Thanks to a powerful new gene-editing technique, scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. In a paper in the U.S. journal Science this week, the researchers described using the ...
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NASA released radar images of a large asteroid that made a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday. Scientists said the flyby provided one of the best opportunities in years to gather data about a passing space rock. NASA Jet ...
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A group of British marine scientists are digging into the ocean's "twilight zone" to understand the processes involved in carbon transport in the oceans. As CRI's Victor Ning reports, the scientists are hoping that the research will lead ...
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Chile's ALMA observatory says it is joining forces with other space observatories around the world to create a virtual earth-sized telescope capable of visualizing objects on the moon. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ...
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NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft has gathered new evidence which scientists say appears to prove its the sun that has been robbing the red planet of its atmosphere and water. Researchers say solar winds are still stripping Mars of ...
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Australian scientists have identified a network of nine genes that play a key role in the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. The discovery could help researchers develop new treatments to delay the onset of the chronic brain disease, which ...
Chinese scientists have found that sediment transport in Yellow River was reduced mainly due to anthropogenic changes. The Yellow River was once the world's largest carrier of fluvial sediment, with 90 percent coming from the Loess ...
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Three volumes of "Flora of the Pan-Himalayas" have been published as part of a project to understand the region's plant life, scientists said Saturday. Started in 2010, the compilation aims to provide scientific guidance for protecting ...
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The human brain is the world's most sophisticated computer, but a group of Chinese scientists have developed a computer chip that works much like the brain. Jointly developed by scientists from Hangzhou Dianzi University and Zhejiang ...
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A new Chinese-made space-based telescope tasked with searching for signs of "dark matter" has formally begun its mission, beaming its first set of data to ground stations on Thursday. The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Satellite, ...
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Ground stations in China have received data sent by "Wukong" -- the country's first dark matter probe satellite, scientists announced Monday. A station in Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang successfully tracked and received data from ...
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Ford will begin testing self-driving cars on public roads in California next year. Fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans will take to the streets after the company secured a permit to begin testing the vehicles on public roads in ...
China sents into space the country's first Dark Matter Particle Explorer Satellite on Thursday. [Photo: weibo.com] China on Thursday sent into space the country's first space telescope in a fresh search for signals of dark matter, ...
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The world-renowned journal Nature Thursday released its annual list of ten people who mattered in science in 2015, which includes one Chinese scientist whose work in human embryo gene editing has caused repeated debate in the academic ...
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A team of engineers from Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame and the semiconductor company IQE has created gallium nitride (GaN) power diodes capable of serving as the building blocks for future GaN power switches -- with ...
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