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Scientists have identified a giant new species of mosasaurus, a marine reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs and dominated the prehistoric seas. The newly described predator is Tylosaurus rex (or tyrannosaurus), with a body length of up to 43 feet, making it one of the largest mosasaurs ever discovered. The study was led by scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Perot Museum of Natural Science in Dallas, and Southern Methodist University. Fossils of giant reptiles are found primarily in northern Texas and date back about 80 million years. “Everything seems to be bigger in Texas, and that includes…

Getting a thumbs down on social media doesn’t push people away from the conversation. Instead, they tend to soften the tone and encourage you to post more. New research published in Marketing Research Journal We provide evidence that negative feedback from colleagues encourages users to stay engaged rather than retreating into isolated communities. These findings suggest that allowing downvotes on social platforms could help defuse extreme debates without silencing individual voices. Social media platforms are continually experimenting with how users interact with and rate the posts of other users. Almost all platforms have a button to express approval, but few…

Sea level rise is one of the most obvious and most persistent effects of human-induced climate change. As the Earth’s temperature rises, the heat causes the oceans to expand and glaciers and ice sheets to melt, creating more seawater. Scientists say this process will be extremely difficult to stop and will continue into the distant future. Now, an international climate research team says it has completely explained the causes behind global sea level rise over the past 60 years, resolving a long-standing problem that has complicated scientists’ understanding of one of the most serious threats of climate change. Sea level…

German researchers have warned that regular WiFi networks could become an invisible and powerful new form of surveillance. They demonstrated a system that uses standard radio signals and artificial intelligence to identify people with remarkable accuracy, even if they are not carrying an active device. “By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of our surroundings and the people in them,” says Professor Thorsten Strufe from KASTEL, KIT’s Institute for Information Security and Dependability. “It works like a regular camera, but the difference is that in our case radio waves are used for recognition instead of…

ACELA, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV One by one, families who lost loved ones greeted them on Saturday. Illegal dumping of toxic substances near Naplestied to multi-billion criminal organizations run by the mafia. Many people stopped to share photos and other memorabilia of children and young people who have died or are battling cancer due to pollution. Leo’s visit to the so-called Terra dei Fuoci (Land of Fire) comes on the eve of the 11th anniversary of Pope Francis’s major environmental encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised), and signals Leo’s determination to continue his predecessor’s environmental policies. “I have come first…

Now 11-year-old Logan Fitzpatrick, who lives in Malvern, New York, spends his time playing baseball, practicing taekwondo, painting and rooting for the Mets and Islanders. But behind the scenes, he continues to manage eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a chronic allergic disease of the esophagus that makes swallowing and eating painful and difficult. After years of searching for answers, Logan and his family found continuing specialized care through the Pediatric Gastroenterology Program at New York University Langone’s Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital. There, Logan’s condition is medically managed with treatment, monitoring, nutritional guidance, and behavioral health support. Logan is sharing his experience to mark…

Structural biologists at the University of Cincinnati have become the first in the world to visualize a key cellular protein as part of a newly published study from the School of Medicine. The Seegar Lab used cryo-electron microscopy at UC’s Advanced Structural Biology Laboratory to visualize for the first time the structure of the regulatory protein iRhom1 bound to the ADAM17 enzyme. This follows work from the lab published last year that visualized the structure of ADAM17 bound to iRhom2. ADAM17 enzyme activity is essential for proper tissue development and immune responses in humans, and regulation of its activity has…

A single dose of psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, can reduce nerve pain for up to a month, making widely used painkillers more effective, a University of Reading study has found. This research communication biology, Researchers tested psilocybin in mice with nerve damage that causes long-term pain. The researchers found that psilocybin’s pain-relieving effects began about two hours after injection, and the relief lasted for several weeks. Rather than simply blocking pain signals, psilocybin appears to restructure the way the brain’s pain-processing networks operate, which may explain why its effects persist long after the drug itself leaves the…

The OncoDarwin Hypothesis (OdH) proposes a paradigm shift. Cancer is not just a disease, but a potential macro-immune adaptive response, a self-replicating algorithm that can be reprogrammed by the AI-based 3D printed p53 superprotein. The authors use hypothesis generation methods (observation, deductive reasoning) to present two theoretical findings: a wireless 3D printed p53 molecular biochip and the bifocal (micro/macroimmunological) nature of cancer cells. The central argument is that uncontrolled cell division may represent an evolutionary healing attempt that requires deciphering rather than mere suppression. A workflow for AI-assisted p53 design (AlphaFold 3, MoluCAD, Blender) and bacterial delivery system is outlined.…

A research team led by Professor Hsieh Zhongyu from Sun Yat-sen University has uncovered a new mechanism by which Pim1 controls Th17 cell differentiation through mitochondrial metabolism. Through a molecular docking screen, they identified nilotinib as a potential drug candidate for the treatment of inflammatory arthritis by targeting Pim1. The related results are: the study (DOI: 10.34133/research.1137), titled “Pim1 functions as a therapeutic target for inflammatory arthritis via mitochondrial metabolism and Th17 cell differentiation.” Research backgroundInflammatory arthritis, which primarily includes rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, is a chronic and progressive bone-immune-related disease characterized by bone destruction in the joints, seriously…