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Vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris persist today at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on Mars, says new research using ground-penetrating radar on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The discovery is an encouraging sign for scientists searching for life beyond Earth. The water ice might also provide [...]
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A new study shows that when patients with macular degeneration focus on using another part of their retina to compensate for their loss of central vision, their brain seems to compensate by reorganizing its neural connections. Age–related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in the elderly. The study appears in the journal Restorative [...]
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More than a century ago, the development of the earliest motion picture technology made what had been previously thought “magical” a reality: capturing and recreating the movement and dynamism of the world around us. A breakthrough technology based on new concepts has now accomplished a similar feat, but on an atomic scale by allowing, for [...]
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Cells can turn on tumor-promoting growth circuits by falsely reporting critical genetic information during the process of transcription: making RNA from DNA. Damage to the DNA making up a gene can lead to a misreading of the gene as it is made into RNA, a process called transcriptional mutagenesis. Transcriptional mutagenesis could represent an additional [...]
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Researchers have developed an unlimited number of pure insulin-producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells.
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Scientists have made electronics that can bend. They’ve made electronics that can stretch. And now, they’ve reached the ultimate goal — electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting. Researchers have improved their so-called “pop-up” technology to create circuits that can be twisted. Such electronics could be used in places where flat, [...]
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