The European Service Module, depicted on the left, provides propulsion and life-support systems for the Orion spacecraft.Credit: ESA-D. Ducros As the Orion spacecraft heads back to Earth and towards the conclusion of the Artemis II lunar fly-by journey, it is doing so with the support of European engineering. Four astronauts — three from NASA and…
Single guide RNA design and cloning The gRNA used for SGE was designed using Benchling’s CRISPR design tool to search the RNU4-2 locus, including upstream and downstream regions of low sequence homology to RNU4-1 and pseudogenes, identifying a candidate with high on-target and low off-target scores. The selected gRNA was not predicted to target RNU4-1,…
In Pokémon Pokopia, the player (right) learns how to water plants from Squirtle.Credit: The Pokémon Company In Pokémon’s latest simulation game, named Pokémon Pokopia, players no longer catch creatures. Now, their role has evolved into one of restoring the deserted, post-apocalyptic Kanto region by using the skills of the Pokémon they befriend. Squirtle’s water gun…
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A study of the varied response to obesity drugs harnessed data from people who used 23andMe DNA tests.Credit: Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg via Getty Scientists have identified a set of genetic variants that could help to explain why responses to obesity drugs vary markedly from person to person1. One variant is associated with greater weight loss from…
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Nature, Published online: 08 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00811-6 Forests that regrow on farmland are resilient and regain much of their lost biodiversity and species richness in 30 years — a finding with implications for conservation. Source link
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Credit: Adapted from Getty A few weeks ago, a colleague sent me the kind of message that usually means I’m about to lose three hours of my life: “You have to try this!” Included was a link to an online Chinese-language game called Green Pepper Simulator — a play on words based on the fact…
At the fundamental level, the strong nuclear force between nucleons arises from quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a quantum field theory formulated in terms of their ‘colour-charged’ elementary constituents, the quarks and gluons. The interaction between these constituents is characterized by being weak at very high energies and short distances, a phenomenon known as asymptotic freedom5,6, whereas,…