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Yuri Milner’s Breakthrough Listen Expands Global Search with New Telescope Network
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has taken a significant step forward with the expansion of the Breakthrough Listen initiative to include new world-class telescopes. The program founded by Yuri Milner now operates across multiple continents, creating the...
CRISPR Gene Editing Study Demonstrates How Hox Genes Impact Appearance
Lots of scientists know of the “McGinnis experiment”, which William McGinnis undertook in 1990 to examine how high-level control genes, known as Hox genes, determine our physical characteristics. He investigated whether proteins encoded by the human or mouse Hox gene...
Importance of space exploration according to ‘The Eureka Manifesto’
The human species has always had an insatiable need to explore the unknown and learn more about the undiscovered. We have always stimulated our ambition by pushing our limits in the pursuit of knowledge and working hard to gain a better grasp of our environment and...
Is Living on Mars a Future Possibility?
Scientists have long been exploring the possibility of life on other planets and the ability of humans to live there one day too. There may come a time when earth is uninhabitable in many ways and having a backup planet to go to would be beneficial. In particular,...
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Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex
Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils.But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of one group of dinosaur.Hadrosaurs, also known as duck-billed dinosaurs, were...
The race is on to turn your body into a GLP-1 factory
People looking to lose weight and lower their blood sugar may someday be able to get a single injection that turns their cells into tiny factories churning out a protein that is essentially the active ingredient in drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and...
Dark matter obeys gravity after all — could that rule out a 5th fundamental force in the universe?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An illustration of tendrils of dark matter stretching across the cosmos. | Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/J. Pinto, CC BY 4.0Scientists have discovered...
Scientists discover black hole flare with the light of 10 trillion suns
Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up magnetic fields or hiccups in the heated gas disks surrounding black...
The hunt for dark matter: a trivia quiz
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An illustration of what dark matter could look like. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)From galaxy rotation curves that defy Newton's laws to gravitational...