the power to build more intuitive and advanced futures for both organizations and the everyday consumer, says Accenture communications, media and technology industry group chair, Kathleen O'Reilly and Daniela Rus, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (C
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With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly change the evolutionary course of animals or plants by inserting genes that can easily spread through entire populations. Evolutionary geneticist Asher Cutter proposes that we call this evolutionary meddling "genetic welding." In an opinion paper published March 28 in the journal Trends in Genetics, he argues that we must scientifically and ethic
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Researchers in Japan led by the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe and Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, have discovered that whale shark vision has uniquely temperature-dependent adaptations unseen in any other lifeform. They have detailed the findings in a study titled "Whale shark rhodopsin adapted to deep-sea lifestyle by a substitution associated with human disease," publ
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Energy production in nature is the responsibility of chloroplasts and mitochondria and is crucial for fabricating sustainable, synthetic cells in the lab. Mitochondria are not only "the powerhouses of the cell," as the middle school biology adage goes, but also one of the most complex intracellular components to replicate artificially.
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A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a scalable way to use bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester. In their paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their technique and outline its performance when tested over a several-hour period.
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North Korean Mandiant
A spy group working for the Kim regime has been feeding stolen coins into crypto mining services in an effort to throw tracers off their trail.
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With CRISPR-Cas9 technology, humans can now rapidly change the evolutionary course of animals or plants by inserting genes that can easily spread through entire populations. Evolutionary geneticist Asher Cutter proposes that we call this evolutionary meddling "genetic welding." In an opinion paper published March 28 in the journal Trends in Genetics, he argues that we must scientifically and ethic
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Researchers in Japan led by the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe and Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, have discovered that whale shark vision has uniquely temperature-dependent adaptations unseen in any other lifeform. They have detailed the findings in a study titled "Whale shark rhodopsin adapted to deep-sea lifestyle by a substitution associated with human disease," publ
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Energy production in nature is the responsibility of chloroplasts and mitochondria and is crucial for fabricating sustainable, synthetic cells in the lab. Mitochondria are not only "the powerhouses of the cell," as the middle school biology adage goes, but also one of the most complex intracellular components to replicate artificially.
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Typ 2-diabetes är vanligt bland personer som lider av fetma, men det finns undantag. Forskare har nu identifierat två olika fetmaprofiler, där den genetiska risken för följdsjukdomar som diabetes skiljer sig åt. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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The precise measurement of biomolecules can play a critical role in improving our understanding of fundamental life processes. In a large-scale comparative study involving 19 laboratories around the globe, a team working with LMU scientists Professor Thorben Cordes and Professor Don C. Lamb, alongside Professor Claus Seidel of HHU in Düsseldorf and Dr. Anders Barth of Delft University of Technolog
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Research into the unique cognitive abilities of dogs often leads to surprises, including dogs' ability to form mental representations of things they smell, or that they know when their owners do something by accident. However, dog cognition research suffers from the same biases as general psychology: in both fields, studies are usually done in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and de
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A small team of environmental scientists from several institutions in Italy and Switzerland has found evidence suggesting that at least some of the red plumage sported by barn owls on small, isolated islands may be due to the ingestion of sulfur. In their study, reported in the Journal of Biogeography, the group studied the preserved skin of thousands of barn owl specimens from multiple geographic
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Unlike other senses, smell is not something doctors routinely test for—but some scientists think that should change
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The menagerie that twirls and twirls includes gorillas, bonobos and, yes, us humans
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A team of chemical and biomolecular engineers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed a scalable way to use bacteria to convert CO2 in the air into a polyester. In their paper, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their technique and outline its performance when tested over a several-hour period.
