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Crispr Fixes Disease Gene in Viable Human Embryos
An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing—a technique that allows scientists to make precise changes to genomes with relative ease—to...
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The Strange Topology That Is Reshaping Physics
Charles Kane never thought he would be cavorting with topologists. "I don't think like a mathematician," admits Kane, a theoretical physicist who has tended to...
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Satellite Snafu Masked True Sea-Level Rise For Decades
The numbers didn't add up. Even as Earth grew warmer and glaciers and ice sheets thawed, decades of satellite data seemed to show that the rate of sea-level rise...
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Lights, Camera, Crispr: Biologists se Gene Editing to Store Movies in Dna
Internet users have a variety of format options in which to store their movies, and biologists have now joined the party.
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Single-Cell Sequencing Made Simple
Single-cell biology is a hot topic these days. And at the cutting edge of the field is single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq).
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How Quantum Trickery Can Scramble Cause and Effect
Albert Einstein is heading out for his daily stroll and has to pass through two doorways.
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Solar System Survey Casts Doubt on Mysterious 'planet Nine'
An analysis of four icy bodies discovered in the outer Solar System reveals no sign that they are being influenced by a large, unseen planet lurking beyond Neptune...
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The Fight to Save Thousands of Lives with Sea-Floor Sensors
Jerry Paros is worried about the geological time bomb ticking away just off the coast near his home in Washington state.
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China's Quantum Satellite Clears Major Hurdle on Way to ltrasecure Communications
Just months into its mission, the world's first quantum-communications satellite has achieved one of its most ambitious goals.
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The 'time Machine' Reconstructing Ancient Venice's Social Networks
Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts...
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Hubble Sees Light Bending Around Nearby Star
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted light bending because of the gravity of a nearby white dwarf star—the first time astronomers have seen this type of distortion...
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Neuroscientists Rethink How the Brain Recognizes Faces
People can pick a familiar face out of a crowd without thinking too much about it. But how the brain actually does this has eluded researchers for years.
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Mummy Dna nravels Ancient Egyptians' Ancestry
The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure—human DNA—has proved elusive.
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Software Simplified
In 2015, geneticist Guy Reeves was trying to configure a free software system called Galaxy to get his bioinformatics projects off the ground.
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Satellite Images Reveal Gaps in Global Population Data
Nigerian health officials won't have to rely on flawed, decade-old census data when they plan deliveries of the measles vaccine next year.
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Pocket Laboratories
As spring turns to summer along the east coast of the United States, thoughts turn to holidays, beaches, picnics—and mosquitoes.
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The Shock Tactics Set to Shake p Immunology
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to a raised patch of skin just below her collar bone....
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Dna's Secret Weapon Against Knots and Tangles
Leonid Mirny swivels in his office chair and grabs the power cord for his laptop.
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Mobile-Phone Signals Bolster Street-Level Rain Forecasts
Meteorologists have long struggled to forecast storms and flooding at the level of streets and neighborhoods, but they may soon make headway thanks to the spread...
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