A 307-million-year-old football-sized creature may be one of the earliest land vertebrates to have eaten plants. While plant-eating animals are overly abundant today, that wasn’t the case millions of years ago. As land vertebrates began to…
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Life on Earth is lucky: A rare chemical fluke may have made our planet habitable
Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit.
A new study shows that Earth formed under an unusually precise set of chemical…
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AI algorithm enables tracking of vital white matter pathways | MIT News
The signals that drive many of the brain and body’s most essential functions — consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate, and motion — course through bundles of “white matter” fibers in the brainstem, but…
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Growth of spreading pancreatic cancer is fueled by 'underappreciated' epigenetic changes, shows study
In a lab-grown cell study focused on potential new treatment targets for halting the spread of most pancreatic cancers, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report they have found that a gene called KLF5 (Krueppel-like factor 5) fuels the growth of…
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Nothing’s “Essential Apps” let you build personalized widgets with text-based prompts
One of Nothing’s boldest ideas, Essential Apps, is now available for Phone 3 users, unlocking a new way to create highly personalized, AI-generated widgets for your home screen without any coding wizardry.
The feature, currently…
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This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI
AI lab Flapping Airplanes just landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs have quietly given up on: making models learn like humans instead of vacuuming up the…
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Rare Roman terracotta head excavated at Magna Roman Fort
Archaeologists excavating at Magna Roman Fort have uncovered a rare terracotta head dating to the 3rd century AD, offering new insight into religious practice and local craft production on Rome’s northern frontier.
The find was made during…
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Neural crest cells: Miniature electric muscles that colonize embryonic organs
Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what you look like: the pigments of your eyes, of your skin, and the bone structure of your face are all neural crests. Inside…
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Pig–Boar Hybrids Are Evolving in Fukushima — and Rewriting What We Know About Hybridization
In the evacuation zone in Fukushima, implemented after the nuclear accident in 2011, numerous animals have thrived in the absence of human activity. Even previously domesticated breeds have found a home there, and some are now undergoing…
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Ancient Fish Fins May Have Given Rise to Human Hands
Each time your fingers curl around an object, you are using a structure shaped over hundreds of millions of years. Human hands, like all vertebrate limbs, have a clear top and bottom: a palm, its ventral side, specialized for grasping and touch,…
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