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Life requires repetition of chemical reactions. Describing the kinds of reactions and conditions required for self-sustaining repetition — called autocatalysis — could focus the search for life on other planets.

New recipes for origin of life may point way to distant, inhabited planets

Categories Life & Non-humans, Space

Illustration of a white woman in prison. Pixabay

Fewer people going to prison — except white women

Categories Social Sciences

A wildlife camera captures deer practicing allogrooming — grooming one another to get places that they can’t reach on their own. During allogrooming, deer may eat ticks that contain CWD-infested blood. Submitted photo

Tick-Borne Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease Examined in New Study

Categories Life & Non-humans

A composite fossil skeleton of Homo nadedi on display at the Maropeng Museum near Johannesburg, South Africa. PHOTO: JEFF MILLER

Evidence of intentional burial, cave engravings by early human ancestor

Categories Life & Non-humans, Social Sciences

This artist’s depiction shows how Beesiiwo cooowuse may have appeared while roaming the Earth between 250 and 227 million years ago. The newly described rhynchosaur species was named in the language of the northern Arapaho, who live where its fossils were discovered in central Wyoming. GABRIEL UGUETO

Newly described ancient reptile named in language of First Nations where fossils were found

Categories Life & Non-humans

This image was generated using Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generator, using the prompt “researchers working with huge piles of data.” UW–Madison’s Dane Morgan and Maciej Polak have published their solution for training ChatGPT to read academic articles, tabulate key data and check the results for accuracy, thereby saving valuable research time.

ChatGPT makes materials research much more efficient

Categories Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Mano Mavrikakis

New atomic-scale understanding of catalysis could be energy breakthrough

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics

blood brain barrier illustration

Rabies virus helps Alzheimer’s treatment cross blood-brain barrier

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Blood test container

A blood test for cancer shows promise thanks to machine learning

Categories Health, Technology

The vial in which the psilocybin capsules are delivered to the School of Pharmacy for clinical research. SALLY GRIFFITH-OH

First-in-kind psychedelic trials treat opioid and methamphetamine use disorders

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

David Gamm’s laboratory developed a way to grow organoids that resemble the retina. UW–MADISON

Lab-grown eye cells connect with neighbors, paving way for blindness treatments

Categories Health

A common risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease may predispose carriers to severe COVID-19

Most preprint studies of COVID-19 hold up through peer-review

Categories Health, Social Sciences

Historical rates of enslavement predict modern rates of American gun ownership

Categories Social Sciences

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