Automatic mapping of multiplexed social receptive fields by deep learning

High resolution descriptions of social interactions and their neural correlates are lacking. Here the authors report a pipeline enabling fully automatic multi-animal tracking during social encounters, together with simultaneous electrophysiological recordings, and show this works … | Continue reading


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Teams working online produce fewer ideas than those collaborating in person

How different modes of communication affect the creativity of teams. | Continue reading


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We regret to inform you that your choice of Deathday is no longer available

A change of pace. | Continue reading


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Exercise molecule burns away hunger

The metabolite Lac-Phe suppress appetite after strenuous exercise. | Continue reading


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Fair and Interactive Data Graphics from a Scientific Knowledge Graph

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Climate change is turning more of Central Asia into desert

The rapid expansion will have significant impacts on ecosystems and the people and animals who rely on them. | Continue reading


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Polar bear population discovered that can survive without sea ice

The group has adapted to hunting without sea ice, which suggests some members of the species might survive as the Arctic heats up. | Continue reading


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Nanokelvin-resolution thermometry at room temperature

A microscale optical thermometer with nanokelvin sensitivity makes use of the temperature dependence of the band-edge absorption in GaAs. | Continue reading


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7000-year-old evidence of fruit tree cultivation in the Jordan Valley, Israel

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Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed features

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Learn from Covid: Gates’s pandemic prescription

The philanthropist’s life-saving ideas need insights from political science. | Continue reading


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Automatic diagnosis of the 12-lead ECG using a deep neural network

The role of automatic electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis in clinical practice is limited by the accuracy of existing models. In that context, the authors present a Deep Neural Network (DNN) that recognizes different abnormalities in ECG recordings which matches or outperform cardio … | Continue reading


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Why chemists can’t quit palladium

A retracted paper highlights chemistry’s history of trying to avoid the expensive, toxic — but necessary — catalyst. | Continue reading


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Why Chemists Can't Quit Palladium

A retracted paper highlights chemistry’s history of trying to avoid the expensive, toxic — but necessary — catalyst. | Continue reading


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Months-long Covid infections could seed dangerous new variants

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 evolution during persistent cases provides insight into the origins of Omicron and other global variants. What can scientists do with this knowledge? | Continue reading


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The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

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An exercise-inducible metabolite that suppresses feeding and obesity

A newly identified exercise-induced signalling metabolite—an amidated conjugate of lactate and phenylalanine—can reduce food intake and improve blood glucose homeostasis. | Continue reading


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Ancient DNA traces origin of Black Death

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Fuel crisis: slash demand in three sectors to protect economies and climate

Global dependence on Russian gas, oil and coal can be cut by 20–60% and greenhouse-gas emissions by 2.9% within one year, with the right policy support. | Continue reading


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Racism Drives Environmental Inequality

Survey finds that most people think poverty is why pollution disproportionately affects Black people, despite evidence that racism is the major cause. | Continue reading


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Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era

A laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 — this year the cultures will get a new custodian. | Continue reading


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Why chemists can’t quit palladium

A retracted paper highlights chemistry’s history of trying to avoid the expensive, toxic — but necessary — catalyst. | Continue reading


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Origami Mini Robot

Wireless millirobots are promising as minimally invasive biomedical devices. Here, the authors design a magnetically actuated amphibious millirobot that integrates spinning-enabled locomotion, targeted drug delivery, and cargo transportation by utilizing geometrical features and … | Continue reading


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Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era

A laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 — this year the cultures will get a new custodian. | Continue reading


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Electromagnetic wave-based deep learning and nonlinear time-Floquet entanglement

Wave-based analog signal processing has been challenging for complex nonlinear operations such as data forecasting or classification. The authors propose here an analog neuromorphic platform for optical wave-based machine learning characterized by energy efficiency, speed and sca … | Continue reading


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Methods for numerical simulation of knit based morphable structures: knitmorphs

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Quantum annealing algorithms for Boolean tensor networks

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Tuning light-matter interaction to slow/fasten light for information storage

