How Taiwan is using science to upgrade its manufacturing

The island is turning to smart machinery and artificial intelligence to improve the quality and flexibility of the products it makes. | Continue reading


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Search-and-replace gene editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA (2019)

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Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

Isolation and characterization of an archaeon that is most closely related to eukaryotes reveals insights into how eukaryotes may have evolved from prokaryotes. | Continue reading


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Low cost satellite constellations for nearly continuous global coverage

Telecommunication, navigation and remote sensing services are highly dependent on how well satellites provide global coverage. Here the authors show a pair of four-satellite low-cost longer-life constellations that provide nearly continuous global coverage to support Earth observ … | Continue reading


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There has been much concern about the “replication crisis” in psychology and other disciplines. Here the authors show that an efficient solution to the crisis would not insist on replication before publication, and would instead encourage publication before replication, with the … | Continue reading


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How ‘spooky’ is quantum physics? The answer could be incalculable

Proof at the nexus of pure mathematics and algorithms puts ‘quantum weirdness’ on a whole new level. | Continue reading


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Twisted heterostructures counteract van der Waals tendency toward alignment

Vertically stacked twisted layers of two-dimensional materials can trigger exciting fundamental physics. Here, authors report controlled growth of 30° twisted few-layer SnS2 over SnS2 via van der Waals epitaxy of an SnS intermediate and its transformation in the presence of exces … | Continue reading


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Brazilian Police identify and raid pedophile Tor forum members

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First stable semiconductor neutron detector heralds hand-held devices

The semiconductor 6LiInP2Se6 is used for the direct detection of thermal neutrons at room temperature, demonstrating good energy resolution. | Continue reading


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Tardigrades are sensitive to high temperatures

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Assessing police topological efficiency in a major dark web sting operation

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Atomic tuning on cobalt enables 8x increase in H2O2 production

Producing H2O2 electrochemically currently use electrocatalysts that are insufficient to meet the demands for industrialization. A single-atom electrocatalyst with an optimized Co–N4 moiety incorporated in nitrogen-doped graphene is shown to exhibit enhanced performance for H2O2 … | Continue reading


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Imagine a world without hunger, then make it happen with systems thinking

Feeding the world involves tackling all aspects of the food system. | Continue reading


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The relatives of our cellular ancestor

Microorganisms called Asgard archaea have been grown in the laboratory. | Continue reading


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Trump picks computer scientist to lead National Science Foundation

White House also chooses atmospheric scientist to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. | Continue reading


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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction

A remarkably accurate algorithm for predicting protein folds. | Continue reading


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Salary drives researchers to move to new countries

More than two-thirds of scientists polled in a survey say that they would move for the ‘right’ academic job — if the pay suits. | Continue reading


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SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy

Latest launch includes ‘DarkSat’ prototype to reduce reflection from fleets of broadband Internet satellites. | Continue reading


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Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes

In contrast to previous studies, analyses now show that ocean acidification does not perturb important behaviours—such as the avoidance of chemical cues from predators—of coral reef fishes. | Continue reading


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Axes of a revolution: challenges and promises of big data in healthcare

Health data are being generated and collected at an unprecedented scale, but whether big data will truly revolutionize healthcare is still a matter of much debate. | Continue reading


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Eleven tips for working with large data sets

Big data are difficult to handle. These tips and tricks can smooth the way. | Continue reading


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Sestrins are evolutionarily conserved mediators of exercise benefits

Exercise improves metabolic health and physical condition, particularly important for health in aged individuals. Here, the authors identify that Sestrins, proteins induced by exercise, are key mediators of the metabolic adaptation to exercise and increase endurance through the A … | Continue reading


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Ancient iron-sulfur-based mechanism monitors electron flow in photosynthesis

Ibrahim et al. show that the Arabidopsis and Phaeodactylum Chloroplast Sensor Kinase (CSK) and the cyanobacterial CSK homologue, Histidine kinase 2, are iron sulfur proteins. This study provides insights into how the CSK-based chloroplast two-component system perceives and propag … | Continue reading


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First Mesozoic slime mold discovered in 100M-year-old amber

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A database of multi-channel signals during isometric hand muscles contractions

