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Eco-glue can replace harmful adhesives in wood construction
Researchers at Aalto University have developed a bio-based adhesive that can replace formaldehyde-containing adhesives in wood construction. The main raw material in the new adhesive is lignin, a structural component of wood and a by-product of the pulp industry that is usually burned after wood is processed. As an alternative to formaldehyde, lignin offers a healthier and more carbon-friendly way
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Tracking invasive plants from space
Invasive plant species do more than harm agriculture and native species as they reshape landscapes. They also cause economic losses of more than $20 billion annually in the U.S. alone. Identifying where and how quickly invasive plants are spreading is critical to fighting an invasion. Scientists and land managers currently use on-site field surveys of population size, density or growth rates to ob
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Tracking invasive plants from space
Invasive plant species do more than harm agriculture and native species as they reshape landscapes. They also cause economic losses of more than $20 billion annually in the U.S. alone. Identifying where and how quickly invasive plants are spreading is critical to fighting an invasion. Scientists and land managers currently use on-site field surveys of population size, density or growth rates to ob
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Analyses of heat shock transcription factors and database construction based on whole-genome genes in plants
The heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are members of a key transcription factor gene family that responds to heat stress and plays an important role in heat resistance. Previous reports have shown that Hsf family genes contain several conserved domains. At the N terminus is a DNA-binding domain (DBD) that can recognize promoter elements of heat-responsive genes. An adjacent oligomerization d
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Improving the estimation of microplastic concentrations in freshwater environments
The extent of plastic pollution remains largely hidden from view in the form of microplastics (MPs): plastic particles with diameters less than 5 mm. Since plastics are slow to degrade, they fragment into tiny particles that end up contaminating entire ecosystems. In the years since their discovery in the early 1970s, MPs have become a ubiquitous and global concern. MPs are found in land, air, wat
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Study on adjusting pesticide regulation and use in European soils
Plant protection products raise concerns because their application may affect certain soil organisms regarded as non-target species and which could be highly sensitive to certain pesticides. The European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA, which regulates agricultural practices, uses of plant protection products, etc. on a European level) has developed a guide and a software tool called the Persisten
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NAC-mediated membrane lipid remodeling negatively regulates fruit cold tolerance
NAC transcription factors (TFs) are involved in regulating complex signaling networks that respond to various abiotic stresses. However, it is unknown whether NAC TFs can negatively regulate fruit cold tolerance by regulating phospholipid degradation to produce PA. Thus, there is an urgent need to investigate the functions of cold-responsive NAC TFs in regulating phospholipid degradation to produc
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Analyses of heat shock transcription factors and database construction based on whole-genome genes in plants
The heat shock transcription factors (Hsfs) are members of a key transcription factor gene family that responds to heat stress and plays an important role in heat resistance. Previous reports have shown that Hsf family genes contain several conserved domains. At the N terminus is a DNA-binding domain (DBD) that can recognize promoter elements of heat-responsive genes. An adjacent oligomerization d
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Study on adjusting pesticide regulation and use in European soils
Plant protection products raise concerns because their application may affect certain soil organisms regarded as non-target species and which could be highly sensitive to certain pesticides. The European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA, which regulates agricultural practices, uses of plant protection products, etc. on a European level) has developed a guide and a software tool called the Persisten
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Facebook Forced to Defend Its Brand New, Already-Racist Chatbot
Oops Within the span of a weekend, Facebook's new chatbot learned to be a racist conspiracist— and the company has already had to respond to headlines about it. The seeming biases of BlenderBot3, Facebook-turned-Meta's new chatbot, which was recently made available to the public as part of a beta test, made headlines earlier this week. As Insider reports , it has already been caught making conspi
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NAC-mediated membrane lipid remodeling negatively regulates fruit cold tolerance
NAC transcription factors (TFs) are involved in regulating complex signaling networks that respond to various abiotic stresses. However, it is unknown whether NAC TFs can negatively regulate fruit cold tolerance by regulating phospholipid degradation to produce PA. Thus, there is an urgent need to investigate the functions of cold-responsive NAC TFs in regulating phospholipid degradation to produc
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The cost of climate change on economic growth
From crop damage to cooling failures at cloud-based data centers, climate change affects a wide variety of economic sectors. It's unclear whether a country's economy can bounce back each year from these impacts or if global temperature increases cause permanent and cumulative impacts on the market economy.
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'History Is Human': Remembering David McCullough
Two years ago, I happened to come across an interview with David McCullough in the Vineyard Gazette , his hometown newspaper. I still have it, printed out and placed in a folder in my desk drawer. I kept it because, as was so often the case, McCullough had said something that I wanted to remember. "There are any number of ways to begin a book," he had told the interviewer while they sat on the ba
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Lab successfully demonstrates new technique to improve particle beams
Physicists love to smash particles together and study the resulting chaos. Therein lies the discovery of new particles and strange physics, generated for tiny fractions of a second and recreating conditions often not seen in our universe for billions of years. But for the magic to happen, two beams of particles must first collide.
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Realistic computer models of brain cells
Investigators have created the most bio-realistic and complex computer models of individual brain cells — in unparalleled quantity. Their research details how these models could one day answer questions about neurological disorders — and even human intellect — that aren't possible to explore through biological experiments.
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Mathematicians Crack a Simple but Stubborn Class of Equations
In the third century BCE, Archimedes posed a riddle about herding cattle that, he claimed, only a truly wise person could solve. His problem ultimately boiled down to an equation that involves the difference between two squared terms, which can be written as x2 – dy2 = 1. Here, d is an integer — a positive or negative counting number — and Archimedes was looking for solutions where both x and y..
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Scientists identify pathway to curb spread of brain cancer
Researchers have identified a molecular pathway responsible for the spread of glioblastoma to surrounding tissue in the brain, as well as an existing drug that curbed tumor growth in animal models. The findings have led to a clinical trial that could offer new hope to patients with glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer in adults that kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide eac
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Academic stress is hardest on certain student groups
Academic stress weighs the heaviest on students who are nonbinary, female, or in their second year of college, a study finds. "This study shows that college students are not uniformly impacted by academic stress or pandemic-related stress and that certain groups should be offered additional resources and support," says study author Xue Ming, a professor of neurology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical
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Test confirms palm 'butt rot' before it's too late
A DNA-based diagnostic method confirms a wood-decaying fungus in palms months before the symptoms of Ganoderma butt rot appear. More than 65 species of palm trees in the United States are vulnerable to a wood-decaying fungus that can damage or destroy palms. A fungus, Ganoderma zonatum , causes the lethal disease known as Ganoderma butt rot of palms . Its mysterious nature has stunted research fo
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How a harmful fungus renders its host plant defenseless
The fungus Ustilago maydis attacks corn and can cause significant damage to its host. To do this, it first ensures that the plant offers little resistance to the infection. The surgical precision it applies is shown by a new study from the University of Bonn, which has now been published in the journal New Phytologist. The Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Geneti
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Evidence for a HURP/EB free mixed-nucleotide zone in kinetochore-microtubules
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32421-x Microtubules are built from GDP-tubulin lattices with small GTP caps at their plus-ends. Here, the authors reveal that microtubules that attach to kinetochores in mitosis contain, in addition to the GTP-cap and the GDP-lattices, a dynamic micron-sized mixed-nucleotide zone.
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How a harmful fungus renders its host plant defenseless
The fungus Ustilago maydis attacks corn and can cause significant damage to its host. To do this, it first ensures that the plant offers little resistance to the infection. The surgical precision it applies is shown by a new study from the University of Bonn, which has now been published in the journal New Phytologist. The Gregor Mendel Institute in Vienna and the Leibniz Institute of Plant Geneti
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Timelapse footage shows a sea sponge sneezing – video
It has emerged that sea sponges can sneeze, casting off accumulations of particles trapped in mucus on their surfaces in the process. Dr Jasper de Goeij, a marine biologist at the University of Amsterdam and the senior author of the paper, said the team made their discovery while examining timelapse videos of sponges in an effort to understand how the creatures poo. Writing in the journal Current
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We don't like domineering bosses. So why do we put up with them?
Have you ever had a really bad boss? Think Alec Baldwin as Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross, who announces that "coffee's for closers only" and then threatens the salesmen he supervises with a number of choice terms not suitable to repeat here. Few leaders use quite so much verbal abuse, profanity, and fear to motivate employees. But plenty of leaders use similar, if less extreme, tactics. Deborah Gru
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Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed
A fireball spotted over Madrid has had its astronomical ancestry unearthed. While it ended its days burning up in Earth's atmosphere on 31 July this year, the fragment began its life as part of Comet 169P/NEAT, responsible for the annual Alpha Capricornids meteor shower.
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Chemists develop new reagent for de-electronation
Chemists from Freiburg have succeeded in converting polynuclear transition metal carbonyls into their homoleptic complex cations using typical inorganic oxidants. In their work, the research team of Malte Sellin, Christian Friedmann and Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing from the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry and Maximilian Mayländer and Sabine Richert from the Institute of Physical Chemist
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Are animal migrations social?
Migratory animals include a wide range of species—from tiny insects to the world's largest marine mammals. To achieve their journeys, migrants must walk, swim, or fly, often traversing complex landscapes that requires many choices about where, when, and why to move. Despite the diversity of migratory journeys made by animals, most scientists who study migration have a taxonomic focus—meaning that
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Using a magnetic field to remotely control the air-water interface
A multidisciplinary study conducted by the Microfluidics Cluster of the UPV/EHU has observed and characterized a novel system involving the use of an external magnetic field to manipulate the air-water interface. The study is part of the European multidisciplinary MAMI project, in which groups and companies from six countries are participating. The work has been featured on the front cover of the
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Giant impacts and the origin and evolution of continents
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04956-y Oxygen isotope compositions of dated magmatic zircon show that the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, Earth's best-preserved Archaean continental remnant, was built in three stages initiated by a giant meteorite impact.
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Spatial multi-omic map of human myocardial infarction
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05060-x A time-resolved high-resolution map of human cardiac remodelling after myocardial infarction, integrating single-cell transcriptomic, chromatin accessibility and spatial transcriptomic data, provides a valuable resource for the field.