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The precise measurement of biomolecules can play a critical role in improving our understanding of fundamental life processes. In a large-scale comparative study involving 19 laboratories around the globe, a team working with LMU scientists Professor Thorben Cordes and Professor Don C. Lamb, alongside Professor Claus Seidel of HHU in Düsseldorf and Dr. Anders Barth of Delft University of Technolog
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Research into the unique cognitive abilities of dogs often leads to surprises, including dogs' ability to form mental representations of things they smell, or that they know when their owners do something by accident. However, dog cognition research suffers from the same biases as general psychology: in both fields, studies are usually done in WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and de
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Science requires data, and survey research is one important means of gathering it. Surveys provide a scientific way of acquiring information that is used to inform policy decisions, guide political campaigns, clarify the needs of stakeholders, enhance customer service, help society understand itself, and improve the quality of life in the United States.
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A small team of environmental scientists from several institutions in Italy and Switzerland has found evidence suggesting that at least some of the red plumage sported by barn owls on small, isolated islands may be due to the ingestion of sulfur. In their study, reported in the Journal of Biogeography, the group studied the preserved skin of thousands of barn owl specimens from multiple geographic
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Good for Society Nvidia, the video card giant whose sophisticated GPUs have found a weird new use to mine cryptocurrency , has had enough. It's calling for its customers to stop mining crypto — and do something more worthwhile with their time. The company's technology officer Michael Kagan recently told The Guardian that he wished buyers would turn their attention to artificial intelligence inste
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In a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper , a team of researchers from Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that large language models (LLM) might be able to learn from their own mistakes — just like humans. Teaching them to do so, they say, might be able to push AI technologies into a new phase of autonomous problem-solving. "Self-reflection allows humans to effi
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GPT-4 4 ChatGPT AI
Young people catch heat for being overly focused on personal identity, but they've got nothing on ChatGPT. Toy with the bot long enough, and you'll notice that it has an awkward, self-regarding tic: "As an AI language model," it often says, before getting to the heart of the matter. This tendency is especially pronounced when you query ChatGPT about its own strengths and weaknesses. Ask the bot a
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M y 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition. Paramedics got his heart beating, but it was too late to save his brain. I could hold his hand, look at the small birthmark on it, comb his hair, and call out for him, but if he could hear me or feel me, he gave no sign. He had been a child in perpetual motion,
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37109-4 Cryo-EM structures of Ty1 integrase-Pol III complexes reveal determinants of Ty1 targeting upstream of Pol III-transcribed genes, and a functional impact of the integrase on Pol III activity that may increase the probability of Ty1 integration.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37213-5 Primary biliary cholangitis is a rare, chronic immune-mediated liver disease triggered by environmental exposures in genetically susceptible individuals. Here, the authors investigate the functional mechanism underlying the association of 19p13.3 variants with primary biliary cholangitis.
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Researchers have developed an implantable fuel cell that uses excess blood sugar from tissue to generate electrical energy. The researchers combined the fuel cell with artificial beta cells that produce insulin at the touch of a button and effectively lower blood glucose levels much like their natural role models in the pancreas . In type 1 diabetes , the body does not produce insulin. This means
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The late March dust storm occurred when strong winds lofted a vast blanket of dust over the Gobi Desert and blew it into eastern China.
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For nearly 100 years, the famous grandfather paradox of time travel has fascinated both sci-fi fans and scientists. Has anyone ever come up with a solution for it?
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The whites of your eyes are showing. Should you be worried? Are you cursed to fall victim of the sapaku eye theory?
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How a 1910 murder in Chicago became precedent for the inclusion of fingerprint evidence in U.S. courts.
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A professor in Florida State University's Department of Mathematics has made a breakthrough that will allow scientists across academic disciplines and financial institutions to shrink sampling errors concerning high-dimensional financial data.
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The offspring of Indonesia's infamous Krakatoa volcano erupted several times on Tuesday, sending a huge volcanic ash tower some 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) into the sky.
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A Russian space capsule safely returned to Earth without a crew Tuesday, months after it suffered a coolant leak in orbit.
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Conservationists in Bangladesh said Tuesday that tourists dropping rubbish in the world's largest mangrove forest had seriously damaged the ecosystem, forcing the imposition of a single-use plastic ban in the World Heritage site.
