With only a few days left in this strange beast of a year that will surely come down in the history books, we thought it would be nice to reflect on the amazing things scientists have done so far. Despite everything. Of course, scientific achievements usually take years. However, here …
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Even though we think about the cells and organelles inside us that map them so well, it seems like there are still some surprises in store. A team of researchers has just published a paper describing the amazing structure that exists in an organelle – hidden from plain sight for …
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In September 2019, my colleague Anna Kapinska made a presentation showing interesting things while browsing our new radio astronomical data. She began to see very strange shapes that could not easily fit into any known type of to-budget. Of those, labeled by Anna WTF?, Was a picture of a haunted …
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If you had watched the news today, you would have forgotten that you think an enormous asteroid is about to collide with Earth the day before the 2020 US presidential election. At least that’s the takeaway from quite a few news stores. And, understandably, some people are freaking out. In …
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According to a new study published in the journal, the genetic variation of the new coronavirus that dominates the world today infects human cells more easily than the original one that emerged in China. Cell Thursday. Laboratory-based research suggests that this current mutation is more communicable between people in the …
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