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DNA repair has been captured in a step-by-step molecular movie

Researchers have worked out how a protein called photolyase repairs DNA using light, and their discoveries could guide the development of light-based manufacturing technologies

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Astronomers have found the most distant black hole ever confirmed

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The world’s brightest X-ray machine has been turned on

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Decades-old mystery about photosynthesis finally solved

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An image of an area of space filled with red and blue gas, and scattered stars

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Our galaxy’s black hole may have made a huge X-ray flare 205 years ago

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The mummy of a boy digitally unwrapped in four stages

Humans

Egyptian boy mummy was buried with a ‘second heart’ made of gold

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The LCLS-II electron gun in a Berkeley Lab clean room where it was assembled. (Marilyn Chung/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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The world's ultimate X-ray machine will start up in 2023

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We may finally know how blazars act as cosmic particle accelerators

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Baffling 'space cow' explosion was probably a failed supernova

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letter from Queen Marie-Antoinette to Count de Fersen

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Marie Antoinette's censored love letters have been read using X-rays

Love letters that Marie Antoinette wrote to a Swedish count have been impossible to read because he added extra handwriting on top of hers – but now the original words have been deciphered with X-rays

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Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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Mysterious X-ray flares on Jupiter come from magnetic field vibrations

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X-raying eggs while they cook reveals how egg white becomes solid

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The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles

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The Milky Way's black hole burped out two colossal X-ray bubbles

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Quantum X-ray machine takes razor sharp pictures with less radiation

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