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NASA on Tuesday awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX with a contract to provide launch services for the next space telescope mission. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is 2.4 meters in diameter, is… [+1598 chars]
The scientists at deCODE genetics found 600 millions SNPs and indels in these 150 thousand genomes corresponding to 7% of those that can theoretically occur in the human genome. It is however likely … [+2370 chars]
Does the astonishing biodiversity in the Philippines result in part from rising and falling seas during the ice ages? Scientists have long thought the unique geography of the Philippinescoupled with… [+8212 chars]
Lets be honest : Penguins are a little, well, weird. Theyre flightless birds that waddle around on the coldest reaches of planet Earth, but they can also dive to impressive depths below the ocean's … [+6235 chars]
At first glance , the Fibonacci sequence might seem like no more than a bit of mathematical trickery. But look around, and it pops up again and again and again, in computer science and in nature. It… [+5349 chars]
BySpanish National Research Council (CSIC)July 20, 2022 For the first time, magnetic resonance imaging reveals in vivo brain inflammation. The picture above is an artists concept of scientists study… [+6733 chars]
image: Garden eels anchor the lower part of their body in burrows, and face their heads against the current as they prey on zooplankton. The species pictured is the spotted garden eel, Heteroconger h… [+4747 chars]
A recent research study conducted by City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team has demonstrated that artificial whiskers, built as models of whiskers from sea lions, can … [+1595 chars]
Over the course of many thousands of years, humans turned rye into a cultivated plant. In doing so, they have considerably limited its genetic flexibility. Today, wild rye not only has a more diverse… [+4024 chars]
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Newswise — “The instrument,” as it’s called, seems to take up the entire room. The sprawling molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system is all tubes, bolts, stainless steel components, and air-tight glass. … [+11136 chars]
