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An international team of seven scientists, including two Spaniards and Nobel Prize winner Andrew Fire, has discovered new biological entities called "Obelisks" in the bacteria that inhabit the ...

These “obelisks,” as the researchers have dubbed them, may represent a whole new class of infectious agent. “It’s just super thrilling,” says Kathleen Hefferon, a microbiologist at ...

The Turkish president on Wednesday visited a replica of an obelisk from a famed site in Turkey over 10,000 years old that was added on the grounds of UN headquarters in New York. "A replica of the ...