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Next-generation black hole imaging may help us understand gravity better

Right now, we probably don’t have the ability to detect these small changes in phenomena. However, that may change, as a next-generation version of the...

Westinghouse is claiming a nuclear deal would see $80B of new reactors

On Tuesday, Westinghouse announced that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would purportedly see $80 billion of new nuclear reactors built...

Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies

This brings us to the technique being used here. In this case, the researchers placed the antibody genes in a circular loop of DNA called...

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.

On Thursday, a team of researchers led by Microsoft announced that they had discovered, and possibly patched, what they're terming a biological zero-day—an unrecognized security...

You can hold on to your butts thanks to DNA that evolved in fish

There were some indications that the same thing is true in fish, where the elimination of equivalent hox genes also interfered with the formation of...

Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth's range, which extended down into Central America....

Deeply divided Supreme Court lets NIH grant terminations continue

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor. It...

New executive order puts all grants under political control

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. The order requires that any...

Judge: You can’t ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

Separately, Trump v. Casa blocked the use of a national injunction against illegal activity. So, while the government's actions have been determined to be illegal,...

Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

Rare success The researchers spent time ensuring that the enzymes they had were modifying the methylation as expected, and that development started as usual. Their...

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