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Science • Jul 02

Quiet outings linked to more frequent dangerous wildlife encounters

The more people expand into previously natural areas, the more wildlife and humans step on each other's toes, leading to more interactions that may result...

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Science • Jul 02

LSST begins full operations with key contributions from Japanese researchers and engineers

NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially begun full operations for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), one of the world's largest...

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Science • Jul 02

In 2024, engineers rescued Voyager 1 after it spent months transmitting gibberish, remotely rewriting and relocating pieces of 46-year-old code around a failed memory chip from more than 24 billion kilometres away.

In late 2023, one of the most distant machines humanity has ever built started talking nonsense. Voyager 1, more than 24 billion kilometres from Earth,...

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Science • Jul 02

In 2024, researchers reported something that should have been impossible: metallic nodules scattered across the deep Pacific seafloor appeared to be producing oxygen in total darkness, creating “dark oxygen” without a single ray of sunlight.

The deep ocean is usually treated as the end of the oxygen story. Sunlit organisms near the surface make oxygen through photosynthesis, currents carry some...

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Science • Jul 01

A secreted endosymbiont protein essential for colonizing host cells

Intracellular bacterial symbioses have arisen myriad times in eukaryotes, with dozens known from insects alone1,2. Beginning with Buchnera, the obligate...

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Science • Jul 01

U of M researcher creates synthetic cell that could change the world

Biologists at the University of Minnesota have created synthetic cells capable of growing, dividing and self-sustaining — and could one day reshape the...

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Science • Jul 01

Live coverage: ULA to launch final Atlas 5 rocket supporting Amazon Leo’s broadband internet satellite constellation

United Launch Alliance is closing a big chapter in the company's history. Thursday morning's launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in support of...

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Science • Jul 01

Heat-triggered phospholipid flipping stabilizes plasma membrane fluidity

Cells must rapidly counteract heat stress-induced hyperfluidization of the plasma membrane to prevent membrane damage1,2, yet how cells achieve such early...

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Science • Jul 01

Earliest Americans specialized in megafauna hunting from Alaska to South America, analysis of 50 sites reveals

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets,...

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Science • Jul 01

Aerosols and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of a white dwarf planet

Most stars, including our Sun, will one day evolve into red giants and, subsequently, white dwarfs. Several planet candidates have recently been identified...

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Science • Jul 01

Hidden for decades, hospital superbug built resistance in waves, peaking in the mid‑2000s

Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly antibiotic-resistant "superbug" quietly tightened...

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Science • Jul 01

N4-Acetylcytidine enhances synthetic mRNA translation yield and fidelity

Synthetic mRNA therapeutics offer a versatile platform for treating diverse conditions, including cancer and infectious diseases. For delivery into cells,...

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Science • Jul 01

Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability

Replication stress poses a major threat to genome integrity, yet how higher-order chromatin organization contributes to replication fork protection remains...

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Science • Jul 01

Backreaction of stimulated Hawking radiation in an optical analogue

Hawking radiation—the emission of quantum particles at the event horizon of a black hole—connects gravity with quantum mechanics and thermodynamics.

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Science • Jul 01

Directly probing the carrier transfer length in 2D-material transistors

Transistors based on two-dimensional (2D) materials are on the roadmap for the beyond 1 nm logic technology node1. This stems from their ultrathin thickness...

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Science • Jul 01

'The Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made': The World's Largest Digital Camera Begins a Historic, Decade-Long Survey of the Night Sky

After a year of testing, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started capturing data as part of the much-anticipated Legacy Survey of Space and Time.

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Science • Jul 01

Physicists Devise Black Hole Alternative With a ‘Mini Universe’ at Its Center

A new paper tries to show how 'gravastars' might mimic black holes without breaking relativity.

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Science • Jul 01

‘The greatest cosmic movie ever made’: Historic telescope kicks off an unprecedented survey

The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun an 10-year survey to create a new inventory of our solar system and the Milky Way, and chip away at the mystery of dark...

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Science • Jul 01

‘The greatest cosmic movie ever made’: Historic telescope kicks off an unprecedented survey

The Vera Rubin Observatory has begun an 10-year survey to create a new inventory of our solar system and the Milky Way, and chip away at the mystery of dark...

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Science • Jul 01

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of...

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