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Dog brain structure varies across breeds and is correlated with specific behaviors, according to new research published in JNeurosci. These findings show how, by selectively breeding for certain behaviors, humans have shaped the brains of their best friends. Over several hundred years, humans have selectively bred dogs to express specific physical and behavioral characteristics. Erin Hecht … Read more
Fleets of microscopic machines toil away in your cells, carrying out critical biological tasks and keeping you alive. By combining theory and experiment, researchers have discovered the surprising way one of these machines, called the spindle, avoids slowdowns: congestion. The spindle divides chromosomes in half during cell division, ensuring that both offspring cells contain a … Read more
A team of Italian mathematicians, including one who is also a neuroscientist from the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU), in Lisbon, Portugal, has shown that artificial vision machines can learn to recognize complex images spectacularly faster by using a mathematical theory that was developed 25 years ago by one of this new study’s co-authors. … Read more
Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration increases land carbon sink, partially offsetting carbon dioxide emissions from human activities such as fossil fuel, cement production, and land-use change. This process is known as carbon dioxide fertilization, playing a key role in climate change mitigation and sustainable development of human society. Quantifying the carbon dioxide fertilization on the … Read more
Bananas are recognised as the most important fruit crop – providing food, nutrition and income for millions in both rural and urban areas across the globe. While many reports have looked at the impact of climate change on agricultural production, the effect rising temperatures and changing rainfall has on crucial tropical crops such as the … Read more
The earliest large animal fossils lived in deep marine, oxygenated environments, now in central England (Leicestershire) and Newfoundland, following a cold spell about 575 million years ago, but within about 30-40 million years, the strange lifeforms gave way to more recognisable animals (worms, coral-like animals, sponges, etc.). What drove this change? A new UCL-led study … Read more
Insilico Medicine, a global leader in artificial intelligence for drug discovery, today announced the publication of a paper titled, “Deep learning enables rapid identification of potent DDR1 kinase inhibitors,” in Nature Biotechnology. The paper describes a timed challenge, where the new artificial intelligence system called Generative Tensorial Reinforcement Learning (GENTRL) designed six novel inhibitors of DDR1, … Read more
Attempts such as the U.S. ‘Green New Deal’ to create a more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable world face a major challenge – people are sceptical you can achieve all three. And they believe that targeting environmental outcomes like climate change and pollution comes at a cost to efforts to improve their quality of life. … Read more
The question whether light consists of particles or instead propagates as a wave through a medium has been the subject of scientific debate throughout most of the history of science. In the 20th century it finally has been established that light can be indeed both, particle and wave, but not at the same time. Still, … Read more
For the first time, Northwestern Medicine scientists have pinpointed the location of dysfunctional brain networks that lead to impaired sentence production and word finding in primary progressive aphasia (PPA), a form of dementia in which patients often lose their language rather than their memory or thought process. With this discovery, the scientists have drawn a … Read more