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Category: Science
Scientists detect signatures of life remotely
It could be a milestone on the path to detecting life on other planets: Scientists detect a key molecular property of all living o...
Most cancer cells grown in a dish have little in common...
In a bid to find or refine laboratory research models for cancer that better compare with what happens in living people, scientist...
Unraveling the origin of Alzheimer's disease
Researchers studying prions -- misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases -- have identified the surface features of ...
Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill,...
In the last few decades, physicists have found ways to super-cool objects so that their atoms are at a near standstill, wrestling ...
New method could reveal what genes we might have inheri...
Using neural networks, researchers have developed a new method to search the human genome for beneficial mutations from Neandertha...
We cannot cheat aging and death, study indicates
Philosophers, artists and scientists -- and probably all the rest of us -- have long obsessed over the key to human immortality. W...