An artificial-intelligence method that incorporates gene-expression data could help to speed up drug discovery.Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty
An artificial intelligence (AI) model trained on complex data from human cells could provide a…
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These iconic corals are nearly extinct due to heatwaves: can they be saved?
Elkhorn coral off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. Credit: Sam Hodge/Alamy
Two years after a record-setting heatwave, scientists have confirmed that two iconic corals that have flourished across Florida’s 560-kilometre-long reef for more than…
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Google Scholar tool gives extra credit to first and last authors
Weighted ratings might help to identify the impact of a researcher’s contributions.Credit: Thawatchai Chawong/iStock via Getty
The h-index — a widely used measure of impact based on publications and citation count over time — treats all of…
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This luxury ‘cat poo’ coffee has a unique flavour: what’s behind it?
When civet cats eat coffee beans, they excrete them in clumps (shown) that can later be processed to make a pricey drink.Credit: Faiz Dila/Getty
It has been described as nutty, chocolatey, earthy and even fishy: a wildly expensive coffee that can…
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Does gravity produce quantum weirdness? Proposal divides physicists
Physicists are questioning whether gravity can produce quantum entanglement between two masses.Credit: David Parker/Science Photo Library
The nature of gravity — and whether it can be reconciled with quantum mechanics — is one of the biggest…
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People with cancer lived longer if they’d had a COVID-19 vaccine
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‘Forever Chemicals’ in Mothers’ Blood Linked to Brain Changes in Their Kids : ScienceAlert
‘Forever chemicals’ already have a shocking reputation, and now new research has linked these substances – named for the way they stick around in the environment for so long – to brain changes in children born to mothers exposed to common…
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How living history is being written into rocks | Fossils
Fossilisation is rare. Most living things disappear without trace, recycled back into planet Earth.
But in some environments the DNA from living things binds to the soil and rock, leaving a marker of their existence for hundreds of thousands or…
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JWST Confirms Day-Long Gamma-Ray Burst Emitted Energy of 2,000 Supernovae
This July, astronomers were left reeling by an event unlike anything seen before: a gamma-ray burst (GRB) that repeated four times in a day, instead of lasting a few minutes as is usually the case. The JWST has examined the source of this event…
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Is 3I/ATLAS Trying to Communicate? NASA Scientists Shocked by Sudden Energy Burst
Astronomers are on high alert after interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS streaked into the Solar System, unleashing a surge of energy and gas unlike anything seen before.
Travelling at over 200,000 km/h, the alien object—the third confirmed visitor from…
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