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On paper, iOS 16 is the version that comes after iOS 15. But in reality, iOS 16 finishes the work that started with iOS 14. This year’s update to Apple’s mobile operating system is all about making your phone more personal. With iOS 14, Apple revamped widgets. It led to a new wave of apps that help you completely trans...
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In the future OSes may be smaller, written specifically for customized chips and systems, with much less overhead. The push toward disaggregation and customization in hardware is starting to be mirrored on the software side, where operating systems are becoming smaller and more targeted, supplemented with additional so...
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Today, chances are you're working on a Windows-powered PC. Tomorrow may be another story. I've been watching how Microsoft plans to move you from PC Windows to a cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) model for years. Yet more proof has recently surfaced about Microsoft's master cloud desktop plan. Zac Bowden, a senio...
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Researchers say that nearly 336,000 devices exposed to the Internet remain vulnerable to a critical vulnerability in firewalls sold by Fortinet because admins have yet to install patches the company released three weeks ago. CVE-2023-27997 is a remote code execution in Fortigate VPNs, which are included in the company’...
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PC gamers sticking with old versions of Windows may finally need to upgrade if they want to keep playing the games in their Steam libraries. Valve announced this week that it will stop supporting Steam on Windows 7 and Windows 8 on January 1, 2024. "After that date," the company's brief announcement reads, "the Steam C...
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WTF?! For the past few years, Microsoft has been accused of regularly violating user privacy. Compared to the classic NT-based systems, Windows 10 and especially Windows 11 are two completely different beasts in this regard. How much data is a Windows operating system sending to online servers? According to a recent vi...
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iOS 17 is Apple’s upcoming operating system for its iPhone models. After improvements on the Lock Screen, support for the Dynamic Island, and a new Freeform app with iOS 16, here’s what we know about the company’s next iOS. What will Apple call the next iOS? It’s always hard to predict what Apple will call its macOS op...
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Tomorrow’s the big day, and we’re expecting big things – well, one really big thing for sure. Apple will kick of WWDC 2023 at 10AM PT Monday June 5 with its customary keynote. As ever, the event will focus on the latest versions of the company’s operating systems, namely: iOS/iPadOS 17, macOS 14 and watchOS 10. We’re a...
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Android 14 is finally here, and that means Android users can finally download the latest rendition of Google’s operating system, starting with Pixel devices. But if you’re rocking a phone that supports Android 14 and you haven’t been keeping up with everything, you might be wondering why you should bother upgrading. We...
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Apple just dropped a public beta of macOS 14 Sonoma. Perhaps you’ve been swimming in those wine country waters for a while now. After all, back at WWDC, the company announced that it was opening up early access to its new operating systems to anyone with a developer account — not just those shelling out the $99 for the...
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Apple has released the first version of macOS Ventura. Here’s what you need to know about the new features, whether they will run on your Mac, and how Apple’s apps including Mail and Safari will be changing. The Ventura name maintains Apple’s recent tradition of giving every version of macOS a name in addition to a ver...
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Android launched 10 years ago. In a decade, the popularity surged so much that there are more than 2.5 billion active Android devices in the world. Android’s modular approach, cost-effectiveness, and customization make it one of the most popular operating systems in the world. These Android devices are used in personal...
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Patch Management / Endpoint Security It's no secret that keeping software up to date is one of the key best practices in cybersecurity. Software vulnerabilities are being discovered almost weekly these days. The longer it takes IT teams to apply updates issued by developers to patch these security flaws, the more time ...
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Intel has published a new whitepaper (PDF) that envisions simplifying its processor instruction set architecture (ISA). The main thrust of the proposed move would be to pare back the extensive legacy support and go 64-bit only with a new and simplified 'Intel x86S' architecture. Several technical benefits are outlined ...
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macOS Sonoma is on track to be the first macOS update to launch alongside Apple‘s other operating system updates in years. That said, when Apple announces the release date of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS 17, and watchOS 10, it’s very likely that macOS Sonoma will launch alongside them. Here’s why. If you compare previous ma...
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Monday a researcher with Google Information Security posted about a new vulnerability he independently found in AMD's Zen 2 processors. Tom's Hardware reports: The 'Zenbleed' vulnerability spans the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC data center processors and the Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs, allowing the t...
