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Scientists have long known that touching plants can set off a stress reaction in them – but until now it hasn't been exactly clear how that worked at a molecular level, something that a new study hopes to shed light on.  The researchers behind the study have identified certain genetic keys inside plants that lead to two separate signaling pathways, explaining why plants react so strongly to being touched.Understanding more about how this process works at a fundamental level could help researchers in a variety of…

Smoking cigarettes is the number one risk factor for lung cancer, with tobacco products causing up to 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in the United States. Without a doubt, the safest way to protect yourself against lung cancer is to avoid smoking cigarettes, and yet, at the same time, it's also true that not all lifelong smokers are doomed to develop cancer.  In fact, the vast majority don't. Scientists have long wondered why, and a new study adds weight to the idea that genetics has a role to play.Among people who…

Palaeospondylus as reconstructed by synchrotron radiation x-ray computed tomography. Credit: RIKENEvidence that the mysterious ancient fish-like vertebrate Palaeospondylus was likely one of the earliest ancestors of four-limbed animals, including humans, has been discovered by the Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory led by Shigeru Kuratani at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan, along with collaborators. Published today (May 25, 2022) in the scientific journal Nature, the study unmasks this strange…

Web scraping has transformed many business processes, but it also has many technical challenges. The end-to-end process of collecting web data can be demonstrated as in Figure 1. Figure 1: Technical steps of web scraping in a snapshot When the number of pages and the complexity of websites to be scraped increase, each of these steps face with unique challenges. Artificial intelligence methods help web scraping to overcome the unique challenges of each step. In this article, we will introduce you the top 3 ways that AI…

Wordle is on a spree lately for extremely challenging words that range from everyday-used words to the ones we seldom use. Today's word might trip you up as well because it isn't just tough to crack but also confusing enough to let you exhaust all your attempts. If you haven't found today's answer yet, you have landed on the right page for clues, hints and solution. How to play Wordle? For those who are new to the sensational word game, Wordle was developed by a…