Engineered pathway lets carbon be plugged directly into key metabolic pathways.
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New optical microscope captures atomic world with one-nanometer precision
Atomic-scale detail is now possible with photons, thanks to a cooled-down silver tip and a clever use of plasmonics.
Rare and beautiful bird, thought to be extinct, is rediscovered after 100 years of no sightings
The Endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is one of the rarest birds in Australia, with fewer than 20 known alive today.
“1,800 Miles Beneath Africa”: South Atlantic Anomaly Weakens Earth’s Magnetic Shield While Splitting Into Two Dangerous Lobes
The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is an area of scientific fascination and concern. This region, characterized by a weakened magnetic field over South America
On the Completeness of the Class of Fixed Size Sampling Strategies on JSTOR
H. Stenger, S. Gabler, On the Completeness of the Class of Fixed Size Sampling Strategies, The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 229–232
Apple Warns French Users of Fourth Spyware Campaign in 2025, CERT-FR Confirms
Apple warned French users of spyware on Sept 3, 2025, marking its fourth alert this year.
Revisiting the IPIP-NEO Personality Hierarchy with Taxonomic Graph Analysis
Describing and understanding personality structure is fundamental to predict and explain human behavior. Recent research calls for large personality item pools to be analyzed from the bottom-up, as item-level analysis may reveal meaningful differences often obscured by aggregation. This study introduces and applies Taxonomic Graph Analysis (TGA), a comprehensive network psychometrics framework aimed at identifying hierarchical structures in personality from the bottom-up, to an open-source 300-item IPIP-NEO dataset (N = 149,337). This framework addresses key methodological challenges that have hindered accurate recovery of hierarchical structures, including local independence violations, wording effects, dimensionality assessment, and structural robustness.
6 Ways Aliens Could Find Us
Whether or not you think humans *should* be announcing our presence to the cosmos, we’re doing it, anyway. Both intentionally, and not. And if aliens really…
Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’
In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules.