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Less than 24 hours after issuing an urgent fix for a zero-day security vulnerability under active exploitation in the wild, Apple's patch rollout is being reported to break certain websites in Safari. The bug is found in Apple's WebKit browser engine (CVE-2023-37450) and allows arbitrary code execution on fully patched...
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Latest in tech Now playing The iPhone turns 15 today. See CNN's report on its debut in 2007 Now playing Misinformation, not machines, biggest election vulnerability, hackers say Xiaomi Now playing Chinese tech company reveals robot weeks before Tesla YouTube / Sufficiently Advanced Now playing Watch snake walk using ro...
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After a month of beta testing, Apple has now released watchOS 10 public beta 1. Anyone enrolled in the Apple Beta Software Program can try the new features of this upcoming software, but be aware: unlike other beta operating systems, you can’t downgrade from watchOS 9 to watchOS 10. So once you install this update, you...
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The perfect hybrid machine that’s just as good a tablet as it is a laptop still doesn’t exist. But throughout last year, companies like Microsoft, Apple and Google continued to improve their operating systems for machines that do double duty. Windows 11 has features that make it friendlier for multi-screen devices, whi...
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On Tuesday, Mozilla, creator of the web browser Firefox, announced that macOS Mojave and earlier won't get major updates past version 115 — but security updates will keep coming for a year. The release notes state that users running macOS 10.12, 10.13, and 10.14 will be migrated to the ESR 115 version of Firefox so tha...
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Have you ever accidentally deleted an important conversation on your iPhone? Or maybe it wasn’t an accident, and you deleted a conversation thread that has lasted for years out of a fit of rage? Maybe you’re like me, with fingers that have a mind all of their own, and they love to hit that delete button at the wrong ti...
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Apple is making it easy for everyone with an Apple ID to test developer beta versions of its different operating systems — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Previously, developer beta releases were available to people paying a $99-a-year fee for Apple’s developer program — paying for the developer program also all...
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It appears that passkeys are now supported for Apple IDs, but only if you have the first beta for iOS 17 (or iPadOS 17 or macOS Sonoma). Beta users of Apple’s operating systems then have the ability to sign in anywhere that supports signing in with your Apple ID — covering not only Apple.com and icloud.com, but also an...
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What products and services will benefit the most from recent developments in AI technology? We’re keeping close tabs on the question, curious if startups will be able to best lever AI improvements or if cloud platforms are the best positioned. Or maybe it’ll be the companies building generative AI models themselves? I ...
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Everyone depends on OpenSSL. You may not know it, but OpenSSL is what makes it possible to use secure Transport Layer Security (TLS) on Linux, Unix, Windows, and many other operating systems. It's also what is used to lock down pretty much every secure communications and networking application and device out there. So ...
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Apple released iOS 17.1 on Wednesday to all users with features including improved AirDrop sharing and updates to Apple Music. The biggest change with this release is the ability to use AirDrop when you move out of the Wi-Fi range. AirDrop uses Bluetooth to securely create a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi network between two Apple...
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Apple announced the WWDC 2023 dates last week, so we already know when iOS 17, watchOS 10, and macOS 14 announcements will drop. But this year is different for Apple. The June 5th keynote will also feature Apple’s first-gen mixed reality headset and its operating system. That’s Apple’s priority right now, despite the r...
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Windows 8 was known for its radical change to the OS app screen. Since then, Microsoft has reincorporated default features like the Start button in Windows 10 and 11.Image: George Dolgikh (Shutterstock)Poor, beleaguered Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 are now officially strolling the Elysian Fields of dead operating systems as M...
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It’s free. It’s safer. And no more annoying Windows updates! The Indian government is looking to replace the Windows operating system on computers used in the Defence Ministry with a new indigenous operating system called Maya OS. Having a new operating system (OS), that too for the government is a challenge but the Mi...
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A probable early driver of Alzheimer's disease is the accumulation of molecules called amyloid peptides. These cause cell death, and are commonly found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now shown that yeast cells that accumulate these misfolded amyloid...
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Study: Popular dietary supplement causes cancer risk, brain metastasis University of Missouri researchers made the discovery while using bioluminescent imaging technology to study how nicotinamide riboside supplements work inside the body. Nov. 11, 2022 Contact: Eric Stann, 573-882-3346, StannE@missouri.edu   Elena Gou...
