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New NASA find suggests Mars resembles Earth more than previously thought
High levels of manganese oxides discovered by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars may indicate that oxygen was once abundant there. With last year’s discovery that the red planet may have been home to ancient lakes, it now seems more akin to our blue one.
“The only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes,” said Nina Lanza, a planetary...
Mosaic HIV vaccine imminent. Scientists to begin trialling breakthrough drug 'next year'
An electron scan showsthe HIV-1 virus budding (in green) from a white blood cell in a laboratory.
An HIV vaccine that could outwit the deadly virus could undergo human trials in as little as a year’s time, scientists say.
The ‘mosaic vaccine’, which is being designed by an international team of investigators, works by being able to adapt to the virus as it mutates.
HIV’s ability...