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Antarctic calving loss rivals ice-shelf thinning
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05037-w Data from multiple satellite sensors show that Antarctica lost almost 37,000 km2 of ice-shelf area from 1997 to 2021, and that calving losses are as important as ice-shelf thinning.
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Diverse mutational landscapes in human lymphocytes
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05072-7 Sequencing of individual human lymphocyte clones shows that they are highly prone to mutations, with higher burdens in memory cells than in naive cells arising from mutational processes associated with differentiation and tissue residency.
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Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04961-1 Fabrication of a low-dimensional metal halide perovskite superlattice by chemical epitaxy is reported, with a criss-cross two-dimensional network parallel to the substrate, leading to efficient carrier transport in three dimensions.
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Cyclic nucleotide-induced helical structure activates a TIR immune effector
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05070-9 A bacterial antiviral defence system generates a cyclic tri-adenylate that binds to a TIR–SAVED effector, inducing formation of a superhelical structure with adjacent TIR domains organizing into an active site, allowing NAD+ degradation.
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Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04957-x Slow nonlinearities of a free-running microresonator-filtered fibre laser are shown to transform temporal cavity solitons into the system's dominant attractor, leading to reliable self-starting oscillation of microcavity-solitons that are naturally robust to perturbations.
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Direct evidence for phosphorus limitation on Amazon forest productivity
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05085-2 Nutrient manipulation of low-phosphorus soil in an old growth Amazon rainforest shows that phosphorus availability drives forest productivity and is likely to limit the response to increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
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Experimental demonstration of optical stochastic cooling
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04969-7 Stochastic cooling at optical frequencies is demonstrated in an experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Integrable Optics Test Accelerator, substantially increasing the bandwidth of stochastic cooling compared with conventional systems.
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Realizing a 1D topological gauge theory in an optically dressed BEC
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04943-3 An optically coupled Bose–Einstein condensate of potassium atoms is used to engineer chiral interactions and perform the quantum simulation of a one-dimensional reduction of the topological Chern–Simons gauge theory.
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Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05076-3 The survival of southern boreal tree saplings decreases in response to even modest warming and reduced rainfall, which,together with species-specific growth responses, could lead to regeneration failure of currently dominant tree species.
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Response of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet to past and future climate change
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41586-022-04946-0 Analysis of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet response to past warm periods and current observations of change highlight the importance of satisfying the Paris Climate Agreement to avoid a multi-metre contribution to sea level over the next few centuries.
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Immune cells use hunger hormones to aid healing
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02105-z Immune cells called monocytes have long been implicated in the killing of invading bacteria. However, a closer look reveals a surprising role for them: monocytes partner with a hormone to improve skin healing after bacterial infection.
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Magnetically soft but mechanically tough alloys
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02103-1 Soft magnetic materials can be magnetized and demagnetized by weak magnetic fields, but lack the strength, toughness and malleability needed for many applications. An alloy that solves this problem has now been developed.
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A map of the human heart after myocardial infarction
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02011-4 Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, is one of the world's biggest killers. An analysis of spatial and single-cell changes to human tissue after a heart attack provides insights into disease mechanisms and builds a resource for the discovery of therapeutics.
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Low phosphorus levels limit carbon capture by Amazonian forests
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02106-y Understanding the processes that affect carbon storage in tropical forests is crucial for assessing the effects of climate change. An experiment reveals that a nutrient shortfall is hampering such carbon capture.
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Neurons shape the identity of microglia in the brain
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02005-2 Microglia are immune cells that regulate the function and activity of the nervous system. Detailed molecular and spatial studies in mice reveal that different types of neuron govern the density and states of nearby microglia, interactions that can shape local neural circuits.
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Sticky logic programs bacteria to form multicellular patterns
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02102-2 The engineering of cells to express synthetic adhesion molecules creates a simple logic for patterning cell populations with visible boundaries. The approach paves the way for smart living materials and programmable biosensors.
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The early arrival of spring doesn't boost annual tree growth
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02107-x Analysis of when and how fast temperate deciduous trees in North America grow suggests that the earlier onset of the growing season induced by climate change does not result in extra carbon sequestration from wood production.
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Boreal forest on the move
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02008-z A newly discovered population of white-spruce trees is advancing northwards in Arctic Alaska, driven by ecological factors that are associated with climate change at this latitude — including stronger winter winds, deeper snow and greater nutrient availability in the soil.
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Are animal migrations social?
Migratory animals include a wide range of species—from tiny insects to the world's largest marine mammals. To achieve their journeys, migrants must walk, swim, or fly, often traversing complex landscapes that requires many choices about where, when, and why to move. Despite the diversity of migratory journeys made by animals, most scientists who study migration have a taxonomic focus—meaning that
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Major contributor to Alzheimer's disease discovered
Research reports on a pathway that begins in the gut and ends with a potent pro-inflammatory toxin in brain cells contributing to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). They also report a potentially simple way to prevent it.
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Potential long-term treatment for asthma found
A possible way to tackle one of the underlying causes of asthma has been developed. In tests in mice, the researchers were able to virtually eliminate asthmatic symptoms within two weeks and return their airways to near normal.
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Study finds genetic method for identifying hundreds of disease agents 'promising'
In the pursuit of accurate diagnoses for illnesses, doctors have traditionally used multiple methods — including culturing patient samples on a wide variety of media, reviewing countless medical records and analyzing clinical data using complex mathematical algorithms — to try to identify the bacterium, virus, fungus or other pathogen responsible for an infection.
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Banana peels make sugar cookies better for you
Banana peels aren't always destined for the trash or compost anymore. They're making their way onto people's plates, replacing pork in 'pulled peel' sandwiches and getting fried up into 'bacon.' And now, researchers show that incorporating banana peel flour into sugar cookie batter makes the treats more healthful. In taste tests, cookies enriched with some banana peel flour were more satisfying th
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Boox Mira E Ink Monitor Review: Cut Out the LEDs and Reduce Eye Strain
So many of us spend our days gazing into an array of LEDs. We click and type all day for work, and then unwind to the blue-lit drama of a TV show after dark. By the end of our workday, our vision is bleary and our eyes feel fatigued, while our distance vision is unfocused and fuzzy. What if there was a screen out there that didn't leave you with that runny-pupil feeling? The BooxMira E Ink Monito
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Even Ford's Electric F-150 Just Got a Massive Price Hike
Built Ford Rough Tesla's Cybertruck isn't the only EV truck that just got a price hike: now, Ford says the fully electric model of its flagship pickup, the F-150 Lightning, is also going to get a substantial price hike, too. The latest versions of the truck will now cost about $47,000 for a base model, and $97,000 for the premium trim. That's an increase of anywhere between $6,000 to $8,500, depe
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Mysterious Explosion At Google Injures Workers Hours Before Major Outage
Lights Out A Google outage caused thousands to lose access to its services including search late Monday night. Mysteriously, an electrical explosion wreaked havoc at one of its data centers in Council Bluffs, Iowa, earlier that same day. The explosion seriously injured three electricians, according to local reporting on the incident. Oddly enough, if Google is to be believed, the two incidents ar
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Ultracold atoms dressed by light simulate gauge theories
Our modern understanding of the physical world is based on gauge theories: mathematical models from theoretical physics that describe the interactions between elementary particles (such as electrons or quarks) and explain quantum mechanically three of the fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic, weak, and strong forces. The fourth fundamental force, gravity, is described by Einstein's th
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Study finds genetic method for identifying hundreds of disease agents 'promising'
In the pursuit of accurate diagnoses for illnesses, doctors have traditionally used multiple methods — including culturing patient samples on a wide variety of media, reviewing countless medical records and analyzing clinical data using complex mathematical algorithms — to try to identify the bacterium, virus, fungus or other pathogen responsible for an infection.
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Congress Just Passed a Big Climate Bill. No, Not That One.
Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer's newsletter about living through climate change, here. Updated at 12:25 p.m. ET on August 10, 2022 Yesterday, President Joe Biden signed into law one of the most significant investments in fighting climate change ever undertaken by the United States. The new act will boost efforts to manufacture more zero-carbon technology in America, establish a new
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Stars determine their own masses
Using new simulations, astrophysicists discovered that star formation is a self-regulatory process. In other words, stars themselves set their own masses. This helps explain why stars formed in disparate environments still have similar masses.
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Sponges 'sneeze' to dispose of waste
Sneezing out mucus may be one of the oldest ways for organisms to get rid of unwanted waste. A group of researchers found that sponges, one of the oldest multicellular organisms in existence, "sneeze" to unclog their internal filter systems that they use to capture nutrients from the water. Additionally, authors find that other animals who live with the sponges use their mucus as food. Their findi
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Sponges 'sneeze' to dispose of waste
Sneezing out mucus may be one of the oldest ways for organisms to get rid of unwanted waste. A group of researchers found that sponges, one of the oldest multicellular organisms in existence, "sneeze" to unclog their internal filter systems that they use to capture nutrients from the water. Additionally, authors find that other animals who live with the sponges use their mucus as food. Their findi
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Deep earthquakes suggest well-hydrated Mariana subduction zone
On the surface, subduction zones manifest as oceanic trenches, the deepest of which is the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. One notable feature of many trenches is their outer rise, a shallow bulge on the outskirts of the trench that forms as the subducting plate compresses and kinks. This compression and deformation can result in the formation of faults. These "cracks" in the seafloor are an
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Using a manganese polymer to separate xylene isomers
A team of researchers at Zhejiang University in China, working with colleagues at Rutgers University in the U.S., has developed a way to use a manganese polymer to separate xylene isomers. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the process and notes that it is simpler and less expensive than other methods.
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Landslides increasingly threaten the world's urban poor
Over the last fifty years, disasters caused by landslides and floods have become ten times more frequent, despite landslides being significantly underreported in global databases. Worldwide, 4500 people are killed on average each year already, and landslide risk is set to escalate even further in the future under two increasing trends—climate change and urbanization. More than 80% of fatal landsli
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Shining a Light on Mass Photometry
Mass photometry is an interferometric scattering-based technique offering researchers unprecedented characterization of biomolecular complexes and oligomerization in physiologically-relevant situations.
