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Oldest-Known Human Genome Sequenced
A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record—revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned...
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Data Bank Struggles As Protein Imaging ps Its Game
Structural biology, the mapping of complex biological molecules such as proteins, is in the grip of a revolution.
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Gravity Map Uncovers Sea-Floor Surprises
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...
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Artificial Arms Get Closer to the Real Thing
Powered prosthetic hands and arms have advanced little in the last 50 years.
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Large Hadron Collider: The Big Reboot
Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...
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Quantum Bits Get Their First Compression
Without algorithms that compress data to encode information into fewer bits, hard drives would clog up and Internet traffic would slow to a snail's pace.
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'smart Genes' Prove Elusive
Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog.
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Plate Tectonics Found on Europa
If you have got an idea for how to study Europa, then NASA wants to hear from you.
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Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox
Physicists have devised a way to take pictures using light that has not interacted with the object being photographed.
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Neanderthals: Bone Technique Redrafts Prehistory
Neanderthals and humans lived together in Europe for thousands of years, concludes a timeline based on radiocarbon dates from 40 key sites across Europe.
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Only 10 Midges Needed to Make a Swarm
To most people, a cloud of midges is an annoyance.
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Organic Synthesis: The Robo-Chemist
In faded photographs from the 1960s, organic-chemistry laboratories look like an alchemist's paradise.
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Fiendish Million-Dollar Proof Eludes Mathematicians
Is a solution to one of the most important, beautiful and potentially lucrative problems in mathematics right around the corner?
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Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History
A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...
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Row Hits Flagship Brain Plan
The European Union's high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project, launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management...
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China's Lunar Rover Limps Into Another Long Night
As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.
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Quantum Network Would Be Most Precise Clock Yet
By exploiting the tricks of quantum physics, researchers say they could build a worldwide network of atomic clocks that are much more accurate than any single clock...
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Ambitious Plans For Brain Project Unveiled
A working group of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) presented a ten-year plan for the agency's portion of a major neuroscience initiative announced last...
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Microbes Defy Rules of Dna Code
The instructions encoded into DNA are thought to follow a universal set of rules across all domains of life. But researchers report today in Science1 that organisms...
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