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Getting Ready for Mars

02.01.2017

Space & Physics, Planetary Science

Israel’s official representative prepares to conduct geological research in a simulated Mars station

heat transfer in graphene

Very Cold, but Oh-So Sensitive

02.01.2017

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Quantum Physics, Materials Science

A nanothermometer is thousands of times better at detecting heat transfer at the atomic level

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Virtual, Reality

01.01.2017

Science & Culture

Dorit Feldman and Tamar Sheaffer

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21.12.2016

Science & Culture

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One in a Thousand

19.12.2016

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Quantum Physics

Heating up: One ion and thousands of atoms, all at a millionth of a degree above absolute zero

Chandra/Harvard

Mystery of Super Flash Solved

15.12.2016

Space & Physics, Astrophysics

The brightest flash of light in the cosmos could be a rare event involving a star and a supermassive black hole

gene editing in single cells

Gene Editing Takes on New Roles

15.12.2016

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

A new combined method may finally give scientists a tool fine enough to probe life’s most nuanced processes

Bacteria (red) in mouse intestines; intestinal cells (blue); and antibodies (green) in the mucus layer coating the intestines and preventing direct contact between the bacteria and the sterile mouse cells, photographed under a fluorescent microscope

Gut Bacteria Have Outsized Influence

12.12.2016

Biochemistry, Personalized Medicine, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A new study reveals how our microbiomes affect the timing of liver activity

drug cocktails

How to Mix the Perfect Cocktail

07.12.2016

Biochemistry, Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A new model can predict drug interactions and side effects even between a large number of components

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