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Zooming across time and space simultaneously with superresolution to understand how cells divide

Zooming across time and space simultaneously with superresolution to understand how cells divide

Cell division, or the process of how daughter cells emerge from a mother cell, is...

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Fungal infections in the brain aren’t just the stuff of movies – Africa grapples with a deadly epidemic

Fungal infections in the brain aren’t just the stuff of movies – Africa grapples with a deadly epidemic

In the 2023 American post-apocalyptic drama television series The Last of Us, humans...

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As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body?

As heat records fall, how hot is too hot for the human body?

Extreme heat has been breaking records across Europe, Asia and North America, with...

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Stem cell therapies: why they’re expensive, unproven and often dangerous

Stem cell therapies: why they’re expensive, unproven and often dangerous

Rogue clinics selling stem cell therapies are popping up everywhere. There are thousands...

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Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges

Promising assisted reproductive technologies come with ethical, legal and social challenges

A developmental biologist and a bioethicist discuss IVF, abortion and the mice with...

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The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health

The bacteria and microbes in your gut can affect your body and mental health

– engineering them promises new forms of treatment. Podcast

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A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses

A new, thin-lensed telescope design could far surpass James Webb – goodbye mirrors, hello diffractive lenses

Astronomers have discovered more than 5,000 planets outside of the solar system...

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Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

Classic literature still offers rich lessons about life in the deep blue sea

When OceanGate, the deep-sea exploration enterprise, created a promotional video...

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Does the direction water rotates down the drain depend on which hemisphere you’re in? Debunking the Coriolis effect in your sink

Does the direction water rotates down the drain depend on which hemisphere you’re in? Debunking the Coriolis effect in your sink

In countries near the Earth’s equator, tourists are often dazzled by a demonstration...

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Immune cells in the brain may reduce damage during seizures and promote recovery, according to study in mice

Immune cells in the brain may reduce damage during seizures and promote recovery, according to study in mice

Immune cells in the brain may reduce damage during seizures and promote recovery,...

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Zebrafish share skin-deep similarities with people, making them helpful models to study skin conditions like vitiligo and melanoma

Zebrafish share skin-deep similarities with people, making them helpful models to study skin conditions like vitiligo and melanoma

Melanocytes are a small subset of epidermal cells that play an outsize role in protecting...

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Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?

Why are so many climate records breaking all at once?

In the past few weeks, climate records have shattered across the globe. July 4 was...

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Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here’s what to make of it

Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here’s what to make of it

Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical...

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Aging is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

Aging is complicated – a biologist explains why no two people or cells age the same way, and what this means for anti-aging interventions

You likely know someone who seems to age slowly, appearing years younger than their...

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Plastic pollution threatens birds far out at sea – new research

Plastic pollution threatens birds far out at sea – new research

Seabirds are one of the world’s most threatened animal groups. They already contend...

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Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study

Seabed trawling’s impact on the climate may be wildly overestimated – new study

You might remember newspaper articles in 2021 claiming that towing nets over the...

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