Researchers find melanin-rich fungi inside the ruined reactor, thriving by converting gamma rays into energy
Nearly four decades after the
Chernobyl nuclear disaster turned an entire region into an uninhabitable exclusion zone, scientists have…
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Chernobyl’s ruins, where no species dared to survive, are now home to strange radiation-powered fungi – Firstpost
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December 2025: What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month? – Astronomy Magazine
- December 2025: What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month? Astronomy Magazine
- Northern California Set for Double Meteor Shower Spectacle in December Active NorCal
- The Sky this Week: December’s Cold Super Moon takes center stage Wausau…
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Flagellin recognition triggers zinc mobilization in Arabidopsis thaliana as a response to Salmonella Typhimurium invasion
Kowalska, B. Fresh vegetables and fruit as a source of Salmonella bacteria. Ann. Agric. Env Med. 30, 9–14 (2023).
Kroupitski, Y. et al. Internalization of Salmonella enterica in leaves is…
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Upward comparison predicts an increase in state body dissatisfaction after fitspiration exposure
Tiggemann, M. & Zaccardo, M. “Strong is the new skinny”: A content analysis of #fitspiration images on Instagram. J. Health Psychol. 23, 1003–1011. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316639436 (2018).
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Human researchers are superior to large language models in writing a medical systematic review in a comparative multitask assessment
Vaswani, A. et al. Attention is all you need. Adv. Neural Inf. Process. Syst. 2017-December, 5999–6009 (2017).
Devlin, J., Chang, M. W., Lee, K. & Toutanova, K. BERT: Pre-training of deep…
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Elon Musk gives nod to SpaceX’s massive, previously impossible feat
Elon Musk recently shared SpaceX’s standing policy to offer free Starlink service during natural disasters worldwide, highlighting the company’s commitment to pursue aid over profit during times of need.
Musk’s comments…
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Transgenic validation of a promoter strongly inducible by Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Lang, J. et al. Fitness costs restrict niche expansion by generalist niche-constructing pathogens. ISME J. 11, 374–385 (2017).
Gelvin, S. B. Agrobacterium-Mediated plant transformation: the…
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China tests deep sea trident telescope
Chinese scientists say they are moving closer to building one of the world’s most powerful neutrino telescopes, an underwater array known as the Tropical Deep sea Neutrino Telescope, or TRIDENT, that will…
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There’s a 1950’s aircraft design which NASA still uses today in crucial operation for its 21st century spacecraft
Despite having all the technology in the world to play with, the NASA WB-57 is a 1950s aircraft that is still used in crucial operations for the leading aeronautics agency, and one was spotted in California.
NASA has explored more of…
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Extreme ‘Fire Amoeba’ Smashes Record For Heat Tolerance : ScienceAlert
A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance.
The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning “fire amoeba from the Cascades”, as
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