Berkeley Voices: Should we bring back woolly mammoths?
The Edge podcast hosts talk to experts about de-extinction — how it works, if we should do it and its unintended consequences
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What We Were Taught About RNA in High School is Only Half the Picture
Vissers’ work on RNA tags helped found the field of epitranscriptomics, the study of how chemical marks on RNA, rather than their sequence alone, dictate the function of the molecules. […]
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Geological activity can rapidly change deep microbial communities
New research reveals that, rather than being influenced only by environmental conditions, deep subsurface microbial communities can transform because of geological movements. The findings advance our understanding of subsurface microorganisms, which co… […]
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Human writer or AI? Scholars build a detection tool
DetectGPT can determine with up to 95% accuracy whether a large language model wrote that essay or social media post. […]
