Every time a cell inside your body mimics, a part of your youth is eroded by dirt. This telomeres are caused by shortening of the structures that ‘cap’ the tips of our chromosomes. Now, Israeli scientists say they have been able to counteract this process and lengthen telomeres in a …
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Our closest global neighbor, the moon, and the only other body in the solar system, on which man has set foot, is well known to us. We know that there is practically no air. We know that water is ice, but not liquid water. So you can understand why the …
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There is a tremendous variety of life beneath the surface of the earth. A new analysis of two large groups of subsurface microorganisms has now revealed that their evolutionary path to life in the dark has been more bizarre than we expected. During the first 2 billion years of our …
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Earth is a truly magical place. We know it’s not the kind of thing you would expect to read on a science website, but just a look at the photo above – a pre-dawn photo taken by an Expedition 62 crew member on the International Space Station (ISS) back in …
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NASA’s perseverance Mars rover launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, featuring state-of-the-art technology including high definition video equipment and the first interplanetary helicopter. Many of the tools are designed as experimental steps towards human exploration of the red planet. Crucially, Perseverance is equipped with a device called the …
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