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It’s a Wednesday afternoon and I’ve just spent the past 15 minutes texting with a 60-year-old, AI-generated version of myself. My AI future self, which was trained on survey questions …

Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa. The 2-billion-year-old mafic …

An ambassador invites readers behind the scenes of the historic climate pact… Source : ScienceMag

Loss of function of the RNA-binding protein TDP-43 (TDP-LOF) is a hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders. Here we describe TDP-REG, which exploits the specificity of …

Cryptic exons enable delivery of therapies only to sick neurons in a motor neuron disease… Source : ScienceMag

Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and phylogenetic diversity—are poorly understood. In this …

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Near-rigid-body grain rotation is commonly observed during grain growth, recrystallization, and plastic deformation in nanocrystalline materials. Despite decades of research, the dominant mechanisms underlying grain rotation remain enigmatic. We present …

Conservation should consider species’ functional and phylogenetic traits… Source : ScienceMag

A new reaction swaps an oxygen for a nitrogen in structurally complex molecules… Source : ScienceMag

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is an urgent public health threat with limited preventative options. In this work, we developed a messenger RNA (mRNA)–lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vaccine targeting C. difficile toxins …

Concern about misinformation and its toxic effects on democracy is widespread. A survey of nearly 1500 experts by the World Economic Forum ranked misinformation and disinformation (the latter being intentionally …

Transformational change is possible, but design and implementation must seek to avoid lock-in… Source : ScienceMag

Pandemic era partisanship inspired an agency leader’s search for better conflict resolution… Source : ScienceMag

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Hydrogen atom abstraction is an important elementary chemical process but is very difficult to carry out enantioselectively. We have developed catalysts, readily derived from the Cinchona alkaloid family of natural …

Last month, when the world’s most populus country, India, reported its first case of the new, highly transmissible clade Ib mpox variant, the challenge of containing the virus was once …

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One of the zooplankton found in the water samples in this study is the adult copepod, a miniature crustacean that is about the size of the period at the end …

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 41, October 2024. Source : National Academy of Sciences