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Big hope for cancer: How the Nobel-winning discovery of microRNA is changing the face of diagnosis and therapies 2024-11-25
Financial Express

What if the ammunition to fight diseases like cancer and Alzheimer\u2019s lies in the smallest part of your cells? We all know that DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) contains the blueprint of life and the RNA (Ribonucleic acid) helps in transcribing the information and producing the proteins to sustain...

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Two astronauts are stuck in space. This NASA veteran knows their pain 2024-11-25
The Spokesman-Review

Frank Rubio winces when he discusses the emotional hardship of being confined for more than in a year in a vessel orbiting Earth, the slightest of breaks in the composure of someone trained as doctor, Army helicopter pilot and NASA astronaut. A leaking radiator on the Russian spacecraft that brought...

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How Many Sides Does The Great Pyramid Of Giza Have? Because It Isn't Four 2024-11-22
IFL Science

There is still plenty to learn about the pyramids of Egypt. For instance, it would be nice to know what is in the massive void sealed inside the Great Pyramid of Giza 4,500 years ago, or precisely how the materials were transported to the area before construction. But let's start with the basics:...

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Chimpanzee behaviours passed down through generations 2024-11-22
Swissinfo

Some of the complex behaviours of chimpanzees have been passed down and refined over generations. These include the combination of several tools for...

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What Did Dinosaurs Sound Like? New Parasaurolophus Model Hopes To Find Out 2024-11-22
IFL Science

How do you work out what an extinct animal sounded like? One place we can look to is their fossils, and a new research project has set out to do just that for Parasaurolophus, creating a set of pipes they’ve nicknamed the “linophone" inspired by chambers in its skull. The name comes after its...

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Why do humans have toenails? Because we’re evolutionary ‘weirdos.’ 2024-11-21
Popular Science

At the ends of your toes are an evolutionary artifact of humans’ primate history, hiding in plain sight. Instead of sharp, curved hooks or stomping hooves, we have flat scales of double-layered keratin covering just the tops of our digits. Yet for most other vertebrate animals, that’s not the case....

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Where Is The Ancestral Homeland Of All Living Humans? 2024-11-21
IFL Science

Africa is the homeland of humanity – at least, that’s what most experts currently think. Like all families, Homo sapiens has a complicated story marked by disagreements, unanswered questions, and glaring gaps in our understanding. The idea that all members of Homo sapiens (that's...

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See The First Ever Close-Up Picture Of A Star Outside The Milky Way 2024-11-21
IFL Science

Astronomers have been studying star WOH G64 for a while. It’s a red supergiant in the galaxy next door, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it is believed to be in the last stages before going supernova. Researchers have now broken a record by actually photographing it in detail – this had never been...

photo: ESO/K. Ohnaka et al.

The World's Most Dangerous Tree Isn’t Even Safe To Stand Under When It’s Raining 2024-11-20
IFL Science

If you too suffered through the cinematic experience that was The Happening, you’ll know it’s hard to feel that threatened by a plant – but there is a tree out there that seems hell-bent on cruelty. The manchineel has been declared “the most dangerous tree in the world” by the Guinness Book Of World...

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Six months in space is not that bad for your brain 2024-11-20
Popular Science

Extended time in space is not exactly harmless to the human body. Radiation, altered gravity, sleep loss, can all take their toll on astronauts. Some are even hospitalized upon their return to Earth. Minor mistakes in space can have devastating consequences, so it is important to know how these...

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