I need a caffeine boost in the morning to properly function. And I’m not alone – according to a Reuters study, 65 percent of Americans have coffee every day, and more than 85% drink it regularly. But, according to CNBC, there’s a specific time of day you should drink your coffee if you want to feel the best
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A doctor and couple review an x-ray.Free Stock Photos Earlier this year, I wrote about three young women diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. There was little research on their disease and their future didn’t look bright. So they hatched a plan and, with our help at the Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, launched
Will this glass ampule of vitamin D really have any effects on your bone health? (Photo: Getty Images) Before you spend any money to buy and take Vitamin D supplements to help your bones, you may want to bone up on the available scientific evidence. That’s what Mark J Bolland, PhD and Andrew Grey, MD
Image CreditCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times SectionsSkip to contentSkip to site index Why Count All the Squirrels in Central Park? Why the Heck Not The team behind the park’s census of Eastern grays say an accurate tally is possible despite the critters’, well, squirrelish ways. CreditCreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Attention,
Ilustration of a black hole and its surrounding, accelerating and infalling accretion disk. The initial and final states of black holes can be well-predicted, even if the loss-or-retention of information cannot, at present.NASA When it comes to the sciences, sometimes making two observations or measurements that appear to contradict each other is the best thing
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Within a decade of a massive die off due to a fungus commonly known as chytrid, the frog species left in El Copé, Panama developed the ability to coexist with the deadly fungus. In a later field study, the researchers found that frogs infected with the fungus survived at a nearly identical rate compared with
The Kepler mission is coming to an end. The planet-hunting spacecraft that transformed our understanding of exoplanets and other solar systems is almost out of fuel. What little fuel remains is being held in reserve to ensure that the last of its data can be sent home. The Kepler team has placed the spacecraft in
A psychologist In the hit BBC TV show, Killing Eve, Villanelle, a psychopathic assassin, tells Eve, a security service operative, “You should never call a psychopath a psychopath. It upsets them.” She then pouts her lip in an imitation of someone feeling upset. Most people think they know what a psychopath is: someone who has
domains Who Is Neri Oxman? A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt. Image Designing woman: Ms. Oxman is the rare tenured professor to land in the tabloids.CreditCreditCody O’Loughlin for The New York Times By Penelope Green Oct. 6, 2018 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
A fresh version of David Attenborough’s classic book may be light on climate change, but it should inspire a new generation to cherish life on earth Attenborough’s classic has all-new shots, including a crocodile (above) and a sloth (below) By Rowan Hooper Life on Earth: The greatest story ever told by David Attenborough, William Collins
We don’t need to tell you world news is pretty grim right now – if you use social media, it’s nigh on impossible to avoid articles about bubbling permafrost, drug-resistant gonorrhoea, and deadly obesity treatments. And that’s just the science headlines. But despite all the doom and gloom, in reality there are a whole bunch
About a third of US adults don’t get enough sleep. And sleep deprivation has serious consequences for your brain and body. Many people think they can get by on less than seven to nine hours a night – the amount of sleep doctors recommend for most adults – or say they need to sleep less because of work or family obligations. The
Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit stumbled on a very strange case last year – when life support was turned off for four terminal patients, one of them showed persistent brain activity even after they were declared clinically dead. For more than 10 minutes after doctors confirmed death through a range of observations, including
The COSMIC Cancer Gene Census: describing genetic dysfunction across all human cancers The COSMIC Cancer Gene Census: describing genetic dysfunction across all human cancers, Published online: 06 October 2018; doi:10.1038/s41568-018-0060-1 This Review discusses the 2018 Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) Cancer Gene Census (CGC), an expert-curated description of human cancer genes, which has
HPV Vaccine Expanded for People Ages 27 to 45 Image About 14 million women and men become infected with the human papillomavirus each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.CreditCreditKeith Bedford/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images By Denise Grady and Jan Hoffman Oct. 5, 2018 The HPV vaccine,
