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Mars terraforming not possible using present day technology

Mars terraforming not possible using present-day technology

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Science fiction writers have long featured terraforming, the process of creating an Earth-like or habitable environment on another planet, in their stories. Scientists themselves...
Nano optic endoscope sees deep into tissue at high resolution

Nano-optic endoscope sees deep into tissue at high resolution

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The diagnosis of diseases based in internal organs often relies on biopsy samples collected from affected regions. But collecting such samples is highly error-prone...
Carbon leak may have warmed the planet for 11000 years encouraging human civilization

Carbon ‘leak’ may have warmed the planet for 11,000 years, encouraging human civilization

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The oceans are the planet's most important depository for atmospheric carbon dioxide on time scales of decades to millenia. But the process of locking...
Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the terrible twos

Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the ‘terrible twos’

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Our Sun's beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about 50 million years before the Earth formed. Since the...
New algorithm could help find new physics—inverse method takes wave functions and solves for Hamiltonians

New algorithm could help find new physics—inverse method takes wave functions and solves for...

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Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed an algorithm that could provide meaningful answers to condensed matter physicists in their searches...
Researchers review the rapid progress in machine learning for the chemical sciences

Researchers review the rapid progress in machine learning for the chemical sciences

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A new tool is drastically changing the face of chemical research – artificial intelligence. In a new paper published in Nature, researchers review the...
Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment

Cooking oil coating prevents bacteria from growing on food processing equipment

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Many foods produced on an industrial scale include raw ingredients mixed together in enormous stainless steel machines that can be difficult to clean. With...
Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently

Study reveals new geometric shape used by nature to pack cells efficiently

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As an embryo develops, tissues bend into complex three-dimensional shapes that lead to organs. Epithelial cells are the building blocks of this process forming,...
Ant study sheds light on the evolution of workers and queens

Ant study sheds light on the evolution of workers and queens

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Worker ants, despite their diligence, seldom encounter opportunities for social mobility. In many species, individuals adhere to strict caste roles: queens lay eggs and...
Gut bacteria byproduct protects against Salmonella study finds

Gut bacteria byproduct protects against Salmonella, study finds

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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a molecule that serves as natural protection against one of the most common intestinal...
The big picture Mouse memory cells are about experience not place

The big picture: Mouse memory cells are about experience, not place

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When it comes to memory, it's more than just "location, location, location." New research suggests that the brain doesn't store all memories in 'place...