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State Freedom Caucuses are a thing now, and they're nuttier than the House is
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/14/2229239/-State-Freedom-Caucuses-are-a-thing-now-and-they-re-nuttier-than-th…

State Freedom Caucuses are a thing now, and they're nuttier than the House is
The far-right House Freedom Caucus crawled out of the tea party movement’s carcass in 2015 with the goal of obstructing every piece of legislation that could help Americans. The extremist�bloc has ...

Suspicions confirmed by measurements now. No less than 3% of all US shale gas extracted leaks to the atmosphere! Makes overall emissions 30% worse than just the CO2 from burning the gas.
EU should take this into account when importing it as LNG, to replace Russian pipeline gas.
https://www.nature.c…

US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements - Nature
We integrate approximately one million aerial site measurements into regional emissions inventories for six regions in the USA, finding methane emission intensities that vary by more than a factor of ten.

Good for the staff at Nature to vote on industrial action! 💪
Apparently the rent-seeking from academia wasn't enough for Springer Nature, instead they also need to squeeze their own staff…
https://www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nature-staff-hold-unprecedented-vote-on-industrial-action.html
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My PhD supervisor, Nick Franks, and Bill Wisden in the Guardian - paper in Nature Neuroscience showing that brain clearance is less during sleep, and during anaesthesia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01638-y

Brain clearance is reduced during sleep and anesthesia - Nature Neuroscience
It has been widely believed that a key function of sleep is to actively clear metabolites and toxins from the brain. Miao, Luo et al. show in mice that brain clearance is markedly reduced—not increased—during sleep and anesthesia.

Fossil gas is a climate disaster. The implied methane leakage rates from these new measurements are much higher than people have assumed in the past. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07117-5

US oil and gas system emissions from nearly one million aerial site measurements - Nature
We integrate approximately one million aerial site measurements into regional emissions inventories for six regions in the USA, finding methane emission intensities that vary by more than a factor of ten.

High-resolution Pan-STARRS and SMA Observations of IRAS 23077 6707 - A Giant Edge-on #ProtoplanetaryDisk / Dracula's Chivito - discovery of a large edge-on protoplanetary disk with Pan-STARRS: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3bb0 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01063 -> A Giant Cosmic Butterfly's Nature is Revealed: https://cfa.harvard.edu/news/giant-cosmic-butterflys-nature-revealed - CfA astronomers using the Submillimeter Array have determined the true nature of a "giant butterfly" in space, providing information about the environments where planets form.

Auditory cortex conveys non-topographic sound localization signals to visual cortex https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47546-4 "retinotopic-specific projections could potentially emerge through training in tasks that demand the integration of auditory and visu…

Auditory cortex conveys non-topographic sound localization signals to visual cortex - Nature Communications
Auditory cortex sends dense projections to layer 1 of mouse V1. Here the authors show these axons convey rich sound localization signals and that their auditory receptive fields do not align with the retinotopic map of V1.

Gründer Markus Beckedahl verlässt netzpolitik.org
Vor gut zwanzig Jahren gründete Markus Beckedahl netzpolitik.org. Nun überlässt er das Projekt der nächsten Generation Netzaktivisten.
https://www.

🧬 Human IgG Fc-engineering for enhanced plasma half-life, mucosal distribution and killing of cancer cells and bacteria
#research

Human IgG Fc-engineering for enhanced plasma half-life, mucosal distribution and killing of cancer cells and bacteria - Nature Communications
Antibody based biologics are a rapidly growing class of therapeutics with interest to enhance their performance, distribution, longevity and effectivity. Here, authors report the engineering of human IgG Fc to enhance plasma half-life, mucosal distribution and killing of cancer cells and bacteria.

My PhD supervisor, Nick Franks, and Bill Wisden in the Guardian - paper in Nature Neuroscience showing that brain clearance is less during sleep, and during anaesthesia.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01638-y

Brain clearance is reduced during sleep and anesthesia - Nature Neuroscience
It has been widely believed that a key function of sleep is to actively clear metabolites and toxins from the brain. Miao, Luo et al. show in mice that brain clearance is markedly reduced—not increased—during sleep and anesthesia.