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Rugged Falklands landscape was once a lush rainforest, researchers say

A researcher from the University of Southampton (UK) has found evidence that the treeless, rugged, grassland landscape of the Falkland Islands was home to a lush, diverse rainforest up to 30 million years ago......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgSep 19th, 2024

Scientists streamline creation of nucleoside analogs, a group of life-saving molecules

A team of researchers has found a quicker and more efficient way to create nucleoside analogs, a type of small molecule that can be used in treatments for everything from cancer to viral diseases......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Investigating seasonal effects on health-promoting compounds in cabbage varieties

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) investigated the seasonal variation in glucosinolates and their enzymatic hydrolysis products in red and white cabbage, as well as broccoli. The results, published in Food C.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

New pathway found for regulating zinc in E. coli

Cornell researchers have discovered a pathway by which E. coli regulates all-important zinc levels, an insight that could advance the understanding of metal regulation in bacteria generally and lead to antibacterial applications such as in medical in.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

A key transcription factor unlocks new potential in stem cell-based embryo models

Researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) have identified Nr1h2, a critical transcription factor essential for early embryo development. Published in Nature Communications, their findings enhance our understanding of.....»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

PoC exploit for critical WhatsUp Gold RCE vulnerability released (CVE-2024-8785)

Researchers have published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-8785, a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting Progress WhatsUp Gold, a popular network monitoring solution for enterprises. CVE-2024-8785 and the PoC exploit CV.....»»

Category: securitySource:  netsecurityRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Coastal retreat in Alaska is accelerating because of compound climate impacts, researchers warn

The overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence, and erosion may lead to land loss in Arctic coastal regions that dwarfs the land loss from any single one of these climate hazards, scientists say......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Neanderthals were making hand stencil rock art more than 66,000 years ago, U-series dating suggests

A discovery deep within a cave in Spain has challenged the history of human artistic expression. Researchers have determined that hand stencils in Maltravieso Cave are more than 66,000 years old, suggesting that Neanderthals, not modern humans, were.....»»

Category: topSource:  theglobeandmailRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth"s climate in the long term, research finds

Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to a study by UCL researchers......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Starspot activity of the red giant XX Trianguli indicates non-periodic, chaotic dynamo

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Leibniz-Institut for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (HUN-REN CSFK) have reconstructed the temporal changes in the distrib.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Researchers call ChatGPT Search answers ‘confidently wrong’

A study from Columbia University has found that ChatGPT Search plays fast and loose in returning accurate answers......»»

Category: topSource:  digitaltrendsRelated NewsDec 4th, 2024

Building green and blue spaces in new communities is crucial for cleaner air, say researchers

With house building a priority for the new UK Government, researchers at the University of Surrey are urging city planners not to forget to build "greening areas" such as parks in new communities......»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Tiny dancers: Scientists synchronize bacterial motion

Researchers at TU Delft have discovered that E. coli bacteria can synchronize their movements, creating order in seemingly random biological systems. By trapping individual bacteria in micro-engineered circular cavities and coupling these cavities th.....»»

Category: topSource:  marketingvoxRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

What "About us" websites reveal about cooperative relationships between companies

An international team including researchers from the University of Passau has shown in a study that the cognitive similarity between companies is decisive in determining whether "good faith" is favored over specific regulations in cooperation agreeme.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Researchers locate WWI shipwreck off Northern Ireland

HMS Stephen Furness was steaming through the northern Irish Sea on the afternoon of December 13 1917, en route to Liverpool for repairs. The crew maintained a cautious course, altering direction every ten minutes and traveling at a steady 13 knots—.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Feminist mothers may be compromising their own children"s sex education at home

In a new study, researchers from Surrey's School of Sociology found that self-identified feminist mothers across England unintentionally compromised their values about children's rights to comprehensive sex education due to societal pressures and fea.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Team links comet water to Earth"s oceans

Researchers have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth's oceans. Contradicting some recent results, this finding reopens the case that Jupiter-family comets like 67P could have h.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Webb observations discover new planet in Kepler-51 "super-puff" system

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density "super-puff" planets has at least one more planet, according to new research led by researchers from Penn State and Osaka University......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Decoding protein interactions to better understand how mutations contribute to disease

Investigating how proteins interact is key to understanding how cells work and communicate. In a new study published in Nature Communications, FMI researchers have provided key insights into how protein interactions are governed and how mutations inf.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

National data indicates working moms set an example for next generation

A girl who attends a school with classmates whose mothers work is more likely to be in the workforce when she has a child herself than a girl who grows up in local circles where most mothers stay at home, Cornell researchers have found......»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024

Are US "news deserts" hothouses of corruption? Researchers demonstrate impacts of losing local papers

The March 24, 2021 edition of neighborhood newspaper Northeast News, out of Kansas City, Missouri, contained a surprise for its 9,000 subscribers. Where the front-page news should have been, there was a big, blank white space. This was no printer's e.....»»

Category: topSource:  informationweekRelated NewsDec 3rd, 2024