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Abhishek Bhattacharjee, an undergraduate student in Bioengineering, optimized the protocols and is the first author in the study. Credit: Abhishek Bhattacharjee The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers across the globe to embrace remote learning. Although adapting existing materials was relatively easy for lecture-based courses that revolved around theory, teaching laboratory classes remotely presented a formidable challenge. In…

Study area, Grupo Zacatal, in relation to San Bartolo main site core. Credit: Map by A. Kara. https://ssrn.com/abstract=3948399 Ancient toilets and trash pits are like heaven to archaeologists. They might not have the glamor of a gleaming medieval jewel or intricate Roman mosaic, but they brim with clues about the everyday life of bygone civilizations: the detritus—and discharges—of our ancestors telling rich stories of what…

Image: Photograph by Aaron Epstein/HBO Max“I knew my character was going to be the queer one,” Vico Ortiz said in our interview last week. “I’m used to being the queer one.” Ortiz is speaking about their role in the hit pirate comedy, Our Flag Means Death. Their character, Jim (shortened from their last name, Jiminez), is a transgender, nonbinary, Latine person who uses they/them pronouns… just like Ortiz. The thing is though, Our Flag Means Death doesn’t just have one queer character. Ortiz wasn’t the queer one, but one…

Life after death Religious beliefs about immortality are numerous and diverse. Most religions foresee a postmortem career for a personal soul or spirit, and these range from everlasting residence among the stars to reincarnation. The ideal eternal life for many Christians and Muslims is to abide forever in God’s presence in heaven or paradise. Judaism’s teachings about what happens after death are less clear. In the Hebrew Bible, the dead are mere “shades” in a darkened place called Sheol. Some rabbinical authorities …

Credit: Pixabay The war in Ukraine is being described as the first social media war, even as "the TikTok war." Memes, tweets, videos and blog posts communicate both vital information and propaganda, potentially changing the course of history. This highlights the importance of agile and critical social media use. …

StackCommerce The following content is brought to you by ZDNet partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation.Artificial intelligence (AI) has become so commonplace that it's easy to forget it was once a science fiction pipe dream. But AI and the machine learning concepts behind it…

With the current leaps and bounds in technologies that mankind is making, a future filled with autonomous cars is undeniable. However, to take things up a notch, the American multinational automotive manufacturing giant General Motors has come up with something even more radical. The Detroit-based carmaker is recently said to have submitted a patent application for a system that would employ self-driving cars to teach new or inexperienced drivers. According to a media report, General Motors submitted an application…

Scientists have published a new study revealing the largest marsquakes ever recorded. Like Earth, Mars can experience massive seismic events which can cause the surface of the Red Planet to shift. These events are known as ‘marsquakes’. ETH Zurich, a public research university in Switzerland, says marsquakes occur when the soil on Mars is “subjected to an accumulation of stress so strong there is fracturing of the rock structure.” Now, a new study breaks down the largest marsquakes we’ve recorded, both of which…

Apple Fitness Plus is giving fans a new way to stay in shape while enjoying the music of K-pop supergroup BTS. The service will be posting a handful of BTS dance workouts next week as it continues adding musicians to its Artist Spotlight series. Each workout will feature dance moves directly from the band’s music videos and live performances. Each Apple Fitness Plus workout will be fronted by trainer Ben Allen, who has led plenty of other Fitness Plus programs. According to Apple, some of the BTS songs included in…