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Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have cultured the first lab-grown skin tissue complete with…
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A new Tel Aviv University study pinpoints the inverse correlation between a known oncogene —…
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As medicine and pharmacology investigate nanoscale processes, it has become increasingly important to identify and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI3P7CkewDE This movie depicts cells being stretched by cavitation bubbles sent from various distances over…
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, is preparing for its 2018 observing campaign, which…
This image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows…
As e-cigarettes become more popular, fewer people are taking up smoking traditional cigarettes. But can…
The rapid development of portable electronics and electric vehicles requires lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) to have…
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Exactly 200 years ago, the Swedish scientist Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered the trace element selenium,…
In September 2017, a new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics have measured the sizes of the accreting regions…