A gargantuan effort by a huge international team of scientists has just given us the most precise map of the all matter in the Universe obtained to date. By combining data from two major...
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Scientists Create Semi-Living ‘Cyborg’ Cells That Could Transform Medicine : ScienceAlert
Through a complex chemical process, scientists have been able to develop versatile, synthetic ‘cyborg’ cells in the lab. They share many characteristics of living cells while lacking the ability to divide and grow. That...
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Intriguing Meteorite From Mars Reveals ‘Huge Organic Diversity’, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
In a recent study published in Sciences Advances, an international team of scientists led by the Technical University of Munich examined the Martian meteorite Tissint, which fell near the village of Tissint, Morocco, on...
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Black Swans Could Be Entirely Wiped Out by a Single Virus, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
The genetic make-up of the iconic Australian black swan (Cygnus atratus) leaves it extremely vulnerable to viruses such as avian flu, research from the University of Queensland reports. The threat is thought to be...
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Babies May Not Be Born With a Microbiome After All, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
For more than a century, the womb has been largely considered a sterile environment. Yet even today, with advanced medical technology at hand, researchers cannot come to a consensus over whether the placenta and...
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Scientists Reveal The Most Distant Galaxy We’ve Ever Found : ScienceAlert
A galaxy whose light has traveled nearly 13.5 billion years to reach us has just been confirmed as the earliest galaxy found to date. By studying the oxygen content of the galaxy with the...
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The Human Microbiome Might Be Contagious, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
The community of people living around you could influence the community of microbes living inside of you. The largest and most diverse review to date has found evidence that who you live with and...
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Scientists Create Shapeshifting Humanoid Robot That Can Liquefy And Reform : ScienceAlert
Scientists have made a breakthrough in robotics: a shapeshifting robot that can switch between liquid and metal states to navigate tricky environments without compromising on strength. Because they can be both soft and hard,...
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Scientists Have a Plan to Turn Earth Into a Giant Observatory : ScienceAlert
Fiber-optic cables stretch across oceans and wind their way underground to handle our communications systems, and scientists think that this vast network of infrastructure could be put to another use: observing Earth’s surface from...
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COVID-19 Infection May Induce Fetal Brain Hemorrhages, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
There are already plenty of reasons to worry about COVID-19, but there’s another to add to the list: There’s evidence of the virus in fetal brain tissue in instances of pregnant people passing the...
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