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- Life
Gene therapy treats children with rare diseases
Six kids are healthy, up to three years after treatment.
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- Chemistry
Coatings have simple recipe for success
Chemists encapsulate tiny objects using natural ingredients and easy, inexpensive process.
- Health & Medicine
What and when babies first eat may affect diabetes risk
Children at risk of type 1 diabetes are better off waiting until 4 months of age to consume solid foods.
- Health & Medicine
Four-question test ID’s women with depression
Simple decision tool shows potential as quick way to identify clinical depression.
- Physics
Perfect mirror debuts
Material that reflects light without letting any escape could improve lasers.
- Astronomy
The solar system has a tail
Clover-shaped clumps of charged particles extend billions of kilometers in our wake.
- Earth
Every six years, Earth spins slightly faster and then slower
Changes in day length linked to workings of Earth's core.
- Planetary Science
Gas, not planets, may be source of rings around stars
Interactions between gas and dust may form elliptical patterns.
- Life
Bacterial molecules may prevent inflammatory bowel disease
Common compounds produced by gut microbes quench colitis in mice.
- Astronomy
Clouds may keep exoplanets cool
Even when close to their stars, other worlds could harbor liquid water.
- Space
Interstellar chemistry makes use of quantum shortcut
Reactions in the frigid cold of space are sped by a quirk of physics, researchers propose.
