Google announced its biggest deal yet to purchase offshore wind energy for its data centers in Europe, signing power purchase agreements to support two new wind farms off the coast of the Netherlands. It’s part of Google’s plan to match all of its data center electricity consumption with clean energy generation on a 24/7 …
SDSS image of host galaxy NGC 3799, before the transient occurred. The nucleus of the galaxy where the TDE happened is marked with a green cross and is also shown in a zoomed-in inset in the top right corner. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.11773 An international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of …
Could a nearby super Earth host life? Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek Images/Alamy To prepare for one of the most advanced searches for life on other planets, astronomers have examined the stars that a new multibillion-dollar telescope might target. They discovered some may be better suited than others to hunt for potential alien life. In the 2040s, …
A type of deep-sea anglerfish called the black seadevil Doug Perrine / Alamy Deep-sea anglerfishes’ unique sex strategy may have helped their ancestors move into a brand new habitat, enabling the surprising diversity of species that thrive today. Chase Brownstein at Yale University and his colleagues reconstructed the evolution of the 160-plus species of …
Farmers have shown a renewed interest in planting coffee in the shade of other plants. The resulting farms are visited by a multitude of creatures from ants to birds to bats. Adapted From Eadweard Muybridge / Public Domain Up in the highlands of the Ethiopian plateau grows a tree with bright red fruit that …
Enlarge / The exterior of the headquarters of biotechnology company Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Biotechnology company Biogen is abandoning Aduhelm, its questionable Alzheimer’s drug that has floundered on the market since its scandal-plagued regulatory approval in 2021 and brow-raising pricing. On Wednesday, the company announced it had terminated its license for Aduhelm (aducanumab) and …
Explore Ash Jogalekar, a chemist and science writer, recently posted a list of “academic papers” that “stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing.” Ash’s list got me thinking about papers I admire. I’ve given this topic a lot of thought, because I’m always on the lookout for readings to assign …
Most people continue to use AI programs such as ChatGPT, Bing, and Google Bard for mundane tasks like internet searches and text editing. But of the roughly 103 million US adults turning to generative chatbots in recent months, an estimated 13 percent occasionally did it to simply “have a conversation with someone.” New national …
Molecular cloning methods All oligonucleotides were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich and are listed in Supplementary Table 4. Except for the ZF-SLiDE (described below), all PCR for cloning was performed with high-fidelity Herculase II Phusion DNA polymerase (Agilent, 600675); the cycling programs are listed in Supplementary Table 5. All restriction enzymes were purchased from New England …
Billionaire technologist Elon Musk announced this week that his company Neuralink has implanted its brain-computer interface into a human for the first time. The recipient was “recovering well,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Monday evening, adding that initial results showed “promising neuron spike detection”—a reference to brain cells’ electrical …