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Higgs10: Inventing the future of Higgs research
In 1975, three CERN theorists, John Ellis, Mary K. Gaillard and Dimitri Nanopoulos, undertook the first comprehensive study of the collider phenomenology of the Higgs boson. Almost 40 years later, it was discovered at the LHC. Now, ten years on, might we have such long-term foresight in anticipating the varied paths that future Higgs research may follow?
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Lizards in increasingly warming climates found to have shorter telomeres
An international team of researchers has found that some lizards living in increasingly warm environments have shorter telomeres, leading to shorter lifespans. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their 10-year study of lizards living in a mountainous part of France and what they saw when measuring telomere length.
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Lizards in increasingly warming climates found to have shorter telomeres
An international team of researchers has found that some lizards living in increasingly warm environments have shorter telomeres, leading to shorter lifespans. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their 10-year study of lizards living in a mountainous part of France and what they saw when measuring telomere length.
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Warning as heatwave could spark cliff falls in England's south coast
Public urged to be take precautions after second large landslide along Jurassic region in two weeks Experts are urging the public to be hypervigilant on south coast beaches as this week's heatwave could trigger cliff collapses. One geologist said the area seemed the most vulnerable and beachgoers should take heed of official guidance. Continue reading…
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Rookie Loses Sean's $2,000 Pot! | Deadliest Catch
Stream Deadliest Catch on discovery+ ► https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/deadliest-catch #DeadliestCatch #Discovery #DiscoveryPlus Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@Discovery We're on Instagram! https://instagram.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Disco
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AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace
Researchers have developed an AI pilot that enables autonomous aircraft to navigate a crowded airspace. The artificial intelligence can safely avoid collisions, predict the intent of other aircraft, track aircraft and coordinate with their actions, and communicate over the radio with pilots and air traffic controllers. The researchers aim to develop the AI so the behaviors of their system will be
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The concept of Heuristics
Days ago I posted about The Gambler's Fallacy. Someone in Psychology Stack Exchange used the word "Heuristic" to answer why that fallacy exists. It is not the only answer, but Heuristics seems an interesting concept. submitted by /u/mahnehsilla [link] [comments]
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This is Your Brain Off Alcohol
Known as the "sober curious," a growing number of people are selectively quitting alcohol. New converts boast increased energy, better sleep and an improvement in reasoning and memory.
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Former SpaceX Engineers Are Launching a Startup Where Robots Make Pizzas in 45 Seconds
Who doesn't love hot, gooey, fresh-out-of-the-oven pizza? If there's a better food in existence, I for one don't know about it (though ice cream is a pretty close contender). Americans have loved pizza for decades, but the Covid-19 pandemic brought our consumption of this glorious delicacy to new heights; according to Pizza Magazine 's 2022 Pizza Power Report , (yes, there's actually a publicatio
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The nanoscience revolution
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02146-4 Breakthroughs in nanotechnology could offer wide-ranging benefits to a host of industries, from agriculture to computing, but getting public buy-in remains key.
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A guide to the Nature Index
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02152-6 A description of the terminology and methodology used in this supplement, and a guide to the functionality that is available free online at natureindex.com.
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Four rising stars who are reshaping nanoscience
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02149-1 From nano-filters for tackling water pollution to protein fingerprinting that treats disease, these researchers are making their mark on the field.
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The 'L.A. Woman' Reveals Herself
Eve Babitz was one of the truly original writers of 20th-century Los Angeles: essayist, memoirist, novelist, groupie, feminist, canny ingenue. By the time of her death at the end of last year, she was enjoying a renaissance. Two essay collections, Eve's Hollywood and Slow Days, Fast Company , were back in circulation; I Used to Be Charming , a gathering of previously uncollected pieces, was relea
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To break through bacteria's protective shield, target the shield-maker
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are making it increasingly difficult to combat many infections. And types of bacteria classified as "Gram-negative"—which refers to the Gram staining method used to differentiate bacteria—are particularly hard to combat as they have an additional protective layer of their cell wall.
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How centuries of self-isolation turned Japan into one of the most sustainable societies on Earth
At the start of the 1600s, Japan's rulers feared that Christianity—which had recently been introduced to the southern parts of the country by European missionaries—would spread. In response, they effectively sealed the islands off from the outside world in 1603, with Japanese people not allowed to leave and very few foreigners allowed in. This became known as Japan's Edo period, and the borders re
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Old dogs with hearing loss may face higher dementia risk
A new study explores the connection between hearing loss and dementia in geriatric dogs. The work could aid in both treatment of aging dogs and in understanding the relationship between sensory loss and cognitive function in dogs. "In humans, we know that age-related hearing loss is estimated to affect one-third of people over age 65," says Natasha Olby, chair in gerontology at North Carolina Sta
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Targeting the Retinoblastoma/E2F repressive complex by CDK4/6 inhibitors amplifies oncolytic potency of an oncolytic adenovirus
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32087-5 Neither CDK4/6 inhibitors nor oncolytic adenoviruses show high efficiency as monotherapy in the treatment of cancer. Authors show here that when combined, CDK4/6 inhibitors deplete Retinoblastoma protein levels, which leads to more efficient virus replication and an increase in oncolytic virus-producing cancer
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Molecular characterization of the missing electron pathways for butanol synthesis in Clostridium acetobutylicum
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32269-1 Ferredoxin-NAD(P) + oxidoreductases are important enzymes for redox balancing in n-butanol production by Clostridium acetobutylicum, but the encoding genes remain unknown. Here, the authors identify the long sought-after genes and increase n-butanol production by optimizing the levels of the two enzymes.
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Science skeptics often suffer from overconfidence
People who dispute scientific consensus on topics such as vaccine efficacy, climate change, or the Big Bang tend to overestimate their own knowledge of these subjects, a new study finds. The study surveyed thousands of Americans online, quizzing them on scientific facts and soliciting their opinions on eight contested topics, including the COVID-19 vaccine. The researchers found that respondents
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Scientists twirl liquid light into time-periodic cluster
Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Iceland, and the University of Southampton have demonstrated the formation of an odd never-before-seen entity from the realm of quantum physics: a cluster of optical vortices with periodic charge flipping. Fundamental studies of optical vortices hold the promise of applications in optical microscopy, quantum cryptography, enhanced-bandwidth optical comm
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Neutrons help track down mammalian ancestors
A team of German and Argentinian researchers has used neutrons in the FRM II research neutron source at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to identify an animal species that has been extinct for 220 million years. Findings on the new species provide surprising insights into the evolution of mammals.
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Blipcoin
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02144-6 An interview to remember.
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Inden længe skifter lægevagten hænder i Region Sjælland
1. oktober overtager Region Sjælland den samlede ledelse af den regionale lægevagt fra PLO. Det vil byde på flere opgaver til paramedicinere, og så er der markante ændringer på vej i nattetimerne. Hvor mange læger, der er indgået aftaler med, kan regionen dog ikke oplyse.
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Replication protein A and WAS protein partner to fix damaged DNA
DNA replication and repair happens thousands of times a day in the human body and most of the time, people don't notice when things go wrong thanks to the work of Replication protein A (RPA), the "guardian of the genome." Scientists previously believed this protein "hero" responsible for repairing damaged DNA in human cells worked alone, but a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researcher
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Replication protein A and WAS protein partner to fix damaged DNA
DNA replication and repair happens thousands of times a day in the human body and most of the time, people don't notice when things go wrong thanks to the work of Replication protein A (RPA), the "guardian of the genome." Scientists previously believed this protein "hero" responsible for repairing damaged DNA in human cells worked alone, but a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researcher
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The Download: psychedelics for women, and Roe v. Wade online
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. Psychedelics are having a moment and women could be the ones to benefit Psychedelics are having a moment. After decades of prohibition and vilification, they are increasingly being employed as therapeutics. Drugs like ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin mushrooms a
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New drug candidate fights off more than 300 drug-resistant bacteria
Urinary tract infections are common, yet are increasingly tough to treat because the bacteria that cause them are becoming resistant to many antibiotics. Now, in ACS Central Science, researchers report a new molecule that inhibits drug-resistant bacteria in lab experiments, as well as in mice with pneumonia and urinary tract infections. The researchers say that this compound, fabimycin, could one
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New drug candidate fights off more than 300 drug-resistant bacteria
Urinary tract infections are common, yet are increasingly tough to treat because the bacteria that cause them are becoming resistant to many antibiotics. Now, in ACS Central Science, researchers report a new molecule that inhibits drug-resistant bacteria in lab experiments, as well as in mice with pneumonia and urinary tract infections. The researchers say that this compound, fabimycin, could one
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Have a Difficult Childhood? These Writers Did Too.
The neglected or endangered child—the orphan, the vagrant, the waif—is a character with deep roots in the Western canon. Beginning perhaps with the binding of Isaac in the Bible, this figure appears everywhere: in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther , in Charles Dickens's oeuvre and, more recently, in Toni Morrison's. These stories captivate young and old readers, provoking
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How California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas
On an otherwise sleepy Saturday morning, cars were parked bumper to bumper along a suburban street. Couples formed a line around the block, nervously sipping coffee and double-checking paperwork. They were there to see a charming but decidedly modest house—early-'90s suburban, vinyl shutters, holly bushes—that had just come on the market. Twenty-four hours later, the home had sold for 20 percent
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The Other Ukrainian Army
Photographs by Jedrzej Nowicki H istory has turning points, moments when events shift and the future seems suddenly clear. But history also has in-between points, days and weeks when everything seems impermanent and nobody knows what will happen next. Odesa in the summer of 2022 is like that—a city suspended between great events. The panic that swept the city in February, when it seemed the Russi
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Lessons From a Lonely, Trump-Defiant Republican
Donald Trump is not known as a man of his word, but he's worked hard to follow through on his promise of retribution against Republicans who voted to impeach him in 2021. Of the 10 GOP House members who voted for impeachment, four retired rather than face likely losses, two lost primaries, and a third, Liz Cheney, is almost certain to lose hers later this month. Two of the others, Daniel Newhouse
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NASA's DART Craft Could Leave Asteroid 'Unrecognizable': Study
Earth has been walloped by enormous asteroids in the past, and it's going to happen again. For the first time in history, there's a chance that we could intercept one of these objects and prevent an impact. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is currently en route to a particular pair of space rocks to test that very technology, but researchers from the University of Bern and t
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Allergen immunterapi kan måske forhindre astma i at udvikle sig
Analyse af data fra det store REACT-studie viser, at sublingual immunterapi virker lige så godt som injektioner i forhold til at skabe immunitet over for forskellige typer af luftvejsallergier. Desuden viser analysen, at behandling med allergen immunterapi ikke alene giver færre astmasymptomer, men også forebygger udvikling af mere svær astma. Dataene blev præsenteret på EAACI.
