If you wanted to do a forensic study of the solar system, you could go to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. That’s where you can find ancient rocks from the early days of the solar system. Out there in the cold vacuum of space, far from the sun, asteroids are largely untouched … Read more
The patch notes for Valorant Patch 5.0 are here for the upcoming Episode 5 Act 1 release and Riot Games is releasing a slew of new content, including a new map and changes to Competitive. Here are the full patch notes for the latest update to Riot’s tactical shooter. Valorant Episode 5 is almost here … Read more
The patch notes for Valorant Patch 5.0 are here for the upcoming Episode 5 Act 1 release and Riot Games is releasing a slew of new content, including a new map and changes to Competitive. Here are the full patch notes for the latest update to Riot’s tactical shooter. Valorant Episode 5 is almost here … Read more
Beyond the realm of breathtaking spaceflights, groundbreaking satellites and stunning moon landings, the European Space Agency is focused on one crucial quest. It’s just to “create the most accurate and complete multidimensional map of the galaxy”. The ambitious venture is called Gaia, and in recent years ESA has steadily made great strides with the dream. … Read more
Beyond the realm of breathtaking spaceflights, groundbreaking satellites and stunning moon landings, the European Space Agency is focused on one crucial quest. It’s just to create “the most accurate and complete multidimensional map of the galaxy.” The ambitious venture is called Gaia, and in recent years ESA has made steady progress towards making this dream … Read more
Data for a new gene function map is available to other scientists. “It’s a big resource like the human genome is a big resource because you can go in there and do discovery-based research,” said Professor Jonathan Weissman. Scientists used their single-cell sequencing tool Perturb-seq on every expressed gene in the human genome, linking each … Read more
The Human Genome Project was an ambitious initiative to sequence every piece of human DNA. The project brought together collaborators from research institutions around the world, including MIT’s Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and was finally completed in 2003. Now, more than two decades later, MIT professor Jonathan Weissman and colleagues have moved beyond the … Read more