In most vertebrates, skin appendages such as hair, feathers, or scales originate from placodes—small, specialized skin regions whose spatial organization is controlled by well-conserved genetic signals. Crocodiles are an ...
Evolution
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Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), ...
Planetary Sciences
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The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field. While existing editing technologies can alter or delete ...
Biotechnology
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Climate models are essential tools for understanding our planet's future, helping scientists predict global warming patterns, sea level rise, and extreme weather events. These sophisticated computer simulations play a key ...
Earth Sciences
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Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations, using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform ...
Earth Sciences
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Rules on the minimum income needed for foreign spouses and partners of British citizens and settled residents to live in the U.K. are already leading to lengthy and permanent separations, damaging family life and causing ...
Social Sciences
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Historians have long viewed Carpetania, an ancient district in what is now the Iberian Peninsula, Spain, as a passive player in the cultural landscape of the Late Iron Age. Its cultural development has been characterized ...
Using AI to analyze brain scans of students solving math problems, researchers offer the first-ever glimpse into the neural roots of math learning disabilities.
Mathematics
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a breakthrough in laser technology by using machine learning (ML) to help stabilize a high-power laser.
Optics & Photonics
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Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster—spanning nearly 20 million light-years. The finding challenges long-standing theories about how particles stay energized ...
Astronomy
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