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AI bedömer melanoms djup lika bra som hudläkare
Det är svårt att korrekt bedöma tjockleken på hudcancer, men en vältränad algoritm klarar den utmanande uppgiften nästan lika bra som en erfaren hudläkare. Det visar en studie från Göteborgs universitet. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Bullied abroad: how foreign researchers can fight back
Nature, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/d41586-022-02155-3 Most international scholars do not report experiences of bullying because they fear retaliation, including threats to cancel visas. But they can take action.
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Researchers decode metal-making recipes in ancient Chinese text
Study identifies mystery elements in Kaogong ji , shedding light on how early bronzes were produced Researchers have deciphered enigmatic recipes for metal-making contained in an ancient Chinese text, revealing unexpected complexity in the art at the time. Six chemical formulas are given in a Chinese text from 300BC known as the Kaogong ji. The manuscript, known as The World's Oldest Encyclopedia
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PRC1-mediated epigenetic programming is required to generate the ovarian reserve
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31759-6 In humans, the ovarian reserve is maintained over decades by meiotic arrest of oocytes. Here the authors show that Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1)-mediated epigenetic programming is essential for formation of ovarian reserve and thus female reproductive lifespan.
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N-Heterocyclic carbene-based C-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with intense phosphorescence and organelle-selective translocation in cells
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31891-3 Photoluminescent gold clusters have unique chemical and physical properties based on their perturbed electronic structures. Here, the authors report the synthesis of carbon-centered Au(I)-Ag(I) clusters with high phosphorescence quantum yields using N-heterocyclic carbene ligands.
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Embedded metallic nanoparticles facilitate metastability of switchable metallic domains in Mott threshold switches
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32081-x Control of percolative dynamics of metal and insulator domains during electrically triggered insulator-metal transition underlies applications in energy-efficient switches. Jo et al. show that embedded metallic nanoparticles enhance the metastability and memory effects of metallic domains in VO2 switches.
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Psychedelics are having a moment and women could be the ones to benefit
Nikhita Singhal's breath still catches when she talks about how her life changed. A psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto, Singhal says it was using psychedelic drugs—ayahuasca, ketamine, and MDMA—that finally addressed the eating disorder she'd had since she was seven years old. "It was really emotionally and psychologically painful," she says, recounting a particular ayahuasca trip s
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Study reveals how the ovarian reserve is established
Fertility is finite for mammalian females. From birth, females possess a limited number of primordial follicles, collectively called the ovarian reserve. Within each follicle is an oocyte that eventually becomes an egg. But with age, the follicles in the ovarian reserve decrease.
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The Monkeypox Epidemic Is Unusual: Here's How I Know
While sexual encounters are currently the predominant mode of transmission among reported cases, monkeypox is neither a new disease, nor a sexually transmitted infection. STIs are spread primarily through sexual contact, while monkeypox can — and does — spread through any form of prolonged, close contact.
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Local molecular and global connectomic contributions to cross-disorder cortical abnormalities
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32420-y Changes to structural and functional connectivity can give rise to neurodegeneration and neurodevelopmental diseases. Here the authors investigate molecular and connectomic patterns in 13 different neurological, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental diseases from the ENIGMA consortium.
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Linking oxidative and reductive clusters to prepare crystalline porous catalysts for photocatalytic CO2 reduction with H2O
Nature Communications, Published online: 10 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32449-z A crystalline hetero-metallic cluster catalyst based on a covalent organic framework strategy is reported. The catalyst can facilitate both photocatalytic oxidative and reductive reactions leading to efficient production of HCOOH from CO2 and H2O.
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Birds on island time: Study relates island characteristics with the seasonal ebb and flow of bird species
A new study examines how the geographic characteristics of the world's islands influence seasonal variation in the number of bird species. The study determines how seasonal species richness of birds is affected by the size of the island, how isolated it is from the mainland and other islands, and the latitude in which it lies. The study's findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Ro
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Birds on island time: Study relates island characteristics with the seasonal ebb and flow of bird species
A new study examines how the geographic characteristics of the world's islands influence seasonal variation in the number of bird species. The study determines how seasonal species richness of birds is affected by the size of the island, how isolated it is from the mainland and other islands, and the latitude in which it lies. The study's findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Ro
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Obese patients 'being weight-shamed by doctors and nurses'
Exclusive: Research shows some people skip medical appointments because they feel humiliated by staff Doctors and nurses often "weight-shame" people who are overweight or obese, leaving them feeling anxious, depressed and wrongly blaming themselves for their condition, research has found. Such behaviour, although usually the result of "unconscious weight bias", leads to people not attending medic
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Newly identified Langya virus tracked after China reports dozens of cases
Virus, which causes symptoms including fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite and muscle aches, is believed to have spread from animals to humans Get our free news app , morning email briefing and daily news podcast Researchers have begun tracking a newly identified virus in China, with dozens of cases recorded so far. The novel Langya henipavirus (LayV) was first detected in the north-eastern p
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Cognitive Tradeoff Hypothesis: what do you think?
CTH developed by the primatologist Tetsuro Matsuzawa (his GScholar page) asserts that humans developed language by replacing part of the working memory power; this relates to a type of group culture developed where passing information became more important. CTH, Wikipedia There is also this interesting video with the author . What do you think about this theory? submitted by /u/mahnehsilla [link]
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If a couple has 3 sons, is the next child more likely to be a girl?
As Laplace apparently wrote in his Essay about probability, a large percentage of people behave as if the answer is yes. The phenomenon is called The Gambler's Fallacy Interesting pars from the article (Psychology section): > Kahneman and Tversky interpret this to mean that people believe short sequences of random events should be representative of longer ones. > The gambler's fallacy can also be
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Human-machine interfaces work underwater, generate their own power
Scientists describe the development of a type of wearable human-machine interface device that is stretchable, inexpensive, and waterproof. The device is based on a soft magnetoelastic sensor array that converts mechanical pressure from the press of a finger into an electrical signal. The device involves two main components: a layer that translates mechanical movement to a magnetic response and a m
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Ultrasound could save racehorses from bucked shins
When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. This condition, called bucked shin, occurs in about 70% of the animals. Researchers have now developed a method to screen for bucked shin using ultrasound. Axial transmission, in which an ultrasound emitter and receiver are placed on the skin to induce and measure wave
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Body posture affects how oral drugs absorbed by stomach
A common method of administering drugs is orally, by swallowing a pill or capsule. But oral administration is the most complex way for the human body to absorb an active pharmaceutical ingredient, because the bioavailability of the drug in the gastrointestinal tract depends on the medication's ingredients and the stomach's dynamic physiological environment. Researchers have now employed a biomimet
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Hearing loss in dogs associated with dementia
A new study explores the connection between hearing loss and dementia in geriatric dogs. The work could aid in both treatment of aging dogs and in understanding the relationship between sensory loss and cognitive function in dogs.
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Microrobotics in endodontic treatment, diagnostics
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers have shown that microrobots can access the difficult to reach surfaces of the root canal with controlled precision, treating and disrupting biofilms and even retrieving samples for diagnostics, enabling a more personalized treatment plan.
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Concrete evidence: Simple method to improve the sustainability of construction
Researchers have improved the compressive strength and other properties of recycled concrete after high-pressure compaction. For example, one thermally treated sample exhibited >5× improvement compared with no thermal treatment. The results of this work will help minimize the carbon footprint of the construction industry by making maximum use of concrete that would otherwise be wasted.
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Future medical applications in drug design
Morphogens are the secreted molecules that pattern embryonic tissues. These molecules are important not only for the embryo during development, but also for the adult during tissue repair. However, the way these morphogens are distributed to ensure patterning occurs is still not fully understood. Using a combination of experiments and mathematical modeling, researchers learned more about the role
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Rangers Keep Discovering Human Remains in Drying Up Lake
Number Four It happened again. On Saturday, park rangers came across yet another set of human remains in Lake Mead's shrinking waters, NPR reports . The investigation is still ongoing, and no cause of death has been released. This is the fourth grisly discovery of the like since May, when boaters discovered a human body stashed inside a barrel — likely a homicide victim, according to officials —
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What Comes After the Search Warrant?
If Donald Trump committed crimes on his way out of the White House, he should be subject to the same treatment as any other alleged criminal. The reason for this is simple: Ours is a government of laws, not of men, as John Adams once observed. Nobody, not even a president, is above those laws. So why did I feel nauseous yesterday, watching coverage of the FBI executing a search warrant at Trump's
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Hibernation: The Extreme Lifestyle That Can Stop Aging
Today's most elderly bats aren't supposed to exist. Ounce for ounce and pound for pound, they are categorically teeny mammals; according to the evolutionary rules that hold across species , they should be short-lived, like other small-bodied creatures. And yet, many of Earth's winged mammals buck this trend, sometimes blowing decades past their anticipated expiration date. One species, Brandt's b
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Half of people with possible signs of cancer wait six months to contact a GP
Survey by Cancer Research UK shows poorer people less likely to see their family GP, reducing survival chances Half of people with possible cancer symptoms in the UK do not contact a GP for at least six months, potentially reducing their chances of survival, research has found. Poorer people are less likely than the better-off to see their family doctor once they have eventually sought medical he
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Iran Just Made a $10 Million Import Order Using Crypto
Evasion Iran has purchased $10 million worth of imported goods using cryptocurrency — a move that could allow the country to evade US sanctions. So far, not much is known about the crypto order first announced by the country's Tasnim news agency . For one, we still don't know which specific cryptocurrency was used or what the large purchase order entailed. The import order could only be the begin
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New study shows that aging neutralizes sex differences in the brain
When male and female fruit flies age, their brains become desexualized. Age-related changes take place in both sexes, but the male brain becomes feminized to a larger extent than the female brain becomes masculinized. This is the conclusion of a study performed by a research group at Linköping University. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Scie
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New study shows that aging neutralizes sex differences in the brain
When male and female fruit flies age, their brains become desexualized. Age-related changes take place in both sexes, but the male brain becomes feminized to a larger extent than the female brain becomes masculinized. This is the conclusion of a study performed by a research group at Linköping University. The findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Scie
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Hibernation slows biological aging in bats
The most common bat in the United States, the big brown bat, boasts an unusually long lifespan of up to 19 years. A new study led by University of Maryland researchers identifies one of the secrets to this bat's exceptional longevity: hibernation.
