New city centre life science site gets go-ahead
A plan to demolish two prominent Oxford city centre buildings and replace them with a new science hub has been given the ...
Controlling the First Steps of Life: Scientists Find New Epigenetic Switch
In the embryonic development of vertebrates, 5-formylcytosine activates genes. Professor Christof Niehrs and his team at the ...
Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
Life might thrive on the surface of Earth for an extra billion years
The sun is midway through its life of fusion. It's about 5 billion years old, and though its life is far from over, it will ...
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In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth’s Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...
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A NASA probe is about to launch to an icy moon that could have life
A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...