New Year’s celebrations are a little bit different in Antarctica. Under the relentless summer daylight and searing cold, the ragtag crew of souls who have found themselves at the planet’s southernmost point take part in an unusual but important…
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SKA-Mid telescope in South Africa achieves first fringes milestone-Xinhua
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved “first fringes” using two of its dishes, which demonstrates its operation…
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RNA-triggered Cas12a3 cleaves tRNA tails to execute bacterial immunity
Orthologue identification, phylogenetic analysis and sequence alignment
We used previously identified Cas12a2 protein sequences27 as queries for tBLASTn and BLASTp searches in the NCBI databases (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and the JGI…
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Astrobites at AAS 247: Day 2
X-ray and optical image of Kepler’s supernova remnant. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Pan-STARRS Welcome to the winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Phoenix, AZ! Astrobites is attending the conference as…
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SKA-Mid telescope in South Africa achieves first fringes milestone-Xinhua
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) announced on Wednesday that the growing SKA-Mid telescope array in South Africa has achieved “first fringes” using two of its dishes, which demonstrates its operation…
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Voyager and the heliopause: Exploring where…
Sarah Al-Ahmed:
We’re exploring where the Sun gives way to the stars, this week on Planetary Radio. I’m Sarah Al-Ahmed of The Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.Nearly 50 years after launch, the…
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Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage
Meyer, M. et al. Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins. Nature 531, 504–507 (2016).
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Risks young chimps take as they swing through the trees underscore role of protective parenting in humans
Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the U.S. more likely than younger children to die from injury. But what’s responsible for this uptick in risk-taking around puberty?
Our new observations of physical risk-taking…
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Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution – The New York Times
- Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution The New York Times
- Moroccan Cave Fossils Capture a Crossroads in Modern Human Evolution ScienceAlert
- We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans Ars…
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Most planets in our galaxy are born ‘bloated’, new study suggests
Astronomers may have uncovered how the most common types of planets in our Galaxy grow, a new study has revealed. The discovery confirms astronomers’ theories that these planets start as ‘bloated’ babies but quickly lose much of their thick…
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