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2024 - 1 - 12

Queen Camilla Chooses Novel About Charles as Hostage for Book Club

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Find out why Queen Camilla's book club pick is causing a stir!

Queen Camilla has sparked intrigue by selecting a novel imagining Charles as a hostage for her book club. The fictional tale revolves around a Parliamentary security breach, adding an unexpected twist to the royal selection. Meanwhile, NASA scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery of a novel galactic 'fossil,' shedding light on the evolution of galaxies. This cosmic find is a fascinating glimpse into the mysteries of the universe.

In a different realm, biology researchers are exploring how bacteria can stitch exotic building blocks into novel proteins, expanding the possibilities of life's building blocks. On the literary front, author Anthony Veasna So's unfinished novel is gaining attention for its vibrant and real storytelling, showcasing the power of fiction to captivate readers.

As the world of science continues to innovate, researchers are reprogramming microbes to create new materials, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in material science. In the realm of literature, novel adaptations and debut works are making waves, from historic novels to contemporary stories that promise to enthrall readers.

Ending on a surprising note, greater variability in judgments of novel ideas can impact the reception of creative concepts, highlighting the challenges innovators face. Additionally, the discovery of a novel regulator of immune evasion in cancer opens new possibilities for cancer treatment, heralding a potential breakthrough in antitumor therapies.

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Queen Camilla chooses novel imagining Charles as hostage for ... (BBC News)

The book, about a Parliamentary security breach, is chosen by Camilla for her book club.

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NASA Scientists Discover a Novel Galactic 'Fossil' - NASA Science (nasa.gov)

Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution of galaxies.

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Bacteria stitch exotic building blocks into novel proteins (Science)

Biology students are taught that DNA codes for just 20 amino acids, the building blocks of all of life's proteins. Researchers would love to build proteins ...

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Selfishly Curated Experiences: How Planning Trips Can Inform ... (Literary Hub)

İnci Atrek on Channeling the Intense Emotions of Travel Into Fiction ... The other day, a friend visiting town sent me a text: What was the name of that bar you ...

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How Anthony Veasna So's Unfinished Novel “Straight Thru ... (Electric Literature)

So's writing is boisterously funny, sparklingly real, and spectacularly alive.

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Data snapshot: From insect ag and vertical farming to aquaculture ... (AgFunderNews)

Funding in Novel Farming Systems—an AgFunder category spanning vertical farming, insect ag, aquaculture, & algae —fell off a cliff last year.

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Venita Blackburn's debut novel 'Dead in Long Beach, California' (Los Angeles Times)

This L.A. flash-fiction star thinks novels are 'saggy.' Her own debut proves her wrong. The shadows of a blind cast lines across Vanita Blackburn, a Black woman ...

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Scientists reprogramme microbes in quest to create new materials (Financial Times)

The researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge used chemical building blocks that do not occur in the genetic code ...

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Berlinale book-to-screen pitches to include UK historical novel 'A ... (Screen International)

The selected titles include the upcoming A Poisoner's Tale, the debut fiction novel from UK writer Cathryn Kemp, due for publication through Penguin Random ...

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Headline scoops 'dazzling' novel from Holden about Hans Holbein (The Bookseller)

Mountain Leopard Press, an imprint of Headline, has scooped Wendy Holden's "dazzling" historical novel, The Queen's Painter.

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Novel Transport Behavior Found in Natural Ferromagnetic Material (Mirage News)

According to a study published in ACS Nano, a research team led by Prof. TIAN Mingliang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese.

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Production and characterization of human hair keratin bioplastic ... (Nature.com)

Ethanediol, di-ethylene glycol and tri-ethylene glycol were used as novel plasticizers along with glycerol in the keratin film formation. The film prepared were ...

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Anne Michaels' new novel, Held, skips through time and space while ... (The Globe and Mail)

Anne Michaels has never shied away from Big Questions in her writing, and so when she describes her new novel, Held, as “looking at everything from science ...

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Fervor: A Novel by Toby Lloyd (Publishers Weekly)

Lloyd debuts with a gripping and powerful story of a British Jewish family visited by ghosts and divided by politics. While growing up in London in the ...

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Novel Galactic 'Fossil': Revealing the Dynamics of Galaxy Evolution (AZoQuantum)

Scientists studying at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have found X-Ray activity that provides insight into how galaxies evolve.

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CMS Okays Payment for Novel AI Prostate Test (Medscape)

ArteraAI intended to improve risk stratification or prognostication over standard clinical and pathologic tools and spare men unnecessary treatment.

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Novel Regulator of Immune Evasion in Cancer Identified - News ... (Feinberg News Center)

Antitumor immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system in fighting cancer and includes a range of therapy types, such as immune ...

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The Now Now Express by John Fleming: A clever novel with ... (The Irish Times)

A great joy of this novel about a gang of self-styled Mocking Boys is the way real life blows apart their apartness pose.

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Fate of novel ideas (Mirage News)

Innovation may be what drives progress in the arts, business, sciences and technology, but the novel ideas that drive innovation often face headwinds.

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Greater variability in judgements of the value of novel ideas - Nature ... (Nature.com)

Understanding the factors that hinder support for creative ideas is important because creative ideas fuel innovation—a goal prioritized across the arts, ...

Explainable deep learning discovers novel antibiotic (Nature.com)

Explainable graph algorithms identified substructure-based rationales for compounds with high predicted antibiotic activity and low predicted cytotoxicity.

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