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The first chlamydia vaccine has passed a major test

Aug 15 2019 6:00 AM

A clinical trial for a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease found that the product provoked an immune response.

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Astronomers just quintupled the number of known repeating fast radio bursts

Aug 14 2019 3:10 PM

A Canadian telescope spotted eight more repeating fast radio bursts. What causes these cryptic flashes of radio waves from deep space remains unclear.

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A planetary body may have smashed into Jupiter, creating its weird core

Aug 14 2019 1:00 PM

A planetary body smashing into Jupiter may have jostled the gas giant's insides during its formative years, creating the strange interior seen today.

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CRISPR enters its first human clinical trials

Aug 14 2019 8:00 AM

The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test.

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Engraved bones reveal that symbolism had ancient roots in East Asia

Aug 14 2019 6:00 AM

Denisovans might have etched line patterns on two animal bone fragments more than 100,000 years ago in what's now northern China.

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A mussel poop diet could fuel invasive carp's spread across Lake Michigan

Aug 13 2019 10:50 AM

Asian carp, just a human-made waterway away from reaching Lake Michigan, could live in much more of the lake than previously thought.

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Two of four Ebola treatments prove highly effective in a clinical trial
Aug 12 2019 6:01 PM

An Ebola field trial in Congo is shifting its focus toward treatments that preliminary data suggest can help prevent death from the disease.

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Even without concussions, just one football season may damage players' brains
Aug 12 2019 10:28 AM

A group of college football players underwent brain scans after a season of play. The results suggest the sport could impact neural signaling.

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Plants don't have feelings and aren't conscious, a biologist argues
Aug 12 2019 6:00 AM

The rise of the field of "plant neurobiology" has this scientist and his colleagues pushing back.

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Rethink
A proposed space telescope would use Earth's atmosphere as a lens
Aug 09 2019 11:55 AM

One astronomer has a bold solution to the high cost of building big telescopes.

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Are researchers asking the right questions to prevent mass shootings?
Aug 09 2019 8:00 AM

Understanding how to thwart these violent events may be more effective than analyzing perpetrators' backgrounds.

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Exploding stars scattered traces of iron over Antarctic snow
Aug 09 2019 6:00 AM

Researchers melted half a ton of snow to find just 10 atoms of a radioactive variety of iron.

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How these tiny insect larvae leap without legs
Aug 08 2019 6:20 PM

High-speed filming reveals how a blob of an insect can leap more efficiently than it crawls.

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The worst wildfires can send smoke high enough to affect the ozone layer
Aug 08 2019 2:00 PM

The first direct observations of wildfire smoke in the stratosphere confirm what could happen in a "nuclear winter," a study finds.

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50 Years Ago
50 years ago, Fermilab turned to bubbles
Aug 08 2019 8:00 AM

The National Accelerator Laboratory, now called Fermilab, used to have a bubble chamber to study particles. Today, most bubble chambers have gone flat.

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One in 4 people live in places at high risk of running out of water
Aug 08 2019 6:00 AM

An update to the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas reveals that 17 countries withdraw more than 80 percent of water available yearly.

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