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Surgical Robot Could Perform Surgeries By Itself on Space Station
Space Surgery Do astronauts dream of robotic surgery? A remote controlled surgical robot called MIRA — short for Miniaturized In-Vivo Robotic Assistance — is set to make its debut aboard the International Space Station sometime in 2024. The robot's creator, Virtual Incision Corporation, announced the news last week, after signing a contract with NASA. While the surgical robot isn't going to perfo
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The President Who Wanted Nazi Generals
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here . Americans should not let the revelations about Donald Trump's demands for a loyal military get lost in all the hysteria over the raid at Mar-a-Lago. But first, here are three new stories from The Atla
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The Bad and Good News About Trump's Violent Supporters
In some corners of MAGA-land, a new civil war is getting under way. The FBI's arrival at Mar-a-Lago yesterday evening to collect evidence in a criminal investigation related to former President Donald Trump is the trigger that some of his supporters needed to suggest that violence is imminent . Predictably, the unverified Twitter accounts of armchair revolutionaries circulated claims such as "I a
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Identification of a non-axisymmetric mode in laboratory experiments searching for standard magnetorotational instability
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32278-0 Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities are related to different characteristics and behavior of fluids. Here the authors report an experiment and simulation combined study of a global non-axisymmetric MHD instability that exists at sufficiently large rotation rates and intermediate magnetic field strengths.
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Analysis: No, AI Isn't Sentient, You Absolute Morons
BIG WAVES WERE MADE earlier this year when a former Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, told a reporter at the Washington Post that a Google language-modeling AI — a chatbot called LaMDA — was sentient. Google refuted the claims, ultimately firing Lemoine, but not before the engineer's testimony sent the question of AI sentience and the ethics of language modeling programs ricocheting through public
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Best Headphone Stands in 2022
Tucked into the back corner beside your monitor, or suspended under the lip of your desk, headphone stands help you manage space and create a comfortable work environment. Some headphone stands are freestanding objects that capitalize on aesthetics and serve one single purpose. Others offer your headphones a proverbial gilded throne while concurrently serving as a charging bank, offering wireless
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Celebrities Smacked Down Over Shilling NFTs Without Legal Disclosures
Shilling NFTs A consumer watchdog group has issued a stern warning to more than a dozen celebrities for promoting non-fungible token (NFT) collections without disclosing if they're profiting off of them. In a statement, the Truth in Advertising (TINA) nonprofit announced that it had sent notification letters to 17 celebs , including Madonna, Tom Brady, and Paris Hilton, alerting them that if they
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A role for cell 'antennae' in managing dopamine signals in the brain
A historically overlooked rod-like projection present on nearly every cell type in the human body may finally be getting its scientific due: A new study has found that these appendages, called cilia, on neurons in the brain have a key role in ensuring a specific dopamine receptor's signals are properly received.
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Do 'bouncing universes' have a beginning?
A new study by physicists highlights one way that cyclic or 'bouncing' cosmologies fall flat. 'People proposed bouncing universes to make the universe infinite into the past, but what we show is that one of the newest types of these models doesn't work,' says a professor of physics.
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Clearing the mist hiding the genome
A team has developed a new mathematical method that can eliminate signal noise and thus enable the extraction of clear signals from single-cell RNA sequencing data. The new method successfully decreases random sampling noise in the data to enable a precise and complete understanding of a cell's activity.
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AI pilot can navigate crowded airspace
Researchers have developed an AI pilot that enables autonomous aircraft to navigate a crowded airspace. The artificial intelligence can safely avoid collisions, predict the intent of other aircraft, track aircraft and coordinate with their actions, and communicate over the radio with pilots and air traffic controllers. The researchers aim to develop the AI so the behaviors of their system will be
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New target for therapies to treat preterm labor
Researchers have identified a cause of preterm labor, an enigma that has long challenged researchers. New research suggests a protein, called Piezo1, is responsible for regulating the behavior of the uterus. Piezo1 keeps the uterus relaxed ensuring that it continues to stretch and expand during the 40 weeks it takes a fetus to grow.
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CT scanner captures entire woolly mammoth tusk
Researchers successfully captured CT images of an entire woolly mammoth tusk. Researchers were able to do a full scan of the tusk in its entirety — or in toto — using a newer clinical CT scanner. The new technology allows for large-scale imaging without having to do multiple partial scans.
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Networking for food: Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging
Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape. Researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that animals — in this case the common noctule bat — join together and form a mobile sensory network in order to increase their chances of finding their prey. The analyses show that predators can a
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Drought increases microbe-laden dust landing in Sierras
Dust from all over the world is landing in the Sierra Nevada mountains carrying microbes that are toxic to both plants and humans. New research shows higher concentrations of the dust are landing at lower elevations, where people are more likely to be hiking.
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Exposed! International Space Station tests organisms, materials in space
Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the outside of the International Space Station are exposed to atomic oxygen (AO) and other charged particles as it orbits the Earth at the very edge of our atmosphere. Only the hardiest materials, equipment, a
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Leadership online: Charisma matters most in video communication
Managers need to make a consistent impression in order to motivate and inspire people, and that applies even more to video communication than to other digital channels. Researchers investigated the influence that charismatic leadership tactics used in text, audio and video communication channels have on employee performance. They focused on mobile work and the gig economy, in which jobs are flexib
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CT scanner captures entire wooly mammoth tusk
For the first time, researchers successfully captured CT images of an entire wooly mammoth tusk, according to a new "Images in Radiology" article published in the journal Radiology. Researchers were able to do a full scan of the tusk in its entirety—or in toto—using a newer clinical CT scanner. The new technology allows for large-scale imaging without having to do multiple partial scans.
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CT scanner captures entire wooly mammoth tusk
For the first time, researchers successfully captured CT images of an entire wooly mammoth tusk, according to a new "Images in Radiology" article published in the journal Radiology. Researchers were able to do a full scan of the tusk in its entirety—or in toto—using a newer clinical CT scanner. The new technology allows for large-scale imaging without having to do multiple partial scans.
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Banana peels make sugar cookies better for you
Banana peels aren't always destined for the trash or compost anymore. They're making their way onto people's plates, replacing pork in "pulled peel" sandwiches and getting fried up into "bacon." And now, researchers reporting in ACS Food Science & Technology show that incorporating banana peel flour into sugar cookie batter makes the treats more healthful. In taste tests, cookies enriched with som
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Banana peels make sugar cookies better for you
Banana peels aren't always destined for the trash or compost anymore. They're making their way onto people's plates, replacing pork in "pulled peel" sandwiches and getting fried up into "bacon." And now, researchers reporting in ACS Food Science & Technology show that incorporating banana peel flour into sugar cookie batter makes the treats more healthful. In taste tests, cookies enriched with som
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Sweet success: New enzymatic biosystem harvests the potential of the sugar maltose
Microorganism-free enzyme-based reaction systems are now used for the production of hydrogen, bioelectricity, and useful biochemicals. In these biosystems, raw materials called substrates are broken down by a series of enzymes (i.e., biological catalysts) to obtain the desired end-product. In several cases, the substrates are carbohydrates such as sucrose, cellulose, or starch. In the first step o
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Mountain events could improve safety with ultra-high resolution weather models
In late May of 2021, 172 runners set out to tackle a 100-kilometer (62-mile) ultramarathon in northwestern China. By midday, as the runners made their way through a rugged, high-elevation part of the course, temperatures plunged, strong winds whipped around the hillslopes and freezing rain and hail pummeled the runners. By the next day, the death toll from the sudden storm had risen to 21.
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Sweet success: New enzymatic biosystem harvests the potential of the sugar maltose
Microorganism-free enzyme-based reaction systems are now used for the production of hydrogen, bioelectricity, and useful biochemicals. In these biosystems, raw materials called substrates are broken down by a series of enzymes (i.e., biological catalysts) to obtain the desired end-product. In several cases, the substrates are carbohydrates such as sucrose, cellulose, or starch. In the first step o
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Discovery of non-conventional peptides in Vitis vinifera L. through peptidogenomics
Although some researchers have identified peptides through multiple methods, as in Arabidopsis and maize, the biological functions of most non-conventional peptides (NCPs) remain to be demonstrated. NCPs function by modulating larger regulatory proteins, and their functions can therefore be predicted from the proteins on which they act. In addition, the functions of NCPs can also be predicted by g
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Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law
A former president's home was raided by federal law enforcement yesterday, reportedly over possession of classified documents. Although prosecution of former heads of state has occurred in other democracies, a form of government in which ostensibly no one is above the law , it has never happened in America, a place that did not even punish the leaders of a rebellion in defense of human bondage .