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Scientists Mice Two
Seven mice just joined the pantheon of offspring created from same-sex parents—and opened the door to offspring born from a single parent. In a study published in Nature , researchers described how they scraped skin cells from the tails of male mice and used them to create functional egg cells. When fertilized with sperm and transplanted into a surrogate, the embryos gave rise to healthy pups, wh
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2023 Cancer Killer
A new upgraded model shows how the body's immune response can make tumor cells more resistant to chemotherapy. Tumor cells won't show their true selves in a Petri dish, isolated from other cells. To find out how they really behave, researchers developed the new model that houses osteosarcoma cells beside immune cells known as macrophages inside a three-dimensional structure engineered to mimic bo
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The more we learn about the biological world, the more complex it becomes.
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Common ragweed, a pest and a major cause of hay fever, is a successful invasive species because it uses "supergenes" to adapt, an international study led by Monash University has found.
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Can monetary policy such as the United States Federal Reserve raising interest rates affect the environment? According to a new study by Florida Atlantic University's College of Business, it can.
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The more we learn about the biological world, the more complex it becomes.
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Common ragweed, a pest and a major cause of hay fever, is a successful invasive species because it uses "supergenes" to adapt, an international study led by Monash University has found.
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#discoveryplus #streetoutlaws Stream Full Episodes of Street Outlaws https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/street-outlaws About Street Outlaws: Street Outlaws explores the world of street racing in Oklahoma City where, after throwing out the top 10 list, the 405 competes in a high-speed, high-stakes qualifier for a chance to race in America's List. Subscribe to Discovery: https://www.youtube.com/@di
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Unlike other senses, smell is not something doctors routinely test for—but some scientists think that should change
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The menagerie that twirls and twirls includes gorillas, bonobos and, yes, us humans
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PFAS found in Canadian packaging
Researchers at the University of Toronto, Indiana University and University of Notre Dame have detected levels of toxic PFAS chemicals—short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances—for the first time in Canadian fast-food packaging, specifically water-and-grease repellent paper alternatives to plastic.
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Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an atmospheric inversion system GONGGA (Global ObservatioN-based system for monitoring Greenhouse GAes) to infer CO2 sources and sinks from atmospheric CO2 observations.
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M1 and M2 are activated macrophages that protect our immune system and maintain homeostasis. Interestingly, they are characterized by distinct and opposing phenotypes. M1 macrophages are known for their bactericidal and tumoricidal properties by secreting pro-inflammatory cytokines, while M2 macrophages facilitate immunosuppressive responses and help cancer progression.
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Research published in the journal Physical Review Letters conducted by an international team of scientists including Joshua Klein, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences, has resulted in a significant breakthrough in detecting neutrinos.
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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (or spectroscopy), known as SERS, is an advanced analysis method that extends the range of Raman applications to trace analysis, such as part-per-million-level detection of a pollutant in water or different liquids. SERS has a high potential to be used in the fields of biochemistry, forensics, food safety, threat detection and medical diagnostics.
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00806-7 Snippets from Nature's past.
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00837-0 As the effects of climate change grow, scientists from fields spanning astronomy to biology are trying to decarbonize their research.
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A new method monitors when deep sea methane deposits convert to gas and rise toward the seafloor in amounts that were previously too small to detect. The research, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters , shows that fossils of a single-cell organism called benthic foraminifera from the order Miliolida have a unique ability to serve as a resource for this monitoring because they can reco
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New research explores sympathy for male perpetrators of sexual harassment in the workplace, a phenomenon called "himpathy." The new study shows how employees' intuitive moral values might give rise to feelings of sympathy toward alleged perpetrators and anger toward their accusing victims. The research, published in the journal Organization Science , also offers insights into what enables perpetr
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For around 20 years, astronomers have struggled to find an ancient group of stars mixed in with the gas, dust and newer stars of our galaxy's bulge. These "fossil" stars preceded the Milky Way and should have been discernible by their distinctive chemistry and orbits. Yet until recently, only a small number of them had ever been found. Now, a determined effort using data-intensive machine learnin
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Bioengineers and tissue engineers intend to reconstruct skin equivalents with physiologically relevant cellular and matrix architectures for basic research and industrial applications. Skin pathophysiology depends on skin-nerve crosstalk and researchers must therefore develop reliable models of skin in the lab to assess selective communications between epidermal keratinocytes and sensory neurons.
