New work indicates that some of the independent origins of prickles share a common genetic basis, providing a gene editing target to facilitate the removal of these sharp projections in cultivated plants. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science: https://scim.ag/7SL
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Though she be but little, she is fierce! At half a millimeter long—about the width of a human hair—bdelloid rotifers might be easy to miss. But these tiny freshwater critters are some of the toughest animals on the planet. Comprised entirely of females, they’re particularly notorious for “stealing” genes from other organisms. That ability has allowed them to go 40 million years without sex. New research may explain how this little animal got to where it is today. According to a new study, some bdelloids can protect themselves against infection using chemical “recipes” pilfered from bacteria. The discovery is an “exciting example of foreign genes functioning in animal genomes.” Learn more in #NewsfromScience: https://scim.ag/7VR
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A recent study concludes that artifacts unearthed in western Tibet are stone sewing needles—and, at as much as 9000 years old, the oldest on record. Learn more: https://scim.ag/7VG #NewsfromScience
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“Having started my career as a 'reluctant' chemist, I am yet to proclaim my love for what I do. But I try to see the relevant problems and solve them for my own satisfaction. That makes me no less capable than my peers, and no less deserving of a space in science and academia.” Shalini Gupta never thought she’d be an academic scientist. In this week's Working Life, read her story about why she's glad she followed her gut: https://scim.ag/7UY
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An in-depth feature from Jeffrey Brainard at News from Science Magazine explores the tradeoffs researchers make to pay APC fees to publish #OpenAccess (OA). "If you end up paying [APCs], then you’re losing funds for other things," says Alicia Kowaltowski, USP - Universidade de São Paulo. " (This issue is one AAAS previously explored in a survey of US researchers: https://lnkd.in/ejdMTCz5.) "...if APCs are unaffordable, " said Kowaltowski, "the work of many scientists becomes “nonexistent.”" The News from Science article also discusses new approaches publishers are taking, and reformers are proposing, to move beyond the author-pays model for OA. At present, however, the jury seems out on which of these is most promising. An alternative -- one the Science family has pursued for 20+ years -- is “green” open access, where authors deposit an accepted paper in a public repository and don’t pay the publisher a fee. (The Science family uses this model for five of its six journal publications.) ++++ The issue of how to balance author ability to publish -- no matter their funding situation -- with public access to read is a matter AAAS continues to consider, including by listening across the global research community. @AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh has previously stated, “We should have a goal to optimize scientific communication in a situationally appropriate manner for every audience,” Parikh says. For scientists, that means ensuring that data is available for the purposes of reproducing or extending analyses. For non-scientists, however, simply sharing a published paper may not have an impact. Instead, situationally appropriate communication about a scientific discovery may not just cultivate an interest in scientific advancement – but it may also spur a willingness to pay taxes to fund that science, Parikh has noted. AAAS continues to emphasize the importance of ensuring that scientists – early-career scientists, in particular – stay central to public access efforts and developing policies. https://lnkd.in/e6VH6wp2 #openaccess
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The early evolution of mollusks has been hard to pin down, but now a newly discovered fossil—of a shell-less, soft-bodied, spiny mollusk from the early Cambrian—provides crucial insights, researchers report in Science. The findings suggest that this fossil, of a creature called Shishania aculeata, is a stem mollusk—representative of an intermediate between early members of the superphylum lophotrochozoans and more derived mollusks. Learn more: https://scim.ag/7UJ
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New research proposes that groups of birds with early origins associated with the end-Cretaceous mass extinction experienced rapid evolutionary changes across their genomes and physiology. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/7TK
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Probing the inner brain—without surgery. In a 2023 Science study, an ultra-small and ultra-flexible electronic neural implant, delivered via blood vessels, was able to record single-neuron activity deep within the brains of rats. Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/7To #ScienceMagArchives
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It's a murder mystery—except the victims are yeast. Molly Herring's riveting tale of the toxic agar and more of the best from Science Magazine and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: https://lnkd.in/g_6aSprS
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New in Science: Researchers used a new framework to model the increasingly complex dynamics of introgression between humans and Neanderthals and the ramifications for both populations. Learn more: https://scim.ag/7Tb
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