Media are invited to hear from NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 astronauts during a news conference beginning at 2:45 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Sept. 16, from the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will discuss their upcoming return to Earth. Learn where
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Glaciers shape the landscapes of Spitsbergen, an island of Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.Credit: Arterra/Sven-Erik Arndt/UIG/Getty As warnings about a potential ‘mega’ El Niño grab headlines and spread through social media, communicators face a familiar challenge: how to persuade people to pay attention to climate risks — and act. Fighting climate change takes
Researcher Miki Takahara accepts an Ig Nobel on behalf of the late Tokuji Unno.Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Hands up if you’ve been to a science awards ceremony. Black tie, fine dining, long speeches and polite applause. Any humour has to be calibrated carefully. Compare this with the Ig Nobel awards. These also celebrate genuine, published research
Selection and prioritization of extracellular tumour-derived genes Candidate extracellular tumour-derived genes were identified using a stepwise filtering and prioritization strategy integrating single-cell transcriptomic analyses, protein subcellular localization annotations, functional dependency data, domain-based functional annotation and literature-based curation (Extended Data Fig. 1a). Publicly available scRNA-seq datasets from human14 and mouse15 PDAC were independently analysed. Within each