Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile ‘dark earth’
The Amazon river basin is known for its immense and lush tropical forests, so one might assume that the Amazon’s land is equally rich. In fact, the soils underlying the …
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Using satellite data to enhance global food security
Overview of an operational WorldCereal system. Remote sensing data, combined with in situ reference data and crop calendars, are processed using machine learning algorithms in a cloud-based system to produce …
The Dumb Alien Mummy Story Takes an Entirely Predictable Turn
On September 12, ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan presented what he claimed to be evidence of alien life to the Congress of Mexico. On September 19, Mexico’s scientific community gathered …
Bloombert Outlines Succession Plan for Bloomberg L.P.
As he kicks off a new campaign to use his wealth to block the construction of petrochemical plants, Michael R. Bloomberg outlined the fate of his company Bloomberg L.P. after …
Advances in Eye Scans and Protein Structure Win 2023 Lasker Awards
The prestigious Lasker Awards were given on Thursday to scientists making advances in the diagnosis of eye disease, the prediction of cellular protein structure and the intricacies of the immune …
Alyssa Farah backs Cassidy Hutchinson’s claims about Rudy Giuliani
Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin has said that Rudy Giuliani was known to be a “liability” within the Trump administration – after he was accused of sexually …
Tag team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA captures the core of the most distant galaxy protocluster
An international research team led by Assistant Professor Takuya Hashimoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) and Researcher Javier Álvarez-Márquez (El Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA), Spain) has used the James Webb …
Disrupting a core metabolic process in T cells may improve their therapeutic efficacy
Pluripotent naive CD8+ T cells are characterized by low metabolic activity and permissive H3K4me3 deposition at pro-memory genes, including Sell, Ccr7 and Tcf7. After activation, TE cells increase glutamine metabolism …
Team behind AI program AlphaFold win Lasker science prize | Biology
Researchers behind Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold program have landed one of the most prestigious prizes in science for solving a grand challenge in biology that stood for half a century. Demis …
The US Is Mobilizing an Army to Fight the Climate Crisis
Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and the United States has begun mobilizing an army to fight it: the American Climate Corps. Formerly conceptualized as the …