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[:eu]If Mars Is Colonized, We May Not Need to Ship In the Bricks[:]

A new study suggests that the material humanity needs to one day construct houses, buildings and even entire colonies on Mars may already exist within the red planet’s own desolate […]
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[:eu]Video Games Help Model Brain’s Neurons[:]

A video game is being used to help understand the structure of neurons, which could aid in treatment of diseases like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
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[:eu]Climate Change Reroutes a Yukon River in a Geological Instant[:]

In the blink of a geological eye, climate change has helped reverse the flow of water melting from a glacier in Canada’s Yukon, a hijacking that scientists call “river piracy.”
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[:eu]A Genetic Oddity May Give Octopuses and Squids Their Smarts[:]

In the journal Cell on Thursday, the scientists reported that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish make extensive use of RNA editing, a genetic process thought to have little functional significance in […]
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[:eu]A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price[:]

If a fusion experiment in France succeeds, it could shape the power plants of the future and contribute greatly to reducing planet-warming emissions.
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[:eu]A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions[:]

As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the journal eLife, researchers at Harvard Medical School said it was time to ponder […]
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[:eu]How Did Aboriginal Australians Arrive on the Continent? DNA Helps Solve a Mystery[:]

Human skeletons and archaeological remains in Australia can be traced back nearly 50,000 years before the trail disappears. Before then, apparently, Australia was free of humans. So how did people […]
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[:eu]Scientists Say Canadian Bacteria Fossils May Be Earth’s Oldest[:]

These may be the oldest fossils ever discovered, the remains of bacteria thriving on Earth not long, geologically speaking, after the very birth of the planet. If so, they offer […]
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[:eu]Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works[:]

Meet Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist, photographer, doctor, bodybuilder, scientist, chess player and publisher. He was also the father of modern neuroscience.