Singapore Science News API

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            "title": "Antarctic glacier collapses at record speed as Hektoria retreats 15 miles in just 15 months",
            "description": "Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed with shocking speed, retreating 15 miles in only 15 months and setting a modern record for grounded ice loss. Scientists say warming conditions and ocean-driven instability turned the glacier from seemingly stable to rapidly unraveling almost overnight.",
            "content": "Scientists recently analyzed the event using multiple types of remote sensing data and concluded that the glacier's shape and structure played a major role in the rapid collapse. Hektoria Glacier, located on the Antarctic Peninsula, begins on land an... [4978 chars]",
            "url": "http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260518041417.htm",
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            "title": "The structure of water: entropy determines whether ions adhere",
            "description": "Water molecules do not simply swirl around in disorder, they can form certain preferred structures. This scientific fact is often presented in a completely unscientific way, for example when there ...",
            "content": "All of this has been refuted, but even if water is not a magical store of information, its ability to form structures in the short term can have important consequences. This has now been demonstrated by a study conducted by TU Wien in collaboration w... [3864 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/1188715/the-structure-of-water-entropy-determines-whether-ions-adhere.html",
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            "title": "Engineering yeast chromosomal telomeres with a bacteriophage system",
            "description": "All eukaryotes, including yeast, plants, animals and humans, possess linear chromosomes. The conserved eukaryotic telomere-telomerase systems, originated and evolved over 1 billion years, protect the chromosomal ends and regulate critical physiological functions through complex networks. In this study, we replace the endogenous eukaryotic telomeres in the single-chromosome yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with the prokaryotic telomere system TelN/tos from the Escherichia phage N15, which forms a closed hairpin structure, by interrupting the MRX/Sae2 pathway. The prokaryotic telomeres effectively protect linear chromosomal ends and prevent genetic instability. Through adaptive evolution, we identify yeast strains harboring additional mutations (TEL1 and CYR1) that restore functional MRX/Sae2 activity, thereby improving host fitness and meiotic capacity. Interestingly, the two-associated TelN/tos telomeres position deeper into chromosomes and exhibit increased interactions with their adjacent regions. The successful replacement of a complex eukaryotic chromosomal telomere with a simple bacteriophage system demonstrates functional equivalence between these divergent systems, implying possible natural origins of such stochasticity (e.g., horizontal gene transfers). Furthermore, these engineered strains facilitate development of a tos-YAC system that enabled iterative assembly and stable maintenance of megabase-level heterogeneous DNA (1.23-2.77 Mb), providing a robust platform for large-scale DNA manipulation. Telomeric systems are conserved across eukaryotes and may have originated over 1 billion years ago. Here the authors replaced yeast’s telomeres with a bacterial virus system, resulting in a stable functional assembly of DNA molecules up to 2.77 Mb, offering insights into the possible origins of telomeres.",
            "content": "Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give... [797 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-73335-2?error=cookies_not_supported&code=2c1ea74c-cab0-4d39-8cd5-7e15d99f8617",
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