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NSF will retire the Cornell-designed Arecibo telescope

[ad_1] The large telescopic “ear” designed by Cornell in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which has listened to the illuminating crackle of the cosmos for nearly six decades, now hears silence. In the wake of two recent support cable failures, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will dismantle and dismantle the giant dish …

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The team finds ways to protect genetic privacy in research

[ad_1] (Illustration by Wendolyn Hill) The era of functional genomics has allowed scientists to analyze huge amounts of data on cellular activity in disease and health. The more this data is shared between labs, the more power scientists have to find disease-related genes. This widespread sharing of functional genomics data, …

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