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Deep-learning approach rapidly predicts where metals bind within proteins
In the living world, roughly a third of all proteins we know rely on metals to function. Zinc helps enzymes break down molecules, iron helps
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Grasshopper-inspired AI boosts emergency resource prediction
A hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) system modeled on grasshopper behavior could help allocate medical resources, transport and power duri
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Working from home should be a right, not a reward
The Australian state of Victoria was due to enforce a legal right to work from home starting in September 2026. But just weeks away from its
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Secrets of a mystery mammal from Patagonia revealed at last
Eight years of painstaking research on the virtually unknown Wolffsohn's viscacha have helped to shine the spotlight on this super-rare Sout
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Sound-based traps reveal how fragile biomolecular droplets move, merge and change stiffness
Being able to measure something plays a vital role in our ability to understand many phenomena. But measuring can often affect what we are t
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Scientists 'see' nanoscale forces, providing evidence of electric fields at the air‑water interface
Bubbles are round, and we know surface tension does that. But squeeze that gas-liquid boundary into a space only a few tens of nanometers wi
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Moving nitrogen within pyridine opens a new path for molecular editing
A research team has developed a new molecular editing strategy that can directly convert pyridine compounds into their positional isomers. I
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Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there's a way to counter it
Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There's nothing to be done—we're doomed! Sound familiar
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Genome-folding complex reveals a mechanism that helps establish neuron identity
A functional nervous system depends on the cooperation of many kinds of cells. As developing organisms build their nervous systems, their ne
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The global race to make a practical quantum computer just took a big leap forward
In the global race to build bigger and better quantum computers, researchers have taken a step forward. A new machine called Helios is radic
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Experiment shows how AI discoveries can shape human cultural evolution
Artificial intelligence can develop solutions that humans would be unlikely to discover on their own. But what happens when machines do more
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Physicists entangle quantum memories across a record-breaking 420 km
Optical fibers are already the backbone of global communication systems. Recently, however, physicists have started to explore how their fun
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Structural snapshots reveal key steps in switching on DNA replication
Every time a cell divides, it must accurately copy its entire genetic instruction manual. Before this process can begin, cells load their DN
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Right-leaning Canadians are losing trust in Canada's electoral process, study finds
Right-leaning Canadians' trust in the bodies that manage Canadian elections has declined significantly since 2019, a McGill-led research tea
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An African bat overlooked for two centuries is confirmed in Europe
An African bat whose presence in Sicily had remained an unresolved zoological mystery for almost two centuries has now been documented on Pa
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Q&A: By analyzing media coverage, researchers connect public sentiment hedge fund returns
Economists have long used measures of public sentiment about the economy to forecast a wide range of key financial outcomes, like consumer s
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Most mammal species discovered in the Global South since 1990 end up in Northern collections
According to a study by Brazilian scientists published in the journal npj Biodiversity, most new mammal species described over the past 35 y
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A new mathematical tool to uncover 'who eats whom' in nature
Understanding "who eats whom" is the key to keeping our oceans alive—and our dinner plates full. However, this invisible network that makes
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Building real-time control for engineered biological systems
Scientists can engineer living cells to perform useful tasks, from producing medicines and sustainable chemicals to detecting disease. Unlik
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Lost 'botanical hotspot' identified at University of York campus
One of the special plants once found at Heslington Fields, the marsh helleborine orchid. The grounds, now occupied by the University of York
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From the coasts to the plains, bird flu could threaten not just birds—but their homes
Yesterday, I woke to a cold, damp Canberra morning—and silence. The trees around my home were empty of feathered silhouettes. Even the usual
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End-to-end design creates two low-cost materials to capture methane
Developing new materials to tackle pressing global issues is a gap-filled process that can leave potential climate solutions lost in unread
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AI and 8 million digitized plant specimens reveal how the climate is changing nature in large parts of the world
AI optimists will be encouraged by a recent report on the state of the world's plants and fungi by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Cells remodel actin normally without coronins, challenging textbook view
Coronins are found throughout the animal kingdom, from single-celled amoebae to humans, and are involved in many vital processes, including
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