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physicist who guided Voyager probes to interstellar space

Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi Edward Stone was a pre-eminent space scientist with an exceptional record of leading space missions and building…

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finding offers hope for better drugs

An injection pen for the diabetes drug Ozempic (semaglutide), which leads to substantial weight loss but also causes nausea bad…

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Stars hint at an unusual black hole lurking in our Galaxy

Astronomers can use the movements of stars to determine the location of a black hole (illustration).Credit: Victor de Schwanberg/Science Photo…

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These period pads solidify blood to prevent leaks

Commonly used menstrual pads, which can leak when saturated, have not changed much over time.Credit: Suphansa Subruayying/Getty A biodegradable molecule…

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How the watermelon got its sweet taste and rosy hue

Scientists have mapped the genomes of watermelon and their wild — and often bitter — relatives in unprecedented detail, in…

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Multiple plague outbreaks in a Neolithic family give clues to prehistoric population dip

RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 10 July 2024 A reconstruction of the occurrence of plague in a large family tree from Neolithic Sweden…

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This lab-grown meat probably tastes like real beef

Beef stem cells are added to a hydrogel that contains flavour compounds.Credit: Yonsei University Meat grown in the lab has…

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Cellular adaptation to cancer therapy along a resistance continuum

Vasan, N., Baselga, J. & Hyman, D. M. A view on drug resistance in cancer. Nature 575, 299–309 (2019).Article  CAS …

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An enterococcal phage-derived enzyme suppresses graft-versus-host disease

Patient cohortAn observational cohort consisting of allo-HCT recipients was recruited from patients in the Department of Haematology at Osaka Metropolitan…

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A maternal brain hormone that builds bone

EthicsExperiments were approved and performed in accordance with the guidelines of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Institutional Animal…

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