From non-consensual vaginal microbiome transplants to misconceptions about the G-spot, Rachel E. Gross discusses the sexism and biases that have…
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Consumption of seven or more units of alcohol per week is associated with higher iron levels in the brain, according…
Alex K. Shalek, an MIT associate professor of chemistry, uses technologies such as single-cell RNA-sequencing to analyze differences in gene…
Girls are just as capable as boys in science and mathematics, but ingrained attitudes are stopping female students from engaging,…
Spaceflight, despite its origins in cold war saber-rattling, is often portrayed as a purely beneficial endeavor that somehow helps all…
It is obvious from the picture that the surface of the Moon is anything but even. The changes in the…
[]Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra at the site of…
Fires in parts of France, Spain and Portugal have already burned more land so far this year than in all…
Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images SIX months ago world leaders made grand promises to act on climate change. A war, an…
In the deep subsurface that plunges into the Earth for miles, microscopic organisms inhabit vast bedrock pores and veins. Belowground…
The best exercise bikes offer a low-impact cycling solution to exercisers that crave a sweaty workout without the nuisance of…
Three large chunks of space debris that crash-landed into Australian sheep farms have been confirmed as belonging to SpaceX, the…
By Robyn Chowdhury A24 Everything Everywhere All At Once Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert Now playing in cinemasAdvertisement CHAOTIC sci-fi adventure…
In a new proof-of-concept study led by Dr. Mark Walker at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine, researchers are…
You reach over a stove to pick up a pot. What you didn’t realize was that the burner was still…
A recent lawsuit has grabbed headlines and raised consumer concerns with its claim that Skittles, the popular many-colored candies, contain…
Discarded electronics are piling up fast, pushing researchers to explore creative ways to reduce the resulting trash, known as e-waste.…
Vegetation in the Caatinga (Morro do Chapeu, Bahia State, Brazil). Credit: Toby Pennington A new “resilience sensing system” can identify…
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Sheltered underneath nearly a mile of rock in Abruzzo, Italy, scientists are hard at work unraveling the secrets of the…
Isodontia harmandi wasps make nests and leave food for their young in bamboo canes. When that food runs out, the…
Organ transplant recipients take life-long immunosuppressive drugs to prevent their bodies from mounting an immune response against the donated organ,…
Rajesh Sardar, center, speaks to Omolade Olofintuyi, left, an undergraduate from Howard University who conducted research on an advanced biosensor…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young women’s and girls’ time spent in unpaid household work contributes to the gender pay gap,…
An amphibious drone that can attach itself to other objects with a suction cup could be used to track marine…
Using a curated nanoparticle library, the researchers screened nanoparticle-cell interaction profiles of hundreds of cancer cells simultaneously. By incorporating omics…
You may have seen bad press surrounding dietary fats, but how much of it is true? Fats are an essential…
Air pollution is not just a problem for lungs. Increasingly, research suggests air pollution can influence childhood behavioral problems and…
Antisense oligonucleotides, or ASOs, are molecules that can be used to control protein levels in cells. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory…
MmpL3 is the major target for discovery of new anti-tuberculosis drugs. Zgurskaya and co-authors isolated this target from bacterial cells…