Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth.
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WorldPingHas El Niño reached the West Coast? You might think it has. After all, the ocean off Southern and Central California is unusually warm. But that warmth is from a recent marine heat wave that predates the current El Niño.
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Scientists have overturned a leading explanation for why male and female bonnethead sharks have differently shaped heads.
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WorldPingAstronomers have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to detect hydrogen gas located billions of light-years away, from a period when the cosmos was billions of years younger.
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WorldPingThe research could do more than help unlock the mystery of caterpillar hearing. It could also help make microphones better.
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Dark matter is an invisible substance that is said to bind the universe; scientists may have found new signs of it.
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