Category Science & Discovery

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…

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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…

The three boundaries divvied up the solar system planets equally well. But the XUV and sunlight shorelines cut very different swaths through the population of rocky planets orbiting M dwarfs, with more worlds falling on the airless side of the…

Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels When a company misses an earnings target, it usually faces some backlash: a drop in stock prices, negative headlines, and sometimes even CEO turnover. But when it misses a self-imposed climate goal, most often the…

Nature, Published online: 12 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00727-7 Despite the buzz surrounding smart cities in urban-policy circles, studies are lacking on the evidence for what works, what doesn’t — and who benefits. Source link

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Eukaryotic phytoplankton drive a decrease in primary production under ocean acidification. Credit: Dalin Shi Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean acidification reduces primary production, the process of photosynthesis in phytoplankton, where they…

Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The virologist had recently started an independent group at the University of Tokyo and was trying…

It’s 2025, and we don’t have flying cars or talking robots yet. Fortunately, we do have some cool apps courtesy of artificial intelligence, and DeskSense is one of them.  DeskSense provides a personal assistant at your beck and call, and…