Tunable sub-megahertz spectral features are demonstrated without resonators. The approach, which exploits gain-enhanced polarization pulling in a twisted birefringent medium, may be useful in applications such as microwave photonic filters, slow and fast light, and optical sensin … | Continue reading


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Federated graph neural network framework for privacy-preserving personalization

Mainstream personalization methods rely on centralized Graph Neural Network learning on global graphs, which have considerable privacy risks due to the privacy-sensitive nature of user data. Here, the authors present a federated GNN framework for both effective and privacy-preser … | Continue reading


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Evidence that the human eye is able to detect and respond to blur within minutes

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Influence of pay transparency on inequality and performance by basis of pay

Obloj and Zenger use data on US academic salaries to find that pay transparency decreases inequity (including gender pay gaps) and pay inequality, and also reduces the relationship between pay and performance. | Continue reading


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Targeting LIPA independent of its lipase activity is a therapeutic strategy

Raj and colleagues show that ERX-41 inhibits lipase-independent functions of LIPA and induces ER stress in different tumor types, providing a therapeutic strategy in PDX models of pancreas, ovarian and triple-negative breast cancer. | Continue reading


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UK scientists fear it will be locked out of €100B EU research programme

Some British researchers who had secured Horizon Europe funding have already been told that their grants will be cancelled. | Continue reading


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Covid and smell loss: answers begin to emerge

Researchers are learning more about how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus stifles smell — and how they might revive it. | Continue reading


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Renewable energy certificates threaten integrity corporate science-based targets

Companies commonly use renewable energy certificates to report progress towards emission reduction targets. However, this use of certificates is unlikely to result in actual emission reductions, which undermines the credibility of corporate emission reduction claims and their ali … | Continue reading


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The Galapagos giant tortoise Chelonoidis phantasticus is not extinct

Based on genomic data, the Galapagos giant tortoise species native to Fernandina Island appears to be alive and well, survived by at least one female after being considered extinct since 1906. | Continue reading


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Axial Higgs mode detected by quantum pathway interference in RTe₃

Detection of an axial Higgs mode by quantum pathway interference reveals an unconventional charge density wave phase in RTe3. | Continue reading


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Burst of underwater explosions powered Tonga volcano eruption

Research expeditions find that the caldera’s collapse exposed huge amounts of hot magma to water. | Continue reading


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Global decline in subsistence-oriented and smallholder fire use

Controlled use of fire for subsistence and smallholder livelihoods has undoubtedly shaped ecosystems but we have limited research on the practices and extent. This analysis of nearly 600 case study locations finds fire use is changing in ways that could pose risks to smallholder … | Continue reading


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Using a Smartphone to Track Erosion

Geographer Gregor Luetzenburg uses the latest iPhone’s LiDAR scanner to create 3D models of cliff surfaces. | Continue reading


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Floating solar power could help fight climate change – let’s get it right

Covering 10% of the world’s hydropower reservoirs with ‘floatovoltaics’ would install as much electrical capacity as is currently available for fossil-fuel power plants. But the environmental and social impacts must be assessed. | Continue reading


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Trophic position of megalodon&great white sharks in time revealed by Zn isotopes

Here the authors demonstrate the use of zinc isotopes (δ66Zn) to geochemically assess trophic levels in extant and extinct sharks. They show that the Neogene megatooth shark (Otodus megalodon) and the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) occupied a similar trophic level. | Continue reading


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Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Bass

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Artificial intelligence deep learning for 3D IC reliability prediction

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Clone-structured graph representations enable flexible learning

Higher-order sequence learning using a structured graph representation - clone-structured cognitive graphs (CSCG) – can explain how the hippocampus learns cognitive maps. CSCG provides novel explanations for transferable schemas and transitive inference in the hippocampus, and fo … | Continue reading


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NASA’s Perseverance rover begins key search for life on Mars

Rolling up an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, the rover starts crucial rock sampling. | Continue reading


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To boost South Korea’s basic science, look to values, not just budgets

The country has been increasing research funding for decades, but its rigid, time-bound approach to research assessment is stifling basic science. | Continue reading


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Sabertooth carcass consumption behavior and Pleistocene large carnivoran guilds

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