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PublishedOctober 15, 2024
A frozen human foot found on Mount Everest revives a century-old mystery
Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn 'Sandy' Irvine, who disappeared along with George Mallory in 1924.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2024
Maine lab explores whether stressed-out algae could help replace plastics
Algae appear to communicate when “stressed.” What are they saying?
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PublishedAugust 21, 2024
Bigelow lab receives $7 million for algae research, business development
The Boothbay lab will use the National Science Foundation grant to build the Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator in a bid to unlock more ways macroalgae and its microscopic counterpart can be used and ultimately marketed.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2024
The voyage of the Altar Stone: A Stonehenge mystery solved (maybe)
Researchers revealed that the long-mysterious Altar Stone at the heart of the world’s most famous prehistoric monument came from faraway Scotland.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2024
MDI Bio Lab gets $19 million to boost Maine’s biomedical research, workforce
The federal grant will fund the renewal of the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence program, a collaboration between 17 educational and research institutions, for another 5 years.
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PublishedJuly 2, 2024
Launch of Maine research satellite delayed once again
Built by Maine college students, MESAT-1 will collect climate data for Maine students studying urban heat islands, phytoplankton and harmful algae blooms.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2024
Maine’s first satellite is ready for orbit, but launch is delayed
MESAT-1, one of 8 nano-satellites set to hitch a ride aboard Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket, will collect climate data for experiments designed by Falmouth, Fryeburg and Saco students.
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PublishedMay 9, 2024
Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to 'normal hearing levels' in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.
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PublishedMay 9, 2024
Deaf baby hears for the first time after ‘groundbreaking’ gene therapy trial
Opal Sandy, an 18-month-old from England, is the youngest child to come close to 'normal hearing levels' in a gene therapy trial to aid her genetic deafness.
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PublishedMay 2, 2024
A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
Previous research has documented several species of great apes foraging for medicines in forests to heal themselves, but scientists hadn't yet seen an animal treat itself in this way.
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