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A protein with a dual role: both repair and mutation
The Mfd protein repairs bacterial DNA, but can also, to scientists’ surprise, promote mutation.
Bacterial mutations can lead to antibiotic…
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How much are invasive species costing us?
Scientists from the CNRS, the IRD, and the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle have just released the most comprehensive estimate to date of the…
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Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
Two astronomy networks are coming together to form Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy…
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Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole
Within the EHT collaboration, the CNRS and IRAM participated in the creation of a new image of the black…
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Discovery of a ‘winged’ shark in the Cretaceous seas
The fossil of an unusual shark specimen reminiscent of manta rays sheds light on morphological diversity in Cretaceous sharks. This plankton feeder…
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First images of the cosmic web reveal a myriad of unsuspected dwarf galaxies
In the Universe, galaxies are distributed along extremely tenuous filaments of gas millions of light years long separated…
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