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Gene Editing Gets a Triple Boost: “Happy Accident” Leads to Enhanced CRISPR Efficiency
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a method to significantly enhance the efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing without using…
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Mystery: Engineers Investigating Telemetry Data
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this artist’s concept traveling through space against a field of stars, has been exploring…
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Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls Into View – Dark Energy Camera Captures Celestial Phenomena
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter…
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Astronomers Find “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way With the Widest Range of Elements
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey…
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Physicists Explain Mysterious “Discrete Aurora” on Mars
Researchers led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. In a…
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New Targets in Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Planets of Binary Stars As Homes for Alien Life
Simulation of binary star. Credit: From the scientific article by Jørgensen, Kuruwita et al. Nearly half of Sun-like stars are…
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Measuring the Age and Size of the Universe
Spiral galaxy NGC 4603 containing Cepheids being used for distance measurements. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund The top-ranked scientific…
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Webb Space Telescope’s Quest for Primeval Black Holes
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The Webb Space Telescope team continues to…
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AI Reveals Unsuspected Connections Hidden in the Complex Math Underlying Search for Exoplanets
Artist’s concept of a sun-like star (left) and a rocky planet about 60% larger than Earth in orbit in the…
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Strange Radio-Emitting Neutron Star Discovered in Stellar Graveyard
Artist impression of the 76s pulsar (in magenta) compared to other more rapidly spinning sources. Credit: Danielle Futselaar An international…
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