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University of Chicago

Private research university in Chicago, Illinois, noted for strength in physics, astrophysics, and economics, and for its many Nobel laureates.

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Cryo-EM structures show how a second phage protein flips an integrase from inserting DNA to removing it

University of Chicago researchers used cryo-EM to capture large serine integrases at several stages of inserting and removing phage DNA. The Molecular Cell paper shows how a partner protein flips the enzyme from one job to the other.

Publishers:phys.org

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Levin's lab turns a stalled step into a blue-light route for swapping carbon for nitrogen in rings

Mark Levin's group at the University of Chicago used blue light and oxygen to swap a ring carbon for nitrogen in dozens of compounds, Science reports. Whether that widens how drug candidates are modified rests on property data for one compound.

Publishers:phys.org

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Jurassic mammaliaform Megacauda carried the bones behind mammal suckling 165 million years ago

Megacauda sungei, a mammaliaform from Jurassic China, pushes the bony anatomy of mammal suckling back to nearly 165 million years ago, a Nature study reports. The structures place the groundwork for a defining mammal trait well before the first modern mammals.

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Megatron simulations assemble a Milky Way-like galaxy from thousands of small ones

Megatron simulations suggest the region that became a Milky Way-like galaxy held thousands of small merging galaxies in the universe's first 2 billion years. Its galaxies come with predicted spectra that can be checked directly against James Webb Space Telescope data.

Publishers:livescience.com

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A 165-million-year-old swimming mammal relative already had a throat built for suckling

Researchers describing Megacauda sungei in Nature say the half-metre Jurassic swimmer had a throat built for suckling 165 million years ago. That puts the anatomy for milk-feeding earlier than the last common ancestor of all living mammals.

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Webb finds evidence of an atmosphere on HD 3167 b, the coldest lava world yet to show one

University of Chicago researchers report Webb evidence of an atmosphere on HD 3167 b, a rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit. Planets that close to a star are expected to lose gas to stellar wind and high-energy light, so the result could help explain how rocky worlds keep their atmospheres.

Publishers:sciencedaily.com

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Six MEGATRON papers predict how the young Milky Way should appear to Webb and Hubble

Harley Katz's team at the University of Chicago ran three years of simulations showing the Milky Way assembling from thousands of smaller galaxies. Published across six papers, the models can now be checked against what Webb actually records.

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Traveling waves in the cortex form spirals and sinks that vary with the task

A team including University of Chicago neuroscientists recorded source, sink and spiral waves of neural activity, and linked different tasks to distinct patterns. The link is an association, so it shows the waves track what the brain is doing and leaves open whether they help direct it.

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MEGATRON simulations couple starlight and chemistry to link JWST galaxies with the Milky Way's oldest stars

University of Bath-led MEGATRON team published four papers arguing early-universe models must track starlight, gas and new elements together. Their simulations suggest simpler models understate how stellar radiation and chemistry shape the gas around young galaxies.

Publishers:phys.org

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One transmon reads and writes seven quantum memory cells through a buffer cavity

Physicists at Stanford, the University of Chicago and SLAC let one superconducting qubit address seven memory cells, at about 1.2% error per access. The tests measured access error, much of it from crosstalk between cells, so the promised cut in wiring per qubit is still a design argument.

Publishers:phys.org

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Webb eclipse measurements suggest HD 3167 b, the coolest known lava world, holds an atmosphere

University of Chicago astronomers report that HD 3167 b, a super-Earth with a one-day orbit, has a dayside cooler than bare rock should allow. That makes it the coolest atmosphere case so far for a ten-planet program looking for the temperature at which lava worlds start to keep their atmospheres.

Publishers:phys.org

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Children and adults paid a sticker to keep a puzzle shape out of the shredder

Four studies by Fan Yang and Yilin Liu, published in Psychological Science, find that whether a creation is kept or destroyed changes what children and adults will do to make it, and that fun only partly makes up the difference.

Publishers:phys.org

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Parent reports place the start of overheard word learning between 18 and 24 months

In 79 US toddlers surveyed three times, words that parents said their child mostly overheard from adult conversation were recognised at 24 and 30 months but not at 18. Every measure came from the parents.

Publishers:phys.org

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Climate Impact Lab attributes 450,000 deaths to El Nino heat through February

The Climate Impact Lab ran a European seasonal temperature outlook through local mortality curves fitted for 24,000 regions, and the authors want health ministries to treat the result as a schedule for moving staff, water and cooling.

Publishers:newscientist.com

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Rubin's test data turns up one of the faintest dwarf galaxies on record

Aquarius IV is one of the faintest Milky Way satellites ever recorded, pulled out of Vera C. Rubin Observatory test data taken before the main survey began. The research note has not been peer reviewed.

Publishers:livescience.com

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A layered magnet converted microwaves to light across a 300 MHz window without a resonator

Physicists at the City College of New York drove magnons in CrSBr with microwaves and read the signal out on reflected laser light, a conversion mechanism that still needs large efficiency gains before it can move quantum states.

Publishers:phys.org

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Heating titanium powder in methane grew MXene flakes tens of micrometers across

The Drexel lab that made the first MXenes in 2011 has grown them by chemical vapor deposition, with Penn and Murata Manufacturing as collaborators, skipping the MAX-phase precursor and the acid bath that has limited their use.

Publishers:phys.org

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Booth counts 80 firms behind the SEC petition that reopened the ETF share class

David Booth told The Daily Upside that neither mutual funds nor ETFs are inherently superior, and the work that made his $1.1 trillion firm a top active ETF manager was a regulatory petition plus a run of fund conversions.

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The founder of a deepfake-detection firm verifies his wife's calls with a safeword

Two detection chief executives describe their own products as probabilities rather than verdicts. That is the constraint to design around before a score is allowed to fail a student or close an account.

Publishers:gizmodo.com

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Domino's turns dinner-table disagreement into a product spec

Over a quarter of Americans eat most of their meals alone, and 52% now say they would rather order their own dish. That shift is why the personalization Domino's, Wonder and DoorDash are building reprices portioning and the cost to serve a party.

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