A typical journal article contains the results of only one analysis pipeline, by one set of analysts. Even in the best of circumstances, there is reason to think that judicious alternative analyses would yield different outcomes. For example, in 2020, the UK Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling asked nine teams to calculate the reproduction
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Chilean researchers discovered the country’s first complete ichthyosaur and over two dozen additional fossils, thanks to a melting glacier in Patagonia. Intensive Study Meet “Fiona”, Chile’s first complete ichthyosaur, a pregnant mother recovered from a glacier in Patagonia! I’m thrilled to have been part of this incredible expedition led by my good friend and colleague,
People in Santiago are vaccinated against influenza.Credit: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters/Alamy Influenza vaccines have a surprising health benefit: they might also prevent COVID-19, particularly in its most severe forms1. A study of more than 30,000 health-care workers in Qatar found that those who got a flu jab were nearly 90% less likely to develop severe COVID-19 over
Dragonflies are a sight to behold, with their stretched body, massive wingspan, and iridescent colors. Their uniqueness extends beyond their appearance: being one of the world’s oldest insect species, they were an early pioneer of aerial flight. Dragonflies fly by moving their four wings separately utilizing muscles beneath their exoskeleton. This enables them to hover,
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Tuberculosis thrives in Mumbai’s cramped slums.Credit: Atul Loke/The New York Times/Redux/eyevine The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History Vidya Krishnan PublicAffairs (2022) In 2020, while all eyes were on COVID-19, tuberculosis infected nearly 10 million people globally and killed 1.5 million. It was also the first year since 2005 that the number of deaths from
Viruses and bacteria are some of the most notorious pathogens to inflict almost all living organisms, including humans, with various diseases. These known infections have been recorded since medicine was embedded in human civilization since time memorial. While the advancement in the field of medicine led to the development of medicines against certain illnesses, bacteria
Immune cells in humans have been a subject of large-scale contestations within the scientific community for several decades following one of their certain types was first discovered in mice. However, a new study confirmed the existence of a type of these mysterious cells in the human body, with the strongest biological evidence provided to date.
I’m sorry I set fire to your foot. You’d been gone for two months by then, on your third or fourth life, I never could tell. Your brainwaves were going crazy, the base sine jumping all over the scanner read-out. Even your heart rate was mad: 150 beats per minute. Neural feedback leakage; your heart
Climate change has not been a major feature of Australia’s election campaign, despite many parts of the country feeling its effects.Credit: Don Arnold/Getty Scientists in Australia are despondent ahead of the country’s election next week. They say neither the government nor the main opposition party have made sufficient pledges to address issues surrounding research funding,
Greenland has been discovered to be the site of an underground geothermal ‘freak zone’ following the conduction of heat flow mapping by scientists, according to a new study. The discovery opens the opportunity that the underground geothermal energy in Greenland can be an alternative energy source. The discovery comes as the country is still reeling
Credit: Getty I have spent a substantial amount of time on a project that was not fun. I did the majority of the work, and it ultimately came to nothing. Finding great collaborators, and being able to work with them productively, is one of the most important predictors of success. Others’ ideas about what makes
As howling winds continued to drive the erratic flames forward, a vast New Mexico wildfire was headed toward a ski resort and the 1,000-year-old hamlet of Taos. Warning (Photo : Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) Officials warned additional residents to prepare to flee as the fast-moving fire gained speed. Flames rushed across parched woods as people
FDA commissioner Robert Califf has pledged to reform the agency’s accelerated drug-approval programme.Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Nearly a year after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light to a controversial drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease, lawmakers are attempting to amend the process that led to its approval. The
Mohammed Shaaban is now based in London.Credit: Michael Bowles/The Francis Crick Institute In January 2011, I was fresh from completing my bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and chemistry at Fayoum University in Egypt, when demonstrations against the Egyptian regime culminated in a revolution. One direct outcome of the revolution was the inauguration of the Zewail City
Chimpanzees and gorillas have coexisted in peace for many years. Although they sometimes kill off youngsters or each other in one-on-one fights, ganging up on single males and entering in interspecies war are not their common behavior. It’s not the first time that this “vicious act of violence” has been observed in giant primates, but
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A wonderfully intact Iron Age arrow, replete with steel point, sinew pieces, plus aerodynamic feathery arrow shafts; has been discovered by permafrost scientists in Norway. Preserved Arrow from the Iron Age The fine plumes that assist direct the shaft in motion frequently deteriorate with age, making bow fletching very scarce. The shafts of Tzi the
