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New technique overcomes genetic cause of infertility

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Graphical depiction of XXY chromosomes. Credit: Joe Brock Scientists have created healthy offspring from genetically infertile male mice, offering a potential new approach to tackling a...
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Artificial womb raises hope for premature babies

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This is EVE, the artificial womb. Credit: Women and Infants Research Foundation An artificial womb has been successfully used to incubate healthy baby lambs for a...
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Adapters enable better communication between machines

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Small connector, big effect: This plug-and-play adapter overcomes language barriers between machines and facilitates modifications of industrial facilities. Credit: KIT Plug and play is a technology...
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USB connections make snooping easy

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Researchers tested more than 50 different computers and external USB hubs and found that over 90% of them leaked information to an external USB...
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Living on the edge: Stars found far from galaxy center

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The newfound young star clusters lie thousands of light-years below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, a flat spiral disk seen in this...
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Growing pains in a cluster of protostars

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Astronomers using ALMA have imaged the episodic outflow of a young protostar known as CARMA-7. The twin jets -- each nearly 1.5 trillion kilometers...
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ALMA disentangles complex birth of giant stars

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An artist's concept of the distribution of the ambient gas around IRAS 16547-4247. The central high-density gas cloud is thought to contain multiple high-density...
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Supermassive black holes feed on cosmic jellyfish

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Observations of 'Jellyfish galaxies' with ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. It seems the mechanism...
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Experimental therapy crosses blood-brain barrier to treat neurological disease

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Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological...
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Scientists use magnetic fields to remotely stimulate brain — and control body movements

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Scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles to stimulate neurons deep in the brain to evoke body movements of mice. This image shows a section of...
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Geochemical detectives use lab mimicry to look back in time

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An illustration of how laboratory techniques can tell scientists like Anat Shahar and her team about how elements such as iron behave under the...