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World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks

By Jonathan Lambert
October 22, 2018
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Evidence for life in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks appears to be crumbling away.

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Three Biochemists Win Chemistry Nobel for Directing Evolution

By John Rennie
October 3, 2018
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By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.

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Laser Physicists, Including Third Woman Ever, Win Physics Nobel

By Michael Moyer +1 authors
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October 2, 2018
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Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.

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Unexpected Diversity Found in 16 New Lab Mouse Genomes

By Jonathan Lambert
October 1, 2018
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The availability of 16 new mouse genomes will help accelerate research into the genetic underpinnings of human traits and diseases.

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Nobel Prize Awarded for Cancer Immunotherapy

By John Rennie
October 1, 2018
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James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing ways to unleash the immune system more effectively against cancers.

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‘Traffic Jams’ of Cells Help to Sculpt Embryos

By Jordana Cepelewicz
September 27, 2018
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By measuring mechanical forces inside an embryo for the first time, researchers have shown how a physical “jamming” mechanism assists development.

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A Short History of the Missing Universe

By Katia Moskvitch
September 19, 2018
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Astronomers have known where the universe’s missing matter has been hiding for the past 20 years. So why did it take so long to find it?

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Why Mathematicians Can’t Find the Hay in a Haystack

By Kevin Hartnett
September 17, 2018
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In math, sometimes the most common things are the hardest to find.

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A New Test for the Leading Big Bang Theory

By Natalie Wolchover
September 11, 2018
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Cosmologists have predicted the existence of an oscillating signal that could distinguish between cosmic inflation and alternative theories of the universe’s birth.


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