A specialized version, Goku+, focuses on creating authentic-looking advertising clips featuring humans and products, which ByteDance says could reduce video ad production costs by 99 percent.

Nothing else in the animal kingdom packs a punch like the mantis shrimp. This tiny, colorful crustacean delivers a wallop at 23 meters per second – a king-hit delivering a jaw-dropping 1,500 newtons of force to crack open the shells of their prey.

These blows are so powerful that scientists have wondered how the crustacean itself remains intact against the recoil effects.

Now, they’ve uncovered one of its secrets. The dactyl clubs that rain down mantis shrimp pain have a fascinating structure that filters out shocks, protecting the animal behind them.

Formation of biomolecular condensates composed of proteins and RNA facilitates the regulation of gene expression by modulating translation or facilitating RNA processing. Now, synthetic ribonucleoprotein granules created with engineered intrinsically disordered proteins selectively sequester mRNA and enhance protein translation in cells. These highly liquid-like condensates exchange biomolecules across the cell and facilitate target mRNA and ribosome partitioning.

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Proteins’ amino-acid sequences appear to guide their access to blob-like aggregates involved in many cell processes.

The surface of the Earth’s inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study by USC scientists that detected structural changes near the planet’s center, published in Nature Geoscience.

The changes of the inner core have long been a topic of debate for scientists. However, most research has been focused on assessing rotation. John Vidale, Dean’s Professor of Earth Sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and principal investigator of the study, said the researchers “didn’t set out to define the physical nature of the inner core.”

“What we ended up discovering is evidence that the near surface of Earth’s inner core undergoes structural change,” Vidale said. The finding sheds light on the role topographical activity plays in rotational changes in the inner core that have minutely altered the length of a day and may relate to the ongoing slowing of the inner core.

“Kara”, Quantic Dream’s newest tech demo featuring the early 2011 version of our new PS3 engine.

Valorie Curry’s acting was performance captured (body, face, voice) on December 14. 2010 in our then newly renovated motion capture studio, using a 64 high-precision Vicon camera system. This is a compressed (QT.H264 720 p) video capture of the realtime running demo on PS3. A making-of will follow soon. KARA is NOT Quantic Dream’s upcoming PS3 title. The later shall be revealed soon.

Summary: New research reveals that serotonin in the cerebellum plays a crucial role in anxiety regulation. Scientists found that mice with lower cerebellar serotonin levels displayed increased anxiety-like behaviors, while those with higher serotonin levels were less anxious.

By artificially stimulating or inhibiting serotonin-releasing neurons in the cerebellum, researchers were able to bidirectionally control anxiety responses. This challenges previous assumptions that serotonin universally increases anxiety and highlights the cerebellum as a key player in emotional regulation.

The findings provide a potential pathway for developing more precise treatments for anxiety disorders. Future research may explore whether this mechanism operates similarly in humans and how it can be therapeutically targeted.

When you think of a mushroom—whether psilocybin or portobello—you probably envision a stem and cap common for this type of fungi. The new Snowball mushroom is anything but typical.

This particular strain of “magic mushroom” is aptly named, as it resembles dozens of snowballs packed together. Mycologist Pope Joseph painstakingly coaxed a mutation from another mushroom species into creating the look he wanted, says Drew Collins, founder and CEO of InoculateTheWorld (ITW). His company distributes mushroom spores and introduced the Snowball mushroom to the world.

The Snowball is a significant development in growing mushrooms that have psilocybin, a compound that causes psychedelic effects, such as visual and auditory hallucinations. This form is unlike anything that’s ever been seen in mushroom cultivation before, Collins says. “I’ve been describing it as that moment you look out the window of a plane and there’s a never ending field of clouds.”