The Psyche mission will travel to an asteroid unlike any we’ve seen. Its investigations could shed light on how the Solar System and the planets formed.>read more at © abc news…
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An exciting advance from Oxford Univ. has raised the prospect of tailoring stem cells quickly to treat brain injuries in humans in the future, by essentially 3D printing brain cells. In experiments, the implanted cells integrated into the animals’ brains both structurally and functionally. The innovative study, published in the journal…
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An Australian-Canadian science and engineering team has discovered a way of turning mine waste into arable soil that is already being used to grow maize and sorghum. ‘Tailings’ is the official industry term for mineral waste leftover after separating away all the useful metals from mined material. Typically toxic from heavy…
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A small holly tree species native to Brazil has been rediscovered after nearly two centuries of being presumed extinct. This incredible return to light is part of a worldwide conservation project to identify species that haven’t been seen in tens or hundreds of years. So far, the hunt is going very…
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The 2023 solar eclipse is passing over the United States this year, giving millions of Americans in the northwest a chance to glimpse a “ring of fire.” That’s the phrase for a kind of eclipse known as an annular eclipse, where the moon passes in front of the sun but leaves…
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An international team monitoring the activity of the sun has predicted that the next two years will have some of the most intense and frequent Northern Lights displays in a generation. Already this year the Earth’s aurora has been seen in states like Wisconsin and Minnesota—far south of its normal showgrounds….
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In June, GNN reported on the first evidence of a drug that was able to regrow adult teeth in mice, after it was discovered by a dental scientist named Takahashi in Japan years ago. Now, a pharmaceutical firm called Toregem Biopharma, funded by Kyoto University where Takahashi is based, is moving…
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