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Predicting the unpredictable starts with understanding how extreme wildfires develop and under what conditions. This knowledge is essential to better anticipate and respond to them. To achieve this, firefighter and researcher Marc Castellnou and the GRAF/Bombers Catalonia team measure the atmosphere both inside and outside wildfire plumes.
Nucleic acid therapeutics, such as antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), have emerged as promising platforms for treating a variety of previously hard-to-treat diseases, including neurological diseases.
Researchers at National Taiwan University (NTU), working across the College of Engineering, College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), have developed a new method for producing aerogels, introducing what they describe as the world's first purely gaseous-born aerogel fabrication platform. The study is published in Nature Communications.
The remarkable intelligence of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish may trace back to an ancient reshuffling of their DNA that created new connections between genes. Scientists discovered that these changes in the genome's 3D structure may have helped drive the evolution of their unusually complex nervous systems.
Land subsidence is the gradual sinking of the ground, which can damage buildings, foundations, and drainage and sewage systems, and may increase flood risks. However, information on land subsidence dynamics remains limited, which makes it difficult for policymakers to identify where risks are intensifying and where urgent intervention may be needed. Previous assessments have often used different methods or time periods, or focused only on small numbers of cities, which has made global comparisons difficult.
From a rigid molecular pair to flexible assemblies with moving domains, the enzymes that build sugar chains display strikingly different behaviors.
Hurricane Simon lashed Mexico's Pacific coast with severe winds and heavy rain on Monday as it threatened to make landfall this week, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.
A research team from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Leiden University in the Netherlands has examined a tooth from the Schöningen archaeological site in Lower Saxony. The study was published in Quaternary Environments and Humans.
A new study led by researchers at the University of Limerick (UL) has identified a new battery material from a renewable wood industry byproduct that could help reduce reliance on scarce and expensive materials.
Researchers at the University of St Andrews have identified the first examples of a new class of advanced organic semiconductor materials that could one day be used as bioimaging agents, opening up new possibilities for deep-tissue imaging. The study, published in Nature Communications, was led by the Zysman-Colman group in the School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews in collaboration with the Pal group at Durham University.
A rare assemblage of micro- and macro-fossils found in a roadside outcrop in South China, featuring thin ribbons, branching shapes and a tiny balloon on a stalk, offers a glimpse of marine life after one of Earth's most extreme ice ages.
Audit firms rely on partners to oversee audits and client relationships; managers to supervise teams and projects; and staff to perform much of the day-to-day work. The more audit partners and managers are involved in supervising and reviewing audit engagements, the better the audits tend to be, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management.
Though strong El Niños have occurred only four times in as many decades, 2024's intense El Niño is already getting a sequel. New UCLA research shows that 2024 broke the record for extreme rainfall, with 40% of that increase tied to global warming—and conditions are ripe for a repeat.
In the early moments of the big bang, two elements were forged: hydrogen and helium. Technically, the tiniest traces of light elements such as lithium were produced as well, but nothing of consequence. The early universe was about three parts hydrogen to one part helium. All the heavier elements, from the oxygen in your lungs to the iron in your blood, were created through astrophysical processes—fused in stars, formed in supernovae or scattered by the collisions of neutron stars. Even in the present cosmos, heavier elements are so cosmically rare that astronomers group them all as metals.
The buzzer goes off. Three occupational therapy students are convinced they have worked out what should happen to their patient next. They are wrong.
Elephants shape the African savanna. They consume huge amounts of forage, dig for water, topple trees and affect all the animals around them. So, what happens to their outsized presence after these iconic animals pass away?
Australian scientists have used high-speed video to uncover the unique mechanism that allows a honey bee's stinger to continue to pump venom into its target even after it has separated from the bee's body.
NASA is taking an unusual approach to testing heat shields that can keep astronauts safe as they return from missions to the moon and Mars: taking out the trash.
An OpenAI agent was supposed to be researching public healthcare spending, but it broke into an Australian government website instead. The June 18 hack, which saw the bot gain authorized entry into Australia's Medicare Statistics Reporting Service and access three other government systems, occurred after the AI agent encountered blocks while looking for information but "didn't accept 'no' for an answer," Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said during a September 24 news conference in New York.The incident has ignited a media firestorm around OpenAI and the launch of an intensifying parliamentary inquiry. The portal contains aggregate Medicare and pharmaceutical statistics and is sepa...
Scientists know APOE4 raises Alzheimer’s risk. A surprising change in blood vessel cells may help explain how.