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Human immune cells produced in a dish in world first
One day the advance could lead to a patient's own skin cells being used to produce new cells for cancer immunotherapy or to test...
Planet WASP-12b is on a death spiral, say scientists
Earth is doomed—but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted as our sun expands and becomes a red giant, but the...
Early humans revealed to have engineered optimized stone tools at Olduvai Gorge
Early Stone Age populations living between 1.8 - 1.2 million years ago engineered their stone tools in complex ways to make optimised cutting tools,...
Finding a new way to fight late-stage sepsis by boosting cells’ antibacterial properties
Researchers have developed a way to prop up a struggling immune system to enable its fight against sepsis, a deadly condition resulting from the...
Using relativistic effects for laser fusion: A new approach for clean power
A team of researchers at Osaka University has investigated a new method for generating nuclear fusion power, showing that the relativistic effect of ultra-intense...
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes—probably because they can fly
At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health buzzword, our guts have never been more...
Evolution on the vine: A history of tomato domestication in Latin America
The common cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum; or (SLL)) is among the world's most widely grown vegetable crops, from big agricultural farms...
LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave network catches another neutron star collision
On April 25, 2019, the LIGO Livingston Observatory picked up what appeared to be gravitational ripples from a collision of two neutron stars. LIGO...
Indeterminist physics for an open world
Classical physics is characterized by the precision of its equations describing the evolution of the world as determined by the initial conditions of the...
Researchers struggle to engineer plants that cope with climate change
A new study published by biologists at LMU demonstrates that there are no simple or universal solutions to the problem of engineering plants to...
The Milky Way’s impending galactic collision is already birthing new stars
The outskirts of the Milky Way are home to the galaxy's oldest stars. But astronomers have spotted something unexpected in this celestial retirement community:...