Studies routinely find that men are more likely to cheat on their partners, commit sexual misconduct, and act recklessly when it comes to sex. Why have men evolved to be more sexually impulsive, and can we learn to change our ways? Couple getting married. Infidelity continues to be the one of leading causes of divorce. (Getty Images)
Abstract Recent advances in epigenomics have made it possible to map genome-wide regulatory regions using empirical methods. Subsequent comparative epigenomic studies have revealed that regulatory regions diverge rapidly between genome of different species, and that the divergence is more pronounced in enhancers than in promoters. To understand genomic changes underlying these patterns, we investigated if
Abstract In bacterial cells, gene expression, metabolism, and growth are highly interdependent and tightly coordinated. As a result, stochastic fluctuations in expression levels and instantaneous growth rate show intricate cross-correlations. These correlations are shaped by feedback loops, trade-offs and constraints acting at the cellular level; therefore a quantitative understanding requires an integrated approach. To that
Waymo self-driving car in ArizonaWaymo As self-driving cars edge closer to deployment for the general public, a spate of stories from The Information, Motor Trend, and Forbes have pointed out specific difficulties that these vehicles are experiencing. Waymo receives the most focus since it has the largest fleet of self-driving vehicles, currently 600 and growing, the
Can the origin of life be explained with quantum mechanics? And if so, are there quantum algorithms that could encode life itself? We’re a little closer to finding out the answers to those big questions thanks to new research carried out with an IBM supercomputer. Encoding behaviours related to self-replication, mutation, interaction between individuals, and
When a star just can’t take it any more, it can produce a gamma ray burstBill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF By Leah Crane It started with a bang – at least, it must have. Astronomers have spotted a weird radio signal from space that appears to be the shock wave from an enormous explosion, but we never
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Dr. Bernard J. Carroll, ‘Conscience of Psychiatry,’ Dies at 77 Image Dr. Bernard J. Carroll at Duke University in the 1980s. A pioneer in biological psychiatry, he later became a scourge of corruption in scientific research. He called most drug trials “infomercials.”CreditCreditCarroll Family Archive By Benedict Carey Oct. 4, 2018 Dr. Bernard J. Carroll, whose
Cassini end its mission by plunging into SaturnNASA/JPL-Caltech By Leah Crane Cassini is dead, but its legacy lives on. Before the NASA spacecraft plunged into Saturn and burned up last September, it made 22 daring final orbits, swooping between the planet and its rings in a mission called the Grand Finale. Now, researchers are analysing
CERN is the home of particle physicsFabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images By Leah Crane Particle physicists are not happy with Alessandro Strumia. Last week, the particle physicist gave a talk at CERN claiming that men are innately better at physics research than women. Now, the high-energy physics community is pushing back. The presentation, in which Strumia claimed
Physicists assemble the LUX (Large Underground Xenon) detector, which was one of the world’s most sensitive searches for the direct detection of dark matter particles. When in place inside the Homestake mine, the liquid-xenon-filled capsule hoped to detect three or four particles of dark matter a year. It wound up detecting zero. (John B. Carnett/Bonnier
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In the last weeks before it plunged into the stormy heart of Saturn a year ago, Cassini did something no other probe has done before. It swooped in between the planet and its signature rings, instrumentation furiously collecting data all way until the absolute end. And in those final orbits, it was bathed in unexpectedly
The ability to record transcriptional events within a cell over time would help to elucidate how molecular events give rise to complex cellular behaviours and states. However, current molecular recording technologies capture only a small set of defined stimuli. Researchers at ETH Zurich developed a method they called Record-seq for capturing gene-expression profiles. They genetically engineered the
Only 28 percent of American CEOs are women. To find out why such a gap exists, a study published this fall in Personnel Psychology analyzed more than 100 papers on leadership emergence published between 1957 and 2017. In the papers, samples of students or co-workers were asked to select group leaders or to rate one another
