One of the earliest applications of ‘AI scientists’ was to research AI itself.Credit: La Pico de Gallo/Getty Artificial intelligence has made leaps in AI research itself, finding ways to make existing algorithms smarter — or writing new ones. But computers are not yet ready to replace their makers, according to a study posted on the
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Researchers are racing to determine the impact of rising sea surface temperatures on fragile marine ecosystems.Credit: Armando Babani/Getty The world’s oceans are on the brink of setting an all-time heat record, reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air. “It just spells trouble
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RNA sequencing and analysis E. coli BL21(DE3) cells (NEB: C2527H), which lack endogenous copies of IS621 elements, were transformed with plasmids encoding either the RE–LE junction or the LE–recombinase–RE region of the IS621 element. The cells were plated on LB (lysogeny broth) agar with kanamycin and grown overnight at 37 °C. Colonies were scraped from the
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Data The HST Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images use the Wide Field Channel (WFC) in the F555W and F814W filters, have an angular resolution of 0.1″ and reach exposure times of 2,406 s and 2,439 s, respectively. The observations were carried out in September 2022 under HST programme ID 16890 (ref. 52) and the resulting images of
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