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Early Life Exposure to Common Chemical Permanently Disrupts Gut Microbiome (www.psu.edu)

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The Strange Heat Island Lurking Beneath Minneapolis (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Significant Link Found Between Heme Iron, Found in Red Meat and Other Animal Products, and Type 2 Diabetes Risk (www.hsph.harvard.edu)

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Wet-lab innovations will lead the AI revolution in biology (substack.com)

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DUNE Scientists Observe First Neutrinos with Prototype Detector at Fermilab (newscenter.lbl.gov)

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Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Activates Cardiac Fibrogenesis through NLRP3 Inflammasomes and NF-κB Signaling (www.mdpi.com)

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Supporting at-risk and displaced Sudanese scientists: offers of assistance, news and resources (poliversity.it)

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Supporting at-risk and displaced Sudanese scientists: offers of assistance, news and resources

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Science at risk: a race against time to protect seeds in Sudan (poliversity.it)

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Science at risk: a race against time to protect seeds in Sudan

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Bacteria Encode Hidden Genes Outside Their Genome — Do We? (www.cuimc.columbia.edu)

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Since the genetic code was first deciphered in the 1960s, our genes seemed like an open book. By reading and decoding our chromosomes as linear strings of letters, like sentences in a novel, we can identify the genes in our genome and learn why changes in a gene’s code affect health.

This linear rule of life was thought to govern all forms of life—from humans down to bacteria.

But a new study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100668/) by Columbia researchers shows that bacteria break that rule and can create free-floating and ephemeral genes, raising the possibility that similar genes exist outside of our own genome.

“What this discovery upends is the notion that the chromosome has the complete set of instructions that cells use to produce proteins,” says Samuel Sternberg, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular biology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, who led the research with Stephen Tang, an MD/PhD student at the medical school.

“We now know that, at least in bacteria, there can be other instructions not preserved in the genome that are nonetheless essential for cell survival.”

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Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect (www.quantamagazine.org)

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Researchers offer alternatives to Eurocentric ways of doing things (poliversity.it)

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Researchers offer alternatives to Eurocentric ways of doing things

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IPCC call for authors and editors for the “Special Report on Climate Change and Cities” (poliversity.it)

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IPCC call for authors and editors for the “Special Report on Climate Change and Cities”

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IPCC call for authors and editors for a methodology report on inventories for short-lived climate forcers (poliversity.it)

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IPCC call for authors and editors for a methodology report on inventories for short-lived climate forcers

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Nominations open for the Foundation Fellowship of the Pacific Academy of Sciences (poliversity.it)

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Nominations open for the Foundation Fellowship of the Pacific Academy of Sciences

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Smallest Arm Bone in Human Fossil Record Sheds Light on the Dawn of Homo floresiensis (news.griffith.edu.au)

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Fighting disinformation with sunshine: promoting funding transparency in science (poliversity.it)

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Fighting disinformation with sunshine: promoting funding transparency in science

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Fighting disinformation with sunshine: promoting funding transparency in science (poliversity.it)

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Fighting disinformation with sunshine: promoting funding transparency in science

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Earth's days are getting longer, science explains why (thefreedomproject.pages.dev)

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A cost-effective method for preparing neodymium-containing magnesium alloy by calcium thermal reduction of Nd₂O₃ was optimized. (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Olympic spirit and global peace: Insights from Matt Meyer’s keynote address at UNESCO (poliversity.it)

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Olympic spirit and global peace: Insights from Matt Meyer’s keynote address at UNESCO

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Olympic Spirit and Global Peace: Insights from Matt Mayer’s keynote address at UNESCO (poliversity.it)

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Olympic Spirit and Global Peace: Insights from Matt Mayer’s keynote address at UNESCO

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Half a Billion-Year-Old Spiny Slug Reveals the Origins of Molluscs (www.ox.ac.uk)

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On the conditions for mimicking natural selection in chemical systems (www.nature.com)

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Open Science round-up July (poliversity.it)

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Open Science round-up July

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Tulane Study Says New Drug Shows Promise in Clearing HIV from Brain (news.tulane.edu)

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