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Is this the first step towards 'designer' babies?
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Is this the first step towards 'designer' babies?
We all like to admire ourselves in the mirror from time to time, but there’s a bird in Australia that seems to have developed a rather unhealthy fixation.
They say the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but for JUICE the quickest route will involve a rather convoluted journey requiring four gravitational assists with three different planets.
Metals within newly found rocks contained a special signature, one that implies a specific kind of crust very shortly after the Earth formed, which was possibly more Martian than Earth-like.
This could clue us in to how young galaxies transformed into ones like ours, and the role dark matter played in this transformation.
While Cassini’s goodbye tour has been full of excellent images, this one of Mimas is particularly exquisite.
Classified as “extremophiles”, tardigrades have confounded and astounded scientists for over two centuries.
As reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, the condition is called “protruding iris collarette”.
While admittedly disturbing, the discovery could lead to new ways of combating malarial mosquitoes and the dreaded disease they carry.
Shockingly there's chemistry and genetics behind the way we look.
Scheduled for completion in 2020, it’ll be Canada’s first and only site where rockets can be launched into orbit.
The TRAPPIST-1 system has totally entranced Earthlings since NASA announced its discovery last month.
There are over 270 cobra species spread throughout Africa and Asia, and they exact a terrible toll on their animal and human victims.
Using a powerful supercomputer, meteorologists have simulated the “El Reno” tornado—a category 5 storm that swept through Oklahoma on May 24, 2011.
A new technique has helped nine women nearing menopause who were having difficulty conceiving to get pregnant via in vitro fertilisation.
