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James Webb Telescope Reveals a Dazzling Light Show From the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...
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NASA mission to explore the origins of the universe ready to launch with help from RIT
RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
Micro artist sets world record for smallest sculpture
A micro artist has set a new Guinness World Record for creating the smallest handmade sculpture. David Lindon, from ...
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Onscreen chemistry: New book considers the portrayal of chemical science in film and TV
From Transylvania and Chernobyl to colourful glassware and narcotics, explore the fascinating world of the big and small ...
Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air
In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world ...
Jack the Ripper Researcher, Who Claims to Have Identified the Serial Killer with 100% DNA Match, Seeks ‘Closure’
Jack the Ripper was identified as Polish barber Aaron Kosminski by researcher Russell Edwards. The historian is now seeking ...
Digital Resurrection: Scientists Are on a Mission To Preserve the World’s Most Endangered Marine Mammal
FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...
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Megakaryocytes assemble a three-dimensional cage of extracellular matrix that controls their maturation and anchoring to the vascular niche
Megakaryocytes form a three-dimensional (3D) cage composed of laminin and collagen IV connected to the basement membrane surrounding them. This microarchitecture stabilizes megakaryocytes within their ...
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A short history of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...
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MVP Voter has Controversial History with Ravens' Lamar Jackson
This year's MVP race was one of the closest and most controversial in recent memory, so naturally, every single voter is going to be under the microscope. Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar ...
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When this NAU professor looks down the microscope, she sees art instead of algae
Sometimes the connections we make between disparate things are less than obvious. For Debra Edgerton, the connection between algae and society seemed innate when she looked at the microorganisms ...