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Scientists have cracked the sweetpotato’s unusually complex DNA, uncovering its surprising ancestry and unlocking powerful tools to strengthen this essential global crop. Credit: Shutterstock Sweet potato DNA decoded, revealing hybrid ancestry. Discovery aids future breeding and resilience. The sweet potato is a staple food for millions of people worldwide, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where its ability to withstand climate extremes …

Illustration of intense pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser (left) heating compressed samples of hydrocarbons to extreme conditions, resulting in the reaction of gold and hydrogen to form gold hydride (center). The gold atoms, shown in gold, are fixed in a hexagonal crystal lattice through which the hydrogen, shown in white, diffuses freely in a “superionic” state. Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC …

New research suggests that the loss of smell in early Alzheimer’s may stem from the brain’s immune cells dismantling critical neural pathways, offering fresh clues for early detection. Credit: Shutterstock Immune-driven nerve fiber damage may underlie early smell loss in Alzheimer’s, offering a new path for early diagnosis. A diminishing sense of smell can appear as one of the earliest …

For centuries, sailors spoke of colossal rogue waves that appeared without warning, dismissed by many as mere maritime lore. Now, new research reveals these towering walls of water aren’t oceanic mysteries at all — but the natural outcome of ordinary wave physics aligning in extraordinary ways. Credit: Shutterstock Rogue waves are not anomalies but the result of normal ocean dynamics. …

Antarctic researchers endured sexual harassment: Survey  NewsNation Source link

Kenneth Cheung/Getty Images AI is an impressive tool, and companies like Google and OpenAI continue to improve and expand upon what their models can do. At the same time, generative AI chatbots are also becoming bigger targets for bad actors, and now security researchers have found a way to hack someone’s Google …

Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have developed a groundbreaking technique that can help uncover hidden differences between seemingly identical bacteria and may open new avenues to cure bacterial diseases. “Our method, Microcolony-seq, is important because it enables us to characterize the different subgroups of bacteria that are causing infection,” Dr. Raya Faigenbaum-Romm, a postdoctoral researcher, recently …

Long Covid symptoms similar to levels seen in stroke survivors, researchers find  The Independent Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s  The Conversation Devastating symptoms of long Covid compared to degenerative disease by new study  The Independent COVID reinfection may raise risk of persistent symptoms by 35%  CIDRAP Incidence of Long COVID …

Researchers at UT Southwestern have uncovered a surprising way in which tumors exploit the body’s own immune system to grow unchecked. Their findings reveal a hidden interaction between a hormone and an immune receptor that switches cancer-fighting cells into cancer-supporting ones. Credit: Shutterstock A hormone-receptor interaction weakens immunity. Targeting it could fight cancer. Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have …

When NASA’s Dawn mission arrived at Ceres in 2015, scientists and the general public got their first detailed look at this strange and beautiful planetoid. As the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt, accounting for more than 39% of its total mass, Ceres is the only object in the Belt that has undergone hydrostatic equilibrium (aka. became round under …