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A novel technology for genome-editing a broad range of mutations in live organisms
The ability to edit genes in living organisms offers the opportunity to treat a plethora of inherited diseases. However, many types of gene-editing tools...
Chocolate muddles cannabis potency testing
In 2012, Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. Since then, several other states have joined them, and cannabis-infused edibles,...
Skin patch could painlessly deliver vaccines, cancer medications in one minute
Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that has been increasing in the U.S. for the past 30 years. Nearly 100,000 new cases...
Mapping nucleation kinetics with nanometer resolution
Nucleation is the formation of a new condensed phase from a fluid phase via self-assembly. This process is critical to many natural systems and...
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future...
‘100-year’ floods will happen every 1 to 30 years, according to new flood maps
A 100-year flood is supposed to be just that: a flood that occurs once every 100 years, or a flood that has a one-percent...
Cracking a decades-old test, researchers bolster case for quantum mechanics
In a new study, researchers demonstrate creative tactics to get rid of loopholes that have long confounded tests of quantum mechanics. With their innovative...
The case for retreat in the battle against climate change
When it comes to climate change, moving people and development away from at-risk areas can be viewed, not as a defeat, but as a...
Scientists successfully innoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soil
A group of researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands throughout the world.
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Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data
Neutrinos come in three flavours made up of a mix of three neutrino masses. While the differences between the masses are known, little information...
An Ice Age savannah corridor let large mammals spread across Southeast Asia
New research from the University of Tübingen indicates that the Thai-Malay Peninsula—where parts of Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand are located—was at least partly an...
