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Senate candidates to lead the Senate
US President Joe Biden will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, on Saturday, an official said. Biden could use his meeting with Xi to underscore that China needs to change its trade practices, not just threaten retaliation, Danny Russel, a top State Department…
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There is a real problem with banning masks
The Boston Tea Party, which hurled tea into the sea in 1773, could be an important example of how social media and surveillance can affect people’s lives, researchers said. They added that the Boston Tea Party’s “masks, masks, and disguises” could have helped them to conceal their identities. They said the Boston Tea Party’s group…
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Absent leaders and Trump loom large as the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP29) begins
At the 29th edition of UN conference on climate change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, representatives from nearly 200 countries are discussing financial aid for low- and middle-income countries vulnerable to global warming. US President Donald Trump had withdrawn the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement. The US had pledged $11.4 billion in aid for…
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China ponders what to come under Trump 2.0
China’s trade ministry has said that it will “take necessary action” against the US over the latter’s recent tariffs on Chinese goods. It added, “We will take relevant measures to protect theLegitimateLegitimate Interest of the Chinese people.” The ministry further said, “We will do everything in our power to stop the US from taking steps…
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atomic nuclei are smashed together to reveal their shapes
Researchers at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (EAPEC) have discovered a new way to image the shapes of atomic nuclei through high-energy collisions. They used information from the debris to reconstruct nucleus’s shape. “I find it fascinating that it worked,” EAPEC researcher Magdalena Zieliska said, adding that other nuclear processes didn’t influence…
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The Apple iMac review is small but worth the upgrade
Apple’s latest MacBook Pro, the M3 version, is functionally the same as the M4 Pro. The 16-inch MacBook Pro features the M4 Pro CPU and has 4GB of RAM. Further, the M3 version has full-height function keys and there are two USB-C ports, while the M4 has one USB-A port. Apple will not refresh the…
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The developers of AlphaFold will get the chemistry Nobel
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have discovered a new kind of elephant trunk that can be powered by electrical currents. They found that the trunks of elephants can be controlled using an “electric field” that allows them to spin around in any direction, according to reports. They found that elephants can also…
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The reason carbon dioxide removal will achieve too little, too late is because of overshooting
Simulations show that the global net-zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions can be stabilised and peaked across the FaIR ensemble under the ‘eZEC’ model. In the REN_NZCO2 scenario, the REN from AR6 of IPCC52,53,54 till the year of net-zero CO2 (2060 for this scenario), NNCE stabilization for post-peak cooling and carbon cycle feedback, and an application…
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Palestinians are protesting the Israel war with no end in sight
Merav Roth, a prominent Israeli psychologist, and the sister of former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who has counseled the members all year long, has said that there are questions from last year’s conflict between Israel and Gaza Strip. The conflict killed more than 1,200 people, including many civilians, and displaced over 2,00,000 people, according…
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Ex-officers were found guilty in the beating death of a man
Three former Memphis police officers were found not guilty of violating civil rights of black motorist Tyre Nichols who was killed in a 2023 traffic stop, the US federal court announced on Monday. The acquittal came after a seven-month trial. Nichols, who had been driving a stolen van, was beaten with batons, pepper spray and…
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There is a wiring diagram of the brain
The VFB cross-references neuronal cell types across publications even if different terms were used, researchers said. For example, FlyWire neurons with a confirmed hemibrain cell type will receive a FBbt ID that maps to that exact cell type, while a DN that has been given a new cell type might only map to the coarser…
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The storm causes catastrophic flooding as it crosses southern Appalachians
US President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency in the states ofAlabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, which have borne the brunt of the damage caused by Hurricane Helen. Moody’s Analytics said that it expects $15. billion to $26 billion in property damage from the hurricane, which was downgraded to a…
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Opinion: Remembering the wonder, Maggie Smith
Dame Maggie Smith, the actress who passed away aged 89, was known for her roles in films like ‘Sister Act’ and ‘The Lady in the Van’. She also played the role of Mother Superior in the film ‘Sister Act’. Dame Maggie was made a Commander of theOrder of the British Empire and Dame when she…
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The trials of sustainable science
The University of Groningen, the Netherlands, slashed its laboratory’s environmental impact by an average of 34.5 lakh annually by adopting energy-saving measures, including turning up the temperature of freezers and closing fume hoods, according to a report. The university’s labs saved nearly 2.8 crore by taking these measures in 2022, the report said. The move…
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The trials of sustainable science
The University of Groningen, the Netherlands, slashed its laboratory’s environmental impact by an average of 34.5 lakh annually by adopting energy-saving measures, including turning up the temperature of freezers and closing fume hoods, according to a report. The university’s labs saved nearly 2.8 crore by taking these measures in 2022, the report said. The move…
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Universities are an investment in the future
Several universities in the UK, including Hull University and University of Kent, are facing a funding crisis after the government cut funding to higher education. The UK government had slashed funding for universities in response to the economic crisis. Some UK universities were also planning to address a fall in European students after Brexit by…
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What is it you want to learn about greening science?
