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02/02/2018
'Anxiety Cells' Identified in the Brain's Hippocampus

Controlling these neurons with light let scientists reduce or increase anxiety in mice.​

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02/01/2018
Modeling the Universe

MIT's Mark Vogelsberger and an international astrophysics team have created a new model pointing to black holes’ role in galaxy formation.​

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01/29/2018
Uncovering the Early Origins of Huntington's Disease

A team at Rockefeller developed a system to model Huntington’s in human embryonic stem cells for the first time.​

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01/22/2018
Small But Fast: A Miniaturized Origami-Inspired Robot Combines Micrometer Precision with High Speed

The millimeter-scale robot opens new avenues for microsurgery,  microassembly   and  micromanipulation.

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01/16/2018
Majoranas on the Rise

By using new manufacturing methods, researchers have successfully observed Majoranas in significantly improved conditions. ​​

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01/15/2018
From Fins to Limbs: New Research Offers Clues to How Animals Left the Sea and Evolved to Walk on Land

By classifying different types of cells in the spinal cord, neuroscientists have gained new insight into an evolutionary achievement.​

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01/15/2018
Physicists Build Muscle for Shape-Changing, Cell-Sized Robots

These microscale machines could become a powerful platform for robotics at the size scale of biological microorganisms.​

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01/12/2018
What Happens When your Brain’s Support Cells Aren’t so Supportive?

Salk scientists use gene expression to understand how astrocytes change with age.​

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01/11/2018
High-resolution X-ray Gratings Enable State-of-the-Art Spectrometer

Tech will enable future x-ray missions to detect high-energy astrophysical sources such as black hole winds and hot gas in the cosmic web.​

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01/11/2018
Citizen Scientists Discover Five Tightly Packed Exoplanets

The planetary system’s dense configuration gives clues to its formation.​

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