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During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China may have been an oasis for some living organisms during…
Recently restored grasslands (top row) are visited mostly by flies and hoverflies that are generalists and thus often carry pollen from one plant to flowers of a different species (from left to right: Syrphus torvus on Galium verum, Eristalis tenax…
Rice, J. R. & Ruina, A. L. Stability of steady frictional slipping. J. Appl. Mech. 50, 343–349 (1983). Article MATH ADS Google Scholar Dieterich, J. H. in Treatise on Geophysics 2nd edn (ed. Schubert, G.) Vol. 4, 93–110 (Elsevier, 2007).…
A large boulder used as decoration in a rural Australian high school’s foyer is actually covered in dinosaur footprints—it just took around 20 years for anyone to notice. After examining the ancient rock, paleontologists at the University of Queensland’s Dinosaur…
Credit: KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA from Pexels Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted office life, American workplaces are settling into a new rhythm. Employees in remote-friendly jobs now spend an average of 2.3 days each week working from home, a research…
Band representation theory for SSGs Band representations are constructed from the atomic limit as introduced by Zak52. Building on Zak’s theory, the theory of topological quantum chemistry and symmetry indicators were used in electronic topological diagnosis, where thousands of materials…
AI-generated “deepfake” materials are flooding the internet, sometimes with dangerous results. In just the last year, AI has been used to make deceiving voice clones of a former US president and spread fake, politically-charged images depicting children in natural disasters.…
The Summit supercomputer revealed how damaged strands of DNA are surgically repaired by a molecular pathway called nucleotide excision repair, or NER. NER’s protein components can change shape to perform different functions of repair on broken strands of DNA (blue…
Schultz, W., Dayan, P. & Montague, P. R. A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science 275, 1593–1599 (1997). Article PubMed MATH Google Scholar Gershman, S. J. & Uchida, N. Believing in dopamine. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2019). Wood, A.…
The partial jawbone from a human ancestor nicknamed “Pink” is helping rewrite the history of hominin migration into Western Europe. Researchers believe that Pink represents the oldest archaic fossils ever found in this region, according to a study published in…
