Viruses are tricky to keep up with. They evolve quickly and regularly develop new proteins that help them infect their hosts. These rapid shifts mean that researchers are still trying to understand a multitude of viral proteins and precisely how they increase viruses’ infecting abilities—knowledge that could be crucial for developing new or better virus-fighting treatments.

3D Shapes of Viral Proteins Provide New Insights Into How Viruses Evade Immune Systems

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Users can also erase targeted pieces of DNA and then rewrite to the same surface, like deleting and rewriting information stored on the hard drive.

Forget conventional electronics, DNA tech stores data, offers computing functions

A landmark Alzheimer’s research paper, retracted in June 2024 due to fraud allegations, has sent shockwaves through the scientific community. But the story isn’t as simple as wasted time and resources. Despite the controversy, two promising drugs targeting amyloid beta – the protein at the center of the retracted study – are now on the market, suggesting the research field may have made unexpected progress.

Retracted Alzheimer’s Paper Reshapes Research Landscape, but Progress Continues

Automation-boosting virtual traders, stock screeners, and personal robotic advisors are no longer intriguing marvels of sci-fi romanticism. Instead, they will likely bless all investors and fund managers in the coming years. In the past, Accenture’s banking technology vision 2017 report featured that more than 76% of bankers expected AI adoption across the banking, financial services, and insurance industry (BFSI). Fast-forward to November 2023: ChatGPT augmented AI’s potential to enhance financial decision-making via an easy-to-interact, conversational graphical user interface (GUI).

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Investment Research

Antibiotics are the linchpin of modern medicine: without them, anyone with open wounds or needing to undergo surgery would be at constant risk of dangerous infections. Yet we continue to face a global antibiotics crisis, as more and more resistant strains of bacteria are evolving, while the rate of discovery of fundamentally new antibiotics has been much slower.

Arctic Bacteria Yield New Antivirulence and Antibacterial Compounds

AI-generated text and imagery is flooding the web — a trend that, ironically, could be a huge problem for generative AI models. As Aatish Bhatia writes for The New York Times, a growing pile of research shows that training generative AI models on AI-generated content causes models to erode. In short, training on AI content causes a flattening cycle similar to inbreeding; the AI researcher Jathan Sadowski last year dubbed the phenomenon as "Habsburg AI," a reference to Europe's famously inbred royal family.

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

When most animals are attacked by predators, the encounter is often fatal. But some animals have evolved an intriguing strategy to survive such attacks – they relinquish a part of their body to the predator so that they can escape and survive. This process whereby an appendage is automously detached from the rest of the body is known as autotomy. The ability to ‘autotomise’ appendages has evolved in several animal types, with tail autotomy in some lizard species being a well-known example. Others include autotomy of legs in crabs and autotomy of arms in starfish. However, very little is known about the mechanisms that enable some animals to rapidly shed a body appendage in this way.

Starfish Use a Eurohormone to Tell Their Arms to Fall Off

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

Researchers at Cornell University tapped into fungal mycelia to power a pair of proof-of-concept robots. Mycelia, the underground fungal network that can sprout mushrooms as its above-ground fruit, can sense light and chemical reactions and communicate through electrical signals. This makes it a novel component in hybrid robotics that could someday detect crop conditions otherwise invisible to humans.

These robots move through the magic of mushrooms

Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists have discovered a virus that caused a nationwide die-off of superworms, a common food for birds, reptiles, other pets and, more and more so, even for humans as an alternative protein source. In doing so, they pioneered a different way to search for and identify emerging viruses and pathogens in humans, plants and animals.

Beetle Juice Aids in the Discovery of a New “Superworm” Virus

Quantum computing is a rapidly evolving field that has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize various industries such as finance, healthcare, and energy. As the demand for skilled professionals in this field continues to grow, companies are investing heavily in quantum research and development, leading to an increase in job opportunities.

Quantum Computing Jobs The Careers of the Future

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A state Supreme Court’s decision reversing a lower court’s ruling that a private contractor was exempt from the Georgia Open Records Act is being hailed as a win for open government.

State Supreme Court rules Open Records Act applies to private contractors working for governments

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Research from the Stowers Institute reveals that bats can survive and thrive with exceptionally high blood sugar levels, a trait that might offer insights into better metabolic disease treatments. The study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, highlights how bats' unique adaptations could lead to advances in managing diabetes. Key...

How Bats Survive High Blood Sugar

Google Meet’s newest AI-powered feature, “take notes for me,” has started rolling out today to Google Workspace customers with the Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Education Premium, or AI Meetings & Messaging add-ons. It’s similar to Meet’s transcription tool, only instead of automatically transcribing what everyone says, it summarizes what everyone talked about. Google first announced this feature at its 2023 Cloud Next conference.

Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here

Girls with mental illness or neurodevelopmental conditions are less likely than their peers to be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine that protects against future cervical cancer. This is according to a new registry study from Karolinska Institutet published in The Lancet Public Health. The study involved more than 115,000 girls...

Mental Health Conditions Lower HPV Vaccination Coverage in Girls

A breakthrough in nanotechnology could revolutionize secure quantum communications. Researchers have successfully used 3D printing to create an optical system that can transmit single photons with nanometer precision. This advancement is key to enhancing quantum communication, a rapidly growing field that relies on highly secure data transmission. Quantum communication relies...

An advanced 3d printer is helping build reliable quantum communication

If you’ve seen those viral social media videos of dogs using soundboard buttons to “talk,” you’re not alone. These buttons have taken the pet world by storm, leading to impressive and sometimes seemingly miraculous feats shared across platforms like TikTok and Instagram. But are these dogs truly communicating, or are they just responding to cues from their owners?

Dogs Can Comprehend Specific Words From Soundboards

Researchers at the University of Toronto are using artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific breakthroughs in the search for sustainable energy. They used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) to confirm that an AI-generated “recipe” for a new catalyst offered a more efficient way to make hydrogen fuel.

AI Finds a Cheaper Way To Make Green Hydrogen

The power of fungus is among us, as the organisms could be the secret to operating future robots that are more versatile and durable. That’s the theory behind a recent experiment that saw engineers from Cornell University using mushrooms to control machines. The Cornell researchers were not trying to...

Let’s-a-Go! These Robots Get a Power-Up From Mushrooms

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Bacterial Defense System Could Pave Way for New Genome Editing Techniques

Researchers have detailed a bacterial defense mechanism involving two proteins, DdmD and DdmE, that target and degrade plasmids. This system, which uses stable guide DNA, shows...

Bacterial Defense System Could Pave Way for New Genome Editing Techniques

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