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Illuminate a way to find planet nine

[ad_1] The search for planet nine – a hypothetical ninth planet in our solar system – could boil down to locating the faintest orbits in an incredibly dark corner of space. This is exactly what Yale astronomers Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin are trying to do with a technique that …

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The weak point of the assembly of the scourges

[ad_1] Electron microscope image of Caulobacter crescentus showing the two different daughter cells during cell division. Only one of the daughter cells hosts a flagellum (top right). Photo credit: UNIGE / VIOLLIER To build the machinery that bacteria can swim with, over 50 proteins must be put together in a …

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