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What is immunology?

Understanding how the body mounts its defence against harmful invaders has unlocked the key to better treatments of diseases, the prevention of illness – such as vaccines – and even therapies for cancer.
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Mercury’s outer layers may have been stripped off by a young Venus

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The immune cells inside tumours hint at a new way to treat cancers

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Drug that restricts overactive immune systems could help treat lupus

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Punching holes in solar cells turns them into transparent windows

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When will we hear from aliens? We may already have done so

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Space

Interstellar comet Borisov is about to pass close to Earth and the sun

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Celestial time travel: How asteroids can reveal the history of space

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Celestial time travel: How asteroids can reveal the history of space

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Exploring the wonders of the solar system

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Space

Distant space rock known as Ultima Thule renamed to avoid Nazi links

The space rock that the New Horizons probe visited earlier this year had been nicknamed Ultima Thule, but it was pointed out this name has links to the Nazis

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Experimental dengue vaccine cuts infection rates in real-world trials

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Massive solar panels in Chilean desert point to our renewable future

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Perseid meteor shower

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Tiny artificial sunflowers could be used to harvest solar energy

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