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By analyzing the data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of Bologna in Italy and elsewhere have found that the millisecond pulsar PSR J1835−3259B has a young white dwarf companion. The finding is reported in a paper published March 20 on the arXiv pre-print server.
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From fiber optic cables to smartphones, glass is playing a major role in emerging technology. To learn more about how glass will shape future society, we spoke with Katelyn Kirchner, a doctoral candidate at Penn State, who is studying with John Mauro, Penn State's Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. Kirchner is lead author and Mauro corresponding author on a recent
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Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said that there were more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
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The two spacecraft forming ESA's Proba-3 mission for precise formation flying in orbit are now complete. All the instruments and sensors allowing them to maneuver to millimeter scale precision relative to one another have been integrated aboard, and the pair are fully wrapped in multi-layer insulation—ready to be tested in simulated space conditions.
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Engaging communities in developing a real-time early warning system could help to reduce the often-devastating impact of flooding on people and property—particularly in mountainous regions where extreme water events are a "wicked" problem, a new study reveals
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37062-2 The color of environmental noise, or degree of predictability in environmental variation, has important implications for ecosystem conservation and management. This study investigates the patterns and drivers of noise color across the US rivers.
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M1 and M2 are activated macrophages that protect our immune system and maintain homeostasis. Interestingly, they are characterized by distinct and opposing phenotypes. M1 macrophages are known for their bactericidal and tumoricidal properties by secreting pro-inflammatory cytokines, while M2 macrophages facilitate immunosuppressive responses and help cancer progression.
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Bioengineers and tissue engineers intend to reconstruct skin equivalents with physiologically relevant cellular and matrix architectures for basic research and industrial applications. Skin pathophysiology depends on skin-nerve crosstalk and researchers must therefore develop reliable models of skin in the lab to assess selective communications between epidermal keratinocytes and sensory neurons.
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The chatbot was the ideal test taker—it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. And what about that IQ score?
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People who have obesity and lose weight through behavioural weight loss programmes have lower risks for heart disease and type 2 diabetes years later, despite regaining some weight
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A method for mixing glass particles into a soft material, folding the mixture like origami, then applying heat to melt it can be used to build beautifully folded glass structures
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Apocalyptic predictions about energy shortages in the past six months have failed to materialise, but with Russia's war in Ukraine ongoing, some are already raising concerns about Europe's next winter
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In a paper published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, an international research team composed of scientists affiliated with more than a dozen institutions, including the California Academy of Sciences, propose a first-of-its-kind framework for governments around the world to evaluate their preparedness for—and guide future policies to address—ocean acidification, among the most
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New research led by the University of Oxford has revealed that the most endangered turtle and crocodile species are those that are most unique. Their loss could have widespread impacts on the ecosystems they live in, since they carry out critical processes important for many other species.
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Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), the European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the MIT Kavli Institute and Department of Physics have discovered that magnetic fields in multiple star systems with at least one giant, hot blue star, are much more common than previously thought by scientists. The results significantly improve the understanding of massive stars and
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The construction of the first laser in 1960 ushered in commercial applications with light that have become an integral part of our everyday lives. At the same time, this development opened up the scientific field of laser spectroscopy—a technique that is central to the analysis of materials and the study of fundamental physical phenomena.
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University of Queensland researchers have led a national study on the four main bacteria that cause sepsis, providing new targets for developing antibiotics.
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Protecting wildlife across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks, a new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology Oswald Schmitz has found.
