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Oxford scientists watched virus-like particles build themselves by trial and error, with no blueprint

By Alexander Clark

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An engineered plant immune receptor could help shield rice, wheat and barley from a devastating fungus

By Alexander Clark

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Scientists turned an 80-year-old’s blood cells into neural stem cells with a molecular age under 20

By Alexander Clark

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A Chinese forest fungus nicknamed D-rex grows to 50 centimeters, roughly double the old record for its group

By BeckhamLangford

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A human brain gene called BC200 can still jump to new spots in our DNA

By BeckhamLangford

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A DNA typewriter recorded a mouse embryo’s family tree from its first two cells

By BeckhamLangford

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Stanford built a microscope that watches inside living cells at about 120 nanometers without dyes

By BeckhamLangford

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A soil-bacteria enzyme helped bioplastics vanish in 250 to 330 days while regular plastic barely broke down

By BeckhamLangford

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A growth blocker killed about 99% of drywood termites in lab tests by stopping their molt

By BeckhamLangford

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Scientists built immune receptors to fight blast fungus, which destroys enough rice each year to feed 60 million people

By BeckhamLangford

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Smithsonian museum frogs tie Brazil’s 1979-1982 frog die-off to chytrid fungus

By BeckhamLangford

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Nobel laureate David Baker’s lab unveiled an AI that designs proteins atom by atom

By BeckhamLangford

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Chesapeake Bay bacteria thrive in copper far above the EPA’s short-term limit

By BeckhamLangford

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12 invasive plants that can crowd native greenery out of the landscape

By Alexander Clark

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12 familiar pests that can undo the work you put into your plants

By Alexander Clark

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An amoeba from a Lassen hot spring divides at 63 degrees Celsius

By BeckhamLangford

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A human brain gene can still jump through DNA, and turned up inside a poxvirus

By BeckhamLangford

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Worms given magnetic bacteria lived more than 43% longer

By BeckhamLangford

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House cats are getting their tumours mapped, and it may help human patients

By BeckhamLangford

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Of 11,742 viruses found in a Pacific mining zone, 99% were new to science

By BeckhamLangford

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