A variety of molecules protrude from the cell surface, including glycoproteins, glycolipids, and the newly discovered glycoRNAs. This illustration depicts RNA as a double-stranded stem and a loop, and the glycan as a Tinkertoy-like structure branching off it. Credit: Emily M. Eng/R. Flynn et al./Cell 2021.

Sugars attach to certain RNA molecules on the outside membrane of the cell. The newly discovered “glycoRNAs” may be involved in immune signaling.

In a surprise find, scientists have discovered sugar-coated RNA molecules decorating the surface of cells.

Automakers are expecting $110 billion in lost sales this year due to shortages.

If ARM doesn’t prove it can be a level playing field in Nvidia’s ownership, customers will defect to alternatives.

Conditions like recurrent miscarriage, preeclampsia, preterm birth and stillbirth are affected by the female’s immune response in ways that the partner’s sperm contribute to.

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Sperm are generally viewed as having just one action in reproduction—to fertilize the female’s egg—but studies at the University of Adelaide are overturning that view.

Published in Nature Research journal Communications Biology, new research shows that sperm also deliver signals directly to the female reproductive tissues to increase the chances of conception.

Robinson Research Institute’s Professor Sarah Robertson, who led the project, said: This research is the first to show that the female immune response is persuaded by signals in sperm to allow the male partner to fertilize her eggs and conceive a pregnancy.

The US-European Solar Orbiter mission caught footage of a coronal mass ejection bursting out of the sun’s atmosphere during the spacecraft’s first close pass by our star.

A “four-legged fossil fish” predating dinosaurs has been recently rediscovered by groups hunting sharks with deep-sea nets.

The Ocean Cleanup’s Boyan Slat talks about upgrades and future plans for deploying more Interceptors designed to catch plastic and debris in rivers all around the world.

Read the CNET article: The third-generation Interceptor is ready to stop ocean plastic https://cnet.co/2QexlM1

Watch the extended ‘Now What’ interview with Boyan Slat on CNET: The Ocean Cleanup’s upgraded Interceptors: A weapon against ocean and river plastic pollution. https://cnet.co/2Pa1rzw.

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Ninety-three days, 4600 miles, and almost 2 million strokes. That’s what it took Chris Bertish to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean on a stand-up paddle (SUP) board.

“It was pretty radical, pretty incredible, driven by a passion and a purpose greater than yourself—and that powered me to get through everything, day in and day out,” said Bertish in a Skype interview with National Geographic.

Beginning off the coast of Morocco, he travelled for 93 days to reach English Harbour, Antigua, where he arrived haggard and grateful to still be standing.

May.14 — Martin Indyk, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, expects a cease fire soon in the latest Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. He appears on “Balance of Power.”