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New research led by the University of Oxford has revealed that the most endangered turtle and crocodile species are those that are most unique. Their loss could have widespread impacts on the ecosystems they live in, since they carry out critical processes important for many other species.
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Amazon Sidewalk Network
The massive public mesh network taps into wireless bandwidth from Echo and Ring devices. Now, developers can build Sidewalk connectivity into their own gadgets and services.
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The history of other industries shows that individuals aren't always personally responsible, and that there's a way out.
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University of Queensland researchers have led a national study on the four main bacteria that cause sepsis, providing new targets for developing antibiotics.
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Unlike other senses, smell is not something doctors routinely test for—but some scientists think that should change
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The menagerie that twirls and twirls includes gorillas, bonobos and, yes, us humans
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00869-6 Science is beginning to uncover the multiple processes driving persistent pain. But connecting people with treatments that will help them remains a challenge.
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As NASA plans to retire the orbiting laboratory, these four privately owned and operated space stations are under development
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Vi sneglar hellre på hur andra människor beter sig än lyssnar på fakta. Det visar analyser av kampanjer som syftar till mer miljövänliga val i vardagen. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Protecting wildlife across the world could significantly enhance natural carbon capture and storage by supercharging ecosystem carbon sinks, a new study led by Yale School of the Environment Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology Oswald Schmitz has found.
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En nye kortlægning af vand på Månen giver en bedre forståelse af faktorer, der spiller ind i fordelingen af molekylet.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37411-1 PfENT1 is a promising antimalarial drug target. Here, authors report cryo-EM structures of PfENT1 that, together with biochemical work, suggests PfENT1 is an inosine transporter and describe the inhibitory mechanism of the endofacial inhibitor, GSK4.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37223-3 Here the authors identify distinct mechanisms by which domain-specific p53 mutations activate cancer cell growth via the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). These mechanisms affect sensitivity to EGFR inhibitors, opening avenues for targeted therapy.
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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. Microplastics are messing with the microbiomes of seabirds The news: While we know that tiny pieces of plastic are everywhere, we don't fully understand what they're doing to us or other animals. Now, new research in seabirds hints that it might affect gut mic
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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. Earlier this month, a brand-new Ford Mustang rolled into my driveway and hummed itself to a halt. The scene was a straight shot of Americana concentrate: The dirt crunched beneath the car's tires; the sun glinted off t
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Critics aren't always aligned in their judgments; part of the job description, in fact, is to be ready for disagreement. I've had many private disputes about books with colleagues. Many whom I respect hate some titles that I adore. The opposite has also been true—sometimes we come to the near-identical conclusion. But then there are those moments when a critical mass gathers behind a negative ass
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A form of light therapy called photobiomodulation may delay the occurrence of age-related diseases, like heart deterioration, a study with mice shows. Almost 20% of Americans older than 65 have been diagnosed with heart disease, and heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States. "The idea was to see if intervention in middle age could enable people to avoid further
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WIRED's spiritual advice columnist on the tendency to keep tabs open and the desire to reduce the infinite possibilities of the internet.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37077-9 Despite medications, heart failure worsens with time with many patients dying within five years of diagnosis. Here the authors show that blocking purinergic receptors in the carotid body stops heart failure progression, improves its function, reduces sleep apneas and systemic inflammation in male rats.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37360-9 Understanding and controlling chemical environment of metal-N-catalysts is of great importance. In this work, the authors reveal FeN/Fe3N interface with Fe-N4 and Fe-N2 coordination sites for enhanced electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO.
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32000-0
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Last year, scientists described a weird goblin shark in a scientific journal despite never setting eyes on it. Experts now question the review process that approved the study.
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Antibiotika biter inte på tarmbakterien Clostridioides difficile, som ställer till stora problem inom sjukvården. Nu visar en studie mekanismerna bakom bakteriens finurliga förmåga att utveckla resistens. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Chargers California
Startups and investors are rushing to build networks of charging stations. But it's still unclear when—or if—battery-powered big rigs will rule the roads.
