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Alabama is the first country in the US to execute a man by nitrogen gas
The US state of Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for the first time, according to the Department of Correction. Smith was convicted of the 1986 murder of a pastor in Colbert County, Alabama, after his wife Elizabeth Sennett, 53, killed herself, state of the hospital, and three other men, one by one.
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The HIV capsid is a replica of the FG-nucleoporins
Cells were collected by centrifugation at 6,000g, resuspended in lysis buffer (50mM Tris/HCl pH 8.0, 500 mM NaCl, 30mMimidazole) and incubated with CPSF6 (500 M final) for 10 minutes. Beads and bound protein were washed with wash buffer (50mM Tris/HCl pH 8.0, 300 mM NaCl, 40mM imidazole). The eluted protein was dialysed into buffer (50mM…
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Ron DeSantis made smiling look hard
After US President Donald Trump endorsed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the US Presidential election, an Indian-origin woman said, “A little mean, but I’m a Serendipitous Point.” Betty Peace-Gladstone added, “Mr DeSantis is…smart guy with a picture-perfect family…I’m being a little mean but in the service of a serious point. He was robotic and awkward…people…
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Can scientists agree on what works with consciousness?
Scientists who conducted an experiment to test different theories of consciousness say they were surprised after their first experiment’s results came in that the two theorists couldn’t agree with what the data meant. They weren’t exactly surprised that the two theorists couldn’t agree on what the data meant. They didn’t discuss it explicitly until the…
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It is possible to tune van der Waals bilayers
The DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences provided funds for a research centre which included studies of uno-magnetic materials and theoretical modelling. High-magnetic-field transport and tunnel diode Oscillator measurements were performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, supported by the National Science Foundation. Subkelvin specific heat capacity measurements were supported by theDOE, Office…
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Evidence of human influence on snow
Water level variability across a single hemisphere for all climate models using standard deviations across multiple datasets from 1981 to 2020 and in situ at the same time. The model trained on gridded observational products predicts fully out-of-sample March SWE at 2,961 in situ sites from SNOTEL, CanSWE and NH-SWE datasets. The reconstruction model predictions…
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The SEC’s official account was compromised and used to post fake news
The official X account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been “compromised”, resulting in the publication of an “unauthorized” post, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said. The post was regarding regulatory status of Bitcoin ETFs, a financial product that could allow people to invest in Bitcoin like standard stocks. The post has since…
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The Memphis committee wants to replace police chief one year after the death of a child
The Memphis Police Department was Founded in 1917 by a black officer-Involved Officer, Paul Strickland. Strickland left office due to term limits, andDavis was appointed by him. Four police officers were indicted on charges related to Nichols’ death. Davis made a presentation that detailed accomplishments during her tenure, including hiring more than 400 officers and…
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This is about more than my mistakes, says the former Harvard President Claudine Gay
Harvard University’s first African-American President Shirley Gay resigned after being accused of plagiarising other people’s work for her PhD. A Harvard professor, Dave Tomar, accused Gay of plagiarising papers for about a decade. The professor claimed Gay used ghostwritten papers from students who attended Harvard in her PhD thesis. Gay became the first Black president…
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The Word did Claudine Gay a disservice
Harvard University’s President Claudine Gay resigned on Monday after an investigation found a pattern of plagiarism in four of her papers. Gay asked for four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that weren’t included in original publications, according to an official statement. An investigation conducted by the university’s review committee found…
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The end of fossil fuels is signaled by the COP28 climate summit
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has asked its member countries to “proactively reject” any text or formula that targets energy rather than emissions at COP28, which is taking place in Scotland. “The fact is that this document sends a very strong signal to the world,” US climate change envoy John Kerry said…
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The adult mouse brain is made of several different types of cells
Researchers found that there is statistically significant higher enrichment (P = 0.004) of chromatin interaction signal at the corresponding-specific cCRE–gene pair anchors, compared with non-corresponding pair anchors. The enrichment was calculated using Wilcoxon rank-sum tests and the fold change was calculated as the average expression level across cells in the two clusters.
