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- SARS-CoV-2 immune evasion by the B.1.427/B.1.429 variant of concern https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/science.abi7994 13 comments
- Superhuman AI for heads-up no-limit poker: Libratus beats top professionals http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/12/15/science.aao1733.full 3 comments
- Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/eaba1786 5 comments science
- HIV-1 particles can complete the signature events of retroviral replication, reverse transcription and integration, in a cell-free system. These in vitro studies point to the entire core particle, including the outer capsid shell, being the true viral “replication complex.” https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6513/eabc8420.long 6 comments science
- Aged, sedentary mice that received plasma transfusions from exercising mice gained the regenerative effects on the brain without having to hit the running wheel themselves. The results may help identify new therapeutic approaches to healthy brain aging https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6500/167.full 3 comments science
- Deposition and accumulation of microplastics can affect soil properties, with consequences for process rates and net primary production, causing feedbacks to the atmosphere, including greenhouse gases. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1430.full 3 comments science
- Measles virus and rinderpest virus divergence dated to the sixth century BCE https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6497/1367 3 comments science
- Controllable gene editing via “caged” CRISPR that must be turned on via a laser to edit the genome. This technology has the potential to edit the genome only EXACTLY where and when it is required, preventing any undesirable effects. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1265 9 comments science
- The safety of the blood supply is due to advances in screening, not to banning gay and bisexual men from donating. The false-negative rates of modern HIV nucleic acid tests fall around 0.05%. The window between infection and detection has dropped to 9 days. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/957.1 460 comments science
- Bacteria were first detected in tumors >100 yrs ago, but their purpose has been unclear. Researchers produced an exhaustive catalog of bacteria in >1500 human tumors of 7 tumor types and found each has a distinct microbiome composition. Breast cancer has a particularly diverse microbiome. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6494/973?utm_campaign=toc_sci-mag_2020-05-28&et_rid=486754869&et_cid=3343139 3 comments science
- Dendrites seen displaying a novel form of action potential that allows single neurons to solve two long-standing computational problems in neuroscience that were in previously considered to require multilayer neural networks https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/83 59 comments science
- Researchers have developed an optical switch that routes light from one computer chip to another in just 20 billionths of a second—faster than any other similar device. The compact switch is the first to operate at voltages low enough to be integrated onto low-cost silicon chips https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6467/860 21 comments science
- Researchers have published a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult human heart. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6452/482 5 comments science
- ‘Superhuman’ poker AI beats human pros by bluffing better https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/07/10/science.aay2400 12 comments science
- Bioengineers have cleared a major hurdle on the path to 3D printing replacement organs with a new technique allowing to create exquisitely entangled vascular networks that mimic the body's natural passageways for blood, air, lymph and other vital fluids https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6439/458 3 comments science
- Thousands of scientists back students protesting for action on climate change. Concerns of young protesters are justified https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6436/139.2.full 5 comments science
- The Serengeti-Mara squeeze – one of the world’s most iconic ecosystems under pressure. New finding alters our view on what is needed to protect biodiversity http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6434/1424 3 comments science
- Dubious diagnosis: A war on "prediabetes" has created millions of new patients and a tempting opportunity for pharma. But how real is the condition? http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6431/1026 4 comments science
- Tens of thousands of years ago, a giant ice sheet in Antarctic melted, raising sea levels by up to 30 feet around the world. Such a collapse would again cause seas to rise dramatically, which would lead to a global flood, new study says http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6421/1339 25 comments science
- Gary Kasparov on Alpha-Zero in Science http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1087.full 23 comments chess
- New research has hit on a new way of making rechargeable batteries based on fluoride, the negatively charged form, or anion, of the element fluorine. Results could allow realization of phones and laptops batteries that work for weeks without recharge http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/1144 5 comments science
- The decline of Africa's largest mammals: Although the scale of ongoing anthropogenic ecological disruptions is unprecedented, human-driven extinctions are not new: There is strong evidence that humans played a major role in the wave of megafaunal losses at the end of the Pleistocene http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6417/892 14 comments science
- A giant, plant-eating creature with a beak-like mouth and reptilian features may have roamed the Earth during the late Triassic period more than 200 million years ago, scientists reported http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/11/19/science.aal4853 3 comments science
- Controlled Burns and Selective Logging Key to Solving Fire Problems http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6254/1280 4 comments science
