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Evaluating landing sites for China's manned moon mission
- Mar 9, 2026
Observations of the Rimae Bode region on the moon reveal five distinct types of terrain and identify several potential landing sites for China's first...
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How do we know what asteroids are made out of?
- Mar 9, 2026
Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They're...
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Gene edit makes probiotic safer for immunocompromised patients
- Mar 9, 2026
An international team of researchers has modified a probiotic yeast to make it safer for use by immunocompromised people, older adults and infants. Te...
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How AI could unlock deep‑sea secrets of marine life
- Mar 9, 2026
Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an unnamed seamount. Despite neve...
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Physical activity is linked to the health of the planet, according to a trio of recent studies
- Mar 9, 2026
Global levels of physical activity have not improved over the past two decades, despite widespread policy development and adoption, and large disparit...
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In search of a room-temperature superconductor, scientists present a research agenda
- Mar 9, 2026
The search for materials that can conduct electricity at room temperature without losing energy is one of the greatest and most consequential challeng...
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AI tool streamlines drug synthesis, dramatically reducing lab work and costs
- Mar 9, 2026
Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits, and suddenly, a molecule makes a pr...
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Nanosecond light-by-light switching achieved in liquid crystal droplet
- Mar 9, 2026
Controlling light with light is a long-sought goal for computing and communication technologies. Achieving this capability would allow optical signals...
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CRISPR-based technique unlocks healing power of mitochondria for heart failure therapy
- Mar 9, 2026
After a heart attack, the heart struggles to recoup and maintain energy. One-third of patients develop heart failure as a result—a condition that impa...
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How farming perennial plants can help us in times of climate change, food insecurity and social division
- Mar 9, 2026
Climate change is threatening modern life in ways we are still finding, from food security to the economy to everyday living. It has been labeled a "t...
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Unlocking the hidden pocket on a billion‑dollar drug target
- Mar 9, 2026
For years, a protein inside our cells has quietly powered billions of dollars' worth of cancer drugs. Now a team of researchers have discovered that t...
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Robotic microfluidic platform brings AI to lipid nanoparticle design
- Mar 9, 2026
AI has designed candidate drugs for antibiotic-resistant infections and genetic diseases. But efforts to incorporate AI into the design of lipid nanop...