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A 3D map of the adult mouse brain, containing Single-cell DNA methylome and 3D maps of multiple genes
A CCFv3″-based microdissections tool was used to assess the validity of its microdissection method at cell and brain region levels. The method up-sampled dataset based on a userspecified parameter and down-sampled cells by within-modality clusters, ensuring preservation of rare cell types. After clustering analysis, we merged single-cell ALLC files into pseudo-bulk level using the allcools…
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Four researchers from the south are collaborating with researchers from the north
Researchers based in four Least Developed Countries (LDCs) — Senegal, Haiti, Nepal and Cambodia — talked to Nature Index about what works and what doesn’t when global-north countries attempt to collaborate and boost research capacity in their nations. In Nepal, the South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies provides research-based policy recommendations on social environmental issues…
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The hearing on antisemitism at Harvard, MIT and Penn has taken a toll on the schools
After a video surfaced online in which Harvard President Claudine Gay can be heard saying, “I don’t care what the Jews think of us”, Gay apologised for her remarks and said, “Despite the fact that these incidents have been brought to the attention of the president of Harvard and the other presidents, there’s been no…
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Fujimori was freed from prison on humanitarian grounds
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who was pardoned by ex-President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski on Thursday, has been convicted of ordering the deaths of at least 25 people during his presidency. Fujimori, who was extradited from Chile to Peru in 2007, was sentenced to 25 years in jail in 2018 for human rights abuses during his…
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The atomic-scale confinement of the self-assembled photonic cavities
Researchers have created a dielectric bowtie cavity with ultrasmall mode volumes using a bottom-up approach that can make devices with sub-nanometre-sized volumes. This cavity was fabricated using eight wide silicon bridges with an aspect ratio of 30. The cavity held strong field discontinuities at material boundaries to confine light inside and hold the promise of…
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The New York Times had a piece about Henry Kissinger and the Hypocrite
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who died aged 91 on February 6, was a key architect of the US’ war policy in Southeast Asia. Kissinger created the US’ war policy in Southeast Asia and his disregard for civilian casualties in war established a blueprint for projection of US military power, according to a…
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How would millions of dollars be spent on climate change damages?
Developing countries need to show recognition and responsibility in helping to finance reconstruction and rehabilitation costs of climate impacts, said Avinash Persaud, special climate envoy for Barbados. “This climate problem was caused by the industrialization of rich countries…they do need to show some responsibility in helping to finance the reconstruction and rehabilitation costs,” he added.
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Truce in Gaza lasted for a 7th day and Henry Kissinger died at 100
Several US states continue to collect data tracking anti- Arab hate crimes under the original ‘Bias Code 31’ code, a report by the Anti-Defamation League said. These were converted to anti-Other Ethnicity/national Origin bias incidents when they were submitted to the federal database, it added. In 2015, Bias Code 31 was introduced after a terrible…
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Harris is going to attend a climate summit
US Vice President Kamala Harris is set to attend the climate change summit in Dubai this week along with special envoy John Kerry, the White House said. Earlier this month, US Vice President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to resume work on tackling climate change, after suspending official collaboration last year due…
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Scaling deep learning for discovery
We train GNNs on a dataset (for which labelscome from minimum formation energy phase for compositions with at least ten completed AIRSS runs and ignoring Materials Project data) and find GNNs to be effective at predicting formation energy of compositions and structure. We also train GNNs on structure-split M3GNet data and find NequIP potential to…
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Data Centres have a huge water footprint
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting faster than institutional processes for ensuring quality and accurate results, a study said. Researchers should ensure their data is findable and accessible, researchers said. However, half of the FAIR criteria are not met, which is especially important for artificial intelligence studies. The diversity of data sets has increased the risks…
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The words loss and damage are controversial in climate finance
The loss and damage fund of a small island Adaptation Fund (SAF) should not be a condition for funding because it would limit the amount of support given to loss and damage, according to a UN report. The SAF should also assign people to approve small proposals and move positions around each two years in…
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RememberingRosalyn Carter; Sam Altman heading to Microsoft
The inauguration of Gaza International Airport on November 22, 2001, was led by US President Bill Clinton and former US First Lady Hillary Clinton, who were joined by Palestinians Yasser Arafat and his wife. The airport was closed in 2001 due to the war between Israel and Hamas. The airport was later reopened after the…