On July 20, for viewers in the US and Canada, the waning crescent Moon will pass in front of the Pleiades, eclipsing them ...

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Find out how these incredible astrophysical objects have influenced the formation and evolution of galaxies, and more.

Since the 1960s, we have known that these particles violate the so-called charge-parity (CP) symmetry. The antimatter counterpart behaves in a different way. It had long been suspected, with ...

Half dog, half graxaim-do-campo – the local term for a pampas fox – the name “Dogxim” was a hybrid made to perfectly match her genome. She was a funny-looking thing: rather like a fox, with pointed ...

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The process allows the children to get most of their DNA from their parents, while also avoiding mitochondrial diseases their mother might otherwise have passed on.

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