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Mar. 13, 2025 — Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

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We look back on about 11 years of the Gaia spacecraft, now at the end of its mission to create the best map of the Milky Way. Humans have a surprising lack of hair for mammals. Biological ...

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Mar. 17, 2025 — Engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated directions. These tissues could be useful for building 'biohybrid ...

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March 18, 2025 • Measles is one of the most contagious infectious diseases known to science – more contagious than Ebola, smallpox or COVID-19. Declining vaccination rates over the past few ...

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The replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts are on their way to the International Space Station aboard the Crew Dragon, which launched from Kennedy Space Center.