[ad_1] Frank Krahmer / Getty Images CRISPR-Cas9 is useful for all kinds of things, from creating heat-resistant cows to providing a potentially unlimited number of organs to transplant. Researchers at the Howard …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK, Oct. 3: Exposure to galactic cosmic radiation when traveling in far-flung spaces, such as to Mars, could significantly damage the gastrointestinal functions of astronauts, researchers said, led by a …
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[ad_1] Neanderthals mysteriously disappeared about 40,000 years ago, but before disappearing, they crossed paths with another human species that was just beginning to spread around the world. As a result of these …
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[ad_1] In the 1830s and 1840s, American craniologist Samuel Morton collected and measured hundreds of human skulls as part of an attempt to compare the brain size of five human race groups. …
Read More »Leon Lederman, physicist "particle of God", dies at 96
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[ad_1] Bioethicist Anna Wexler of the University of Pennsylvania is among the winners of the National Institutes of Health's Early Independence Awards. Dan Burke Photography By Jocelyn KaiserOctober 4, 2018, 3:35 pm …
Read More »The first moon outside our solar system may have been discovered and is massive
[ad_1] This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothetical moon. On Thursday, October 4, 2018, two researchers from Columbia University announced that the potential exonoon would be …
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Read More »The door stop of a Michigan man is a $ 100,000 meteorite
[ad_1] Professor Monaliza Sirbescu shows a meteorite installed in a man in Grand Rapids for years.(Photo: Mackenzie Brockman / Central Michigan University) A meteorite worth about $ 100,000 has been used for …
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