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Scientists have used gene editing to produce artificial electrical synapses in mice, where they can be targeted to make the ...

Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main ...

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The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...