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"Friction determines whether liquid droplets slide off a solid surface or stick to it. Surface heterogeneity is generally acknowledged as the major cause of increased contact angle hysteresis and contact line friction of droplets. Here we challenge this long-standing premise for chemical heterogeneity at the molecular length scale."

Lepikko, S., Jaques, Y.M., Junaid, M. et al. Droplet slipperiness despite surface heterogeneity at molecular scale. Nat. Chem. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01346-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #Chemistry #Physics #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"We propose that this process of lithosphere growth—with diamonds attached to the supercontinent keel by the diapiric uprise of depleted buoyant material and pieces of slab crust—could have enhanced supercontinent stability."

Timmerman, S., Stachel, T., Koornneef, J.M. et al. Sublithospheric diamond ages and the supercontinent cycle. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06662-9 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Geochemistry #Science #Mineralogy #Diamonds #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"Sixty-three skeletons from the Pre Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) sites of Tell Halula, Tell Ramad and Dja'de El Mughara dating between 8,700–6,600 cal. B.C. were analyzed, and 15 validated mitochondrial DNA profiles were recovered. In order to estimate the demographic contribution of the first farmers to both Central European and Western Mediterranean Neolithic cultures, haplotype and haplogroup diversities in the PPNB sample were compared using phylogeographic and population genetic analyses to available ancient DNA data from human remains belonging to the Linearbandkeramik-Alföldi Vonaldiszes Kerámia and Cardial/Epicardial cultures."

Fernández E, Pérez-Pérez A, Gamba C, Prats E, Cuesta P, et al. (2014) Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands. PLOS Genetics 10(6): e1004401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004401 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #Neolithic #Europe #Cyprus #DNA #Paleogenetics #Ancient #Phylogeography #Anthropology #Migration #Migrants #Colonization #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @anthropology

🇮🇪 "The Neolithic and Bronze Age transitions were profound cultural shifts catalyzed in parts of Europe by migrations, first of early farmers from the Near East and then Bronze Age herders from the Pontic Steppe. However, a decades-long, unresolved controversy is whether population change or cultural adoption occurred at the Atlantic edge, within the British Isles."

Cassidy, L.M. et al. (2015) 'Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(2), pp. 368–373. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518445113. #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Research #Article #Science #Ancient #DNA #aDNA #Genomics #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Archaeology #Ireland #Irish #Europe #Neolithic #BronzeAge #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @archaeodons

🇵🇱 "Results showed that the level of differentiation within Polish population is quite low, but some differences were indicated. It was confirmed that the Polish population is characterized by a high degree of homogeneity, with only slight genetic differences being observed at the regional level."

Grochowalski, Ł. et al. (2020) 'Y-Chromosome Genetic analysis of modern Polish population,' Frontiers in Genetics, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.567309. #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #Polish #Population #Poland #Europe #Genetics #Analysis #Biology #Anthropology @science @anthropology

🇲🇽 "Most sequenced individuals had admixed Indigenous American, European and African ancestry, with extensive admixture from Indigenous populations in central, southern and southeastern Mexico."

Ziyatdinov, A., Torres, J., Alegre-Díaz, J. et al. Genotyping, sequencing and analysis of 140,000 adults from Mexico City. Nature (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06595-3 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Research #DNA #Genetics #Mexico #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"Collectively, these migrations are known as the “supercontinent cycle” and diamonds are one of the few minerals strong enough to survive and record these ancient cycles of creation and destruction." https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-news/research-news/2023/2023-10/ancient-diamonds-shine-light-on-the-evolution-of-earth.html #Diamonds #Ancient #Earth #Science #Geoscience @science

Kekić, T. and Lietard, J. (2023) 'A Canvas of Spatially Arranged DNA Strands that Can Produce 24-bit Color Depth,' Journal of the American Chemical Society [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c06500. #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Genetics #DNA #Chemistry #Colour #Color #Academia #Academic #Academics @science

"Here, we examine biomarkers extracted from human dental calculus, using sequential thermal desorption- and pyrolysis-GCMS, to report direct evidence for widespread consumption of seaweed and submerged aquatic and freshwater plants across Europe."

