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Predicting the shape of a fat-lengthening enzyme to guide drug design
Fats do far more than store energy. They form the membranes that enclose every cell and act as chemical signals. Cells build and reshape them with enzymes, and one of these, ELOVL6, lengthens fatty acids by two carbon atoms. Embedded in the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum,…
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A neurosurgeon and a hypnotist walk into an O.R.
Authors: Chloe Noteboom, student of the European Master’s in Clinical Linguistics, EMCL and Adrià Rofes, associate professor of neurolinguistics, University of Groningen. A hypnotist and a neurosurgeon walk into an O.R…. no, there’s not a punchline coming. Hypnosis is a…
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The expensive AI’s preference for drugs with a strong online presence
Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, are increasingly being used to provide health information to the public. Although this is beneficial for improving access to treatment information, their limitations were revealed by a new study that found LLMs were…
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Gaston Bachelard and the making of a scientific mind
Author: José Luis Granados Mateo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) and a member of the Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (iHPS) research group. His work focuses on history and philosophy of…
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Magnetic edges in graphene islands survive on a metal
Graphene, a honeycomb sheet of carbon atoms just one atom thick, was first isolated in 2004 with adhesive tape and a lump of graphite, work that earned a Nobel Prize in 2010. Large sheets of graphene conduct electricity superbly, but they are not magnetic. Shrink a piece to a…
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Why can’t we simply replace lithium with sodium in batteries?
Author: Iñigo Careaga, strategy & communication manager, CIC energiGUNE Lithium and sodium are neighbours in the periodic table. Both are alkali metals, both have a single electron in their outer shell, and both can be used to shuttle ions between two electrodes to store and…
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Metal stays tough at cryogenic temperatures
Scientists have discovered a class of metal that can unexpectedly resist extreme cold using an unusual mechanism. Normally such temperatures would make similar materials brittle and vulnerable to breaking. The findings point to new principles for designing materials for…
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Why social sciences are natural ones (1)
Once upon a time, in a world very far from ours, there were a group of scientists devoted to the study of bacteria, or prokaryotes, who called themselves ‘biologists’, and a different group of researchers, who studied eukaryote organisms, and who received the name of…
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Computation sorts thousands of 2D crystals for topology and twisting
In 2004, physicists isolated graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick. It launched the study of two-dimensional (2D) materials: crystals a few atoms thick in which electrons are confined to a plane and can behave quite differently from those in ordinary solids. The family…
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AI, problem solving, and the future of STEM education
About the author: José Luis Granados Mateo is a former secondary-school and sixth-form STEM teacher, having taught physics, chemistry and mathematics. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the epistemology of science at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). When…
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When skin cells behave like neurons: The surprising discovery of electrical spikes in epithelia
Author: José R. Pineda got his Ph.D. from University of Barcelona in 2006. Since 2007 he has worked for Institut Curie and The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Currently he is a researcher of the EHU. He investigates the role of stem cells in physiologic…
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Women are more emotionally intelligent than men, and that’s a problem
Authors: Mary M. Hausfeld, Assistant Professor in Management, University of Limerick and Jochen Menges, Director of the Center for Leadership in the Future of Work, University of Zurich Who comes to mind when you think of someone emotionally intelligent? Someone who can read a…