Measurement(s) muscle electrophysiology trait • muscle contraction Technology Type(s) micro electrode • strain gauges Factor Type(s) age • muscle Sample Characteristic - Organism Homo sapiens Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data … | Continue reading


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Two-terminal floating-gate transistors for analogue neuromorphic computing

A floating-gate memristive device fabricated in a commercial 180 nm CMOS process can be integrated into a selector-free memristive array and used to demonstrate basic neuromorphic applications. | Continue reading


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Government call for science ‘weirdos’ prompts caution from researchers

The UK prime minister’s adviser Dominic Cummings wants scientific approaches to inform government — but researchers worry his view is simplistic. | Continue reading


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The scientific effort to study Notre-Dame’s ashes

Last year’s fire at Paris’s beloved cathedral shocked the world. Now, researchers are making use of the unprecedented opportunity to study its innards. | Continue reading


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Earth-sized planet found in its habitable zone

NASA spacecraft also spots an alien world orbiting two stars. | Continue reading


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Bacterial exposure as environmental risk factor in celiac disease

Structural, biochemical and cellular analyses show that bacterial antigens can mimic gliadin epitopes involved in celiac disease being presented by HLA-DQ2.5 and recognized by T cells derived from patients. | Continue reading


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Harnessing innate immunity in cancer therapy

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A Galactic-scale gas wave in the solar neighborhood

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2D MoS2-enabled flexible rectenna for WiFi-band wireless energy harvesting

Integration of an ultrafast flexible rectifier made from a two-dimensional material with a flexible antenna achieves wireless energy harvesting of Wi-Fi radiation, which could power future flexible electronic systems. | Continue reading


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Thirteen tips for engaging with physicists, as told by a biologist

Working alongside physicists made me a better science communicator, says Ken Kosik, and helped me to clarify knowledge gaps in my own field. | Continue reading


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A repeating fast radio burst source localized to nearby spiral galaxy

Only one repeating fast radio burst has been localized, to an irregular dwarf galaxy; now another is found to come from a star-forming region of a nearby spiral galaxy. | Continue reading


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Linking gravitational waves and X-rays with joint LISA and Athena observations

This Perspective highlights the science opportunities and the vast discovery space of simultaneous observations from the LISA and Athena observatories, which would be missed if they were operated in different epochs . | Continue reading


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Twelve tips for engaging with biologists, as told by a physicist

The fastest way to become fluent in the language of a new scientific discipline is to embed yourself inside it and use it regularly, says Sarah Bohndiek. | Continue reading


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More sensitive exoplanetary O2 detection w mid-infrared collisional absorption

Spectroscopic simulations of exoplanetary atmospheres show that our best chance to detect molecular oxygen lies in the 6.4-μm band of collision-induced absorptions. The first detections could be possible with the James Webb Space Telescope. | Continue reading


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Near real-time intraop brain tumor diagnosis w SRH and deep neural networks

A prospective, multicenter, case–control clinical trial evaluates the potential of artificial intelligence for providing accurate bedside diagnosis of patients with brain tumors. | Continue reading


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International scientists formulate roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

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Retrieval of memories are associated with a distinct neural network

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1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

Survey sheds light on the ‘crisis’ rocking research. | Continue reading


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Avoiding quasiparticle decay may allow control&stabilization of quantum matter

A collective excitation behaving as a single emergent entity, known as a quasiparticle, often becomes unstable when encountering a continuum of many-body excited states. However, under certain conditions, the result can be totally different. | Continue reading


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Multi-messenger nanoprobes of hidden magnetism in a strained manganite

A multi-messenger combination of atomic force microscopy, scanning near-field optical microscopy and magnetic force microscopy demonstrates a strain-modulated photoinduced ferromagnetic metallic state in La2/3Ca1/3MnO3. | Continue reading


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Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age

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Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron-star merger GW170817

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Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale

Detection and attribution typically aims to find long-term climate signals in internal, often short-term variability. Here, common methods are extended to high-frequency temperature and humidity data, detecting instantaneous, global-scale climate change since 1999 for any year an … | Continue reading


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Domestic cats (Felis catus) discriminate their names from other words [pdf]

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