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Following its liftoff from Cape Canaveral on July 21 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) hosting the NASA-supported Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) payload is now en route to geosynchronous Earth orbit, where it will use its advanced robotics to service spacecraft. RSGS leverages in-space robotics expertise from NASA,…

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Scientists have uncovered how a toxin produced by a common gut bacterium gains access to colon cells, solving a mystery that has puzzled researchers for more than 15 years. The discovery not only explains how the toxin begins damaging the colon, but also points to a possible new way to block its effects before they…

Researchers are trying to make human sperm (shown here in a colourized electron microscope image) from stem cells in the lab.Credit: Juergen Berger/Science Photo Library It sounds like science fiction: collecting a person’s blood cells, engineering them so they eventually transform into immature sperm, and then incubating them in a tiny pouch grown on a…

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Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have demonstrated a new way to control tiny sources of quantum light by twisting atomically thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride. The advance provides scientists with a new method for tuning quantum emitters, which are microscopic light sources that could play an important role in future technologies such…