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Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound collection of bones hints at an even richer past. The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is teeming with dozens of fossils of ancient marine reptiles. That bone bed is so abundant and weird that ...
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By Nathan Collins - Stanford UniversityStarting about 7,000 years ago, and extending over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, the genetic diversity of men—specifically, the diversity of their Y chromosomes—collapsed. The collapse was so extreme it was as if there were only one man left to mate for every 17 ...
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The hidden role of lipid droplets in fertility and beyond Once thought of merely as fat storages, lipid droplets are now believed to play important roles in human health and fertility. Within our cells are structures called lipid droplets that serve as storage units for energy in the form of lipids or fats. Because fat...
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How do we increase food production by more than 50%, on a limited amount of arable land, to feed a projected 10 billion people by 2050? The solution could come in the form of nutritious and protein-dense microalgae (single-celled), grown in onshore, seawater-fed aquaculture systems. A paper, “Transforming the Future of...
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A paralyzed man who hasn’t spoken in 15 years uses a brain-computer interface that decodes his intended speech, one word at a time.A computer screen shows the question “Would you like some water?” Underneath, three dots blink, followed by words that appear, one at a time: “No I am not thirsty.” It was brain activity th...
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In a new step for Crispr, scientists have used the gene-editing tool to make personalized modifications to cancer patients’ immune cells to supercharge them against their tumors. In a small study published today in the journal Nature, a US team showed that the approach was feasible and safe, but was successful only in ...
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In September 1993, during a beach clean on the Isle of Man, Richard Thompson noticed thousands of multicoloured fragments at his feet, looking like sand. While his colleagues filled sacks with crisp packets, fishing rope, plastic bags and bottles, Thompson became transfixed by the particles. They were so tiny that they...
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Scientists may have uncovered the brain's "on switch" for male libido, a new study in mice suggests. The switch is actually more of a circuit, consisting of a group of neurons that connects multiple regions of the brain. The newly identified circuit not only helps male mice recognize females but also controls their des...
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Tardigrades — those darling, near-microscopic critters that are nearly indestructible — carry proteins that could keep critical drugs and medical treatments stable without refrigeration, scientists say. In a study published Monday (March 20) in the journal Scientific Reports (opens in new tab), scientists tested this i...
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Octopuses shown to map their visual landscape much like humans do An octopus devotes about 70% of its brain to vision. But until recently, scientists have only had a murky understanding of how these marine animals see their underwater world. A new University of Oregon study brings the octopus's view into focus. For the...
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Using associative learning, in some ways a pigeon’s peck can mirror high tech. A University of Iowa study discovered that pigeons and artificial intelligence share a similar learning process called associative learning. This method, which involves making connections between objects or patterns, allows both pigeons and ...
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Ultrafast lasers on ultra-tiny chips Lasers have become relatively commonplace in everyday life, but they have many uses outside of providing light shows at raves and scanning barcodes on groceries. Lasers are also of great importance in telecommunications and computing as well as biology, chemistry, and physics resear...
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Introduction A tree has something in common with the weeds and mushrooms growing around its roots, the squirrels scurrying up its trunk, the birds perched on its branches, and the photographer taking pictures of the scene. They all have genomes and cellular machinery neatly packed into membrane-bound compartments, an o...
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Videos appear to show shimmering chemical contamination on creeks near the site of the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment and chemical leak. Experts tell USA TODAY the rainbow-colored material is likely vinyl chloride, a heavier-than-water chemical that both leaked and burned following the Feb. 3 derailment of a No...
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Why it's worth protecting a spectacular fossil site NZ almost lost to commercial mining interests One of New Zealand's most exceptional fossil sites may soon be open to scientists again following a land purchase that saved it from commercial mining. Foulden Maar is a small, deep lake that formed 23 million years ago in...
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Researchers generate cattle blastoids in lab to aid farm animal reproduction UT Southwestern Medical Center stem cell and developmental biologists and colleagues have developed a method to produce bovine blastoids, a crucial step in replicating embryo formation in the lab that could lead to the development of new repro...
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The wrong chemical dosage has been used to protect crops against mice as they exhibit lower sensitivity to zinc phosphide than previously thought, new research shows.Australia’s national science agency, the CSIRO, has recommended a new bait formulation that doubles the amount of zinc phosphide (ZnP) in grain baits used...
