Wed.Jul 26, 2023

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Frontiers’ Volunteers: Taking action through tutoring

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Frontiers’ volunteers have always been at the forefront of community and societal responses. Emily Darley shares her volunteering efforts tutoring, an opportunity that has allowed her to combine her skills and interests. Photo credit: Emily Darley What is your background and role at Frontiers? “I joined Frontiers last year as a copyediting specialist.

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Ancient DNA reveals diverse community in 'Lost City of the Incas'

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DNA analysis of 34 individuals buried at Machu Picchu revealed that many traveled alone from throughout the Inca Empire.

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eCommerce Brands Use Big Data for Logistics and Fulfillment Warehouses Protection

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Big data has driven major changes in the e-commerce sector in recent years. E-commerce brands spent over $16 billion on analytics in 2022 and are projected to spend over $38 billion by 2028. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it can help e-commerce brands optimize their logistics and fulfillment processes. Keep reading to learn more.

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New archosaur species shows that precursor of dinosaurs and pterosaurs was armored

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Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of the first appearance of dinosaurs. With bony plates on its backbone, this archosaur fossil reveals that armor was a boomerang trait in the story of dinosaur and pterosaur evolution: the group's ancestors were armored, but this characteristic was lost and then independently re-evolved multiple times later among specialized dinosaurs like ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, and others.

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A Brief Primer On Monetizing & Unlocking Value From Healthcare Data

Smart Data Collective

Put your thinking caps on and picture this—an undiscovered gold mine of healthcare data. Think of the hidden gems of insights, possible breakthroughs, and treasure buried in mountains of patient info, health stats, and treatment results. Talk about striking gold! But getting that treasure chest open and turning it into cash? That’s not a walk in the park, but hey, we’re up for a good adventure!

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Family trees from the European Neolithic

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The Neolithic burial site of Gurgy 'les Noisats' in France revealed two unprecedentedly large family trees which allowed a Franco-German team to explore the social organization of the 6,700-year-old community. Based on multiple lines of evidence, the team describes a close kin group which practiced monogamy and female exogamy, and experienced generally stable times.

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Webb snaps highly detailed infrared image of actively forming stars

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Young stars are rambunctious! NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the 'antics' of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes until you hit the center: The stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disk of gas and dust that feeds their growth as they continue to gain mass.

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Black Maternal Health in NYC: A Discussion and Call to Action

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Maternal health inequities in New York City are stark, with Black women and birthing persons being 9x more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than their white counterparts. And each life lost represents more than just a statistic; it is a mother, a partner, and a community member whose death could have been prevented with the right care and resources.

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Robotic hand rotates objects using touch, not vision

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Inspired by the effortless way humans handle objects without seeing them, engineers have developed a new approach that enables a robotic hand to rotate objects solely through touch, without relying on vision.

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Low fiber intake during pregnancy may delay development in infants’ brains

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By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com Certain nutrients – including dietary fiber, vitamin C, and folic acid – are often consumed in too small amounts. Previous research has shown that during pregnancy these nutrients are essential for the development of offspring. In a new cohort study, researchers have confirmed the link between children’s brain development and maternal fiber consumption.

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A quick look inside a human being

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Physicists have succeeded in making a new imaging technique ready for use on humans. Radioactive markers and radiation are not necessary for this.

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Dark energy camera captures galaxies in lopsided tug of war, a prelude to merger

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The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531.

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Astronomers reveal new features of galactic black holes

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An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists, report on a dedicated observational campaign on the Galactic microquasar dubbed GRS 1915+105. The team revealed features of a microquasar system that have never before been seen. Using the massive Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in China, astronomers discovered a quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signal in the radio band for the first time from any microquasar systems.

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New planetary formation findings

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Astronomers have discovered new evidence of how planets as massive as Jupiter can form.

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