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LISA to the rescue: Using light to fix cell division
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LISA to the rescue: Using light to fix cell division

Cell division is a complex process. At the heart of this complexity is a membraneless organelle called the centrosome, which is made up of more than 200 components. It is responsible for clustering mitotic spindles, threadlike structures needed to separate genetic material. It has long remained unclear which parts of the centrosome are necessary and sufficient for spindle assembly.

📅 2026-09-29 21:00:12    •    Phys.org
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Protein signaling cascade helps explain how plants respond to touch
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Protein signaling cascade helps explain how plants respond to touch

Plants cannot run away when the wind picks up, rain lashes down or a hungry herbivore begins chewing on their leaves. Instead, they must sense their surroundings and adapt. Now, researchers have uncovered an important piece of the puzzle of what happens inside plants when they are exposed to touch, injury or other physical stimuli.

📅 2026-09-29 20:50:01    •    Phys.org
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Climate Action Learning Lab bridges research and policy for effective climate solutions
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Climate Action Learning Lab bridges research and policy for effective climate solutions

J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), convened the second cohort of the Climate Action Learning Lab this spring with 17 climate leaders from four U.S. government agencies and nonprofit organizations. Participants then engaged in four months of programming designed to strengthen their skills in generating and using evidence, applying research insights to their own programs, and identifying promising policy-relevant interventions for evaluation.The Climate Action Learning Lab first emerged in 2025 as a response to an urgent need for rigorous research on programs that seek to improve resilience to climate-related hazards and support the t...

📅 2026-09-29 20:35:00    •    MIT News
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AI structure prediction speeds discovery of 'molecular glues' to treat disease
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AI structure prediction speeds discovery of 'molecular glues' to treat disease

A Baylor College of Medicine-led team has developed a strategy that combines the analysis of thousands of proteins with artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of small molecules called molecular glues to treat disease. Their approach, published in Nature Communications, has uncovered a new class of molecular glues that could neutralize harmful proteins linked to blood cancers and autoimmune diseases. The work also shows how AI-based structural modeling can help chemists optimize compounds well before experiments reveal how they work.

📅 2026-09-29 20:30:01    •    Phys.org
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New feathered, winged dinosaur from China challenges our theories on bird and dinosaur evolution
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New feathered, winged dinosaur from China challenges our theories on bird and dinosaur evolution

A newly described feathered dinosaur found in northeastern China adds evidence supporting the theory that flight-related features evolved differently in various bird-like dinosaur groups. The findings, reported in Nature Communications, are based on an analysis of an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a microraptorine (a small dinosaur with feathers and wings) found in a geological formation estimated to be between 145 and 100 million years old.

📅 2026-09-29 20:20:09    •    Phys.org
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Under the Microscope: NASA-made material for moon manufacturing
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Under the Microscope: NASA-made material for moon manufacturing

Photos taken using a microscope reveal the colorful, kaleidoscope-like crystal structure of a new NASA-made material that could be used for manufacturing during future space missions. Developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, the material could be created directly on the moon or Mars, allowing NASA to pack fewer supplies—saving weight and reducing launch costs.

📅 2026-09-29 20:20:02    •    Phys.org
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Why a fight might be just what your group needs
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Why a fight might be just what your group needs

Priya Parker.Photo by Fernando Palafox. Arts & Culture Why a fight might be just what your group needs Priya Parker says sometimes reckoning with buried tensions can help reconnect group to values, identity — and one another September 29, 2026 long read Excerpted from “The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict” by Priya Parker, M.P.P. ’12, published on Sept. 8 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Parker is a specialist in conflict resolution who works with organizations, communities, and leaders. When people in conflict first call me, they tend to say some version of: “Make this go away.” I get it. Conflict is not...

📅 2026-09-29 20:01:38    •    Harvard Gazette
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Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
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Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming

From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground on which this town was built contains large bodies of ice. Along the eroding coastal bluffs, that hidden ice is becoming exposed and melting away.

📅 2026-09-29 19:20:10    •    Phys.org
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Who’s in charge here?
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Who’s in charge here?

