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Edward Lorenz was just out of college when he was recruited into World War II. He was assigned to be a weather forecaster, despite having no... Read More
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Evolution has a public relations problem. By that, we do not so much mean the well-known problem of evolution acceptance on religious grounds... Read More
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Chemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow... Read More
Critically ill COVID-19 patients who received a single dose of a drug that calms an overreacting immune system were 45% less likely to die... Read More
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A single protein derived from a common strain of bacteria found in the soil will offer scientists a more precise way to edit RNA.The protein,... Read More
A little-studied liver protein may be responsible for the well-known benefits of exercise on the aging brain, according to a new study in... Read More
Gérard Karsenty was a young scientist trying to make a name for himself in the early 1990s when he first stumbled upon a finding that... Read More
We are not one organism, we are many organisms. And there is continued scientific interest in studying how our bodies interact with the... Read More
A peculiar bacterial enzyme has allowed researchers to achieve what even the popular CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing system couldn't manage:... Read More
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