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A composite image of the region around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. X-ray emission is shown in blue.

Our galaxy’s giant black hole rejects ‘food’ because it’s too ‘hot’

29 Aug 2013

Astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have seen the giant black hole Sagittarius A* rejecting its ‘food’ of vast gas clouds as...

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Rendering of the Ichthyostega backbone structure

Reassembling the backbone of life using a particle accelerator

14 Jan 2013

New research shows for the first time the intricate three-dimensional structure of the backbone in the earliest four-legged animals (tetrapods)...

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Lawrence Bragg, Cambridge circa 1913

How a young Cambridge graduate changed the path of modern science

15 Nov 2012

In 1912 a young graduate working in Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory made a breakthrough that represents the birth of x-ray...

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Metastatic breast cancer in pleural field.

Exposure to X-Rays raises risk of breast cancer in young women with BRCA faults

07 Sep 2012

Women with faults in BRCA genes are more likely to develop breast cancer if they are exposed to chest X-rays before they are 30, according to a study...

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