Alex Pascal (left), Avijit Ghosh, Jeff Dunn, and Amit Goldenberg. Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Who’s in charge here? Scholars, industry leaders debate how to reduce risks of AI, ensure humans remain in charge of development Clea Simon Harvard Correspondent September 29, 2026 4 min read What do we want from AI? That was the question posed by Alex Pascal, executive director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, at the outset of a panel discussion co-hosted by the center on how AI “can serve people and make our society better.” The powerful, potentially game-changing technology has been in the headlines in recent months after high-profile reports of expe...

📅 2026-09-29 18:31:59    •    Harvard Gazette
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‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it
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‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it

Arts & Culture ‘Design is not a single thing,’ and these projects prove it Complexity a common theme in GSD students’ option studios Anna Lamb Harvard Staff Writer September 29, 2026 4 min read Sarah Whiting. Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design don’t just apply their knowledge in the classroom — they tackle real-world challenges facing communities across the world, including in advanced “option studios,” where innovations in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design are among this year’s projects. “Design is not a single thing,” said Dean Sarah Whiting during a kickoff event this month. “It’s not a single technique...

📅 2026-09-29 18:25:45    •    Harvard Gazette
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Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet
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Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet

Work & Economy Why AI hasn’t triggered mass layoffs — yet Illustration by Stuart Kinlough/Ikon Images Sy Boles Harvard Staff Writer September 29, 2026 7 min read Artificial intelligence can do some jobs already, but experts say CEOs have good reasons to keep humans on the payroll If you’re looking for omens of an AI jobs apocalypse, you can certainly find them. News outlets report more layoffs attributed to AI this year than last. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei famously said in 2025 that AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. Entry-level job postings have fallen by up to 73 percent in four years, by some counts. Other data points are more reassuring. Largely b...

📅 2026-09-29 18:20:20    •    Harvard Gazette
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns

Earth's life-support systems are in peril — and they're getting worse — but although the window for action is closing, we still have a chance to give our planet a sustainable future, a new report finds. The report, called "Planetary Health Check 2026," was written by more than 60 scientists and assessed the state of interconnected natural systems, or planetary boundaries, upon which Earth's stability and resilience depend. When these boundaries are crossed, researchers say there's an increasing risk of serious and irreversible harm.According to the report, seven of the nine identified planetary boundaries have already been breached, including climate change, ocean acidification and biosphere...

📅 2026-09-29 17:11:35    •    Live Science
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Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying-predator evolution
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Remarkably preserved feathered dinosaur discovered in China reveals new secrets of flying-predator evolution

An artist's reconstruction of what the newly described bird-like dinosaur (Norellraptor barsboldi) would have looked like. (Image credit: Mr. Zhao Chuang)A predatory bird-like dinosaur with four wings discovered in China adds evidence to the idea that flight evolved several times in different dinosaur groups.The exceptionally well-preserved feathered dinosaur, which has been named Norellraptor barsboldi, was 3 years old when it died and measured just 21 inches (57 centimeters) long. It was found in the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation in northeastern China, which dates to between 145 million and 100 million years ago.N. barsboldi had the sharply curved predatory teeth and claws you'd exp...

📅 2026-09-29 16:47:59    •    Live Science
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Africa's oldest known defensive wall outside Egypt discovered, and it's 4,000 years old
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Africa's oldest known defensive wall outside Egypt discovered, and it's 4,000 years old

The largest defensive wall at Oued Beht. Archaeologists think its base was constructed about 4,000 years ago. (Image credit: G. Lucarini, Oued Beht Archaeological Project)Archaeologists have unearthed 4,000-year-old defensive walls in Morocco that are the oldest structures of their kind in North Africa outside the Nile Valley.The discovery expands what's known about the human development of this region of northwestern Mediterranean Africa, known as the Maghreb, particularly about the adoption of agriculture."For more than a century, the Maghreb was treated as a blank space in the story of Mediterranean later prehistory," Giulio Lucarini, an archaeologist at Italy's National Research Council,...

📅 2026-09-29 15:05:35    •    Live Science
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