Innovation

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  Scientists zoom in on HIV inside a test tube, find critical steps in infection

  Live Science - Nicoletta Lanese

  Scientists have finally recreated the initial steps of HIV infection in a test tube, offering an incredibly zoomed-in view of the virus in action. The …

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  2 women earn Chemistry Nobel Prize for gene-editing tool CRISPR

  Live Science - Nicoletta Lanese

  The 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two women who developed a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9, which snips DNA like a pair of molecular …

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  XPrize launches $5 million competition for better COVID-19 tests

  Live Science - Rachael Rettner

  The competition will last six months, with winners announced in early 2021. A new XPrize competition calls on the "world's brightest minds" to develop …

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  Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: Who Was the Better Inventor?

  Live Science - Tia Ghose

  Nikola Tesla would have celebrated his 164th birthday today (July 10). The Serbian-American scientist was a brilliant and eccentric genius whose …

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  Completely New Form of Gold Created

  Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu

  Under extreme conditions, gold rearranges its atoms and forms a previously unknown structure. And when the pressures were pushed to the equivalent of …

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  This Mathematician's 'Mysterious' New Method Just Solved a 30-Year-Old Problem

  Live Science - Rafi Letzter

  A mathematician has solved a 30-year-old problem at the boundary between mathematics and computer science. He used an innovative, elegant proof that …