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Black hole’s jets are so huge that they may shake up cosmology
Spanning 23 million light years, or 220 Milky Way galaxies, a set of giant, newly discovered black hole jets known as Porphyrion may change our understanding of black holes and the structure of the universe
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‘Shazam for whales’ uses AI to track sounds heard in Mariana Trench
An artificial intelligence model that can identify the calls of eight whale species is helping researchers track the elusive whale behind a perplexing sound in the Pacific
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A deep intronic splice–altering AIRE variant causes APECED syndrome through antisense oligonucleotide-targetable pseudoexon inclusion | Science Translational Medicine
An extrathymic AIRE expression system uncovered a deep intronic AIRE variant that causes APECED and can be targeted with antisense oligonucleotides.
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Preschool-age children maintain a distinct memory CD4+ T cell and memory B cell response after SARS-CoV-2 infection | Science Translational Medicine
Preschool-age children mount a different adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 than adults.
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Intratumoral radiation dose heterogeneity augments antitumor immunity in mice and primes responses to checkpoint blockade | Science Translational Medicine
Radiation dose heterogeneity promotes systemic antitumor immunity through induction of diverse immune activation pathways.
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ARGX-119 is an agonist antibody for human MuSK that reverses disease relapse in a mouse model of congenital myasthenic syndrome | Science Translational Medicine
ARGX-119 is a first-in-class MuSK agonist monoclonal antibody in clinical development for treatment of neuromuscular diseases.
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Perfusion imaging metrics after acute traumatic spinal cord injury are associated with injury severity in rats and humans | Science Translational Medicine
Ultrasound perfusion metrics are correlated with acute spinal cord injury severity in rats and humans.
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Deep humoral profiling coupled to interpretable machine learning unveils diagnostic markers and pathophysiology of schistosomiasis | Science Translational Medicine
Antibody profiling and machine learning provide insight into the underlying pathophysiology of schistosome infection stages.
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Venus could be rocked by thousands of quakes every year
The second-closest planet to the sun is more geologically active than we thought and could have more than 17,000 venusquakes a year
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Quantum computers teleport and store energy harvested from empty space
A quantum computing protocol makes it possible to extract energy from seemingly empty space, teleport it to a new location, then store it for later use
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Cold war spy satellites and AI detect ancient underground aqueducts
Archaeologists are using AI and US spy satellite imagery from the cold war to find ancient underground aqueducts that helped humans survive in the desert
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The AI expert who says artificial general intelligence is nonsense
Artificial intelligence has more in common with ants than humans, says Neil Lawrence. Only by taking a more nuanced view of intelligence can we see how machines will truly transform society
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Dark matter may allow giant black holes to form in the early universe
The long-standing mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so huge so quickly could be solved by decaying dark matter
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Polaris Dawn mission is one giant leap for private space exploration
The success of the all-civilian spacewalk on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission shows that private space flight is starting to catch up with government space agencies
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OpenAI’s warnings about risky AI are mostly just marketing
A powerful new AI called o1 is the most dangerous that OpenAI has ever released, the firm claims – but who are these warnings for, asks Chris Stokel-Walker
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Complex chemicals found on Enceladus improve prospects for life
The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could be among the ingredients needed for life to get started
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The deepfakes of Trump and Biden that you are most likely to fall for
Experiments show that viewers can usually identify video deepfakes of famous politicians – but fake audio and text are harder to detect
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SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew complete 'stand-up' civilian spacewalk
A groundbreaking civilian spacewalk saw two astronauts partially exit a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule wearing a brand new design of spacesuit. Every previous spacewalk completed before this was performed by government-trained astronauts.
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Visible aurora spotted for the first time on Mars by NASA rover
If you were standing on Mars as it was hit by a solar flare, you might be able to see an aurora just like on Earth
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Electric vehicles race combustion cars in 'battle of technologies'
‘Battle of Technologies’ sees electric vehicles and combustion cars compete at the highest level. Who will win?
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