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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In late September, the governor of the state of Oklahoma, Kevin Stitt, boasted that election officials had removed 453,000 people from the state’s voter rolls since 2021. In a state with only 2.3 million registered voters, it appears that roughly one in six registered voters had been purged. While some of […]
Physics is one of the oldest and most foundational sciences, shaping the way we understand the natural world. From the movement of planets to the behavior of subatomic particles, physics unravels the mysteries of the universe. Some of the world’s greatest discoveries have come from prestigious physics institutes that have fostered research and innovation. As […]
A confrontation between stalk-eyed flies. Image by Gerald Wilkinson. Credit: Gerald Wilkinson In stalk-eyed flies, longer eyestalks attract the ladies. Females prefer males with longer eyestalks, and other males are less likely to fight them for access to females. But some males have a copy of the X chromosome which always causes short eyestalks. Scientists […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Think of flood prevention and you might imagine huge concrete dams, levees or the shiny Thames barrier. But some of the most powerful tools for reducing flood risk are far more natural and widely recognizable: woodlands and green spaces. Trees offer much more than beauty and oxygen. Here’s how trees help […]
The 2024 Nobel Prizes have taken many by surprise, as AI researchers are among the distinguished recipients in both Physics and Chemistry. Geoffrey Hinton and John J. Hopfield received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work on neural networks. In contrast, Demis Hassabis and his colleagues John Jumper and David Baker received the […]
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The phosphorylation reagent with a nitrobenzyl hydrophobic tag allows production of high purity fully chemically synthesized mRNA and transcriptionally synthesized cyclic mRNA. Credit: Reiko Matsushita In an era where viral outbreaks can escalate into global pandemics with alarming speed, the ability to quickly develop new vaccines has become crucial. However, the speed of vaccine production […]
A preliminary reconstruction shows the late antique church of Artaxata. Credit: University of Münster Archaeologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the University of Münster have discovered the remains of a previously unknown early Christian church in the ancient city of Artaxata. The find consists of an octagonal building with cruciform extensions. […]