SALT LAKE CITY — With October’s Harvest Moon having passed us by, and November’s Beaver Moon still a couple of weeks away, two new comets are peaking through the evening sky, giving stargazers something interesting to view this month.
Comet…

SALT LAKE CITY — With October’s Harvest Moon having passed us by, and November’s Beaver Moon still a couple of weeks away, two new comets are peaking through the evening sky, giving stargazers something interesting to view this month.
Comet…

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The congestion and pollution of Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour impacts the orbital environment in…

A discovery about Saturn’s moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry.
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Hanchate, N. K. et al. Single-cell transcriptomics reveals receptor transformations during olfactory neurogenesis. Science 350, 1251–1255 (2015).
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HEK293T/17 (CRL-11268, RRID: CVCL_1926) cells were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). G-protein-deficient HEK293 cells (ΔGNAS, ΔGNAL, ΔGNAQ, ΔGNA11, ΔGNA12 and ΔGNA13, HEK293 clone 38 (ref. 54) and…