Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is boosting anticipatory forms of governance around the world, helping state actors to predict the future and focus their efforts in the present where the AI predicts they can have ...
Social Sciences
Apr 16, 2025
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Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago.
Evolution
Apr 16, 2025
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Mitochondria play a crucial role in acquiring pluripotency and determining cell fate. The mitochondrial unfolded protein response (UPRmt) serves as an important retrograde regulatory pathway that communicates from mitochondria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 16, 2025
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Africa is home to a rich variety of incredible indigenous crops and foods—from nutrient-dense grains and legumes to unique fruits and leafy greens. Despite their value, many of these foods are often overlooked, under-celebrated, ...
Agriculture
Apr 16, 2025
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Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hénaff has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 16, 2025
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A new study shows chicken fertility rates in U.S. broiler eggs could decline to approximately 60% by 2050. That decline could lead to chicken production issues and higher costs for consumers.
Veterinary medicine
Apr 16, 2025
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Recent studies have revealed that electrons passing through chiral molecules exhibit significant spin polarization—a phenomenon known as chirality-induced spin selectivity. This effect stems from a nontrivial coupling between ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 16, 2025
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Opaque materials can transmit light when excited by a high-intensity laser beam. This process, known as optical bleaching, induces a nonlinear effect that temporarily alters the properties of a material. Remarkably, when ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 16, 2025
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Complex protein interactions at synapses are essential for memory formation in our brains, but the mechanisms behind these processes remain poorly understood. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a computational model ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 16, 2025
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In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the absurdly long pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny, more grassland than forest, ...
Ecology
Apr 16, 2025
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