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The discovery of the 555-million-year-old fossil *Uncus dzaugisi* in South Australia confirms their origins in the Precambrian period of the ecdysozoans, and bridges an important evolutionary gap. Photo courtesy of Harvard University

A 555-million-year-old fossil sheds light on one of the great mysteries of evolution

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The discovery of the oldest fossil from the Ecdysozoa family (Uncus dzaugisi), a group of animals characterized by shedding their skin and including insects, crustaceans and nematodes, sheds light on the early evolution of animals
Terrestrial animals display a wide range of limb structures - from 'spread', in which the limbs are held alongside the body, as in lizards, to 'upright', in which the limbs are held below the body and close to the midline of the animal, as in dogs, cats and horses . An upright body structure is a characteristic of most modern mammals, but when did this key feature evolve? Credit: Peter Bishop

How mammals achieved their upright posture 

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A new study reveals the twists and turns and complexities in the evolution of mammals, from a spread body structure (legs tending to the sides like in reptiles) to an upright body structure where the feet are stable on the ground

First simulation of a wormhole on a quantum computer

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A team of researchers from Harvard University, MIT and Calcutta in collaboration with Google successfully simulated a traversable wormhole with the help of a quantum computer. The experiment performed on Google's quantum processor demonstrated a transition of
Futuristic cities. Illustration: depositphotos.com

"Big data can be harnessed to improve the functioning of cities, especially in light of the Corona epidemic"

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Says Prof. Antoine Picon, professor of the history of architecture and technology at Harvard University, and director of doctoral programs. Prof. Picon is a member of the French Academy of Architecture and the French Academy of Technology. Picon said the things
Prof. Lisa Randall, Harvard University. PR photo

Simulation from the smallest scale to the entire visible universe - the key to understanding the universe

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A gecko regrows its tail. Photo: shutterstock

Genetic switches have been discovered that control the process of regeneration of the entire body in animals

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mother and baby FROM PIXABAY.COM.

"The Chemistry of Mother's Love"

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Nanoscale electronic scaffolds into which cardiac cells can be integrated to create cardiac patches in June. The photo shows the nanoelectronic scaffold (in gold) along with recording devices (in purple) and the stimulator (in green) and heart tissue (in red) [Courtesy of Lieber Group/Harvard University]

Development of a June patch for the heart

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Human evolution, according to an abyss. Illustration: shutterstock

Does human evolution continue?

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Neurons with amyloid clumps in Alzheimer's patients. Illustration: shutterstock

Towards a blood test to detect Alzheimer's

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A robot jumps on the water. Photo: Seoul National University

Walking on water - the robotic gospel

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A frog robot. Photo: from YouTube

A robotic leapfrog inspired by the frog

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Blood Test. Illustration: shutterstock

A blood test may identify the viruses you have encountered in your lifetime

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In this photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope, you see dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" - compressed pockets in larger molecular clouds. Such islands of matter in the early universe may have contained water vapor as we see in our galaxy today, although they contained much less oxygen. Photo: Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team

Surprising discovery: the ancient gas clouds, from which the stars and galaxies in the universe were formed, contained a significant amount of water

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Image: A team from Harvard University's Wyss and SEAS Institutes, and MIT has built an autonomous robot that starts out as a two-dimensional shape programmed to fold itself into a complex shape and crawl into a distance without any human intervention. Photo: Wyss Institute of Harvard University

A robot folds itself up and goes on its way

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Gary Patton, Senior Vice President at IBM and IEEE Fellow at the ChuoEx 2014 conference

A study in Nature with the participation of an Israeli researcher reveals the first detailed simulation of the universe* required three months of running on two supercomputers

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A prototype flow battery in researcher Aziz's lab at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (photo courtesy of Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications)

A new type of efficient battery

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Prof. Nahum Sonnenberg, McGill University, Canada

Prof. Nahum Sonnenberg, a pioneer in the field of protein translational control, and the two microRNA researchers: Gary Robkon and Victor Ambrose won the Wolf Prize for Medicine

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Deer mouse. From Wikipedia

One gene - many mutations: the gene that controls the color of the mice's fur has evolved nine times

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Honey bees enter the hive. From Wikipedia

A common pesticide, imidacloprid, is apparently the cause of the disappearance of the bees

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Z-form selective "cross-metathesis" using a molybdenum catalyst

A new method for preparing carbon-carbon double bonds

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Rhesus monkeys. show flexibility in choosing their friends. Photo: Yale University

Prejudice in humans has ancient evolutionary roots

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Color rendering of a scanning electron microscope image of a programmable nanoprocessor superimposed on a schematic architecture of a nanoprocessor circuit

The first ever functional nanoprocessor

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The center of the Milky Way, which also contains the black hole *Sagittarius A. The black hole and several massive young stars in this region create the heated gas vapor visible at X-ray frequencies. Photo: Helvin Chandra, Harvard University and Tokyo University

The Laboratory for Testing General Relativity: The Supermassive Black Hole and the Star

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Joshua Sanes and Jeff Lichtman

How calorie restriction and exercise inhibit several aging effects

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Lung on a chip. Image courtesy of Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Development of a human lung on a chip

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Tensegrity built with rods and strips

Nanodevices that move and change their shape on demand

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This three-dimensional surface demonstrates on a nanometer scale the same ripples and folds that fishing nets demonstrate on a macroscopic scale. Photo: Adam Feinberg, Harvard University.

Creating nanofibers inspired by nature

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Polymeric acid - produced at Harvard University using a method similar to the production of cotton candy

Fabrication of cotton candy-inspired nanofibers

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Section of skin excision two weeks after surgery. Deep sutures were performed to bring the sides of the incision closer together and then it was closed in the upper layer using two different methods: on the right side - by means of stitches and on the left side using the technology described in the article. The difference is noticeable. The redness on the right side is caused by the stitches and leads to scarring.

Treatment of battle injuries by an innovative method

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immune system cells. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Rambam and Harvard Medical School are launching a joint research program: a cancer vaccine

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A completely new type of microscope

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The ultimate solution for diabetes? One mature cell became another, without the need for a stem cell

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Engineers have produced sustainable nanobubbles for the first time

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Genetic archaeology

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A mini laboratory for detecting antibiotic residues in milk, in a dairy in Germany. Photo: Munich University of Technology

The President of Harvard: Women are less successful in the sciences * Prof. Teicher of Bar Ilan: encourage women to be cool

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