They look like small, flowers, curling and unfolding with changes around…
Category: 7. Science
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Scientists Built Tiny DNA Flowers That Can Move on Their Own and Deliver Targeted Treatments
Visualization of the microscopic “DNA flowers” made by Ronit Freeman in the Freeman Lab at UNC. Credit: Justin Hill, Philip Rosenberg, and Ronit Freeman -
‘Chiron,’ the strange half-comet, half-asteroid beyond Saturn, is now growing its own ring system, study finds
In a universe where change usually unfolds over eons, astronomers have gotten a rare front-row seat to watch a small, icy world beyond Saturn build a brand-new set of rings in real time.
A team of Brazil-based astronomers found that the bands of…
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Astronomers discover 2nd fastest asteroid in the solar system hiding in the sun’s glare
A newly found space rock almost broke a speed record.
The asteroid, called 2025 SC79, has a pathway within the orbit of Venus that zips around the sun in only 128 days, making it the second-fastest unique asteroid orbit in the solar system,…
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MTU joins major CERN project to uncover mysteries of the universe
The ATLAS collaboration is one of the biggest scientific projects ever, with more than 5,500 members across 40 countries.
Just days after Ireland confirmed its associate membership of the European Organization…
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A novel Hox gene promoter fuels the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in wing eyespots of satyrid butterflies
West-Eberhard, M. J. Phenotypic plasticity and the origins of diversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20, 249–278 (1989).
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Boron Isotopes Reveal How Waste Glasses Dissolve—and When They Stop Contaminants From Escaping
Newswise — By employing boron isotope fingerprinting techniques, the team was able to track the release of boron from two distinct glass compositions, focusing on the role of diffusion through the altered surface…
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The school for astronauts hidden inside a Swiss mountain
Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar base. The BBC joined them before the “mission”.
What was your childhood dream? For some, it was the idea of becoming an…
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Peatlands’ Carbon Reservoir at Risk of Release
Peatlands make up just 3% of the earth’s land surface but store more than 30% of the world’s soil carbon, preserving organic matter and sequestering its carbon for tens of thousands of years. A new study sounds the alarm that an extreme…
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CU Boulder Researchers Develop OpenVCAD, an Open-Source Tool for Smarter Multi-Material 3D Design
Charles Wade, a fourth-year PhD student in CU Boulder’s Department of Computer Science, has developed OpenVCAD, a software package that uses functions and code to define both the shape of a 3D object and how different…
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Hidden Telomerase RNA Found Inside Another Gene
An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has solved a genetic mystery and revealed a previously unknown way that DNA can control what cells do. Published…
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