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Scientists Switch Back On a Chimpanzee Gene Silenced by a Virus Millions of Years Old. Humans Use it to Form the Brain

25 October 2026 at 17:27
Line up human and chimpanzee DNA and the first surprise is how little separates us. We share more than 96% of the sequences used to make proteins, the molecules that build and run a living body. And yet the human brain is roughly three times the size of a chimpanzee’s, and it does things a […]

Physicists Trap a Single Antimatter Particle in Empty Space for Months

When an electron meets a positron, both vanish. Their mass turns into energy and nothing is left of either particle. That is the main reason positrons are so hard to study. There is no jar to keep them in, because the walls of any container are made of ordinary matter, and a single touch would […]

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