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Tuberculosis May Evolve Drug Resistance While Drying in Air

Drying damages tuberculosis DNA and activates repair pathways that may help some rifampin-resistant strains survive transmission.

Self-Blinking Probes Image DNA Near Double-Helix Resolution

New fluorescent probes image chromatin at 20 nanometres in living cells and localize dyes to about 3 nanometres in preserved cells.

SweepLED Turns a Smartphone Into a Hidden-Camera Detector

A $7 LED phone-case prototype detected concealed camera lenses with about 94% accuracy in a limited research evaluation.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Launches to Map the Dark Universe

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched successfully and is traveling to L2, where it will map billions of galaxies and search for exoplanets.