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October 17, 2024
At a fundamental level, science and magic are about as far apart as you can get. Science is focused on systematically studying...
August 29, 2024
Contrary to Bob Dylan’s famous song, it’s not possible to “stay forever young,” and aging is inevitable. As we get...
April 23, 2024
Alan Grodzinsky sees things differently. When he uses fluorescent dyes to test cell viability in the cartilage tissue he...
September 29, 2023
Plants don’t have bones or muscles or brains, but they’re always on the move. Driven by their genetics, some are hardwired...
They say you’re only as old as you feel, but in reality, you’re only as old as your immune cells. Even though the calendar...
What can we discover about phenomena on Earth when soaring approximately 250 miles above our planet’s surface? As you will...
June 29, 2023
The musical “Rent” famously calculated 525,600 minutes in a year, but how do you measure a year in heartbeats? The human...
February 27, 2023
People usually think of bone and muscle as very different things. Bones support the body and give it shape, while muscles...
To take a shot at a “holy grail” of cancer drug discovery, researchers from Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer...
July 26, 2022
In Greek mythology, Pandora’s Box releases disease and other miseries into the world. But in real life, a very different type...
June 22, 2022
To advance scientific discovery in new ways, scientists are taking their experiments and labs to an environment unlike any...
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