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Microsoft has reissued a reminder to enterprise IT admins that IE Mode, the legacy compatibility feature in Edge that runs sites using Internet Explorer's old Trident/MSHTML engine, will be discontinued by the end of 2029. The notice, sent via the Microsoft 365 admin center, reaffirms a 2021 commitment and asks organizations to begin planning now to migrate old applications away from IE dependencies.
A study finds that children who received school meal programs went on to earn more income as adults compared with peers who lacked such access. Researchers tracked long-term economic outcomes to establish this connection between childhood nutrition support and later earnings.
A Nature.com piece profiles René Descartes, examining how his mathematical innovations reshaped geometry and laid groundwork for modern analytical methods. The page content itself was largely inaccessible due to a browser compatibility notice, limiting the technical details available.
A Nature editorial argues that the US National Institutes of Health should not adopt simplistic bibliometric measures, such as citation counts or journal impact factors, to judge the value of research it funds. It warns that basing funding or hiring decisions on these numbers risks distorting scientific priorities and rewarding easily counted output over genuinely important work.
Researchers examined how warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns are affecting conifer forests, finding measurable impacts on tree growth and physiological function. The changes appear to be reducing the ability of these forests to absorb and store atmospheric carbon as effectively as before.
A retrospective catalogs odd, non-standard CSS behaviors that browsers—especially old versions of Internet Explorer—have accepted over the years, such as property prefixes with asterisks, underscores, or hyphens, and near-arbitrary strings after an exclamation mark being treated as !important. These tricks let developers target specific browsers at a time when CSS lacked conditional logic and browser rendering was wildly inconsistent.
A Nature Briefing Chat episode examines the widely taught story about the Bunsen burner's origins and finds the popular version doesn't hold up to scrutiny. The discussion revisits the historical record to clarify who actually contributed to the device's development and how the myth took hold.
Researchers have discovered a specific population of neurons that act as a natural brake on the growth of a nervous-system cancer, according to new findings published in Nature. The study details how these neurons interact with tumor cells to slow disease progression, offering fresh insight into the biology of nervous-system tumors.
Researchers studying the remains of an ancient city in Asia have found evidence of sophisticated engineering and social organization, according to a report highlighted by Nature. The findings point to coordinated planning and construction techniques that allowed the settlement to function as a complex urban center.
Researchers examining a set of unusual ancient fossils found evidence that the earliest insects were far more anatomically varied than previously assumed. The specimens display body structures that don't fit neatly into existing insect classification schemes, complicating the picture of how insects first diversified.
A large-scale genetic study analyzed data from roughly one million people to identify genetic variants associated with the Big Five personality traits—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. The research aimed to uncover the biological underpinnings of personality by pinpointing specific genomic regions correlated with these traits.
Scientists have developed a drug delivery approach that targets specific structures within individual cells rather than simply reaching a cell as a whole. This subcellular precision aims to route therapeutic payloads to particular organelles or compartments where they can act most effectively.