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Startup Accexible says the way you talk can indicate preclinical Alzheimer's or other underlying health conditions.
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Selling over livestreams is a $40 billion business in China. But Americans just aren't responding.
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ChatGPT AI Internet
Letting the chatbot interact with the live internet will make it more useful—and more problematic, too.
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Stress on health care facilities might have accelerated outbreaks of the hard-to-treat yeast Candida auris
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Stress on health care facilities might have accelerated outbreaks of the hard-to-treat yeast Candida auris
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00888-3 Three years on, scientist mums implore universities, funding agencies and publishers to heed calls to account for COVID-19 disruptions.
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Six years ago, I moved my family into a 50-year-old RV—not just to see America, but to test my belief that anything worth fixing can be fixed.
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Folketinget har afsat 992 mio. kroner til at udvide Rute 15, så biler og tung transport kan komme hurtigere frem mellem Herning og Ringkøbing.
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Der er i alt syv batch-numre af medicinen, hvor de multiresistente bakterier er fundet.
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via Wikimedia A journal has issued an expression of concern about five papers by a psychology researcher whose studies related to women's sexual behavior and perceived attractiveness have raised eyebrows . As we've previously reported , sleuths have identified seemingly impossible and likely fabricated results in the work of Nicolas Guéguen, a professor of marketing at the Université de Bretagne-
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-32194-3
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Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30823-5
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Ud for Sveriges kyst skal der i begyndelsen af 2030'erne produceres en halv million ton brint om året
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In North America's hottest, driest desert, climate change is causing the decline of plants once thought nearly immortal and replacing them with shorter shrubs that can take advantage of sporadic rainfall and warmer temperatures.
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Every year, millions of birds crash into windows in cities along their migratory path. For decades, scientists and volunteers have risen at dawn in spring and fall to collect the fallen birds, rehabilitating the injured and documenting the dead. The bodies of the birds killed in these collisions are a treasure trove of scientific information, especially when compared year after year. A new study i
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00891-8
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00892-7
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Nature, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00893-6
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Pandemin fick många att bege sig till naturen. Baksidan är ökade transporter och slitage i känsliga miljöer. Situationen innebär ett dilemma för friluftsföreningar, där många saknar riktlinjer för ekologisk hållbarhet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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In North America's hottest, driest desert, climate change is causing the decline of plants once thought nearly immortal and replacing them with shorter shrubs that can take advantage of sporadic rainfall and warmer temperatures.
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Every year, millions of birds crash into windows in cities along their migratory path. For decades, scientists and volunteers have risen at dawn in spring and fall to collect the fallen birds, rehabilitating the injured and documenting the dead. The bodies of the birds killed in these collisions are a treasure trove of scientific information, especially when compared year after year. A new study i
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Colorful particles of plastic drift along under the surface of most waterways, from headwater streams to the Arctic Ocean. These barely visible microplastics—less than 5 mm wide—are potentially harmful to aquatic animals and plants, as well as humans. So, researchers are devising ways to remove them and to stop them at their source. Today, a team reports a two-stage device made with steel tubes an
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The ancient art of origami is well known for transforming sheets of paper and other foldable materials into complex 3D shapes. But now, chemical engineers have extended the centuries-old practice to produce intricate shapes made of glass or other hard materials. Their thoroughly modern method, which can be combined with 3D printing, could have applications ranging from sculpture to catalysis and b
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Covid Flu 10 Seconds
Have a cough, sore throat and congestion? Any number of respiratory viruses could be responsible. Conventional tests can identify certain likely culprits by relying on chemical reactions, but some researchers want to swap chemistry for electrical changes sensed by nanomaterials. Today, scientists report using a single-atom-thick nanomaterial to build a device that can simultaneously detect the pre
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STEVE was spotted across the U.S. and in parts of the U.K. after the most powerful solar storm to hit Earth for six years smashed into our planet.
