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Discover "15 Amazing Facts About Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetase" Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase may not roll off the tongue easily, but this...

When one surveys the American scene today, socially, culturally, politically, and economically, what may come to mind is a historical analog with what is known as the Western Schism that divided the 1...

Jeremy Seabrook: The origins of words for 'work' suggest coercion rather than the salvation promised by politicians

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Since December 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a global pandemic caused by the highly transmissible severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).[1] Initially, there were several reports of eye redness and irritation in COVID-19 patients, both anecdotal and published, supporting conjunctivitis as an ocular manifestation of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Reports continue to emerge on…

What's the haps on the ultimate pursuit? Ask the Vikings.

Most people see tequila and mezcal as quintessentially Mexican spirits—but recent research has uncovered their unlikely connection with the Philippines.

The most serious federal charges yet in the Jan. 6 insurrection were unsealed Thursday. The leader of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing paramilitary group, and 10 of his members were charged with seditious conspiracy for attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. Kathleen Belew, assistant professor of history at University Chicago and the author of "Bring the War Home," joins Amna Nawaz to discuss.

The search for ever deeper relationships among the World's languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative modeling indicates that some "ultraconserved" words exist that might be used to find evidence for deep linguistic relationships beyond that time barrier. Here we use a statistical model, which…

If you want to know what a ransom note looks like, read the letter from the Department of Education sent to the storied institution.

Similarities to molecular mechanisms underlying prion diseases may help to refine Alzheimer's disease therapies

Stephen F. Steinbach, a resident of Vienna and a "cartography, language and travel enthusiast, with an engineering background," is not a linguist. Steinbach, who runs the site Alternative Transport, seems much more interested in mapping and transportation than morphology and etymology.

A team of researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, the University of Vienna, and Sirius University of Science and Technology has published a study in the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design that presents guidelines for enhancing the drug discovery process by utilizing multitask learning techniques.

JERUSALEM—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government is anything but the manifestation of extremism portrayed in most of the world's media. Typical of misreporting in the Western press was …

In a new era of rage, dining out has become downright volatile — with both customers and servers aggrieved.

The key question about AI and school is about the past

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When we think of plants, the phrase "stressed out" doesn't typically come to mind. They are, after all, exempt from paying bills and tackling existential questions. However, environmental changes—both living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic)—generate significant stressors for plants. New methods to improve plant tolerance and immunity amid climate change are therefore critical.

The word captures our relationship to the daily chaos of recent years.