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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

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Silkworms now have a bacterial superpower thanks to CRISPR

The CRISPR immune system from bacteria has been engineered into silkworms, allowing them to fight off a virus that plagues the silk industry

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

Space

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot keeps getting less great and less red

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Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

Space

Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s

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The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

Space

The sun’s mysteriously hot corona may be due to invisible plasma

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A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

Space

A mountain range on Saturn’s moon Iapetus may be a former ring

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An MRI scan of a glioblastoma tumour

Health

Genetically engineered cells can seek and destroy brain cancer

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The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

Space

The moon may have formed in a vaporised, doughnut-shaped Earth

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We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

Space

We may have already found signs of alien microbes on Enceladus

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This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km away

Space

This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km away

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Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree

Space

Long-lost relatives: An amazing poster of the sun’s family tree

A chemical comparison of 22 stars has revealed their common origins. Download this incredible poster to see the extended families of these stars

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Physics

Weird ice found on Neptune and Uranus has now been made on Earth

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Health

Defence strategies: How immunology took its great leap forward

Culture

Space

7 things we thought were made by aliens, but weren't... probably

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Health

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

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