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Boys choir found to compete sexually for female audiences through more energetic singing Research led by Western Sydney University, Australia, has found that boys singing in a choir engage in simultaneous group cohesion and sexually motivated competition exhibited through voice modulation in the presence of a female au...
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CRISPR/Cas9 reveals a key gene involved in the evolution of coral skeleton formation New work led by Carnegie's Phillip Cleves uses cutting-edge CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools to reveal a gene that's critical to stony corals' ability to build their reef architectures. It is published in Proceedings of the National Ac...
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Jaw shapes of 90 shark species show evolution driven by habitat An international research team led by Faviel A. López-Romero from the Department of Paleontology at the University of Vienna investigated how the jaw shape of sharks has changed over the course of evolution. They conclude that in the most widespread shark ...
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Plants orient their organs in response to the gravity vector, with roots growing towards gravity and shoots growing in the opposite direction. The movement of statoliths responding to the inclination relative to the gravity vector is employed for gravity sensing in both plants and animals. However, in plants, the stato...
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August 22, 2023 Salk scientists pinpointed specific microbes and bile acids that become more prevalent in the guts of mice fed high-fat diets Salk scientists pinpointed specific microbes and bile acids that become more prevalent in the guts of mice fed high-fat diets LA JOLLA—The prevalence of colorectal cancer in peop...
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Nanosatellite shows the way to RNA medicine of the future The RNA molecule is commonly recognized as messenger between DNA and protein, but it can also be folded into intricate molecular machines. An example of a naturally occurring RNA machine is the ribosome, that functions as a protein factory in all cells. Inspired...
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Researchers from Western and Brown University have made groundbreaking progress towards identifying the root cause and potential therapy for preeclampsia. The pregnancy complication affects up to eight per cent of pregnancies globally and is the leading cause of maternal and fetal mortality due to premature delivery, c...
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News ReleaseThursday, December 22, 2022 Technique provides model for studying genesis of age-related macular degeneration and other eye diseases. Growth of blood vessels across printed rows of an endothelial-pericyte-fibroblast cell mixture. By day 7, blood vessels fill in the space between the rows, forming a network ...
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Feline researchers have long believed that purring is produced by voluntary muscle contractions, but a new report indicates that this vibration in the larynx of cats may be explained by the myoelastic aerodynamic theory of phonation.Studies on the complex action that produces a unique vibration in the larynx of cats—kn...
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Slumbering among thousands of bacterial strains in a collection of natural specimens at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, several fragile vials held something unexpected, and possibly very useful. Writing in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, a team led by chemist Ben S...
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Wild female chimpanzees in Uganda live well past the point when they can reproduce and probably go through menopause similar to humans, a new study has found. The finding raises fresh questions about why humans experience menopause. Until now, humans were one of only three animal species known to go through menopause —...
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Humans are hoping to colonize Mars in the near future, with NASA aiming to reach the Red Planet by 2040. But what will the long-haul space missions needed to get there do to the human body? Our species evolved to thrive on the Earth, within its protective atmosphere and gravitational pull, not to survive in the unique ...
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Researchers shed further light onto zinc homeostasis in cells A research group has unearthed how zinc transporter complexes regulate zinc ion (Zn2+) concentrations in different areas of the Golgi apparatus and revealed that this mechanism finely tunes the chaperone protein ERp44. The findings, which were reported in th...
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Computer-aided detection: A patient treated with SRS to three prospectively identified metastases (PIMs, lower panel) also harboured three retrospectively identified metastases (RIMs, upper panel, white arrows). These RIMs were revealed in an MR scan seven weeks later when they were larger, prompting treatment with a s...
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Scientists have discovered the deepest known evidence of coral reef bleaching, more than 90 metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean. The damage – attributed to a 30% rise in sea temperatures caused by the Indian Ocean dipole – harmed up to 80% of the reefs in certain parts of the seabed, at depths previously thoug...
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On the menu tonight, a nice, nutritional, bacteria-killing virus. Sounds unappealing? It may not be to your cells. In a new study, scientists revealed that a type of bacteriophage — a virus that infects and kills bacteria — found in the human gut helps mammal cells grow and thrive in what could be a symbiotic relations...
