Microscopic crystal ‘flowers’ build themselves in a Harvard lab
(Photo: Wim Noorduin)
Imagine peering into a microscope and finding yourself in a garden.
That’s the case at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where researchers have found a way to shape microscopic crystals into complex and often beautiful structures.
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Virgin birth or hanky-panky? Anteater mom sparks a scientific debate
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Is it a case of anteater virgin birth, a hormonal quirk or just some desperate hanky-panky? Whatever it is, Armani the anteater’s surprising pregnancy has sparked a debate over what animals are capable of when it comes to sex.
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Oldest water on Earth found deep underground
(Photo: B. Sherwood Lollar et al.)
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth’s surface.
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Life-saving surgery for baby with swollen head brings parents joy, relief
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Doctors carried out life-saving surgery Wednesday on an Indian baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell to nearly double its size, in a case that aroused sympathy worldwide.
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Cloning technique produces human stem cells for the first time
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Researchers say they have finally managed to use cloning technology to make human embryos and grow stem cells from them in the hopes of making perfectly matched grow-your-own tissue transplants.
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‘The World at Night’ can be brightly beautiful – but there’s a dark side, too
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Are the images featured in The World at Night’s annual “Earth and Sky” photography contest meant to celebrate the wonders of the night sky, or draw attention to the worries about the night sky? They’re meant to do both, says astrophotographer Babak Tafreshi.
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Space station chief returns home a star
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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spent his five months in orbit with songs, snapshots, and social media. As he travels back Earth, his son reflects on what’s next for the sudden celebrity.
WATCH LIVE: Commander Chris Hadfield and crew return to earth aboard Soyuz spacecraft
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Dawn of the bot? New era nears, experts say
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The country’s leading roboticists believe that over the next fifteen years, robots will become as ubiquitous “as computer technology is today,” a new report reveals.
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Bird flu: US safe from two new viruses - so far
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More than 50 travelers just back in the United States from China who had flu-like symptoms have been tested for the H7N9 bird flu virus, federal health officials say. So far, none has tested positive.
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‘Art of Science’ exhibit makes the connection between truth and beauty
(Photo: Anna Hiszpanski and Yueh-Lin Loo / Princeton)
Worms are a source of wonder in this year’s crop of aesthetically pleasing scientific images, served up by Princeton University’s Art of Science Competition.
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Spacewalkers hopeful new pump control fixes space station coolant leak
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Two spacewalking astronauts may have fixed an ammonia leak outside the International Space Station Saturday, perhaps bringing the outpost’s vital cooling system back up to full strength.
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‘Swarmageddon’! Cicada invasion kicks off in North Carolina
Photo: University of Maryland entomologist Michael Raupp has some fun with an adult cicada in College Park, Md., in May 2004. (Matt Houston / AP)
People are getting all twitchy about the bugs that are coming out in New York and New Jersey after a 17-year buildup, but when it comes to cicadas, Billy Tesh is seeing the real deal in North Carolina.
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‘Ring of Fire’ solar eclipse puts on a dazzling show in Australian Outback
(Photo: Nicole Hollenbeck)
SYDNEY — Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light.
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Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space
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Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds — but can you imagine documenting almost three decades’ worth of all that change, across most of our planet’s land mass? A team of imaging experts, computer scientists and journalists did. Now they’ve unveiled the result: a globa database of zoomable, animated satellite views known as Timelapse.
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![All Europeans are related if you go back just 1,000 years, scientists say
(Photo: Peter Ralph [USC] / Graham Coop [UC Davis])
A genetic survey concludes that all Europeans living today are related to the same set of ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago. And you wouldn’t have to go back much further to find that everyone in the world is related to each other.
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All Europeans are related if you go back just 1,000 years, scientists say
(Photo: Peter Ralph [USC] / Graham Coop [UC Davis])
A genetic survey concludes that all Europeans living today are related to the same set of ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago. And you wouldn’t have to go back much further to find that everyone in the world is related to each other.
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