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Sustainable Development

Scientists Think Intelligent Life Could Have Evolved Before Brains

Today, French scientists took a poke at humans’ intellectual hegemony by demonstrating, for the first time ever, that a single-celled organism without a brain or nerv...

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Sustainable Development

A Landmark Ruling Allows Gene Editing In Human Embryos

A group led by biologist Kathy Niakan at London’s new Francis Crick Institute plans to use the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technique on human embryos for research purp...

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Sustainable Development

What Happens If Someone Uses This DIY Gene Hacking Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria?

The campaign, called "DIY CRISPR Kits, Learn Modern Science By Doing" was started by Josiah Zayner, a synthetic biologist and research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center. ...

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Crime And Punishment

The film Drishyam (in its many versions), raised curiosity about the Japanese book that inspired it. The bestselling Japanese novel is also reportedly being made into anoth...

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Sustainable Development

Microbes From Human Skin Have Colonized The ISS

Researchers led by Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a molecular biologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studied dust particles collected from ISS vacuums and air filter...

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Environment

Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone Is Now a Thriving Wildlife Habitat

Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, and his colleagues found that some birds were adapting to the radioactive environment by producing higher...

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Environment

A Mega-Canal In Nicaragua Could Kill Off Jaguars And Indigenous Groups

With major construction scheduled to begin at the end of the year, wildlife biologists are calling the project hasty, secretive, and potentially disastrous for the region's...

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Medical Testing Is So Hot Right Now. This Startup Wants In

THE CALIFORNIA HEADQUARTERS of Cofactor Genomics is a bright little bungalow a few blocks from downtown Mountain View. Floral vines abuzz with insects and hummingbirds part...

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Environment

Leafing out and climate change

Global warming is generally expected to bring spring forward but a connected influx of plant species from warmer southern latitudes could counteract this effect, said a stu...

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Environment

Climate Change Causes Winner And Losers In Penguins

Penguin species in the Antarctic that once benefited from rising temperatures are now in decline due to warming gone too far, scientists said Thursday. Previous scientific ...

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