A comparison of surveys taken of the sky years apart has revealed an empty space where a star 280 million light years away once sat. Coded FIRST J1419+3940, records of the object hint at what would have been a violent death. Curiously, no trace of its final explosive moments can be found – but this
Not all hospital waste has been disposed of correctlyStephen Barnes/Medical / Alamy Stock Photo By New Scientist staff and Press Association Human body parts are among hundreds of tonnes of waste from UK hospitals which have been allowed to pile up by disposal company Healthcare Environment Services. The company has been found to be in breach of its
If the world is going to avoid catastrophic climate change, we need to stop consuming fossil fuels and start getting power from renewable energy sources – including geothermal energy, biofuels, hydropower, solar farms, and wind – as soon as possible. Wind is particularly appealing, as it’s one of the cheapest and most efficient ways to
Posted by: RNA-Seq Blog in Review Publications 46 mins ago 46 Views Subpopulation identification, usually via some form of unsupervised clustering, is a fundamental step in the analysis of many single-cell RNA-seq data sets. This has motivated the development and application of a broad range of clustering methods, based on various underlying algorithms. Here, researchers
An eight-year-old Swedish-American girl named Saga Vanecek has sealed her fate as a future queen of legend – in July, she pulled a possibly 1,500 year-old pre-Viking era sword from a lake in Sweden. Sweden has been hit by an intense drought this year, which lowered the water levels in the Vidöstern lake where the epic
It’s little secret that Neanderthals and our ancestors intimately enjoyed each other’s company. The legacy of this occasional genetic mixing persists in the form of Neanderthal DNA that many modern humans continue to carry. Exactly how this exchange benefited us has been a bit of a mystery. A new study argues that we have Neanderthals
The Pentagon is studying whether insects can be enlisted to combat crop loss during agricultural emergencies. The bugs would carry genetically engineered viruses that could be deployed rapidly if critical crops such as corn or wheat became vulnerable to a drought, a natural blight or a sudden attack by a biological weapon. The concept envisions
A couple of weeks ago a small hole in Arkansas became a show-stopper, with a 12-foot (3.6 metre) high flame erupting out of it, which continued to burn at 8 feet (2.4 metres) for over 40 minutes. Unfortunately, there are no pictures or video of the September 17 flame-shooting event (it happened at 4:30 am),
China secretly inserted surveillance microchips into servers used by major technology companies, including Apple and Amazon.com, in an audacious military operation likely to further inflame trade tensions between the United States and its leading source of electronics components and products, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Thursday morning. The article – which the companies vigorously denied – detailed
High throughput (HT) screens in the omics field are typically analyzed by automated pipelines that generate static visualizations and comprehensive spreadsheet data for scientists. However, exploratory and hypothesis driven data analysis are key aspects for the understanding of biological systems, which benefit considerably from customized and dynamic visualization. WIlsON was implemented in R Shiny as
What does it mean to be “good?” That’s the central question of NBC’s The Good Place, a show that has consistently tackled (at the same time) both the here-and-now of life on earth as well as what might wait for us all after death. At times, it seems to be spiritual but not religious, religious but not
Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Plastics Are Predicted to Rise Image A plastic bag in a Dow Chemical research and development lab in Freeport, Tex. CreditCreditMichael Stravato for The New York Times By Kendra Pierre-Louis Oct. 4, 2018 Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. A sharp increase
A boy stands in front of a stranded ship after a deadly tsunami struck the area on October 2, 2018 in Donggala, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) Well that didn’t take long. It’s been less than a week since the Indonesian earthquake and tsunami on the island of Sulawesi robbed thousands of people of their lives,
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Citation: Chen L, Fish AE, Capra JA (2018) Prediction of gene regulatory enhancers across species reveals evolutionarily conserved sequence properties. PLoS Comput Biol 14(10): e1006484. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006484 Editor: Jian Ma, Carnegie Mellon University, UNITED STATES Received: March 3, 2018; Accepted: September 2, 2018; Published: October 4, 2018 Copyright: © 2018 Chen et al. This is an
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