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Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more

Using pollen to make paper, sponges, and more

Softening the shell To begin working with pollen, scientists can remove the sticky coating around the grains in a process called defatting. Stripping away these lipids and allergenic proteins is the first step in creating the empty capsules for drug delivery that Csaba seeks. Beyond that, however, pollen’s seemingly impenetrable shell—made up of the biopolymer sporopollenin—had long stumped researchers and …

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Hiring Goes Old School to Skip AI: Paper Resumes, in-Person Interviews

Hiring Goes Old School to Skip AI: Paper Resumes, in-Person Interviews

Tyler Sorenson was fed up with his job hunt, so he went old school: He dropped off a paper résumé at a local tech repair company. Sorenson, 24, had been feeling a common frustration among job seekers. He was seeing “help wanted” signs and hearing about understaffed businesses, but he couldn’t get replies to his online job applications. The store …

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Astrophysicists Stunned as “Space Is Folding Like Paper” After James Webb Uncovers Disturbing Clues Pointing to Universe-Scale Black Hole

Astrophysicists Stunned as “Space Is Folding Like Paper” After James Webb Uncovers Disturbing Clues Pointing to Universe-Scale Black Hole

IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a pattern in galaxy rotations, challenging previous beliefs. 🌀 Approximately 60% of the observed galaxies rotate clockwise, suggesting a possible cosmic order. 🌌 A bold hypothesis proposes that our universe might be inside a massive black hole, reshaping cosmic understanding. 🔍 Observational bias like the Doppler effect could …

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Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger

Controversial quantum-computing paper gets hefty correction — but concerns linger

An abstract representation of Majoranas, which are their own antiparticles.Credit: Ramon Andrade 3DCiencia/Science Photo Library A key study1 claiming to provide evidence of Majorana quasiparticles has received an extensive correction five years after it was published in the journal Science. Two researchers who flagged the paper as problematic say that the correction isn’t sufficient — triggering the latest dispute in …

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Federal courts go old school to paper filings after hack to key system

Federal courts go old school to paper filings after hack to key system

Facebook Tweet Email Link Federal district courts are beginning to implement new approaches to guard confidential information in cases following a breach of the electronic databases used in the judiciary. The policy changes move an already vulnerable and antiquated record-keeping system to paper-only filings in some instances after a major cyber security breach of federal court records this summer that …

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Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper – Retraction Watch

Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper – Retraction Watch

George Church A paper coauthored by geneticist George Church has been retracted following an internal review at a university where several coauthors are based. The article appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. The work supports an anti-aging gene therapy developed by BioViva, a company for which Church serves as an adviser. The paper’s authors …

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Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted by journal

Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted by journal

A neurochemistry journal has retracted a paper that claimed prenatal vaccine exposure caused autism-like behaviors in rats. The retraction comes more than a year after the paper’s publication and amid criticism of its methodology. The paper, which was originally published 10 January 2024 in Neurochemical Research, purported to show reduced sociability in rats born to mothers that received a human-sized …

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‘The Office’ Spin-Off ‘The Paper’: Watch the Trailer

‘The Office’ Spin-Off ‘The Paper’: Watch the Trailer

The new show, which premieres on Sept. 4 on Peacock, follows a new editor-in-chief’s ambitions to revitalize a sleepy Midwest town’s struggling newspaper The Office’s Oscar can’t believe he’s found himself back in front of the same documentary team that followed him around for years at Dunder Mifflin, in the official trailer for the sitcom’s spin-off, The Paper.  Reprising his …

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‘The Office’ spinoff, ‘The Paper,’ first trailer, photos revealed

‘The Office’ spinoff, ‘The Paper,’ first trailer, photos revealed

Extra, extra, read all about it.  Peacock has officially released the first trailer of “The Office” spinoff show, “The Paper.” The mockumentary is set at a dying Midwestern newspaper in Toledo, Ohio.  Domhnall Gleeson and Steve Carell. In the trailer, text onscreen informs the audience, “Several years ago, a documentary crew filmed the story of Dunder Mifflin. Now they’ve found a …

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