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Scientists Use CRISPR-Cas9 to Create Red-Eyed Mutant Wasps

Genetic scientists from the University of California, Riverside, and the W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, have managed to create a strain of red-eyed mutant wasps. Red-eyed Nasonia vitripennis. Image credit: Li et al, doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00990-3. The red-eyed wasps were created to prove that CRISPR …

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Physicists Create Fluid with ‘Negative Mass’

An international team of physicists from the United States, Japan, and China has created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. A paper describing the research is published by the journal Physical Review Letters. Khamehchi et al created a fluid with negative effective mass. Image …

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Supersolid: Physicists Create New State of Matter

Two teams of physicists have independently created a mysterious new state of matter. The state is known as a supersolid and it combines the properties of both solid and superfluid states. Illustration of a supersolid state, in which the properties of a frictionless fluid and a crystalline state coincide. Image …

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