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The Powerful, Unlikely Force Shaping Modern TV
Dan Erickson, the creator of Severance , has been having what he calls "anxiety daydreams." He's working on the second season of the acclaimed Apple TV+ series, and though the show just got nominated for a bevy of Emmys, he's already picturing the worst: headlines about disappointed viewers, articles analyzing his ineptitude, reviews pronouncing "the biggest precipitous drop-off in quality in the
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Discovery of non-conventional peptides in Vitis vinifera L. through peptidogenomics
Although some researchers have identified peptides through multiple methods, as in Arabidopsis and maize, the biological functions of most non-conventional peptides (NCPs) remain to be demonstrated. NCPs function by modulating larger regulatory proteins, and their functions can therefore be predicted from the proteins on which they act. In addition, the functions of NCPs can also be predicted by g
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Study: Climate Change Making More Than Half of Infectious Diseases Far Worse
As if the consequences of climate change aren't already proving to be disastrous enough, a shocking new study found that over half of all human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by greenhouse gas driven climate change. In a new study , published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change , an international team of researchers combed through several decades' worth of scientific papers that
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Driverless Robotaxis To Officially Hit Chinese Streets
Driverless in China China is about to get the San Francisco treatment now that tech giant Baidu is able to operate its autonomous car service without a driver in two major Chinese cities. According to a company press release , the artificial intelligence company has finally won approval to operate a limited number of its Apollo Go autonomous fleet vehicles in the cities of Wuhan and Chongqing — a
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Raptor downregulation rescues neuronal phenotypes in mouse models of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31961-6 Karalis et al show that genetic reduction of the mTORC1 component Raptor improves multiple phenotypes in mouse models of TSC. Their findings suggest that Raptor could be a potential therapeutic target for treating the neurological aspects of TSC.
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Dry lightning sparks many of the worst wildfires
Dry lightning outbreaks are the leading cause of some of the largest wildfire outbreaks in modern California history, a new study shows. Despite this, dry lightning has remained largely understudied across this region—until now. Researchers developed the first long-term climatology of dry lightning—lightning which occurs with less than 2.5mm of rainfall—in central and northern California. The stu
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As more space junk falls to Earth, should we be worried?
Last week, debris from a suspected Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth, reportedly falling just metres from villages in Malaysia and Indonesia, and triggering a rebuke from Nasa. This follows the recent discovery of SpaceX debris on a sheep farm in regional NSW. Jane Lee speaks to ANU astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker and reporter Natasha May about why more space junk is falli
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Tracing ancient lineages of pseudoscorpions in the tropical forests of Western India
The tropical forests of the Western Ghats, a vast mountain range in Western India, are home to many diverse species, especially endemic ones. In a recent study, published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, researchers at the LIB have for the first time analyzed the distribution of pseudoscorpions (an arachnid group) in this region in the light of geo-climatic fluctuations and co
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Tracing ancient lineages of pseudoscorpions in the tropical forests of Western India
The tropical forests of the Western Ghats, a vast mountain range in Western India, are home to many diverse species, especially endemic ones. In a recent study, published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, researchers at the LIB have for the first time analyzed the distribution of pseudoscorpions (an arachnid group) in this region in the light of geo-climatic fluctuations and co
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Hearing loss in dogs associated with dementia
A new study from North Carolina State University explores the connection between hearing loss and dementia in geriatric dogs. The work could aid in both treatment of aging dogs and in understanding the relationship between sensory loss and cognitive function in dogs.
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Meta Says its New Chatbot Can Experience 'Hallucinations'
Meta is the recently renamed entity behind Facebook, but it's also one of the most active companies in artificial intelligence research. You can sample the fruits of its labors right now by striking up a conversation with Meta's new AI. BlenderBot 3 sets a record for the most AI parameters — 175 billion of them. That makes BlenderBot 3 capable of carrying on conversations about almost anything, b
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France readies rescue of beluga astray in Seine
French marine experts will attempt Tuesday to rescue a beluga whale that swam up the Seine river and return it to the sea, officials said, a complex and risky operation for an animal already sick and malnourished.
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In control of chaos to engineer high-entropy ceramics
Nature strives for chaos. That's a nice, comforting phrase when yet another coffee cup has toppled over the computer keyboard and you imagine you could wish the sugary, milky brew back into the coffee cup—where it had been just seconds before. But wishing won't work. Because, as mentioned, nature strives for chaos.
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Tracking marine plastic drift from space
Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the global ocean. Where does it end up? Right now, researchers simply don't know. But in a bid to help find out, an ESA-led project developed floating transmitters whose passage can be tracked over time, helping in turn to guide a sophisticated software model of marine plastic litter accumulation.
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WHO stresses monkeypox surge not linked to monkeys amid attack reports
World Health Organization issues statement after reports of animals being poisoned in Brazil The World Health Organization has stressed that monkeypox outbreaks are not linked to monkeys, following a number of reported attacks on the primates in Brazil. "What people need to know is that the transmission we are seeing is happening between humans," a WHO spokesperson, Margaret Harris, told reporter
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Website Selling Moon Mission Launch Tickets Crashed Almost Immediately
Plight of Artemis It's the Moon mission that just keeps on not giving. After a long, winding series of delays , NASA's Artemis I Moon mission is finally slated for launch on August 29 — barring any further setbacks. But once again, humanity's historic return to the Moon has hit another snag: almost immediately after the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex made launch spectator tickets available
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Review: Garmin's Instinct 2S Solar Watch is Rugged and Dependable
If you're looking for a smartwatch that uses renewable energy while tracking essential metrics, consider the Garmin Instinct 2S Solar Watch . Garmin keeps pumping out multi-sport and running watches that leave the competition scrambling to keep up. The Garmin Instinct 2S Solar is a 2022 update to the Instinct line, which came out in 2018. From the get go, I found that the 2S Solar shines when it
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Why Iceland's volcanic activity is so special
The Fagradalsfjall volcano near Reykjavík, Iceland's capital city, began to erupt August 3. Visitors have since flocked to witness the dramatic lava flows for themselves. Known as the "Land of Fire and Ice," Iceland is no stranger to such eruptions and, fortunately, they tend to be characterized by slow lava flows rather than explosions. Here, Paul Segall , a geophysicist at Stanford University,
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'Hero' protein has a helper for DNA repair
New research reveals that the "guardian of the genome," doesn't work alone on DNA repair. DNA replication and repair happens thousands of times a day in the human body and most of the time, people don't notice when things go wrong thanks to the work of Replication protein A (RPA), the "guardian of the genome ." Scientists previously believed this protein "hero" responsible for repairing damaged D
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What's the future of drones in counterterrorism operations and the Ukraine war?
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign political science professor Nicholas Grossman is the author of "Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global Security" and specializes in international relations. Grossman spoke with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the implications of the U.S. killing former al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri by drone in Afghanistan.
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A mutated eye offers a glimpse of a key protein for preventing cancer
About 15 years ago, a group of researchers discovered mutant zebrafish. The eyes of these zebrafish did not develop correctly, resulting in significantly smaller eyes than those of wild zebrafish. Now, one of these researchers—Prof. Ichiro Masai—who leads the Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), alongside his former Ph.D. student Dr. Swathy Bab
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Scientists offer blueprint for sustainable redesign of food systems
New research describes food systems designed not by the logic of growth such as efficiency and extraction, but by principles of sufficiency, regeneration, distribution, commons, and care. It argues that food systems can instead be the foundation of healthy communities, ecologies and economies.
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A mutated eye offers a glimpse of a key protein for preventing cancer
About 15 years ago, a group of researchers discovered mutant zebrafish. The eyes of these zebrafish did not develop correctly, resulting in significantly smaller eyes than those of wild zebrafish. Now, one of these researchers—Prof. Ichiro Masai—who leads the Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), alongside his former Ph.D. student Dr. Swathy Bab
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The Economic Principle That Helps Me Order at Restaurants
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. In the 19th century, when European thinkers began developing the economic principle of diminishing marginal utility, they probably weren't dwelling on its implications for the best strategy for ordering food at a resta
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Stuck With Trump
You might think that the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago yesterday would provide a welcome opportunity for a Trump-weary Republican Party. This would be an entirely postpresidential scandal for Donald Trump. Unlike his two impeachments, this time any legal jeopardy is a purely personal Trump problem. Big donors and Fox News management have been trying for months to nudge the party away from Trump. Here
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Chemists achieve 'molecular editing' feat
Chemists from Scripps Research and the University of California, Los Angeles, have developed methods for the precise, flexible modification of a broad class of chemical compounds called bicyclic aza-arenes, which are commonly used to build drug molecules.
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Leadership online: Charisma matters most in video communication
Managers need to make a consistent impression in order to motivate and inspire people, and that applies even more to video communication than to other digital channels. That is the result of a study by researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They investigated the influence that charismatic leadership tactics used in text, audio and video communication channels have on employee perf
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This Therapeutic VR Experience is Just Like Tripping on Acid
David Glowacki, an artist and computational molecular physicist who suffered a life-changing near death experience, has reportedly developed a virtual reality experience called Isness-D that works just as well as LSD or psilocybin at bringing users to self-transcendence. As he explained to MIT Technology Review , Glowacki has been working to capture self-transcendence — which, psychologically spe
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Mathematical method enables extraction of clear signals from single-cell RNA sequencing data
Since scientists first mapped the complete human genome, attention has now turned to the question of how cells use this master copy of genetic instructions. It is known that when genes are switched on, parts of the DNA sequences in the cell nucleus are copied into shorter string-like molecules, RNA, that deliver the molecules essential for survival and cell-specific functions.
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Small-scale fisheries catch more threatened elasmobranchs inside partially protected areas than in unprotected areas
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32035-3 Marine protected areas are proposed to protect elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays) but the fishing impact from small-scale fisheries in these areas is unknown. From 1256 fishing operations carried out in partially protected and unprotected areas in six Mediterranean countries, this study shows that catche
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A strategy to assess spillover risk of bat SARS-related coronaviruses in Southeast Asia
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31860-w Coronaviruses may spill over from bats to humans. This study uses epidemiological data, species distribution models, and probabilistic risk assessment to map overlap among people and SARSr-CoV bat hosts and estimate how many people are infected with bat-origin SARSr-CoVs in Southeast Asia annually.
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Learning techniques?
