By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered ...

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Basic research that doesn’t have a specific industrial or experimental application still adds value outside the lab by ...

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May 1, 2025 — The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has spotted an unusual family of stars all strangely eager to leave home -- a family we couldn't have discovered without the star-surveying ...

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The introduction of computers represented an additional step towards the decentring of humans in science: Humphreys’s hybrid scenario. As one prominent example documented in the book Hidden Figures ...

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The research, published April 18 in the journal Science Advances, is proof-of-concept for a technique that could allow neuroscientists to probe previously un-answerable questions about visual ...