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Where Futures Converge Robert Buderi MIT Press (2022) Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been dubbed “the most innovative square mile on earth”. Neighbouring the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it is a centre for life-sciences companies, tech firms and start-ups, from Moderna to IBM. One building with a history including the first long-distance telephone call
The falling body size of North Atlantic right whales may have serious ramifications for the species’ survival. According to new studies, smaller females have fewer calves. Previous studies revealed that North Atlantic right whales are shrinking in size, owing in part to frequent interconnections in fishing gear. According to the current results, minimizing the effects
Europe’s first farming populations descend mostly from farmers in the Anatolian peninsula, in what is now Turkey.Credit: Fatih Kurt/Anadolu Agency/Getty Sometime before 12,000 years ago, nomadic hunter-gatherers in the Middle East made one of the most important transitions in human history: they began staying put and took to farming. A pair of ancient-DNA studies1,2 —
As shown by latest report, large numbers of majestic bird species have become ill or died as a result of biodiversity degradation, global warming, and depletion of resources. 48% of Bird Species Drop Due To Climate Change According to a preliminary report covered by ScienceAlert from researchers around the world, nearly half of living bird species
The second-ever direct image of a black hole — Sagittarius A*, at the centre of the Milky Way.Credit: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration Radio astronomers have imaged the super massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. It is only the second-ever direct image of a black hole, after the same team unveiled a
Gilbert, W. Origin of life: the RNA world. Nature 319, 618 (1986). Article ADS Google Scholar Orgel, L. E. Evolution of the genetic apparatus. J. Mol. Biol. 38, 381–393 (1968). CAS PubMed Article Google Scholar Crick, F. H. C., Brenner, S., Klug, A. & Pieczenik, G. A speculation on the origin of protein synthesis. Orig.
Earthquake swarms have shaken the state of South Carolina within the past week. Although there were no immediate reports of casualties or infrastructural damage, a growing concern for a potential strong earthquake is looming in the Eastern Seaboard region of the United States. Over recent months, there have been multiple instances of earthquake swarms in
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 11 May 2022 Technique allows scientists to follow evolution in subpopulations of tumour cells — including those that spread in the body. A lung tumour. Populations of cells can evolve in different ways inside a tumour. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Before they invade other parts of the body, tumours can grow silently
Scientists studying the bottom of the world’s biggest ice sheet in East Antarctica have uncovered a city-sized lake whose sediments may hold information about the ice sheet’s origins. This would provide answers to concerns about what Antarctica used to be before it froze, how climate change has influenced it through time, and how the ice
Listen to the latest from the world of science, with Shamini Bundell and Benjamin Thompson. Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 In this episode: 00:57 Reviving retinas to understand eyes Research efforts to learn more about diseases of the human eye have been hampered as these organs degrade rapidly after death,
The brightest extra-galactic pulsar has been identified in the Large Magellanic Cloud (pictured).Credit: Pennock et al. A ‘galaxy’ is unmasked as a pulsar — the brightest outside the Milky Way Astronomers have confirmed that an object they thought was a distant galaxy is actually the brightest extra-galactic pulsar ever seen. The team made the discovery
Many creatures share the desire to hide and disappear, and some take “fading-away” to new heights. According to academics at Binghamton University, State University of New York, a tropical spider species utilizes an “air film” to conceal itself underwater from predators for up to 30 minutes. Spiders can hide underwater (Photo : DAMIEN MEYER/AFP via
In this image, I am using a cell sorter to isolate dendritic cells — a type of blood cell — from mice with cancer. There are relatively few of these cells in the body, but they have a crucial role in the function of the immune system. They incite the immune system to act against
Global climate change may cause peatland plants to expand in the Arctic. An international study team uncovered evidence of a “proto-peat,” which might represent the start of new peatlands. Plants, the ocean, and soil are examples of carbon sinks since they absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit. On the other hand,
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Tuberculosis has been a scourge of humanity for millennia: the oldest known cases are in a pair of 9,000-year-old skeletons. Despite modern therapies, the disease affects about ten million people a year. It’s challenging both to treat, and to study in the laboratory. Part of the difficulty is that the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium
Renewable energy has been increasing in importance over recent years as the world’s limited natural resources, such as power supplies and fuel, continue to decline amid a population spike and globalization. An energy crisis has been reported in some countries, placing the burden on both policymakers and scientists alike. In the latest development concerning the
A sign in Moscow displays currency exchange rates. Unpredictable economic consequences followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.Credit: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, nobody expected that the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and other nations would isolate Russia from the global economy in retaliation.
