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389 results for: mistakes in science are common

  1. Genetics

    New CRISPR gene editors can fix RNA and DNA one typo at a time

    New gene editors can correct common typos that lead to disease.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Random mutations play large role in cancer, study finds

    Mistakes made while copying DNA account for more mutations in cancer cells than environment or inheritance do.

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  3. Life

    Bacteria’s amyloids display surprising structure

    Protein clusters made by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria have a surprising new structure.

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  4. Artificial Intelligence

    Machines are getting schooled on fairness

    Machine-learning programs are introducing biases that may harm job seekers, loan applicants and more.

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  5. Life

    CRISPR had a life before it became a gene-editing tool

    Before it was a tool, CRISPR was a weapon in the never-ending war between microbes and viruses

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  6. Animals

    Animals give clues to the origins of human number crunching

    Guppies, dogs, chickens, crows, spiders — lots of animals have number sense without knowing numbers.

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  7. Genetics

    Jumping genes play a big role in what makes us human

    Jumping genes have been a powerful force in human evolution.

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  8. Astronomy

    Einstein’s genius changed science’s perception of gravity

    Einstein struggled for years to solve the puzzle of general relativity. The pieces all fell into place in November 1915.

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  9. Animals

    Organisms age in myriad ways — and some might not even bother

    There is great variety in how animals and plants deteriorate (or don’t) over time.

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  10. Life

    Aneil Agrawal unites math and mess

    Evolutionary geneticist Aneil Agrawal is equally at home with real and hypothetical fruit flies.

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  11. Humans

    Animal hybrids may hold clues to Neandertal-human interbreeding

    The physical effects of interbreeding among animals may offer clues to Neandertals’ genetic mark on humans.

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  12. Life

    A downy killer wages chemical warfare

    The common fungus Beauveria bassiana makes white downy corpses of its victims.

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