Research conducted by NASA, in partnership with Toho University in Japan, has yielded alarming insights into the future of Earth. Leveraging state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations, scientists have found that the planet may become…
Category: 7. Science
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A giant wave is rippling through the Milky Way, and scientists don’t know why
Our Milky Way is constantly in motion: it spins, it tilts, and, as new observations reveal, it ripples. Data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope show that our galaxy is not only rotating and wobbling but also sending out…
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We still don’t know how “hot” the hot Big Bang was
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Atlantic dolphins are dying much younger. Scientists sound the alarm
Common dolphins, among the most abundant marine mammals on Earth, are living significantly shorter lives in the North Atlantic. A new study published on October 10 in Conservation Letters reports that their lifespan has dropped sharply in recent…
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Atlantic dolphins are dying much younger. Scientists sound the alarm
Common dolphins, among the most abundant marine mammals on Earth, are living significantly shorter lives in the North Atlantic. A new study published on October 10 in Conservation Letters reports that their lifespan has dropped sharply in recent…
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a new biological role for Z-DNA in cells
The left-handed spiral of each Z-DNA strand is highlighted on the left. Binding and bonding of the two zinc finger domains (shown in red) from the CTCF protein to Z-DNA (shown in blue). This protein helps to bridge chromosomal segments in…
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Mission to Mars — Bad science fiction
This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Mission to Mars: Bad science fiction’
Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars was empty before we came. That’s not to say that nothing had ever happened. The planet had accreted, melted,…Continue Reading
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Cambridge scientists create lab-grown human blood in major medical breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have successfully developed a stem cell-based model capable of producing human blood cells entirely in the lab. The achievement replicates the earliest stages of blood formation during human embryonic…
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Watch SpaceX launch its record-breaking 133rd Falcon 9 mission of the year today
SpaceX will break one of its launch records today (Oct. 22), and you can watch the action live.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites is scheduled to lift off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today…
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