Buckley, S., Hardy, K., Hallgren, F. et al. Human consumption of seaweed and freshwater aquatic plants in ancient Europe. Nat Commun 14, 6192 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41671-2 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Ancient #Europe #Science #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @science

Feather, J., Leclerc, G., Mądry, A. et al. Model metamers reveal divergent invariances between biological and artificial neural networks. Nat Neurosci (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01442-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Neuroscience #Academica #Academic #Academics @science

Becchi, Antonio, Meli, Domenico Bertoloni and Gamba, Enrico (eds.) (2013). Guidobaldo del Monte (1545–1607): Theory and Practice of the Mathematical Disciplines from Urbino to Europe. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34663/9783945561218-00 #History #EarlyModern #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Science #Italy #Europe @science @earlymodern

"The Tuareg of the Fezzan region (Libya) are characterized by an extremely high frequency (61%) of haplogroup H1, a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup that is common in all Western European populations. To define how and when H1 spread from Europe to North Africa up to the Central Sahara, in Fezzan, we investigated the complete mitochondrial genomes of eleven Libyan Tuareg belonging to H1."

Ottoni C, Primativo G, Hooshiar Kashani B, Achilli A, Martínez-Labarga C, et al. (2010) Mitochondrial Haplogroup H1 in North Africa: An Early Holocene Arrival from Iberia. PLOS ONE 5(10): e13378. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013378 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DNA #Africa #Europe #Paleogenetics #Phylogenetics #PopulationGenetics #Population #Genetics #Science #Biology @science @biology

"New research that will be presented Monday, 16 Oct., at the Geological Society of America’s GSA Connects 2023 meeting describes how a series of serendipitous environmental factors allowed an ancient Saharan civilization, the Garamantian Empire, to extract groundwater hidden in the subsurface, sustaining the society for nearly a millennia until the water was depleted."

https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2023/23-34.aspx

#Research #Earth #Science #Geology #Sahara #Desert #Environment #Water #Empire @science

"The disaster appeared to have destroyed the scrolls for good, but nearly 2,000 years later researchers have extracted the first word from one of the texts, using artificial intelligence to peer deep inside the delicate, charred remains."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/12/researchers-use-ai-to-read-word-on-ancient-scroll-burned-by-vesuvius #Science #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Italy #Archaeology #Museum #Classics #Ancient #History @science @archaeodons

Jones, A., & Cooper, A. (2023). Kant’s Ongoing Relevance for Philosophy of Science. Kantian Review, 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415423000195 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Philosophy #Science #Kant #Biology #PhilosophyOfScience @philosophy @philosophyofscience @science

"Increased heat and humidity potentially threaten people and societies. Here, we incorporate our laboratory-measured, physiologically based wet-bulb temperature thresholds across a range of air temperatures and relative humidities, to project future heat stress risk from bias-corrected climate model output."

Vecellio, D.J. et al. (2023) 'Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically determined lower moist heat stress tolerance,' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(42). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2305427120 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Environment #Climate #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange @science

🇫🇷 Rabinovitch Oded. 2023 The ‘system of the world’ and the scientific culture of early modern France. Notes Rec. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2022.0042 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Culture #History #HistSci #Astronomy #EarlyModern #France #Europe @science @earlymodern

"This paper explores the rhetorical strategies Newton deployed to convince his audience that his conclusions were certain and unchallengeable."

Fara Patricia. 2015 Newton shows the light: a commentary on Newton (1672) ‘A letter … containing his new theory about light and colours…’ Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 373: 20140213. 20140213 http://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2014.0213 #OpenAccess #OA #Review #Article #Optics #Newton #Descartes #History #Science #HistSci #Physics #C17th #17thCentury @science @physics @earlymodern

"This research addresses this unique component of science attitudes—spirituality of science: feelings of meaning, awe, and connection derived through scientific ideas."

Preston, J. L., Coleman, T. J., & Shin, F. (2023). Spirituality of Science: Implications for Meaning, Well-Being, and Learning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231191356 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Religion #Happiness #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @psychology

Coates, T., Kasprzyk, A.M. & Veneziale, S. Machine learning the dimension of a Fano variety. Nat Commun 14, 5526 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41157-1 #OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #ComputerScience #Mathematics #Maths #Math #MachineLearning #Academia #Academic #Academics @science