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Warming temperatures implicated in recent California droughts
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- Written by Ker Than
Stanford, California - California has experienced more frequent drought years in the last two decades than it has in the past several centuries. That observed uptick is primarily the result of rising temperatures in the region, which have climbed to record highs as a result of climate change, Stanford scientists say.
Distant supernova split four ways by gravitational lens
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - Over the past several decades, astronomers have come to realize that the sky is filled with magnifying glasses that allow the study of very distant and faint objects barely visible with even the largest telescopes.
Unlocking the Key to Immunological Memory in Bacteria
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- Written by Lynn Yarris
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A powerful genome editing tool may soon become even more powerful. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unlocked the key to how bacteria are able to “steal” genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for use in their own immunological memory system.
Why isn’t the universe as bright as it should be?
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - A handful of new stars are born each year in the Milky Way, while many more blink on across the universe. But astronomers have observed that galaxies should be churning out millions more stars, based on the amount of interstellar gas available.
New technique allows analysis of clouds around exoplanets
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- Written by Helen Knight
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Meteorologists sometimes struggle to accurately predict the weather here on Earth, but now we can find out how cloudy it is on planets outside our solar system, thanks to researchers at MIT.
New nanodevice defeats drug resistance
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Chemotherapy often shrinks tumors at first, but as cancer cells become resistant to drug treatment, tumors can grow back. A new nanodevice developed by MIT researchers can help overcome that by first blocking the gene that confers drug resistance, then launching a new chemotherapy attack against the disarmed tumors.
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