Unlocking bacterial potential to reduce farmland N2O emissions

Nature, Published online: 29 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07464-3 A study presents a method to mitigate emissions of nitrous oxide from farmland using bacteria to consume nitrous oxide in soil with organic waste as a substrate and vector. | Continue reading


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Structural basis for pegRNA-guided reverse transcription by a prime editor

Nature, Published online: 29 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07497-8 Cryo-electron microscopy structures of the prime editor bound to a prime editing guide RNA and target DNA, in the pre-initiation, initiation and elongation and termination states, provide insights into the mech … | Continue reading


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Canted spin order as a platform for ultrafast conversion of magnons

Nature, Published online: 29 May 2024; doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07448-3 A study demonstrates a new functionality of canted spin order for magnonics and shows that it facilitates mechanisms for ultrafast nonlinear conversion of magnons. | Continue reading


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Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00720-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39699508 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 | Continue reading


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Don't wait for COP: the end of the fossil-fuel age must start now

UN climate conferences are too beholden to oil and gas interests. Like-minded nations must come together to keep climate hopes alive. UN climate conferences are too beholden to oil and gas interests. Like-minded nations must come together to keep climate hopes alive.(nature.com) | Continue reading


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A class of drugs that quash hunger have shown striking results in trials and in practice. But can they help all people with obesity — and conquer weight stigma? | Continue reading


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Twitter changed science - what happens now it's in turmoil?

In November, Vince Knight decided he'd had enough of Twitter. After more than a decade on the social-media platform, Knight - a mathematician at Cardiff University, UK - was concerned about the site's direction under its new owner, entrepreneur Elon Musk, who began laying off vas … | Continue reading


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Strong behavioral individuality is present at the first day after birth in fish

You’re unique just like everyone else. But when does such individuality appear? Laskowski et al. find that clonal fish show unique behavioral patterns on their first day of life, and these patterns predict their behavior up to at least 10 weeks later. | Continue reading


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Thumb-sized microscope captures images deep inside the brains of active animals

After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour. | Continue reading


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Thumb-sized microscope captures images deep inside the brains of active animals

After years of development, researchers have managed to shrink two-photon microscopy into a device that can be mounted on rodents’ heads without impeding behaviour. | Continue reading


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Which Covid studies pose a biohazard? Lack of clarity hampers research

Controversy surrounding a study that involved modifying the SARS-CoV-2 virus has prompted researchers to call for better guidance from funders. | Continue reading


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Top-down modulation impairs priming susceptibility in complex decision-making

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Computer science has a racism problem: these researchers want to fix it

Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society. | Continue reading


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Stress and uncertainty drag down graduate students’ satisfaction

Scholars in PhD and master’s programmes struggle with securing work–life balance and support around career training and mental health, finds Nature survey. | Continue reading


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Petabit-per-second data using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

A microcomb source based on a silicon nitride ring resonator is shown to support petabit-per-second data transmission over a multicore optical fibre. | Continue reading


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Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study

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Which Covid studies pose a biohazard?

Controversy surrounding a study that involved modifying the SARS-CoV-2 virus has prompted researchers to call for better guidance from funders. | Continue reading


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Accelerated forgetting of a trauma event after a single dose of hydrocortisone

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A chemically mediated artificial neuron

An artificial neuron that detects dopamine using a carbon-based electrochemical sensor and then processes the sensory signals using a memristor with synaptic plasticity, before stimulating dopamine release via a heat-responsive hydrogel, can be used to trigger the controllable mo … | Continue reading


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Nature Special Issue: Racism -Overcoming science’s toxic legacy

A guest-edited collection of features, comment and analysis examines researchers’ experiences of racism, the impacts of systemic racism and how science can and must change. | Continue reading


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Mapping the genetic architecture of cortical morphology through neuroimaging

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Optic nerve sheath diameter is associated with outcome in severe Covid-19

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Entanglement-enhanced matter-wave interferometry in a high-finesse cavity

A matter-wave interferometer is demonstrated with an interferometric phase noise below the standard quantum limit, combining two core concepts of quantum mechanics, that a particle can simultaneously be in two places at once and entanglement between distinct particles. | Continue reading


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Autoencoder for robust prediction of personalized clinical drug response

Predicting patient-specific clinical drug responses from cell-line screens using machine learning is challenging. He and colleagues develop a deep learning method to predict patient-specific clinical responses from cell-line and other disease models for drug discovery and persona … | Continue reading


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Clocks synced over record distance using lasers

