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Swiss team learns how mistranslation can affect evolutionary fitness, lessen predictability

Sometimes increased evolutionary fitness can be achieved when mistakes are made in the commonly assumed mutational pathways of adaptive DNA mutation. How this occurs is important in understanding what influences evolution and how predictable evolution is.

Kīlauea volcano’s caldera helps confirm paradigm on friction in earthquake faults

A new analysis of the 2018 collapse of Kīlauea volcano’s caldera helps to confirm the reigning scientific paradigm for how friction works on earthquake faults.

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Study shows common insecticide is harmful in any amount

A new UC Riverside study shows that a type of insecticide made for commercial plant nurseries is harmful to a typical bee even when applied well below the label rate.

DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins

DeepMind has announced its partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, to make the most complete and accurate database yet of predicted protein structure models for the human proteome.

World’s smallest fruit picker controlled by artificial intelligence

Inspired by insects that suck nutrients directly from plant veins, physicists from DTU have studied whether valuable chemical substances can be harvested directly from the cells of plants. Using a harvester measuring only a few microns, they have now achieved a technological breakthrough.

'Edge of chaos' opens pathway to artificial intelligence discoveries

The University of Sydney has issued the following press release:Nanowire network trained to solve simple problemSome neuroscience theories suggest the human brain operates best 'at the edge of chaos'.

'Neuroprosthesis' restores words to man with paralysis

Technology could lead to more natural communication for people who have suffered speech loss

Decoding how salamanders walk

Researchers at Tohoku University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, with the support of the Human Frontier Science Program, have decoded the flexible motor control mechanisms underlying salamander walking.

Quantum compass may steer nighttime flight of birds

An international team of biologists, chemists, and physicists has produced new evidence supporting the hypothesis that migratory birds can navigate at night using the varying quantum state of electrons in their retinas.

How ocean engineers improve material safety in coastal structures

Texas A&M research into corrosion-resistant materials could help engineers construct safer structures in the future.

Scientists ID enzyme for making key industrial chemical in plants

Scientists studying the biochemistry of plant cell walls have identified an enzyme that could turn woody poplar trees into a source for producing a major industrial chemical.

Yale study finds mammals dream about their environment before they're born

As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it.

Study: Giraffes just as socially complex as elephants

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered evidence that giraffes are a highly socially complex species.

Yale School of Medicine scientists participate in unprecedented study on COVID-19's effects on patients

Scientists at Yale School of Medicine are participating in an unprecedented and comprehensive study of the effects of COVID-19 on patients.

Major Atlantic ocean current system might be approaching critical threshold

The major Atlantic ocean current, to which also the Gulf Stream belongs, may have been losing stability in the course of the last century.

Nigerian surgeons report new, simpler technique for treating chronic osteomyelitis

Chronic osteomyelitis, a progressive infection in bone, can occur after treatment for acute osteomyelitis, a new infection in bone that usually results from injury.

Physicists, led by Harvard, develops next step of quantum computing

A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits, or “qubits.”

Viruses thousands of years old found in Tibetan glacier ice

Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses nearly 15,000 years old in two ice samples taken from the Tibetan Plateau in China.

Meta-analysis of diverse population improves understanding of type 2 diabetes genetic risks

Most studies of genetic risks for type 2 diabetes have focused only on people of European ancestry, although the prevalence of the disease is rising more rapidly in other populations.