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Lab-Grown Bones? They Could Make Painful Grafts History (Op-Ed) Read More » Using Loopholes, Nature May Save Galápagos Penguins (Op-Ed) Read More » What If Doctors Could Heal Broken Genes? (Op-Ed) Katrine Bosley is CEO, and Sandra Glucksmann COO, of Editas Medicine, a genome editing company targeting treatment of genetic diseases. The company was founded by pioneers in the field who have specific expertise in CRISPR/Cas9 and TALE technologies. World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers, class of 2015. The authors contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Read More »Boeing opens commercial spaceship plant in Florida Read More » Scientists exploring wreck of sunken U-boat off Rhode Island Read More » Boeing Opens Renovated Shuttle Facility for 'Starliner' Crewed Space Capsule Read More » 8-Foot-Long Bull Shark Pulled from Potomac River Think sharks live only in the ocean? An 8-foot-long (2.4 meters) bull shark was pulled from the Potomac River, along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States, by a group of Maryland fishermen yesterday (Sept. 3). Sharks do roam the open sea, but certain species, including the bull shark, also live in brackish (low-salinity) water and freshwater. Read More »Sorry, Cat Lovers: Felix Doesn't Need You Dogs have owners, cats have staff. That doesn't mean people's feline friends don't bond with them, said Daniel Mills, a veterinary behavioral medicine researcher at the University of Lincoln in England. "This is not about whether cats love their owners," Mills told Live Science. Read More »An Arachnid Dracula? Rare, Red-Fanged Spider Is Uncovered Read More » Making Mars Exploration 'Smart and Cool': NASA and 'The Martian' Read More » Right Place, Right Time: See Mercury in the Night Sky This Week Read More » | ||||
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Explosive news: Plants can fight back against TNT pollution - researchers Read More » Confirmed: Wing Part Is From Missing Malaysian Flight French authorities confirmed today (Sept. 3) that a piece of debris that washed up on an island in the Indian Ocean in July came from the Malaysia Airlines plane that mysteriously disappeared last year. Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 seemingly vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, and the airplane part that washed ashore is the first piece of physical evidence recovered from the flight. In August, a week after the wing part washed ashore on the French island of Réunion, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that the part belonged to the missing aircraft. Read More »Key radar fails on $1 billion NASA environmental satellite Read More » The Force is Strong With These Toys: New 'Star Wars' Line is Here! Read More » Three-man international crew safely reaches space station Read More » Crowded House! International Crew Arrives at Space Station Read More » Snot-filled whale research takes flight By Ben Gruber Gloucester, Mass. (Reuters) - Snotbot is a drone whose name describes it perfectly, it's a robot that collects snot, specifically whale snot. Up until now, gathering samples for whale research involved shooting darts that penetrated the body. Instead of shooting darts at a whale for biopsy samples, a whale can unknowingly shoot snot at a drone. "We believe that whale snot or exhaled breath condensate is going to be the golden egg of data from a whale. Read More »NASA's Laser-Communication Tech for Spacecraft Zaps Forward Read More » Wild 'Hitchhiker' Spacecraft Idea Could Harpoon Comets Read More » Denali's Digits: North America's Tallest Peak 'Shrinks' by 10 Feet Read More » Rare Roman-Era Coffin Features Carving of Curly-Haired Man Read More » Liberia Is Ebola Free (Again) For the second time this year, Liberia has stamped out Ebola transmission and been declared free of the disease, health officials say. Today (Sept. 3) marks 42 days since the last person to have Ebola in Liberia was cured and released from the hospital, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Health officials typically wait 42 days to declare a country Ebola-free, because this is twice as long as the 21-day incubation period of the virus (the time it takes for a person infected with the virus to show symptoms). Read More »How Much Do Chronic Diseases Cost in the US? The most expensive health condition in the United States is cardiovascular disease, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The numbers in the report come from a CDC tool called the Chronic Disease Cost Calculator, and one of the reasons the researchers wrote the report was to demonstrate exactly what the tool can do, said Justin Trogdon, an associate professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina and a lead author of the new report, published today (Sept. 3) in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Read More »Toyota partners with Stanford, MIT on self-driving car research Read More » 'Citizen Mars' Web Series Features Would-Be Red-Planet Colonists Read More » The Moon Hits a Cosmic Bull's Eye Tonight: How to See It Read More » | ||||
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