Database curation
For prokaryotes, 75 million sequences were curated from 47,545 fully sequenced prokaryotic genomes obtained from the NCBI GenBank (https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/) in November 2023 (prok2311) and supplemented with 441,150…
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18 of Earth’s biggest river deltas — including the Nile and Amazon — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising
Many of the world’s biggest river deltas — including the Nile, Amazon and Ganges — are sinking faster than global sea levels are rising, a new study shows.
This means subsidence is becoming the main driver of land loss, coastal flooding and…
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Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons
Greene, J. E. et al. UNCOVER spectroscopy confirms the surprising ubiquity of active galactic nuclei in red sources at z > 5. Astrophys. J. 964, 39 (2024).
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NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030
January 14, 2026
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NASA Commits to Plan to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon by 2030
The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the…
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Satellite Data Exposes a Hidden Flood Threat Endangering 236 Million People
People have settled on river deltas for millennia, drawn by fertile soil, fresh water, and abundant food sources. Today, these areas are among the most densely populated in the world, but the hundreds of millions of people who…
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How Mars’ ancient lakes grew shields of ice to stay warm as the Red Planet froze
Thin lids of ice could have sheltered lakes on ancient Mars and kept surface water liquid even as the Red Planet’s climate became freezing, according to new research that could solve one of the greater paradoxes of Martian history.
The findings…
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New Image of the Milky Way Reveals Massive Hidden Structures, What’s Out There?
Astronomers have unveiled the most detailed low-frequency radio image of the Milky Way ever produced, an enormous patchwork of cosmic light and color revealing thousands of structures across the galaxy’s southern sky. Captured from the…
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Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria
Mitochondria produce energy for the cell, but have a number of other important roles.Credit: Professors P. Motta & T. Naguro/Science Photo Library
Cancer cells use mitochondria stolen from immune cells to spread and escape detection, according to…
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James Webb telescope solves mystery of strange, ‘starved’ galaxy that died ‘a death of 1,000 cuts’ in the ancient universe
New observations of a strange galaxy show it was slowly starved to death by its own black hole.
Two telescopes peered deep into space at the galaxy GS-10578, nicknamed “Pablo’s Galaxy,” after the name of the astronomer who previously studied it….
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