What if the brain’s response to stress could be read not in fleeting neurotransmitter bursts, but in the quieting of genes deep inside chromatin? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have now shown that stress…
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Physicists uncover hidden “doorways” that let electrons escape
Imagine a frog inside a box with an opening partway up one side. Whether it can escape depends on how much energy it has: if it can jump high enough, it could, in theory, reach the opening. But success requires more than just a high jump — it…
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China races US to launch space factories for in-orbit mass production
A team of scientists in China has completed ground tests of an inflatable, reconfigurable space station module that could enable large-scale industrial production in orbit.
The new module features an innovative design that allows it to be…
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Oxford team makes world’s first plasma ‘fireballs’ in CERN experiment
In a world first, plasma “fireballs” have been created in the lab setting using the Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator at CERN, Geneva.
The Oxford-led international science team experimented to crack the long-running puzzle of the…
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Dietary Supplement Sold at Sam’s Club Recalled as Salmonella Sickens 11 People
Sam’s Club is recalling all Member’s Mark “Super Greens” dietary supplement powders after a multistate salmonella outbreak sickened 11 people, federal health officials announced Friday.
Three of those affected have been hospitalized,…
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2 ways you can conserve the water used to make your food
Irrigation equipment waters an alfalfa field in Kansas. AP Photo/Charlie Riedel As the world’s climate warms and droughts and water shortages are becoming more common, farmers are struggling to produce enough food. Farmers continue to adapt, but…
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The Download: the AGI myth, and US/China AI competition
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
—Will Douglas Heaven, senior…
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Behind The Sun, Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Shows Signs Of Non-Gravitational Acceleration And Is Now Blue
A team of astronomers monitoring interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have found something a little surprising. Our third confirmed interstellar visitor appears to have changed color for the second time. Meanwhile, another team finds that the comet has…
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Gene Editing Helped One Baby—Could It Help Thousands?
Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned for a single person, and produced in a
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Digital divide narrows but gaps remain for Australians as GenAI use surges
The Australian Digital Inclusion Index has found almost half of Australians recently used generative AI tools, raising new opportunities and challenges for digital inclusion.
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