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Karen Lips has never forgotten the silence. It was the early 1990s; she was finishing her PhD in tropical biology, and had come back to a research site in Costa Rica, a protected reserve high up in the mountains, after a short break. On her previous visit, the air had been full of the sounds of the frog species she was...
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Compounds in tea and berries reduced plaques strongly linked to Alzheimer'sAlzheimer's is the most common cause of the degenerative disease dementiaThe findings apply to more than 6 million Americans living with Alzheimer's  Published: 14:41 EDT, 2 November 2022 | Updated: 14:51 EDT, 2 November 2022 Green tea may stave...
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Australian researchers have found a protein in the lungs that sticks to the Covid-19 virus like velcro and immobilises it, which may explain why some people never become sick with the virus while others suffer serious illness. The research was led by Greg Neely, a professor of functional genomics with the University of...
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A video showing a large swarm of sharks swimming off the coast of Galveston, Texas, has gone viral this month – because the sheer size of the group is astounding. The video of the sharks received millions of views on TikTok, raising questions about this behavior and how common it is. David Wells, a professor of marine ...
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Scientists working in Greenland identified the oldest samples of DNA ever found on earth. By analyzing the two-million year old genetic material, they’ve revealed how northern Greenland was once a wildly different environment than the cold, polar region it is today. Project researcher Eske Willerslev joined William Bra...
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New blood test could improve diagnosis & management of concussion Researchers have found a way to determine whether someone has suffered a concussion by measuring the blood levels of three biomarkers within six hours of the injury. The blood test could be used alongside existing tests for a more accurate diagnosis of t...
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Perhaps the most obvious feature of a neuron is the long branch called an axon that ventures far from the cell body to connect with other neurons or muscles. If that long, thin projection ever seems like it could be vulnerable, a new MIT study shows that its structural integrity may indeed require the support of a surr...
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A new study has revealed that space weather that disrupts satellites and causes blackouts also impacts how birds fly. Scientists from the University of Michigan (U-M) found migratory birds are getting lost when the sun emits electromagnetic radiation and charged particles that slam into Earth's magnetic field. Noctur...
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A new study published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology reveals what high testosterone levels do to women’s immune systems. The study has discovered a link between female hormone levels and antibody production in response to hepatitis B immunization. The study discovered a negative relationship between testoste...
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Withering molds, root-rotting bacteria, viruses, and other plant pathogens destroy an estimated 15 to 30% of global harvests every year. Early detection can make the difference between a failed crop and a treatable one. Using an airborne science instrument developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern Calif...
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Vaccine against deadly chytrid fungus primes frog microbiome for future exposure A human or animal's microbiome—the collection of often beneficial microorganisms, including as bacteria and fungi, that live on or within a host organism—can play an important role in the host's overall immune response, but it is unclear h...
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Study paves way to more efficient production of 2G ethanol using specially modified yeast strain A Brazilian study paves the way to increased efficiency of second-generation (2G) ethanol production based on the discovery of novel targets for metabolic engineering in a more robust strain of industrial yeast. An article ...
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Researchers at the University of Cologne's CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research and the CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence for Plant Sciences have found a promising synthetic plant biology approach for the development of a therapy to treat human neurodegenerative diseases, especially Huntington's disease. In their ...
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By John Gerritsen of RNZ Science teachers are shocked that an advance version of the draft school science curriculum contains no mention of physics, chemistry or biology. The so-called “fast draft” said science would be taught through four contexts - the Earth system, biodiversity, food, energy and water, and infectiou...
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States are banning this invasive Callery pear tree and urging homeowners to cut it down When people think of spring, they often picture flowers and trees blooming. And if you live in the U.S. Northeast, Midwest or South, you have probably seen a medium-sized tree with long branches, covered with small white blooms—the ...
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New research indicates that attentional dysregulation is a crucial factor that connects cognitive impairments and various mental health problems in adolescents. The study, published in Scientific Reports, highlights the importance of understanding and addressing cognitive performance in the context of mental health. It...
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How small differences in data analysis make huge differences in results Over the past 20 years or so, there has been growing concern that many results published in scientific journals can't be reproduced. To understand how different researchers might arrive at different results, we asked hundreds of ecologists and evol...