A case study on the challenges of making research labs more sustainable has found that efforts to increase awareness, improve lab infrastructure and save energy from shutting down freezers and turning up the temperature resulted in improvements. Efforts to increase awareness, improve lab infrastructure and save energy from shutting down freezers and turning up the…
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Corporate lobbying is taking over artificial intelligence laws in the US
Many scholars believe that the incentive structure in place in the industry makes firms under invest in research into ethical and social consequences of Artificial intelligence, even though it is important. Researchers accounted for only 3.84% of total Nature Index output in AI in 2023. Industry alone or in collaboration with universities had the leading…
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physicists observe entangled quarks for the first time
Scientists have observed entangled quarks, the Higgs bosons, for the first time at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the COVID-19 accelerator in Switzerland. Their measurements were conducted against a background of decay of one million pairs of anti-top quarks and their antimatter cousins. Only W bosons decaying into leptons are considered because charged leptons,…
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It’s doable and is affordable to delay action on antimicrobial resistance
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria (GFM) is working with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide funds to developing countries to tackle the spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) microbes. It is also working with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to provide funding for humanitarian and medical relief efforts in areas…
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A man is charged with 4 counts of murder
A 14-year-old student has been charged with four counts of felony murder in the killing of two 14-year-old students and two educators at a high school in Georgia, US. The gunman, who the authorities identified as a 14-year-old student at the school, will be charged with murder, officials said. Nine others were wounded in the…
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What do we know about the Apalachee High School shooting victims?
A 14-year-old gunman shot dead two teachers at a high school in Georgia, US, on Wednesday morning, officials said. Two other students were injured in the shooting, officials added. The gunman was taken into custody by law enforcement and will be charged with murder, authorities further said. The victims were identified as Richard Aspinwall and…
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These Windows laptops can be had for less with the new 8-core Snapdragon X Plus
Intel has released the first seven answers to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite and AMD’s Strix Point laptop chips. Intel said that an Asus Zenbook S 14 with Intel can last multiple hours longer than an AMD ZenBook S 16 with AMD in office tasks, despite the AMD laptop’s slightly larger 78Wh battery pack. It added…
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There are five things to know about Britain suspending some of its arms exports to Israel
The US has said that it would be appropriate for the United Kingdom (UK) to make their own legal judgements about the suspension of arms exports to Israel. “It’s of course appropriate for them to make their own legal judgements based on…system and their laws,” it added. The UK’s arms exports to Israel have fallen…
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The Y protects against food related diseases by sustaining thermogenic fat
The following antibodies were used for fluorescent activated cell sorting (FACS) and flow-through. AF700 anti-CD45, rabbit anti-NPY, mouse anti-H2A.X, mouse anti-histone H3 and mouse anti- ChK1 were used for FACS and flow- through experiments respectively. Cells collected following in vitro experiments were washed once with PBS and fixed using 4% PFA for at least 4…