Is it extinct, or does it still roam somewhere deep in the misty highland forests of Vietnam and Laos? It has been nicknamed the Asian unicorn due to its almost mythical rarity, and it is the most recently discovered large land mammal, becoming…
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Ancient poems tell the story of charismatic river porpoise’s decline over the past 1,400 years
Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this critically endangered porpoise’s habitat range has…
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Ambidextrous leadership and innovation: a process perspective and an experimental approach
This study aims to replicate previous findings on the effect of ambidextrous leadership on innovation. Using a process perspective, we examined the effect of ambidextrous leadership on idea generation and implementation. Besides, this study used…
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Influence of drying time and sugar content on the sensory profile of beef jerky
Water activity
Water activity (aw) is a critical factor in food safety, where lower aw correlates with extended shelf life. As expected, a significant gradual decrease (P < 0.05) in aw was observed during the drying process of the beef jerky…
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Where and how to house big data on small fragments
Data sharing and archival in structural biology
Most reputable scientific journals have established data-sharing requirements for the publication of new macromolecular X-ray crystal structures. Atomic coordinates must be deposited in the Protein…
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Reconciling tracked atmospheric water flows to close the global freshwater cycle
Framework
To reconcile the hydrological balance of atmospheric moisture connections – from sources to sinks, considering annual evaporation and precipitation volumes – we employ the Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) algorithm. This algorithm…
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Eleanor Maguire (1970–2025) | Nature Neuroscience
Maguire, E. A. et al. Science 280, 921–924 (1998).
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Barry, D. N. et al. Neuroimage 203, 116192 (2019).
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I climb mountains in search of sustainable agricultural systems
“In this photo, taken in February, I’m perched on a steep hillside, measuring, in real time, the wisps of greenhouse gas coming from the soil in a coffee plantation in Chiang Mai province in northern Thailand. In this mountainous landscape,…
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Zaporizhzhia’s Future: Nuclear Peril or Promise?
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, has provoked anxiety ever since Russian troops captured it barely two weeks into the 2022 invasion. But recently, after three years of occupation and frequent near misses that…
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