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The recipe for mammalian life is simple: take an egg, add sperm and wait. But two new papers demonstrate that…
The high heat and low water conditions produced by global warming weaken pine trees’ resistance to disease by hindering their…
A novel three-dimensional model of the fluid stored deep in Earth’s crust along the Cascadia Subduction Zone provides new insight…
A genetic analysis suggests that petroleum-eating bacteria that live thousands of metres beneath the seafloor seep out into the ocean…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An engine cooling issue on NASA’s giant new rocket for deep-space exploration forced the agency to…
Orcas are snapping the rudders off boats off the European coast, and scientists aren’t sure why. According to NPR, the spate…
Schematic illustration of multi-step composition screening of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for liver-targeted pDNA delivery. In vitro transfection efficiency was assessed…
After completing six long rounds of chemotherapy, 75-year-old Pedro R. L. received the news he and his family had been…
Source of the obsidian artifact from Românești-Dumbrăvița I, GH3. (a) Bivariate plot of 90% confidence intervals of Zr and Sr…
Credit: David Clode Researchers in North Carolina recently published a study focused on improving the health and welfare of lionfish…
Anyone who has ever tried to build their biceps or add bulk to their back will know the process is…
More of the world’s coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what’s triggering the large-scale retreat has been…
Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories Life…
A 4-billion-year-old piece of Earth’s crust the size of Ireland is lurking beneath Western Australia, new research finds. This piece of…
People who frequently eat fruit are more likely to report greater positive mental wellbeing and are less likely to report…
Clinical trial results from the DRCR Retina Network suggest that a specific step strategy, in which patients with diabetic macular…
By Clare Wilson GAP Photos/Jonathan Buckley ANYONE who is just starting to grow their own vegetables might want to consider…
CLIMATEWIRE | The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past 110 degrees Fahrenheit and…
In cancer research, it all comes down to a single cell. Over the last decade, cancer researchers have homed in…
Jupiter glows with polar lights and shimmering clouds in new imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NASA released the…
(a) Cross-sectional transmission electron micrograph of the m-plane Al2O3/Cr2O3 interface with the c-axis [0001]-oriented out of the page and (b,c)…
By New Scientist staff A monkeypox virus particle captured via a coloured transmission electron micrographUK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY / SCIENCE…
A handwritten document thought to have been penned by Galileo Galilei is actually a forgery, the University of Michigan has…
World Health Organization (WHO) director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has now officially declared monkeypox a public health emergency of international…
Nerve cells in tissue culture. Cell nuclei in blue, microtubules in green, microfilaments in red. Credit: Tereza Humhalová The tau…
By Carrie Arnold Low stock of baby formula at a grocery store in Athens, GeorgiaShutterstock / The Toidi Nearly half…
When excited by lasers, a tiny glass container filled with rubidium atoms can act as a receiver for streamed video…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain They are considered “parasitic genes.” Even though they comprise over half of human DNA, much remains…
A mysterious extinction about 540 million years ago may have been caused when early animals began competing against one another…