James Watson, Who Helped Discover Structure of DNA, is Dead
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Spins influence solid oxygen's crystal structure under extreme magnetic fields, study finds
Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or behavior. Specifically, studies show that under magnetic fields above 100 tesla (T),
Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new class of drugs, using spherical nucleic acid, to deliver chemotherapy agents more effectively to cancer cells, resulting in a 20,000-fold increase in power in mouse models.
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This Inca Building—the Only Surviving Structure of Its Kind—Might Have Been Designed to Amplify Sound and Music
Researchers will use 3D modeling to assess what the "carpa uasi" in Huaytará, Peru, originally looked like and how sound traveled through it
South Korean officials say one person was killed and at least one more was feared dead after a 60-meter (196-foot) tower collapsed during demolition work at a decommissioned thermal power plant in the
Sterling firefighters quickly extinguished a structure fire Friday afternoon on East Fourth Street. No injuries were reported, officials said.
A structure fire broke out in a residential building on Telegraph Hill near the intersection of Vallejo and Montgomery streets before 5:30 p.m. Friday. Firefighters with the San Francisco fire department responded and contained the fire around 6:21 p.
Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules. A central part of this network is folate metabolism, a process that provides vital chemical units for the synthesis of DNA,