Enlarge / The Transporter-1 mission launches from Florida on January 24, 2021. (credit: SpaceX) Welcome to Edition 3.33 of the Rocket Report! Plenty of news
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What happens when you replace a human gene with its Neanderthal version?
Enlarge / The difference between modern human (left) and Neanderthal skulls means there must be some differences in how their brains develop. (credit: Wikimedia Commons)
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Caged heat: Mesquite bugs battle in a plastic cup—for science!
Scientists at the University of Arizona set up their own “Bug Fight Club” in the lab, staging wrestling matches between insects to learn more about
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Racial disparity in Chicago cops’ use of force laid bare in new data
Analysis of a trove of data extracted from the Chicago Police Department has revealed major differences between how Black and white officers, as well as
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Using whale songs to image beneath the ocean’s floor
Enlarge (credit: NOAA) People tend to think of seismic waves as little more than signals of tectonic events, like an earthquake or lava shifting under
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Immunai raises $60M as it expands from improving immune therapies to discovering new ones, too
Just three years after its founding, biotech startup Immunai has raised $60 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raised to over $80 million.
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