Irradiation with fast protons is a more effective and less invasive cancer treatment than X-rays. However, modern proton therapy requires large particle accelerators, which has experts investigating … [+4291 chars]
A Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) research team has developed a technology that can detect RNA-degrading enzymes using the incidental cleavage activity of the CRISPR-Cas12a… [+2103 chars]
A new Cornell study sheds light on a controversial debate in epigenetics the set of molecular changes occurring on top of the genome that regulate how genes are turned on and off, but without changin… [+3264 chars]
A new ultra-powerful scan of the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays could reveal the identities of two mysterious voids inside. The largest of the two voids is located just above the grand… [+4314 chars]
As a molecular machine found in the cells of all organisms, the ribosome is responsible for making new proteins. It reads the blueprint for a certain protein on a messenger moleculeknown as messenger… [+3532 chars]
LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity a… [+6422 chars]
An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Bushveld Complex in South Africa function… [+2447 chars]
The race for space has quietly intensified in parallel with the geopolitical competition unfolding here on Earth. China, for example, has made great strides in its space programs and is looking to ta… [+6389 chars]
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In a recent Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids study, researchers demonstrate enhanced loss-of-function editing of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated p… [+6155 chars]
Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter? Pi in the sky! The number pi, that is. It's March 14, or 3-14,… [+1007 chars]
Scientists first thought that having a thinner nearside crust allowed magma in the Moons mantle to ascend and volcanically erupt on the surface more easily than the farside, explaining the nearsides … [+2722 chars]
