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Annual Highlights of Results 2024: Key Takeaways, Introduction, and Bibliometric Analyses
Key Takeaways Introduction The International Space Station is a state-of-the art laboratory in low Earth orbit. Since the year 2000, distinguished researchers from a myriad of disciplines around the world have been sending equipment and investigations to stat…
Tobacco’s time warp: How centuries of smoke obscured our future
In the halls of the Smithsonian, we often contemplate how the past shapes our present. But a groundbreaking new study on tobacco use forces us to consider how our present actions will dramatically alter our future. Research published in The Lancet Public Heal…
Gaps between Open Science activities and actual recognition systems: Insights from an internation...
There are global movements aiming to promote reform of the traditional research evaluation and reward systems. However, a comprehensive picture of the existing best practices and efforts across various institutions to integrate Open Science into these framewo…
The Shattered Mirror of Globalisation: Unveiling the Consequences for the Electricity Industry
2. The Future of Electricity and Industry The global energy sector is at a crossroads, with two competing pathways: Continuation of Fossil Fuels Many governments prioritize short-term energy security by extending the life of oil, gas, and coal, particularly i…
Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion | Forethought
AI that can accelerate research could drive a century of technological progress over just a few years. During such a period, new technological or political developments will raise consequential and hard-to-reverse decisions, in rapid succession. We call these…
The next innovation revolution should be democratisation
Innovators are most likely to be men from privileged backgrounds. Xavier Jaravel argues that democratisation and widening of access to innovative careers worldwide is key to boosting long-term growth and addressing today’s economic, environmental and societal…Hatching of whipworm eggs induced by bacterial contact is serine-protease dependent
Author summary Human whipworms are parasites that cause the gastrointestinal disease trichuriasis in millions of people around the world. Infections occur when whipworm eggs, ingested in contaminated food and water, hatch in the intestine in response to gut b…Implications of tissue specific STING protein flux and abundance on inflammation and the developm...
Drugs targeting the ER-resident innate immune receptor Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) are in development for treatments of cancer and inflammatory diseases. Accurate determination of STING receptor levels in normal and disease tissue is an essential c…Data sharing in circadian rhythm and mental health research: current status, challenges, recommen...
Data sharing is a cornerstone of modern scientific research, playing a critical role in fostering greater collaboration, enhancing reproducibility, transparency and efficiency of scientific discoveries, and integrating diverse data sources. In circadian rhyth…Purple Peel Exploit: How Mitolyn Uses Mitochondria for Weight Loss
TALLMADGE, Ohio, Feb. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Purple peel exploit stands at the core of a groundbreaking revelation announced by research scientist Andrew Lambert, who—according to the official website—has unveiled Mitolyn, a revolutionary dietary supple…Eight quick tips for biologically and medically informed machine learning
Machine learning has become a powerful tool for computational analysis in the biomedical sciences, with its effectiveness significantly enhanced by integrating domain-specific knowledge. This integration has give rise to informed machine learning, in contrast…