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A new study sheds light on the mysterious connection between non-coding mutations and cancer risk, pointing to potential drug targets to lower the risk for people born with particular genetic mutations.A new mechanism links mutations in areas devoid of genes to cancer.For many years, the human genome was seen as a book of life, with passages of remarkable eloquence and economy of expression intermingled with long stretches of nonsense. The readable areas carried the instructions for producing cell proteins; the other…

Hey Hackers! Do you have a kick-ass software performance story to share? Here’s your chance to win money from a $1000 monthly prize pool. Share your story today to enter the #debugging writing contest sponsored by Sentry and HackerNoon. Write about a time when you struggled (and later, triumphed!) to identify a performance issue in your web application, mobile application, or game, and the steps you took to ultimately improve the application's performance.Hey Hackers! Do you have a kick-ass software performance story to…

Tombstones investigated in new research, most from 1338. Credit: P.-G. Borbone/Nature, Author provided It is not an exaggeration to say that the question of where and when the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic ever, originated is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. After all, the Black Death was the first wave of the second plague pandemic of the 14th to early 19th centuries. It killed some 50–60% of the…

In late 2019, mere months before the COVID-19 pandemic would engulf the globe, much of the world was instead concerned with a ruddy, fading point of light more than 500 light-years away. Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star easily recognizable as the right “shoulder” of the constellation Orion, had suddenly and mysteriously dimmed by more than a factor of two. Some astronomers speculated that it was on the verge of exploding as a supernova—an event otherwise predicted to occur within the next 100,000 years or so. By early…

The next time you look up at a bright full moon, think about this: No one knows, precisely, where the moon came from. “We have no idea why the moon is here,” science writer Rebecca Boyle says on Unexplainable — Vox’s podcast that explores big mysteries, unanswered questions, and all the things we learn by diving into the unknown. “I think for a lot of people is taken for granted, it’s this sort of humdrum thing, and galaxies and nebula and stars and planets are more intriguing.” It’s true that some of the most epic…

Since the dawn of genetics in the early 20th century, biologists have debated whether evolution is driven more by chance mutations or by the original diversity in the gene pool.   Having a lot of genetic options to choose from might make natural selection move a lot faster at the start, but do the genetic mutations that happen over time contribute more to species survival in the end?To attempt to resolve this long-standing argument once and for all, researchers at Michigan State University have tested the adaptive…

Last updated: June 14th, 2022 at 16:36 UTC+02:00 For the past few months, countless Galaxy S22 Ultra customers took to the official Samsung Community forums to complain about GSM issues and dropped phone calls. Several firmware updates later, it appears that the situation has improved, for some users, at least. Although some Samsung customers on the community forums still seem to experience GSM issues on the Galaxy S22 Ultra, others say that the June 2022 security patch has solved the problem, or that it at least made…

After a long round of tough word puzzles, Wordle 359 for June 13 is finally on the easier side. Remember the aim is to solve each puzzle in as few guesses as possible and then proceed to share progress on social media with friends, family and followers. How to play Wordle? For starters, Wordle puzzle is alive only for 24 hours and it is a free word-guessing game available online: guess the five-letter word in six tries or fewer. Wordle explains its rules…

In this article, I share three different methods to count objects through Python dictionaries. Also I show you how to use counters to solve multi-step coding algorithms.Despite over the last few years, I have being coding in Python on a daily basis, both on the workplace and for personal projects, last month, I decided to start learning it from scratch all over again.I am a self-made data engineer, meaning that my learning process mostly happened through on-demand courses at first and then working on real projects at…

After a few days of easier word puzzle, Wordle is back with yet another tricky word of the day on the last day on this month. Wordle 346 for May 31 is tricky but an easy one to figure out. Fans of the daily hidden word game may take note that while solving the puzzle, they don't end up exhausting all the six attempts allotted to them. For the word game veterans who have been playing this game for quite sometime, this one would be an easy one to spot. However, if you…