- Humans are leaving their mark on the world’s protected areas, study finds. About one-third of the world’s total protected area — around 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles) — bears the scars of substantial degradation at the hands of humans http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6390/788 5 comments science
- Scientists have revealed a technique to 'sew' two patches of crystals seamlessly together at the atomic level to create atomically-thin fabrics. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1131 9 comments science
- A study published online today in Science, led by researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, used whole-genome sequencing of individual neurons and found strong evidence that brain mutations accumulate as we age. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6375/555 3 comments science
- Ocean dead zones with zero oxygen have quadrupled in size since 1950, scientists have warned, while the number of very low oxygen sites near coasts have multiplied tenfold http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240 21 comments science
- On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/eaai9067 4 comments science
- The spike in gun exposure that followed the Sandy Hook school shooting increased the incidence of accidental firearm deaths, particularly among children. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/1324.full 425 comments science
- Science Fight: Comment on “Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight” http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6367/eaao0791.full 4 comments science
- Supersonic gas streams enhance the formation of massive black holes in the early universe http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6358/1375 3 comments science
- First self-developing embryo from stem cells created at Cambridge University. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/03/01/science.aal1810 5 comments science
- Localized aliphatic organic material on the surface of Ceres http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6326/719 4 comments science
- The irreversible momentum of clean energy http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/01/06/science.aam6284.full 18 comments science
- Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford researchers find http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6316/1140.abstract 4 comments science
- Scientists find the gene that make mosquitoes carrying malaria male - inducing this gene makes for all-male mosquitoes, suggesting a potential target for eradicating malaria-carrying mosquitoes http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6294/67 17 comments science
- New antibody therapy permanently blocks HIV-like SIV infection in monkeys http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6309/197 8 comments science
- Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray. Harvard Scientists use Rat Heart Muscle, Gold and Silicon to Make a Robot. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6295/158 3 comments science
- Whole organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/05/25/science.aaf7907.full 4 comments science
Linking pages
- US emissions of greenhouse gas methane are 60% higher than EPA thinks https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/21/emissions-greenhouse-gas-methane-higher-than-epa-thinks/722391002/ 858 comments
- Amazon soya and beef exports 'linked to deforestation' - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53438680 149 comments
- Why I Won’t Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals – The Wire Science https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/why-i-wont-review-or-write-for-elsevier-and-other-commercial-scientific-journals/ 24 comments
- Scientists rewrote the DNA of an entire species - Vox http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/9/14854200/scientists-rewrote-dna-entire-species-yeast 24 comments
- US plan to genetically alter crops via insects feared to be biological war plan | Farming | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/04/us-plan-to-genetically-alter-crops-via-insects-feared-to-be-biological-war-plan 15 comments
- Global warming: Earth's oceans are saving us from 'absurd heat' https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/14/global-warming-earths-oceans-saving-us-absurd-heat/3165920002/ 4 comments
- New algorithm can detect poverty- from space - Redorbit http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113415524/satellite-machine-learning-poverty-082016/ 3 comments
- Bacteria Play Critical Role In Driving Colon Cancers https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/bacteria_play_critical_role_in_driving_colon_cancers?amp%3Butm_campaign=research&%3Butm_content=newsrelease&%3Butm_source=twitter&%3Butm_term=hopkinsmednews 3 comments
- Read and Understand a Scientific paper/ Academic paper efficiently -A simple and effective guide. | by Mhossain | Medium https://medium.com/@_moazzemhossain/read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-academic-paper-efficiently-a-simple-and-effective-guide-d9a4c198313a 0 comments
- Guide to Reading Academic Research Papers | by Kyle M Shannon | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/guide-to-reading-academic-research-papers-c69c21619de6 0 comments
- This new blood test can detect early signs of 8 kinds of cancer - Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-blood-test-cancer-20180118-story.html 0 comments
- Humans have killed off most of Earth's big mammals throughout history https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/04/19/humans-have-killed-off-most-earths-big-mammals/533199002/ 0 comments
- More than two-thirds of cancer mutations are due to random DNA copying errors, study says - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/03/23/more-than-two-thirds-of-cancer-mutations-due-to-random-dna-copying-errors-study-says/ 0 comments
- A New Lab-Built Fungus Eats Sugar and Burps Out Drugs | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2017/03/synthetic-yeast-genome/ 0 comments
- Fast radio burst: Weird signal originated in distant galaxy https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/27/fast-radio-burst-weird-signal-originated-distant-galaxy/1584299001/ 0 comments