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Vikas Nanda has spent more than two decades studying the intricacies of proteins, the highly complex substances present in all living organisms. The Rutgers scientist has long contemplated how the unique patterns of amino acids that compose proteins determine whether they become anything from hemoglobin to collagen, as...
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Scientists are expanding the genetic map of humanity. This week, a large team published the first wave of research from the Pangenome Project, an effort to better capture the diversity of people around the world. The findings should allow scientists to better understand the influence of genetics on our health and evolu...
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Plastic waste is clogging up our rivers and oceans and causing long-lasting environmental damage that is only just starting to come into focus. But a new approach that combines biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling it. While much of the plastic we use carries symbols indicati...
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You’re on the vacation of a lifetime in Kenya, traversing the savanna on safari, with the tour guide pointing out elephants to your right and lions to your left. Years later, you walk into a florist’s shop in your hometown and smell something like the flowers on the jackalberry trees that dotted the landscape. When you...
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Marine microorganisms are crucial for ocean health. Bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae and viruses make up most of the biomass in the seas and form the base of marine food webs. They support nutrient cycling and drive crucial biogeochemical processes, including key steps in the carbon, nitrogen and silicon cycles. But the...
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The mechanics behind woodpeckers’ signature behavior has mystified biologists for many years. New research in Current Biology, however, reveals that woodpecker heads remain rigid and hammer-like throughout the pecking process, which contradicts past theories that their heads act as soft shock-absorbers.A Hard-Headed Ha...
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By simulating early Earth conditions in the lab, researchers have found that without specific amino acids, ancient proteins would not have known how to evolve into everything alive on the planet today -- including plants, animals, and humans. The findings, which detail how amino acids shaped the genetic code of ancient...
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Engineered Bacteria Sense and Record Their Environment Complete the form below to unlock access to ALL audio articles. Scientists from Columbia University have engineered bacteria to record signals from the external environment in their swarming patterns. The team successfully decoded these signals using artificial int...
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Although humans smell with two nostrils, we can only detect a given scent as a whole — a steaming cup of coffee or pungent skunk, for instance. But your brain might interpret things differently, a new study suggests. The research, conducted with hospital patients with electrodes implanted in their brains, suggests that...
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Researchers devise a better way to build aptamers When is having trillions of choices not enough? Apparently when making aptamers. Aptamers—short strands of DNA or RNA capable of binding to specific target receptors—can be incredibly useful for measuring metabolites and proteins in biological research, identifying dise...
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Traces of the last suppers of some of the world's earliest known animals have been discovered in their 558-million-year-old fossils.Key points:Ediacaran biota are a strange group of soft-bodied organisms that lived between 600 million and 540 million years agoAn international team has analysed organic molecules in foss...
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Steering undulatory micro-swimmers in a fluid flow through reinforcement learning New research looks at navigation strategies for deformable micro-swimmers in a viscous fluid faced with drifts, strains, and other deformations. A deformable micro-swimmer is a small-scale organism or artificial structure that uses sinuso...
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New database unifies the information on damage to European forests over the last 60 years The University of Córdoba is participating in the creation of the first database that harmonizes the recording of disturbances caused by insects and diseases in forests in eight European countries by combining remote sensing, sate...
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AbstractBiological invasions are a multi-stage process (i.e., transport, introduction, establishment, spread), with each stage potentially acting as a selective filter on traits associated with invasion success. Behavior (e.g., exploration, activity, boldness) plays a key role in facilitating species introductions, but...
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A study that followed thousands of people over 25 years has identified proteins linked to the development of dementia if their levels are unbalanced during middle age. From a report: The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine on 19 July, could contribute to the development of new diagnostic tests, or eve...
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Inside a science park lab next to the University of York, two clusters of robots are busy moving clear plates with mechanical arms as they screen many millions of molecules. The machines need only 24 hours to complete work that would usually take teams of human scientists several days. The lab is run by Aptamer Group, ...
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Continuous cough monitoring: a novel digital biomarker for TB diagnosis and treatment response monitoring No Abstract Document Type: Letter to the Editor Affiliations: 1: UCSF Center for Tuberculosis, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San F...
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Laser-controlled intracellular flows in temperature-sensitive biological cells Micromanipulation techniques are widely adopted in materials science, colloidal physics and life sciences for various applications, ranging from nanostructure assembly and particle trapping to spatio-temporal analysis of cell organization. I...
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