The internationally acclaimed Nobel Prize is bestowed annually on people who have conferred “the greatest benefit on mankind” in six categories: Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Peace, Chemistry, Literature, and Economic Sciences (not technically a Nobel prize, but awarded with the other prizes). The Nobel prizes are awarded by institutes in
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For the first time, scientists in Shanghai have successfully cloned a primate, creating two identical female crab-eating macaque monkeys named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua. The scientists performed the cloning in December 2017, and published their findings in the journal Cell in January 2018. The scientists used somatic cell nuclear
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In the universe, there is a multitude of fascinating stars, from Sirius, a star so large that if it was placed at the center of the solar system it would extend past Jupiter, to quark stars, neutron stars with gravity so strong that the neutrons at the core dissolve into
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500 million years after the Big Bang, the pristine mixture of hydrogen and helium that made up the universe back then collapsed into large balls of gas and started to give off heat and light. These were the first ever stars. They were very important, beginning the ionization of the
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