I just googled "making better models" which is to some extent what learning means to me and found the Farnam Street . If you take a look or have already done what do you think of the strategies to improving cognitive ability in there ? submitted by /u/mahnehsilla [link] [comments]
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Speed of spinosaurid dinosaur teeth replacement accounts for their overabundance in Cretaceous sites
Spinosaurid dinosaurs were able to develop up to three generations of teeth at the same time, a high replacement rate that explains why so many teeth of this type have been found in Cretaceous sites. This has been confirmed by a study in which researchers from the UPV/EHU are taking part and which has been published in the journal Historical Biology.
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The experimental observation of long-lived phantom helix states in Heisenberg quantum magnets
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University and Stanford University have recently unveiled the existence of unique helical spin states in Heisenberg quantum magnets. Their observations, published in a paper in Nature Physics, could have important implications for the simulation of spin-related physical processes and dyn
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Federal Circuit Court Rules AI Can't Hold Patents
(Photo: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) One computer scientist's artificial intelligence advancements have brought forth a question only this century could Devise: can an AI system that's created something new be considered an inventor? According to the United States federal circuit court, the answer is no. Stephen Thaler, the creator of DABUS ("Device for the Autonomous B
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Gene editing via CRISPR/Cas9 can lead to cell toxicity and genome instability
CRISPR/Cas9 is a precise gene editing technique whose development by Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier was recognized with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Commonly known as "genetic scissors," CRISPR allows the introduction of the desired DNA sequence into (virtually) any spot of the genome, thus modifying or inactivating a gene. This technique is widely used in biomedical research
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Gene editing via CRISPR/Cas9 can lead to cell toxicity and genome instability
CRISPR/Cas9 is a precise gene editing technique whose development by Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier was recognized with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Commonly known as "genetic scissors," CRISPR allows the introduction of the desired DNA sequence into (virtually) any spot of the genome, thus modifying or inactivating a gene. This technique is widely used in biomedical research
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Ecological continuity between orangutans and extinct ancestors highlights their dependence on intact rainforests
An international research team led by Prof. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and his Ph.D. student Sophie G. Habinger has reconstructed the habitat of the ancestors of orangutans in present-day Myanmar as part of the collaborative project EVEPRIMASIA between the Universities of Tübingen, Germany, and Poitiers, France.
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First-ever detection of gas in a circumplanetary disk
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and partners at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have made the first-ever detection of gas in an circumplanetary disk. What's more, the detection also suggests the presence of a very young exoplanet. The results of the research are published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Ultrasound could save racehorses from bucked shins
When racehorses enter training at about 2 years old, they can develop tiny stress fractures and new bone formations in their legs. This condition, called bucked shin, occurs in about 70% of the animals, leading to pain and delays in training schedules.
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Uncovering the secret of insulin growth factor ternary complex
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) is a hormone that greatly influences growth in fetuses and children, but also body maintenance and metabolism in adults. IGF regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival by activating IGF receptors distributed in cell membranes of various tissues. However, IGF is so unstable that its half-life is less than 10 minutes in its free state.
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Survey: COVID caution is plummeting
The number of United States adults saying they have returned to living their "normal, pre-COVID-19 life" has more than doubled over the past six months, survey results show. Increasing numbers say they personally know someone who has died from COVID-19 and personally know someone who has suffered the lingering effects such as neurological problems and fatigue that are commonly known as "long COVI
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Ecological continuity between orangutans and extinct ancestors highlights their dependence on intact rainforests
An international research team led by Prof. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and his Ph.D. student Sophie G. Habinger has reconstructed the habitat of the ancestors of orangutans in present-day Myanmar as part of the collaborative project EVEPRIMASIA between the Universities of Tübingen, Germany, and Poitiers, France.
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Uncovering the secret of insulin growth factor ternary complex
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) is a hormone that greatly influences growth in fetuses and children, but also body maintenance and metabolism in adults. IGF regulates cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival by activating IGF receptors distributed in cell membranes of various tissues. However, IGF is so unstable that its half-life is less than 10 minutes in its free state.
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Twisted-graphene model exhibits complex electronic behavior
A pair of researchers, one with Peking University, the other with Princeton University, has found that the parameters of twisted-graphene's excitation spectra correspond directly to attributes of the heavy fermion model. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zhi-Da Song and B. Andrei Bernevig describe building a model to show aspects of the Bistritzer-MacDonald model and
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How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything
Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that objects would fly through truly empty space at impossible speeds. In 1277, the French bishop Etienne Tempier shot back, declaring that God could do anything, even create a vacuum. Then a mere scientist pulled it off. Otto von Guericke invented a pump to suck the air from within a hollow copper sphere… Source
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An upgrade for magnetic resonance methods with a 1,000-fold amplifier
Researchers determine the structure and dynamics of proteins using NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. Until now, however, much higher concentrations were necessary for in-vitro measurements of the biomolecules in solution than found in our body's cells. An NMR method enhanced by a very powerful amplifier, in combination with molecular dynamics simulation, now enables their detection an
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An upgrade for magnetic resonance methods with a 1,000-fold amplifier
Researchers determine the structure and dynamics of proteins using NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. Until now, however, much higher concentrations were necessary for in-vitro measurements of the biomolecules in solution than found in our body's cells. An NMR method enhanced by a very powerful amplifier, in combination with molecular dynamics simulation, now enables their detection an
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How government 'welcome' systems fail refugees
A new book documents how systems in Canada, Germany, and the United States have failed refugees from Syria. President Biden has pledged to "welcome" 100,000 Ukrainian refugees displaced by Russia's invasion. What awaits them? "In all the time that I've been studying, working with, and learning from people who are displaced, 'welcome' is not the word that they use to describe their experience in t
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Custom Electric Engine in a Truck?! | Street Outlaws: Farmtruck and AZN
Stream Street Outlaws: Farmtruck and AZN on discovery+ ► https://www.discoveryplus.com/show/street-outlaws-farmtruck-and-azn-us #StreetOutlaws #FarmtruckAndAZN #Discovery Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Follow Us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@Discovery We're on Instagram! https://instagram.com/Discovery Join Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow U
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Disturbing Robotic Slime Can Move Around Inside the Body, Pick Up Objects
Scientists working at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created something that looks horrifying, and only gets more upsetting when you learn it's designed to crawl around inside your body. The appropriately named "magnetic slime robot" doesn't need any internal electronics — it's a combination of several different materials, allowing it to be controlled with external magnetic fields. The r
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Science retracts coral reef recovery paper more than a year after a report on allegations in its own pages
Fifteen months after its news division published an investigation into work on coral reef recovery, Science has retracted a 2014 paper on the subject. The article, "Chemically mediated behavior of recruiting corals and fishes: A tipping point that may limit reef recovery," was written by a group at Georgia Institute of Technology led by Danielle … Continue reading
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How Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died
Oxygen is the elixir of life. Stop its flow—during a stroke, heart attack, or death—and the body's tissues respond in a biological storm that eventually leads to their death. It's not great for organ transplants. Most donated organs struggle to survive beyond death. Deprived of oxygen, they rapidly lose their function. Cells turn into acidic, bloated blobs that leak, injuring their neighbors. The
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Webb images reveal one of the earliest galaxies ever found
Two new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. Both images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a much wider field of view than Webb's First Deep Field image, which was released amid great fanfare July 12. The images represent some of the first out of a major collaboration of astronomers and other ac
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Vitamin B12 may treat fatty liver disease
B vitamins can potentially treat advanced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a new study. Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School uncovered a mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease—and it turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process. These findings could help people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, an umbrella term fo
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What is genocide?
Acts of genocide — trying to partially or completely destroy an entire people or group — have been committed countless times throughout history.
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Synthesis of bioactive (1→6)-β-glucose branched poly-amido-saccharides that stimulate and induce M1 polarization in macrophages
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32346-5 Difficulty with purification, structural heterogenicity, and limited water solubility of β-glucans has significantly limited their therapeutic applications. Here, the authors report the synthesis of (1→6)-β-glucose-branched poly-amido-saccharides as glycan-mimetics and demonstrate macrophage stimulation and po
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Ultra-flat and long-lived plasmons in a strongly correlated oxide
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32359-0 Dispersionless plasmons could find important practical applications, but previous demonstrations have been limited to 2D materials and small momentum range. Here the authors report ultra-flat plasmons propagating over a wide range of momenta in a 3D strongly correlated oxide α-Ti2O3.
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The shapes of shrimp farms affect their groundwater pollution
Coastal aquaculture has grown rapidly over the past few decades, and although ocean-based food supplies have increased, concerns about the environmental impacts of aquaculture have as well. For example, research has found that shrimp aquaculture ponds pollute surface waters by releasing nutrient-rich waste into the ocean. Although researchers know that salt water from shrimp farms can seep into gr
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Jordan Peele's 'Nope' shines spotlight on animal work in entertainment
It is a horse named Ghost who first signals that something is awry in the sky in Jordan Peele's latest visually and thematically ambitious film Nope. OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) is the head wrangler of Heywood Hollywood Horses, an intergenerational, Black-owned and now struggling ranch that specializes in training horses for the big screen.
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The shapes of shrimp farms affect their groundwater pollution
Coastal aquaculture has grown rapidly over the past few decades, and although ocean-based food supplies have increased, concerns about the environmental impacts of aquaculture have as well. For example, research has found that shrimp aquaculture ponds pollute surface waters by releasing nutrient-rich waste into the ocean. Although researchers know that salt water from shrimp farms can seep into gr
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Analysis of global tree population explains baffling trends in species richness
Local species richness, the number of species that coexist in a local community, is a key measure of biodiversity. Scientists have known for more than 200 years that large numbers of local species live near the equator, then decline toward the middle and higher latitudes. However, why local species richness differs from place to place remains largely unknown.
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Analysis of global tree population explains baffling trends in species richness
Local species richness, the number of species that coexist in a local community, is a key measure of biodiversity. Scientists have known for more than 200 years that large numbers of local species live near the equator, then decline toward the middle and higher latitudes. However, why local species richness differs from place to place remains largely unknown.
