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· Jan 7
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
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Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature
A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain
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Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
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Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis - Nature
A survey of the reconstructed gene set of the last eukaryotic common ancestor shows a consistent link between Asgard archaea and the origin of numerous, functionally diverse eukaryotic genes, dem...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis
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Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
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Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature
Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes
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The Ocean Equity Index
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The Ocean Equity Index - Nature
The Ocean Equity Index provides a systematic, twelve-criteria framework to assess and improve equity in ocean initiatives, projects and policies, producing structured data that guide evidence-bas...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
The Ocean Equity Index
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Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source
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Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source - Nature
Lasing with multi-pass gain is achieved in a diamond-based X-ray cavity at the European XFEL, opening a path to next-generation X-ray science.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Lasing of a cavity-based X-ray source
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Functional motifs in food webs and networks | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Functional motifs in food webs and networks | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Quantum benchmarking of high-fidelity noise-biased operations on a detuned Kerr-cat qubit | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Quantum benchmarking of high-fidelity noise-biased operations on a detuned Kerr-cat qubit | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The dynamics of cooperation in asymmetric public goods games | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The dynamics of cooperation in asymmetric public goods games | PNAS
When people collaborate in groups, they routinely face collective action problems:
for the group effort to succeed, individuals need to cooperate d...
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February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
The dynamics of cooperation in asymmetric public goods games | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Behavioral tuning of spider silk thread stiffness circumvents biomaterial trade-offs | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Behavioral tuning of spider silk thread stiffness circumvents biomaterial trade-offs | PNAS
Biological polymers often face a trade-off between stiffness, strength, and extensibility:
Materials that are strong and stiff tend to be brittle, ...
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February 5, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Behavioral tuning of spider silk thread stiffness circumvents biomaterial trade-offs | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
If anyone attending @scotiacon.bsky.social has access to the panel schedule and wants to let me know what (if any) STEM panels are happening so I can make a thread, it would be appreciated!
~ @sodalitejatholo.bsky.social
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February 1, 2026 at 11:40 AM
If anyone attending @scotiacon.bsky.social has access to the panel schedule and wants to let me know what (if any) STEM panels are happening so I can make a thread, it would be appreciated!
~ @sodalitejatholo.bsky.social
~ @sodalitejatholo.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Reposted by Science Furs
Funding for new arts projects focused on fungi - up to a maximum of £5,000. Open to artists from all disciplines and all geographic locations, to help encourage all sectors of society to engage with & learn about the world of fungi! Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/massee-arts-...
January 29, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Funding for new arts projects focused on fungi - up to a maximum of £5,000. Open to artists from all disciplines and all geographic locations, to help encourage all sectors of society to engage with & learn about the world of fungi! Find out more: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/massee-arts-...
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean
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Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean - Nature
A global atmospheric microplastics dataset is compiled, and comparison with size-aligned microplastic models in the literature indicate that fewer microplastic particles are emitted into the atmospher...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Atmospheric microplastic emissions from land and ocean
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An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth
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An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth - Nature
Discovery of a protocluster at z = 5.68, merely one billion years after the Big Bang, suggests that large-scale structure must have formed more rapidly in some regions of the early universe than previ...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:21 AM
An X-ray-emitting protocluster at z ≈ 5.7 reveals rapid structure growth
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Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation | PNAS
Civil society has long been a catalyst for social change by reshaping structures,
influencing values, and challenging power dynamics; however, its ...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Social movements are transformative agents for biodiversity conservation | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | PNAS
In the human brain, the allowed patterns of activity are constrained by the correlations
between brain regions. Yet it remains unclear which correl...
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January 30, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!
January 29, 2026 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, researchers have developed a targeted combination therapy that has successfully AND completely ELIMINATED KRAS-driven pancreatic tumors in experimental models. Tumors regressed COMPLETELY with NO recurrence OR major side effects. Let’s talk about that!
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Any #geology nerd friends wanna take a whack at what this crumbly green stuff is in the clay layer of this soil horizon profile?
Rosario Beach, Deception Pass WA
Rosario Beach, Deception Pass WA
January 29, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Any #geology nerd friends wanna take a whack at what this crumbly green stuff is in the clay layer of this soil horizon profile?
Rosario Beach, Deception Pass WA
Rosario Beach, Deception Pass WA
Reentry and disintegration dynamics of space debris tracked using seismic data | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reentry and disintegration dynamics of space debris tracked using seismic data
The risks posed by reentering space debris continue to grow as Earth’s orbit becomes more crowded. Currently, responses to uncontrolled reentries are hampered by an inability to reliably track spacecr...
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January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Reentry and disintegration dynamics of space debris tracked using seismic data | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
States pioneer a new frontier in US science funding | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
States pioneer a new frontier in US science funding
Thirty-five years ago, a survey of university faculty concluded that despite relatively stable public funding, the research environment in the United States had deteriorated to the point that “a major...
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January 23, 2026 at 7:28 PM
States pioneer a new frontier in US science funding | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Which of Trump’s upheavals in U.S. science are likely to stick? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Which of Trump’s upheavals in U.S. science are likely to stick?
A future president could reverse many changes, but greater White House control of science agencies may be here to stay
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January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Which of Trump’s upheavals in U.S. science are likely to stick? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
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Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry - Nature
Quantum interference of sodium nanoparticles, which can each contain more than 7,000 atoms at masses greater than 170,000 Da, is demonstrated.
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January 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry
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3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators
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3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators - Nature
3D-printed gel microcilia arrays printed by two-photon polymerization and composed of a soft acrylic acid-co-acrylamide hydrogel with a nanometre-scale network structure are shown to respond...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:12 PM
3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators
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Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage
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Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage - Nature
New hominin fossils from the Grotte à Hominidés at Thomas Quarry I (ThI-GH) in Casablanca, Morocco, dated to around 773 thousand years ago are similar in age to Homo antecessor, yet are morphologicall...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Early hominins from Morocco basal to the Homo sapiens lineage
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