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The immune system senses damage to cell membranes caused by pore-forming proteins and mounts a response. The sneezing, itchy ...

NISAR — which stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar — will use two radar instruments operating at different ...

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Physicists have caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a device weighing just a few kilograms, orders of magnitude ...

Submersible dives reveal a startling diversity of life in the depths of the Pacific Ocean — plus, how respiratory infections ...

Nature survey shows that disagreement about the meaning of quantum physics remains strong, even 100 years in. And that’s OK.

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Since the late 1990s, China has had several national-level talent recruitment programmes to attract overseas researchers, on ...