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Was Stonehenge an ancient solar calendar, as a 2022 study claimed? Not at all, says a new study by two scientists who specialize in ancient astronomy.
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Tre satellit-projekter i Randers Kommune skal forsyne Assentoft, Spentrup og Øster Bjerregrav med fjernvarme.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37089-5 Many species of reptiles are threatened with extinction. This analysis on 259 species of turtles, tortoises and crocodilians identifies anthropogenic threats that disproportionally affect species with certain life history strategies and others that affect all species similarly.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37276-4 Thousands of industrial sites were found to be correlated with contaminated sites in the Arctic. Between 13,000 and 20,000 contaminated sites are likely to exist in the permafrost region, 26% of which will be affected by permafrost thaw before 2100.
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Brazilian researchers captured on camera the brief moment when lightning rods on buildings released an upward discharge to attract incoming lightning.
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Adobe AI Firefly
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here . Think of a teacher. Close your eyes. What does that person look like? If you ask Stable Diffusion or DALL-E 2, two of the most popular AI image generators, it's a white man with glasses. Last week, I published a story about new tools developed by researchers a
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Pandemin fick många att bege sig till naturen. Baksidan är ökade transporter och slitage i känsliga miljöer. Situationen innebär ett dilemma för friluftsföreningar, där många saknar riktlinjer för ekologisk hållbarhet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
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The one-atom-thick layer of carbon known as graphene can split hydrogen 100 times more efficiently than an equivalent mass of the best catalysts because of its strange nanoripples
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Despite recent national attention on the air pollution caused by natural gas, most fights over the fuel occur at the state and local level. When small communities like Gunnison, Colorado and Scottsdale, Arizona, propose updated building codes that require electrification, gas companies are pushing back.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37451-7 Solar-driven hydrogen evolution coupled with organic synthesis is important but challenging. Here, the authors report an in-situ oxygen impregnation strategy to build a ruthenium-based amorphous hybrid-mixture with abundant atomic interfaces and show efficient hydrogen evolution with small molecule oxidation.
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Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus will be in alignment near the moon and visible using binoculars from Tuesday evening Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A planetary alignment is set to light up Australia's night sky. Five planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus – will be in alignm
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Natural infection is getting infected. It's like water and H20. It's amazing that a doctor is trying to convince us otherwise. The post first appeared on Science-Based Medicine .
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Hello Reddit, I'm the creator of HAZRE, a novel renewable energy system that can generate clean and sustainable electricity. I've spent 2 years developing this project, and I believe that it can transform the energy industry. To show you how HAZRE operates and what makes it better than other renewable energy sources, I've had a conversation with ChatGPT. You can watch our conversation in the vi
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I'm having a hard time deciding what degree/career to pursue since everything is changing so rapidly. What do you think, what degrees are going to stay valuable in the age of AI? My interests are all over the place, I've considered economics, dentistry, philosophy and health/sport sciences. submitted by /u/dustysaxophone [link] [comments]
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Hello, Reddit community, I have recently developed a groundbreaking renewable energy system that I believe will revolutionize the way we generate energy. This innovative technology offers significant advantages over traditional renewable energy systems, making it a game-changer in the field. Some of the key benefits include: Low-cost components and durability. Works anywhere, utilizing natural fo
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And it all began with a hobbyist "messing about and experimenting with shapes."
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Nasa grants last-minute reprieve to invaluable climate and biodiversity scanner on International Space Station, due to be incinerated in Earth's atmosphere Nasa has extended the life of a key climate and biodiversity sensor for scanning the world's forests which was set to be destroyed in Earth's atmosphere. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (Gedi) mission – pronounced like Jedi in Star
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We've never been able to observe like this before.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37401-3 Despite the natural abundance and promising properties of Si, there are few examples of crystalline Si-based catalysts. Here, the authors report an epitaxial growth method to construct Co single atoms on Si for light driven CO2 reduction to syngas.
