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This year's pivotal election will shape the future of US science. Rising international competition and domestic concerns are also at play.
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DNA stores data in bits after epigenetic upgrade
‘Bricks’ of DNA, some of which have chemical tags, could one day be an alternative to storing information electronically.
- Heidi Ledford
Journals with high rates of suspicious papers flagged by science-integrity start-up
Scitility’s tool ‘Argos’ identifies work whose authors have a record of misconduct.
- Richard Van Noorden
Scalable watermarking for identifying large language model outputs
A scheme for watermarking the text generated by large language models shows high text quality preservation and detection accuracy and low latency, and is feasible in large-scale-production settings.
- Sumanth Dathathri
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Daily briefing: A mega-meteorite might have helped early life on Earth to thrive
A meteorite might have acted as a ‘giant fertilizer bomb’ that helped early microorganisms to thrive. Plus, 5 million tonnes of diamond dust sprinkled in the skies each year could cool the climate.
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Not all wildfires can be averted, but data, models and collaborations can help to chart a course to a fire-resilient future.
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‘Look twice and forgive once’ when judging social behaviour
How should people judge someone when they know a lot about that person’s social behaviour? Mathematical modelling reveals a simple and effective method for assigning reputations that uses several observations and forgives some bad actions. This strategy benefits society by maintaining cooperation even without complex norms or public institutions previously considered essential.
Brown-algae development joins the hourglass club
Multicellular species of animals and plants differ in form but look similar when their body plan is established — described as an hourglass-like pattern of development. Independently evolved brown algae develop this way, too.
- Diethard Tautz
AI-designed DNA sequences regulate cell-type-specific gene expression
Researchers have used artificial-intelligence models to create regulatory DNA sequences that drive gene expression in specific cell types. Such synthetic sequences could be used to target gene therapies to particular cell populations.
- Andreas R. Pfenning
Local government actions can curb air pollution in India and Pakistan
Burning crop waste causes devastating pollution in South Asia. When local administrators have appropriate incentives to control burning, incidents go down — a finding that could guide future efforts to manage air pollution.
- Satchit Balsari
- Manoj Mohanan
‘Do-it-yourself’ data storage on DNA paves way to simple archiving system
Data can be stored on DNA, but the methods involve time-consuming DNA synthesis and must be done by experts. A user-friendly approach has been developed that potentially solves these problems.
- Carina Imburgia
- Jeff Nivala
Intestinal tuft cells act as reserve stem cells after injury
Disease background influences fate of transplanted stem cells.
- Vijay G. Sankaran
Surprisingly high-altitude Silk Road city mapped from the sky
- Zachary W. Silvia
Oceanic western boundary currents modulate local climate variability
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Anti-viral defence by an mRNA ADP-ribosyltransferase that blocks translation
The bacterial anti-phage toxin–antitoxin–chaperone defence system CmdTAC senses capsid proteins via CmdC, enabling dissociation from the CmdTAC complex of the RNA ADP-ribosyltransferase CmdT, which targets single-stranded RNAs, inhibiting viral replication.
- Christopher N. Vassallo
- Christopher R. Doering
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Large-scale medieval urbanism traced by UAV–lidar in highland Central Asia
Pairing of very-high-resolution surface modelling with semiautomated feature detection produces a detailed plan of monumental fortifications and architecture spanning 120 ha at Tugunbulak, Uzbekistan, demonstrating one of the largest highland urban constellations in premodern Central Asia.
- Michael D. Frachetti
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Bureaucrat incentives reduce crop burning and child mortality in South Asia
Around 1.8–2.7 deaths per 1,000 births (4.4–6.6% of the average child mortality) could be prevented in Pakistan and India if bureaucrats control crop burning across all areas of their jurisdiction as they do in places where fires would pollute their own district.
- Gemma Dipoppa
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