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Summary: Researchers have developed GROVER, an AI language model trained on human DNA, to decode the complex information in our genome. GROVER treats DNA as a language, learning its rules and context to extract biological meanings, such as gene promoters and protein binding sites. This innovative approach could revolutionize genomics...

AI Helps Decode the Language of DNA

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Believe it or not, genetic material dating back millions of years has been discovered.

What Is The Oldest Evidence Of DNA Ever Recovered On Earth?

North Carolina State University researchers have made groundbreaking discoveries by examining the genetic material of historic potato leaves. Their study highlights the dynamic evolutionary battle between potato plants and the pathogen responsible for the Irish potato famine. By employing innovative DNA sequencing techniques, they have uncovered how certain pathogen strains could overcome resistance genes before these were even used in breeding, suggesting new directions for future agricultural strategies.

Ancient DNA Reveals Secrets of Potato Pathogen Wars

Rocks undergo transformations over millions of years, but they still hold valuable information about the climate during their formation. Fluids circulating underground gradually alter rocks over time. These processes must be considered when using rocks as climate archives. Dr. Mathias Müller from the Sediment and Isotope Geology research group at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, along with international colleagues, has detailed which climate information remains preserved in 380-million-year-old limestones from Hagen-Hohenlimburg.

Cracking the Climate Code: Scientists Unearth Clues From 380 Million Years Ago

A 520-million-year-old worm fossil has solved the mystery of how modern insects, spiders and crabs evolved. The “incredibly rare and detailed” fossil, named Youti yuanshi, offered a peek inside one of the earliest ancestors of many species today, as it dates back to the Cambrian period when major animal groups were first evolving.

Worm Fossil From 520 Million Years ago Solves Mystery of How Modern Insects and Crabs Evolved: ‘My jaw just dropped’

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, they found proof of a Moon cave hiding in plain sight. The cave is inside...

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Hidden Passageways Under the Moon’s Surface

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Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit in the lunar surface.

Scientists found an underground cave on the moon where astronauts could live and think there may be hundreds more

Have you ever taken a moment to consider the plastic items in your close vicinity? Plastic objects are quite ubiquitous, fulfilling various roles; from the bags we fill with food supplies to the water bottles we use to maintain our hydration. However, there could be more to these everyday items...

Drinking from plastic bottles raises your blood pressure

Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? –Tyla, age 16, Mississippi. When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot drew me in with its depiction of the “Genesis...

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

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The remains of a mysterious Mayan underground structure have been unearthed in Mexico by archaeologists.
Developments in archeology continue to help bring ancient history to light and teach us about how early civilizations lived on planet earth.
Recent discoveries have revealed a 4000-year-old labyrinth found in the home of the “minotaur” in Crete, while experts may have solved one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world after a landmark discovery in Egypt.
Now, archaeologists in Campeche, Mexico, have discovered an underground structure located below a Maya ball court. 
The fascinating discovery was made when experts were in the process of excavating a...

Mysterious underground Maya structure unearthed in Mexico

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The secret to pterosaurs taking flight long before birds and bats dominated the air was wasn't feathers or hollow bones.
Although those features no doubt helped, new research shows that a lattice-like structure stopped pterosaurs' broad-ended tails fluttering like flags in the wind and instead, once stiffened, helped guide these flying reptiles into the sky.



					
			

Pterosaurs took to the skies using powered flight about 215 million years ago, the first vertebrates to do so. Although they started out small, amongst their ranks were some of the largest flying animals in Earth's history.
Like birds, pterosaurs had feathers, but they weren't birds, nor were...

Scientists Can Finally Reveal The Secret of How Pterosaurs Took Flight

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Japanese scientists have found a way to put human skin on robots' smiling faces. To demonstrate the application of such an accomplishment, researchers with the University of Tokyo grew human skin cells in the shape of a face. The scientific team then pulled the skin into the shape of a face to demonstrate the skin's ligament-like attachment.

Human Skin on Robots: Advancements in Human-Machine Integration

Researchers have discovered that baby stars emit plumes of magnetic flux during their formation. Researchers from Kyushu University have unveiled new insights into the development of baby stars. Utilizing the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, the team discovered that the protostellar disk surrounding a nascent star expels plumes of dust, gas, and electromagnetic energy in its early stages. These ejections, referred to as ‘sneezes’ by the researchers, release the magnetic flux within the protostellar disk and may play a crucial role in star formation. Their findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal.

“Quite Unexpected” – Astronomers Discover Strange Spike-Like Structures Extending From Protostellar Disk

A vein-filled rock on Mars has caught the attention of the science team at NASA. The rock, nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” was found by the Mars Perseverance rover, and has traits that lead scientists to think it may have harbored microscopic life from billions of years ago. Since landing...

NASA's Mars Rover Makes Stunning Discovery Hinting At Ancient Martian Life

An intense game of genetic chess is taking place beneath our very eyes, in the soil where our beloved potato crops grow. This evolutionary battle between the humble potato plant and its mortal foe, Phytophthora infestans – the pathogen responsible for the devastating Irish potato famine in the 1840s – has puzzled scientists for years.

How a pathogen outsmarted the potato

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The rock exhibits characteristics that might indicate ancient life, according to rover data.

Mars mystery deepens: NASA rover stumbles upon rock with signs of possible life

Recent research unveiled the presence of naturally occurring few-layer graphene flakes in moon soil. For those who aren’t familiar, graphene is a uniquely organized, layered structure of carbon atoms. The study was led by a stellar group of researchers, featuring Professors Meng Zou and Wei Zhang, senior engineer Xiujuan...

Graphene, the new 'wonder material' in Earth technology, found in moon soil

In the world of astrophysics, the complex dynamics of supermassive black holes and their role in galaxy formation continue to present fascinating puzzles for scientists. A significant breakthrough in understanding these celestial giants has been made by an international team of astronomers in collaboration with scientists at the National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO).

Magnetic winds fuel the growth of black holes

The mystery of how some of the Earth's most dramatic landforms came into being has been solved, scientists believe. Researchers from the University of Southampton studied the creation of steep slopes called great escarpments. It was previously not known how the giant plateaus, found in southern Africa, India, Brazil and...

Mystery behind major landforms solved, scientists say

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For the first time, researchers have reconstructed fossilized chromosomes

Scientists just made a big breakthrough with woolly mammoth DNA

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Cracking the code of life: The secret language of DNA

DNA holds the fundamental blueprint for life, encoding essential information for the development and functioning of organisms. Deciphering how this information is stored and organized has...

Cracking the code of life: The secret language of DNA

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