One of the major rivers of Europe, the Elbe flows more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) across the continent before reaching the North Sea. At its mouth, the low-lying landscape is continually reshaped by the rise and fall of the tides. These dynamic tidal flats are a boon to biodiversity while sometimes posing challenges for
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An AI fact-checking tool found errors in molecule boiling points listed in a chemistry reference database.Credit: Monty Rakusen/Getty For decades, chemists have relied on handbook values for a molecule’s boiling point to identify substances and plan processes such as distillation. But an artificial-intelligence model has revealed that some trusted numbers in one reference database have
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Anderson, P. W. The resonating valence bond state in La2CuO4 and superconductivity. Science 235, 1196–1198 (1987). Article ADS PubMed CAS Google Scholar Lee, P. A., Nagaosa, N. & Wen, X.-G. Doping a Mott insulator: physics of high-temperature superconductivity. Rev. Mod. Phys. 78, 17–85 (2006). Article ADS CAS Google Scholar Imada, M., Fujimori, A. & Tokura,
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Ethical approval and sample collection All necessary ethical approvals to conduct this work and to ensure that the derived organoids could be used for academic and commercial purposes were obtained from each participating clinical site for the collection of patient samples as well as for the Wellcome Sanger Institute for organoid derivation (IRAS ID:203519; REC
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