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This Saturday is your last chance to see a double blue moon until 2037.

Associated Press historical news archive articles dating back to 1985.

The Trump administration is planning full implementation of its extreme vetting to all non-immigrant visa applicants, with a requirement to disclose social media accounts, phone numbers, and emails.

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Photographer Amanda Cross, of Lancashire, UK, wrote:

I wanted to compare the colors of different stars next to each other. These are stacks of Rigel, Betelgeuse and Sirius. I took individual images 60 seconds apart with iso 16000 and speed 1/50, stacked them with starstax and presented them together to show the different colors of the stars. I took the images deliberately out of focus to show the colors. The color variations are from the Earth’s atmosphere which splits the light from the star and the camera picks up the colors.

A class of antibiotics heralded as an essential future weapon against drug-resistant superbugs passed an important test. There’s now evidence that they can be used to treat serious infections in live animals (in vivo) without being toxic.

Researchers created simplified, synthetic versions of teixobactin, a protein produced by certain dirt-loving bacteria that was first discovered in 2015. They tested the teixobactin in lab mice whose eyes were infected with one of several germs, including antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus. The most successful of these analogues was found to leave animal cells alone while still wiping out more than 99 percent of the bacteria in the infected eye.

The findings were published in January in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

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This is huge: Chinese scientists have successfully cloned monkeys (via NowThis Future)

Leaving the social network after Cambridge Analytica scandal, users discover extent of data held.

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A drug with the potential to revolutionise medication has been approved in the US.