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What is the Extremely Large Telescope?

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is in the process of making the world’s largest telescope. With a fun sense of humor, they called this telescope the Extremely Large Telescope (the ELT). They had previously made a telescope in 1991 – 1998 and called it VLT, which stands for… you guessed […]

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Directed Evolution: Its Utility and Risk

  Amidst the Covid outbreak, the Wuhan lab leak theory sparked extensive debate, speculation, and controversy. A key focus was the gain-of-function research conducted in the lab. The field of gain of function began in 2011 when researchers from the US, the Netherlands, and Japan investigated a type of virus, […]

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Flooding in East Africa

Widespread flooding in the countries of East Africa has caused over a hundred deaths and over 700,000 people displaced from their homes. The floods have killed livestock and submerged farmlands and trapped people in affected regions as the rising waters make it hard for rescue teams to come to their […]