Physicist Jian-Wei Pan and his colleagues have achieved an important milestone towards redefining the second. | Continue reading


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Computer science has a racism problem: these researchers want to fix it

Black and Hispanic people face huge hurdles at technology companies and in computer-science education in the United States, with far-reaching consequences for science and all of society. | Continue reading


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Mystery find of microbial DNA elements called Borgs

New type of large non-chromosomal element found in archaea | Continue reading


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Complementary task representations for generalizing the structure of problems

Samborska et al. trained mice on a set of problems with the same structure but different physical layouts to study generalization. Neurons in prefrontal cortex generalized across problems, whereas those in hippocampus were more problem specific. | Continue reading


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Aerial additive manufacturing with multiple autonomous robots

An additive manufacturing method using a team of autonomous aerial robots allows for scalable and adaptable three-dimensional printing, and is used to deposit building materials during flight. | Continue reading


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First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment

Fabled star catalogue by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been feared lost. | Continue reading


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Life expectancy changes since Covid-19

In 2021, life expectancies returned to pre-pandemic levels in parts of western Europe but further worsened in eastern Europe, the United States and Chile. Life expectancy deficits were negatively correlated with vaccine uptake in later 2021. | Continue reading


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Renowned Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt – and astronomers are heartbroken

The US National Science Foundation has decided to instead open an educational centre on the site. | Continue reading


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MIT Just Created Plants That Glow Like Lamps and Could Replace Streetlights

Roads of the future could be lit by glowing trees instead of streetlamps, thanks to a breakthrough in creating bioluminescent plants. | Continue reading


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Metformin alleviates neurocognitive impairment via AMPK/BDNF/PI3K pathway

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Charge dropped against New Zealand science agency after deadly volcano eruption

The charge related to how GNS Science communicated volcanic risk to the public in the lead-up to the 2019 eruption on Whakaari White Island. | Continue reading


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Human brain cells implanted in rats prompt excitement – and concern

Rat–human hybrid brains offer new ways to study human neurological disorders, but also raise ethical questions. | Continue reading


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Maturation and circuit integration of transplanted human cortical organoids

Human stem cell-derived cortical organoids transplanted into rats mature and integrate into sensory and motivation circuits to influence behaviour. | Continue reading


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Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong

Cellular version of computer game challenges assumptions about intelligence. | Continue reading


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Economists win Nobel Prize for showing why banks fail

Ben Bernanke, Philip Dybvig and Douglas Diamond’s work explained how finance greases the wheels of capitalism – and why the system is inherently unstable. | Continue reading


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A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Global Ecosystem Typology has been developed to provide a systematic framework for data on all of Earth’s ecosystems in a unified theoretical context to support biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. | Continue reading


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MicroRNA-7 regulates mammalian energy homeostasis melanocortin involved circuits

The hypothalamus controls systemic energy homeostasis. Here, the authors show that loss of microRNA-7 in hypothalamic neurons causes obesity, increased growth and endocrine dysfunction in mice, and report genetic evidence that links microRNA-7 to height and adiposity in humans. | Continue reading


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The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool

Archaeogenetic study of ancient DNA from medieval northwestern Europeans reveals substantial increase of continental northern European ancestry in Britain, suggesting mass migration across the North Sea during the Early Middle Ages. | Continue reading


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Tissue-specific impacts of aging and genetics on human gene expression patterns

Age is a risk factor for many diseases, but the impact of aging on molecular phenotypes is not fully understood. Here, the authors quantify the relative contributions of genetics and aging to gene expression patterns across 27 tissues in humans, showing that age and genetics each … | Continue reading


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Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth

Studies that scrutinized thousands of tumour samples provide the clearest link yet between cancer and fungi — but more research is needed. | Continue reading


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Catalyst-free synthesis of sub-5 nm silicon nanowire arrays

The preparation of quantum silicon nanowires, materials with potential application in high-performance nanodevices, is challenging. Here, the authors synthesize vertically aligned sub-5 nm silicon nanowires via a vapor phase silicon etching process; the resulting material feature … | Continue reading


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Inferring and perturbing cell fate regulomes in human brain organoids

A multi-omic atlas of brain organoid development facilitates the inference of an underlying gene regulatory network using the newly developed Pando framework and shows—in conjunction with perturbation experiments—that GLI3 controls forebrain fate establishment through interaction … | Continue reading


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Higher viewership of Fox News associated with lower vaccination rates

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Explaining Mars's South Pole Radar Reflections Without Liquid Water [pdf]

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