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The species that can regrow their eyes after amputation  The Independent A genetically tractable non-vertebrate system to study complete camera-type eye regeneration  Nature This snail may hold a secret to human eye regeneration  Science News This snail’s eyes grow back: Could they help humans do the same?  EurekAlert! Seeing with fresh eyes: Snails as a system for studying sight restoration  Medical Xpress Source link

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Curiosity rover discovered what looks like coral on Mars. | Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars. The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, …

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Seven Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to Connecticut  The New York Times Source link

If you were hoping to see some fireballs in the sky this summer, this might be the best time and place to do it. The Perseid meteor shower, one of the biggest and best meteor showers on the calendar, is back and ready to put on a show. While the meteor shower officially takes place between July 14 and Sept. …

Cicadas in southern India have been found to start their dawn chorus with remarkable accuracy, timing their song to a precise level of light during the pre-dawn hours. Researchers discovered that the insects begin singing when the sun is exactly 3.8 degrees below the horizon – a moment known as civil twilight. Recording cicada songs The study, published in the …

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States in quantum superposition are notoriously fragile, but researchers in China have reported creating such a state that lasted for a whopping 23 minutes and 20 seconds. While this record-breaking result is exciting in itself, the team believes that it could open new ways to high-precision measurements and even information processing for quantum computers – possibly even allowing scientists to …

With spectroscopy, astronomers can look for telltale signs of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. Black holes gobble up dust and matter around them, compressing and heating the material as it swirls around and falls into the black hole. All of that can be seen with spectroscopy, said study co-author Steven Finkelstein, a professor of astronomy at the University of …