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How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop

Hot Wheels was one of those all-time classic toys. The original cars were tiny versions of real...

The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients

Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr...

A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery

The first samples from the farside of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the...

22 pesticides show links to prostate cancer

Nearly two dozen pesticides are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer in the United States,...

Stray DNA is all around us. It could revolutionize conservation

On a warm, sunny day in April, biologists David Duffy and Jessica Farrell prepare to motor down...

Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to New Limits

In the world of quantum physics, another record appears to have just been broken. In a paper...

Researchers seek, and find, a magical illusion for the ears

Close your eyes and imagine a sound, someone’s voice, coming from your left. It slowly shifts to...

Lizard spit can help detect a rare pancreatic tumor

A molecule in lizard saliva may make it easier to find certain tumors in the pancreas. Insulinomas...

Fossil teeth hint at a surprisingly early start to humans’ long childhoods

An extended childhood, a hallmark of human development, may have gotten off to an ancient and unusual...

Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated...

How does a fossil become a superstar? Just ask Lucy.

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile...

Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African...
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