The discovery of the first small-molecule inhibitors of the Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) protein could enable…
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Scientists breed hazelnuts as the next cash crop for Midwest farmers
From a hill surrounded by the thawing mud of empty cornfields, farmer Chris Gamer leaned over…
Two neutron stars collided near the solar system billions of years ago
Astrophysicists Szabolcs Marka at Columbia University and Imre Bartos at the University of Florida, have identified…
State-of-the-art imaging uncovers the exciting life history of an unusual Mars meteorite
With human and sample-return missions to Mars still on the drawing board, geologists wishing to study…
Astronomer helps create ‘history book’ image of the universe
Astronomers have assembled a mosaic of nearly 7,500 images of one part of the sky, creating…
Space station back to full power, SpaceX launch early Friday
The International Space Station is back up at full power, after the successful replacement of a…
As car-sharing picks up in US, so do legislative battles
When Chris Williamson was in the market for a new family car, a timely ad and…
Chewing versus sex in the duck-billed dinosaurs
The duck-billed hadrosaurs walked the Earth over 90-million years ago and were one of the most…
Pinpointing Gaia to enable the most accurate map ever of more than a billion stars
Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA, surveys the sky from orbit to create the…
Species conservation: some success, many failures
With as many as a million species threatened with extinction due to mankind's destruction of the…