NOAA’s latest assessment describes a climate pattern that is still gathering strength across the Pacific, leaving California’s coming winter surrounded by consequential questions. The agency gives El Niño a 97% chance of lasting into early spring 2027. It also sees an 81% chance that the event will become very strong during October through December 2026.…
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A study in Mobile DNA reports that two foundational genome resources, Repbase and Dfam, are being unified into a single open framework for studying transposable elements. The move will release the full Repbase collection under a public-domain license and bring its core curation team into the Dfam effort. The announcement matters because transposable elements, often…
Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria have developed a way to guide AlphaFold3 with real experimental measurements, a step that could make protein prediction more faithful to the restless behavior of molecules inside living systems. The work, described in an official announcement and published in Nature Biotechnology, aims to help the AI…
A PNAS study led by researchers at the University of Tokyo has produced a chromosome-scale map of the Greenland shark genome. The assembly covers an estimated 96.7 percent of the genome and reveals several biological systems that may support a lifespan measured in centuries. The findings bring scientists closer to a question that has surrounded…