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Rise of precision agriculture exposes food system to new threats
Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could help increase crop yields and reduce costs, the technology behind the practices is creating opportunities for extremists, terrorists and adversarial governments to attack farming machinery, with the aim o
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Molecules that promote plant-to-plant communications below ground
Plants have evolved elaborate mechanisms for detecting neighboring plants, which typically involve the perception of "cues'" inadvertently produced by their neighbors. Strigolactones are hormonal signaling molecules that are also exuded into the rhizosphere by most flowering plant species to promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses. Since flowering plants have an endogenous perception system for s
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In defense of pigeons
If you ask people why they like their favorite animal, they will tell you about the incredible things the creature can do, its relatable characteristics or its interesting looks. Few would be likely to cite the pigeon as theirs. Many people think of them as vermin rather than wildlife.
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Rise of precision agriculture exposes food system to new threats
Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could help increase crop yields and reduce costs, the technology behind the practices is creating opportunities for extremists, terrorists and adversarial governments to attack farming machinery, with the aim o
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Molecules that promote plant-to-plant communications below ground
Plants have evolved elaborate mechanisms for detecting neighboring plants, which typically involve the perception of "cues'" inadvertently produced by their neighbors. Strigolactones are hormonal signaling molecules that are also exuded into the rhizosphere by most flowering plant species to promote arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses. Since flowering plants have an endogenous perception system for s
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New faint, distant and cold brown dwarf discovered
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers have detected a new faint, distant, and cold brown dwarf. The newly found object, designated GLASS-JWST-BD1, turns out to be about 31 times more massive than Jupiter. The discovery was detailed in a paper published July 29 on arXiv.org.
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Perovskite: New LED technology surpasses the lifetime milestone
Perovskite LEDs are an emerging technology for next-generation display, lighting and communications. While perovskite LEDs can be produced simply and at low cost, they show clear technological advantages. They are lightweight and offer flexibility comparable to OLEDs, and they have color purity and tunability similar to LEDs based on III-V semiconductors. With only a few years of research performe
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Role of morphogens in tissue patterning in heart development
Morphogens are molecules that travel from cell to cell in order to pattern tissues in the embryo. These molecules are important not only for the embryo during development, but also for the adult during tissue repair. However, the way these morphogens are distributed to ensure patterning occurs is still not fully understood.
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Once the fish factories and 'kidneys' of colder seas, Australia's decimated shellfish reefs are coming back
Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonization, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early—and largely underwater—the destruction of these reefs was all but forgotten.
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Once the fish factories and 'kidneys' of colder seas, Australia's decimated shellfish reefs are coming back
Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonization, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early—and largely underwater—the destruction of these reefs was all but forgotten.
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Ethics of meat: How about going reducetarian?
The author of a new book on the ethics of eating meat explains why Americans find it so tough to shift toward plant-based eating. From the Impossible Whopper to Oatly ice cream, plant-based foods are hitting the mainstream, popping up everywhere from burger chain menus to grocery store shelves. The global market for plant-based dairy and meat alternatives is expected to grow fivefold by 2030 to $
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The Download: fixing social media, and US monkeypox vaccines
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. Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won't fix the problem We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don't want to be exposed to speech that is inappropriat
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Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging
Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape. In a new research paper, Manuel Roeleke and his team from the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) have now demonstrated for the first time that animals—in this case, the common noctule bat—join to
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Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging
Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape. In a new research paper, Manuel Roeleke and his team from the University of Potsdam and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) have now demonstrated for the first time that animals—in this case, the common noctule bat—join to
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Three papers highlight results of record 1.3 megajoule yield experiment
After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) for the first time on Aug. 8, 2021, putting researchers at the threshold of fusion gain and achieving scientific ignition.
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Moonshadow: China Mulls Fleet of Orbital Telescopes
A team of Chinese radio astronomers has proposed an ambitious project to put a fleet of 'mother' and 'daughter' radio telescopes into lunar orbit. Dipping in and out of the moon's shadow, the satellites will peer into the "grand mist of the primordial universe," just after the cosmic dawn. In the beginning, there was only primordial hydrogen, floating in the cosmic dark. Then, just a few hundred
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Kommuner opruster med APN-sygeplejersker
Esbjerg Kommune har ansat to APN-sygeplejersker, der skal hæve kvaliteten for multisyge borgere og generelt i sygeplejen. Aarhus har været så glade for sit team med APN-sygeplejersker, at kommunen ønsker at få flere.
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Microbe capture by splenic macrophages triggers sepsis via T cell-death-dependent neutrophil lifespan shortening
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32320-1 Hyperinflammation and immune dysfunction are key drivers of immunopathology in sepsis. Here the authors show microbial exploitation of phagocytic receptors is linked to triggering of sepsis and the immune cell mediated reduction in neutrophil life span.
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Erasure conversion for fault-tolerant quantum computing in alkaline earth Rydberg atom arrays
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32094-6 In quantum computing, realistic error models can allow tailored correction schemes for specific platforms. Here, while considering the case of qubits encoded in metastable electronic levels of atomic arrays, the authors propose a way to convert a large fraction of occurring errors into detectable leakages, or
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An open-label pilot study of recombinant granulocyte-colony stimulating factor in Friedreich's ataxia
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31450-w Work in a mouse model of Friedreich's ataxia has shown that administration of the cytokine granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) could have beneficial neuroprotective effects. Here the authors perform a pilot study of Lenograstim (recombinant G-CSF) in patients with Friedreich's ataxia.
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Designing against phase and property heterogeneities in additively manufactured titanium alloys
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32446-2 Additively manufactured Ti alloys exhibit spatially dependent microstructures and mechanical properties owing to the intrinsic thermal cycling. Here the authors develop new Ti alloys with uniform mechanical properties through a rational alloy design.
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A Good Start on Climate Change
The US is about to pass into law the first real action on climate change in decades. Obviously there is a lot of politics involved, and I don't want to get sucked into that, but rather I want to discuss the strategy of this approach to mitigating climate change. Here is a summary of the climate-related provisions in the bill. The bill provides tax incentive and grants for states, industry, and in
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The Dark Absurdity of American Violence
Less than a year ago, the U.S. military, on its way out of Afghanistan, added 10 more names to its ledger of collateral damage in the war it had waged for two decades. A few days after 13 American service members and almost 200 Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport, U.S. officials went looking for a white Toyota that they believed contained a car bomb. They found
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The Camp Fire Teens Are Adults Now
Katie Elder got just a few normal months of high school before the fire came. It was early November of 2018, her freshman year. Her mom woke her up around 7 a.m., and Katie began to get ready for what she thought would be a normal school day. Then they stepped outside and saw an orange sky. She felt the wind gust. "We've lived in California all our lives. We've been around fires," the now-18-year
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The Rivalry That Defines America
Near the end of the film Patton , George C. Scott, who plays the eponymous general, is invited to a banquet hosted by the Soviet high command to celebrate its impending victory over Nazi Germany. When Patton's Soviet counterpart, General Mikhail Katukov, proposes that he and Patton drink a toast to each other, Patton replies through an interpreter, "My compliments to the general; please inform hi
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Spelar kort om döden
Det är möjligt att minska onödigt lidande när döden närmar sig, hävdar professor Carol Tishelman. Ett sätt att är att lyssna mer på anhöriga. Eskil Degsell och hans fru har spelat kort – om döden. Inlägget dök först upp på forskning.se .
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Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won't fix the problem
We all want to be able to speak our minds online—to be heard by our friends and talk (back) to our opponents. At the same time, we don't want to be exposed to speech that is inappropriate or crosses a line. Technology companies address this conundrum by setting standards for free speech, a practice protected under federal law. They hire in-house moderators to examine individual pieces of content
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The cognitive dissonance of watching the end of Roe unfold online
I learned on a liveblog that I had lost the right to have an abortion. When the United States Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade on the morning of June 24, 2022, I was one of the nearly 16,000 people reading SCOTUSblog, a news site launched 20 years ago, which has no official relationship with the Supreme Court, which has never been granted press credentials to the court, and which won a Peabody
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Nested order-disorder framework containing a crystalline matrix with self-filled amorphous-like innards
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32419-5 The synthesis and characterization of new crystalline-amorphous hybrid materials is challenging. Here, the authors report the preparation of a nested order-disorder framework by applying high pressure to a nested copper chalcogenide Cu12Sb4S13.
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Lack of maths funding will hinder UK's scientific progress | Letter
Maths is the bedrock of all the sciences, but promised funding is yet to be delivered, writes Prof Ulrike Tillmann The aim of making the UK a "science superpower" is welcome, but the deficiencies in the government's strategy highlighted in a Lords report are only the start ( 'Science superpower' plan risks making UK bureaucracy superpower, says peer, 4 August ). Lord Krebs compared the amount of
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The big idea: are we living in a simulation?
Could the universe be an elaborate game constructed by bored aliens? Elon Musk thinks you don't exist. But it's nothing personal: he thinks he doesn't exist either. At least, not in the normal sense of existing. Instead we are just immaterial software constructs running on a gigantic alien computer simulation. Musk has stated that the odds are billions to one that we are actually living in "base
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Overlooking Skin Cancer in People With Dark Skin
Given the known disparities in outcomes, experts say two areas of research are needed: studying educational initiatives to see if awareness might lead to earlier diagnosis; and determining risk factors in patients with dark skin, especially factors leading to melanoma in places less exposed to the sun.
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Shielded soft force sensors
Nature Communications, Published online: 09 August 2022; doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32391-0 Capacitive soft force sensors require electrical shielding from electromagnetic interference, but this shielding can mess with the effectiveness of the sensing electrodes. Here, Aksoy et al. solve this problem by patterning the central sensing elastomer layer to control its compressibility.
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'This was her dream': Olivia Newton-John's legacy lives on at cancer research centre
The singer's advocacy enabled scientific advancements and offered hope and support to people affected by cancer It's not often a medical institute has to say it is unable to take calls because of overwhelming demand, but that was the case on Tuesday at Melbourne's Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre, after the death of the 73-year-old singer and actor . Newton-John has been one o
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From the archive: Why are climate and conservation scientists taking to the streets? – podcast
In early April this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report giving the world just 30 months to get greenhouse gas emissions falling. Beyond that, we'll have missed our chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C. As this summer of heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods prove, going much above 1.5C will have truly devastating consequences for us and the planet. W
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