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Reefy, a startup in the Netherlands, makes modular reefs that double as living breakwaters for coastal areas suffering the effects of the climate crisis.
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Lunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast.
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Nature Communications, Published online: 28 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37513-w Probing single rare earth ions is highly desirable for several quantum applications, but it is difficult due to low emission rates. Here, the authors demonstrate the detection and control of single Erbium ions emission using electro-optically active photonic crystal cavities patterned from thin-film lithium nio
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"…the Commission emphasized that some of the members of the author's team paid lip service to integrity in science, while at the same time consciously or unconsciously allowing deviations from the principles they promoted in their own activities. "
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Recent auroras have been so intense they have been visible as far north as Auckland The lure of unusually vibrant views of the southern lights in New Zealand has prompted aurora-hunters to drive for hours through the night to capture the "elusive" sight on camera, with social media groups devoted to swapping tips growing in size. The aurora australis is always more visible in New Zealand and Aust
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En professor peger på tre ting, du som forbruger kan gøre for at spare på Jordens ressourcer.
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Dr Peter Attia is an expert on longevity and preventative medicine. He explains how sleep, weight training and other incremental changes can make us much more resilient Twenty years ago, Peter Attia was working as a trainee surgeon at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, where he saved countless people facing what he calls "fast death". "I trained in a very, very violent city," he tells me. "We w
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The country has become a prolific producer of academic research but fraudulent studies risk serious real-world consequences
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Madeleine Finlay hears from science correspondent Linda Geddes about her experience becoming a faecal transplant donor, how getting a dose of someone else's gut bacteria could treat illnesses like arthritis, diabetes and cancer, and asks whether a pill made from poo is an idea we are ready to swallow. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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The new tunnel under the River Thames in London is 25km long was built at a cost of almost £5bn.
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Cocoon Bioscience , the Madrid-based company just raised $15.9 million to grow its high-value proteins business. What's the big deal? They are not your typical protein business that uses steel bioreactors, they use caterpillars as bioreactors. Cocoon Bioscience is developing recombinant proteins for cultivated meat growth media. In other words, they're using their expertise to help grow alternati
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With AI growth accelerating I think some AI should be restricted or outright banned. I can think of only negatives of something like AI voice generation. Then some AI like image generation, and chatgpt seem useful but not necessary for the general populace. Theres already problems like cheating on essays and not knowing whether an image is fake. At minimum it should be a law requiring AI generate
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Ejerne af et naturgasanlæg i Nordnorge vil med el fra fastlandet gøre produktionen af LNG CO2-neutral.
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Sveriges sidste koralrev er ved at forsvinde, men det skal projektet Life Lophelia lave om på. Øjekoralrevene langs den svenske vestkyst skal genoprettes ved hjælp af kunstige 3D printede rev.
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Companies pay tiny amounts for recyclable waste in Beirut. Deiri Fayyad dives into bins to find it.
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Opioid Overdose Death
Opioid-involved overdose deaths following nonfatal overdose events are largely preventable with buprenorphine medication for opioid use disorder, research finds. Drug overdose deaths are a significant public health concern in the United States. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, there were more than 105,000 drug overdose deaths in 2021, which were largely attributed to opioid
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Three years after much of the world was forced into Covid lockdowns, the precise origins of the virus are still hazy, and the hunt is bringing scientists into confrontation with political forces that many are not prepared for Read more: 'Being truthful is essential': scientist who stumbled upon Wuhan Covid data speaks out One of the most compelling clues as to the origins of a once-in-a-century p
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Florence Débarre's discovery of genetic data online showed for first time that animals susceptible to coronavirus were present at market Today in Focus podcast: 'It's way beyond just science': untangling the hunt for Covid's origins One of the most compelling clues to the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was uploaded without announcement to a scientific database, going unnoticed for weeks. And th
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When Mechoulam began his chemistry career, other drugs like cocaine and morphine had long been studied. But little was known about the scientific properties of the marijuana plant. (Image credit: JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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