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Why AI systems are most useful as designers of new scientific tools 0
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- August 17, 2026
Astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered pulsar stars using a radio telescope constructed near Cambridge, UK.Credit: Hencoup Enterprises/Science Photo Library The Engine of Scientific Discovery: How New Methods and Tools Spark Major Breakthroughs Alexander Krauss Oxford Univ. Press (2026) Popular accounts of notable scientific breakthroughs (including artificial intelligence) often portray them as the
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Too hot to sleep? How heatwaves at night affect our health 0
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- August 17, 2026
Global warming isn’t just about heat during the day. Nights are also getting hotter1–3. In May, Delhi recorded an overnight minimum temperature of 32.4 °C, and other parts of India remained 3–5 °C above normal after dark. As Western Europe experienced its hottest June on record, France registered a record overnight low of 22 °C, and East Saxony,
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How the story of life and our planet unfolded — together 0
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- August 17, 2026
Fossilized microbial mats known as stromalites provide important records of some of Earth’s earliest life.Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Earth & Life: A Four Billion Year Conversation Andrew H. Knoll Princeton Univ. Press (2026) On 14 February 1990, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft turned around briefly to snap a picture of Earth before heading
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Universities must stop protecting bullies — or more people will leave science 0
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- August 17, 2026
In 2019, after quitting a faculty job in response to bullying, I co-founded the Academic Parity Movement with environmental activist Saya Ameli Hajebi. We built the organization to give researchers somewhere to turn when their own institutions did not listen to or, worse, betrayed them. Seven years and several thousand case reports later, I have
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Maternal influences on infant gut microbiome and health – Nature 0
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- August 16, 2026
Study design The samples for this study were obtained from the Lifelines NEXT (LLNEXT) cohort, a birth cohort designed to study the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic predictors of health and disease in a four-generation design23. LLNEXT is embedded within the Lifelines (LL) cohort study, a prospective three-generation population-based cohort study recording the health and
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Rb-driven transcription limits its tumour-suppressive effects in breast cancer – Nature 0
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- August 16, 2026
Cell culture MCF7 (HTB-22), ZR-75-1 (CRL-1500), CAMA-1 (HTB-21), MDA-MB-453 (HTB-131), MDA-MB-231 (HTB-26), OVCAR-3 (HTB-161) and Kuramochi (JCRB0098) cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection. MCF7 ESR1Y537S cells were provided by S. Chandarlaparty35. MCF7, ZR-75-1, MDA-MB-231 and CAMA-1 cells were cultured in RPMI-1640 medium (11875-093, Gibco) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; SH30054.03,
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