A hybrid monkey was seen in a jungle on the Borneo Island part of Malaysia, according to a new study. Scientists believed that the hybrid primate came from two different species that are competing for forest space. The discovery suggested thT there is a possibility that there are more crossbreed monkeys in the habitat. Hybrid
You could say that medicine is in my blood. My father was a surgeon. My grandfather, Rafael Hill, was also a medical doctor. In the 1960s, he founded the Evangelical Hospital in Montevideo. I study medicine that’s literally in the blood. In this photograph, I’m processing T cells from the blood of healthy donors, to
Ironbound is a massive great white shark that has been spotted off the coast of New Jersey recently. The male shark is believed to have significantly grown, measuring over 12 feet and weighing approximately 1,000 pounds since it was first tagged in 2019. Ironbound the Shark (Photo : Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) On the
Heavy rain in the mid-Atlantic region and prolonged fire weather in the Southwest US is likely this weekend into the early days of the coming week. Torrential rain is highly likely to cause flooding in affected areas, while fire weather is likely to trigger wildfires in areas affected by dry conditions. Both adverse weather conditions
A health worker gives the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine to a child in Santiago.Credit: Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Three new studies offer a first look at how well some of the most widely used COVID-19 vaccines protect young children from the coronavirus1–3. The results — including data from toddlers as young as three years old — have prompted
Sea anemones turn oxybenzone into a light-activated agent that can bleach and kill corals.Credit: Georgette Douwma/Getty A common but controversial sunscreen ingredient that is thought to harm corals might do so because of a chemical reaction that causes it to damage cells in the presence of ultraviolet light. Researchers have discovered that sea anemones, which
The arctic town of Qaanaaq, Greenland, is planning to incorporate renewable energy to save the lives of some of its financially-stricken residents, who were gripped by the burdens to pay for fossil fuels required to heat and power their homes. Qaanaaq, the country’s northernmost human settlement, has also been affected by the environmental repercussions of
Qaanaaq, with its roughly 600 residents, is the northernmost town in Greenland.Credit: Mary Albert For Toku Oshima, a hunter from Greenland, the quest to bring renewable energy to her hometown of Qaanaaq is not just a fight against climate change — it’s a fight for cultural survival. In 2015, Oshima journeyed from Qaanaaq — the
Following one of the wettest and coldest Aprils on record, the pattern is anticipated to continue with a week of rain, thunderstorms, and mountain snow, which could make driving through the Cascade Range passes challenging this weekend. According to the National Weather Service in Portland, 1.5 to 2.5 inches of rain is forecast in the
Here we go again. Nearly six months after researchers in South Africa identified the Omicron coronavirus variant, two offshoots of the game-changing lineage are once again driving a surge in COVID-19 cases there. Several studies released in the past week show that the variants — known as BA.4 and BA.5 — are slightly more transmissible
Several days after my outpatient cancer treatment, the bacteriophages started whispering to me. I’d got a syringe full of them in my blood stream; they had eaten away the tumour in minutes and that should’ve been the end of it. My immune system — at least according to the leaflet — ought to have mopped
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