Two days after touching down on asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission team received on Thursday, Oct. 22, images that confirm the spacecraft has collected more…
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New imaging method reveals HIV’s sugary shield in unprecedented detail
Scientists from Scripps Research and Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method for mapping in unprecedented detail the thickets of slippery sugar molecules that…
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PTSD and alcohol abuse go hand-in-hand, but males and females exhibit symptoms differently
Through intricate experiments designed to account for sex-specific differences, scientists at Scripps Research have collaborated to zero in on certain changes in the brain that…
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Chemists develop framework to enable efficient synthesis of ‘information-dense’ molecules
A team led by scientists at Scripps Research has developed a theoretical approach that could ease the process of making highly complex, compact molecules. Such…
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Stars and planets grow up together as siblings
Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
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Elkhorn coral actively fighting off diseases on reef
As the world enters a next wave of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are aware now more than ever of the importance of a healthy…
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Exploring the source of stars and planets in a laboratory
A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at…
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Scientists strongly back Joe Biden for US president in Nature poll
NEWS 23 October 2020 Readers cite climate change and the pandemic as their chief worries in the election. Giuliana Viglione Search for this author in:…
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The race to make COVID antibody therapies cheaper and more potent
NEWS 23 October 2020 Injections of antibodies might prevent mild COVID-19 from becoming severe, but the treatments are expensive and difficult to make. Heidi Ledford…
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COVID and the US election: will the rise of mail-in voting affect the result?
NEWS EXPLAINER 23 October 2020 With record numbers of postal ballots expected because of the pandemic, Nature dives into the data. Lynne Peeples Search for…
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