It looks like NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end.
The mission was to be the crowning achievement in the study of Mars and all the questions surrounding its ancient habitability. But the US Congress has…
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Scientists find a natural sunscreen hidden in hot springs bacteria
Natural sunscreens protect the skin from damaging radiation while reducing the risk of allergic reactions. In a recent study, researchers identified a previously unknown compound called β-glucose-bound hydroxy mycosporine-sarcosine. This…
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The State of Your Teeth Could Predict an Early Death, Study Shows : ScienceAlert
There’s growing evidence that the number of missing teeth a person has is an indicator of their risk of dying earlier than expected, and new research suggests the condition of their remaining teeth may also be significant.
A team led by…
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AI can turbocharge scientists’ careers — but limit their scope
Nature, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00162-2
Artificial intelligence use can boost outputs, at the cost of research breadth — plus, solving the mystery of the Universe’s ‘little red dots’.
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Predictive coding of reward in the hippocampus
Schultz, W., Dayan, P. & Montague, P. R. A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275, 1593–1599 (1997).
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Keller, G. B. & Mrsic-Flogel, T. D. Predictive…
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CFAP20 salvages arrested RNAPII from the path of co-directional replisomes
Cell lines
All cell lines are listed in Supplementary Table 2 and were cultured at 37 °C with 5% CO2 in DMEM GlutaMAX (Gibco), supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum (Avantor, VWR; Supplementary Table 3) and penicillin–streptomycin (Sigma;…
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Microbiota-induced T cell plasticity enables immune-mediated tumour control
Mice
SPF C57BL/6J (B6) mice (Jax, catalogue no. 000664, both sexes) were obtained from The Jackson Laboratories. CD45.1 congenic mice (B6.SJL-Ptprca Pepcb/BoyJ, JAX, catalogue no. 002014), Rosa-CAG-LSL-tdTomato reporter mice…
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Global subsidence of river deltas
Selection of global river deltas
We selected 40 deltas globally, prioritizing 35 deltaic systems with the greatest exposed area and population currently below sea level, supplemented by five less-exposed deltas of local and regional significance…
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Polyamine-dependent metabolic shielding regulates alternative splicing
Animals
Experimental procedures involving the use of mice were carried out following the ethical guidelines established by the Biosafety and Animal Welfare Committee at CICbioGUNE, under ethics protocol P-CBG-CBBA-0121. The procedures were…
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An electrically injected solid-state surface acoustic wave phonon laser
Morgan, D. Surface Acoustic Wave Filters: With Applications to Electronic Communications and Signal Processing (Academic Press, 2010).
Hashimoto, K. Surface Acoustic Wave Devices in Telecommunications: Modelling and Simulation Vol. 116 (Springer,…
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