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“Dental Origami” – How Snakes Got Their Fangs
Types of venom fangs in snakes: rear fangs (crab-eating water snake), fixed front fangs (taipan), and hinged front fangs (Gaboon viper); fangs highlighted in red. Credit A. Palci ‘Dental origami’…
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Microbe Genetic “Rewiring” Technique in Biomanufacturing of Fuels, Materials and Chemicals
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells that are producing indigoidine, which…
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Major Milestone for NASA’s Revolutionary Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has just…
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NASA Calculations Show Asteroid Bennu Has a Chance of Slamming Into Earth
This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona In…
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Black Howler Monkeys Adapt Mental Maps Like Humans for Efficient Navigation
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much…
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New Blood Test Improves Prostate Cancer Screening – Can Reduce the Number of MRIs Performed
From left: Martin Eklund and Tobias Nordström, associate professors at Karolinska Institutet. Credit: Stefan Zimmerman Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce…
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Optical Innovation Key to Unprecedented Accuracy in Beam Control of High-Power Lasers
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser stabilization experiment at one of…
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Geologists Discover That NASA Rover Has Been Exploring Surface Sediments, Not Ancient Lake Deposits
An image taken by the Curiosity Rover MastCam instrument shows layered sedimentary rocks composing Mount Sharp. The rover has been driving from the floor of Gale crater up through the…
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Enhancing Drug Delivery With Ultrasound – Boosts Treatment of Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders
Suono Bio, co-founded by MIT alumnus Carl Schoellhammer and two MIT professors, uses ultrasound waves to deliver drugs to the gastrointestinal tract, leveraging research made in MIT labs over more…
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New Research Shows Decline in CO2 Cooled Earth’s Climate Over 30 Million Years Ago
Tree stump in lignite deposits. Credit: Vittoria Lauretano New research led by the University of Bristol demonstrates that a decline in the concentration of atmospheric CO2 played a major role…