A sea animal so simple that it looks like a blobby pancake may hold the secret to the origin of…
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The toilet on the International Space StationEuropean Space Agency Anyone with access to the internet is able to follow the…
An emerging system which combines rapid imaging with artificial intelligence could help scientists build a comprehensive picture of present and…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The deadly wildfires in Hawaii this month were fueled in part by plants, in particular invasive…
Researchers investigated the relationship between historical traumatic events experienced by Alaska Native communities and epigenetic markers on genes that previous…
Anti-vaccine campaigns are often associated with misinformationJanine Wiedel/Alamy Facebook’s attempts to remove misinformation about covid-19 vaccines from its platform instead…
Researchers who previously developed the first 3D human cell culture models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) that displays two major hallmarks…
Debates inescapably animate the American election circus, watched more for gaffes and missteps than genuine insight into presidential aspirants. In…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Flinders University’s Dr. Ashokkumar Manoharan collaborated with Associate Professor Christina Scott-Young (RMIT University, Melbourne), and Professor…
Researchers at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at…
Despite a primary diet of gas and dust, black holes will consume anything that comes too close — meaning moons,…
Scientific research depends on collaboration between researchers and institutions. But over the past decade, there has been a surge of…
A reconstruction of Homo longi, also known as dragon manChuang Zhao The following is an extract from Our Human Story,…
Until recently the Jebel Irhoud skull was thought to belong to a NeanderthalThe Natural History Museum/Alamy JEBEL IRHOUD, Morocco, 1961. In…
As the summer winds to a close, and we reluctantly trade beach days and late sunsets for cooler weather and…
[]A copper dome recovered from the bottom of the ocean may be the remains of a 17th-century primitive submarine known…
DNA’s 3D shape — its twisted ladders complexly curled into coils and loops — and other features beyond its genetic…
When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first…
A new study has found that air pollution is preventing pollinators finding flowers because it degrades the scent. A research…
Several key factors influence a person’s chances of survival if they fall from a great height. (Image credit: Shutterstock)The story…
THEY call it the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics”. Physicist Eugene Wigner coined the phrase in the 1960s to encapsulate the…
COUNTLESS fad diets come and go, but these days there is one we never stop hearing about. Whether you call…
Ammonia is emerging as a promising energy source to achieve carbon neutrality due to its inherent carbon-free nature. A recent…
Credit: University of Tsukuba In the intense male–male competition for females, males often develop alternative reproductive tactics to achieve successful…
PHYSICS PIONEER “A Hidden Variable behind Entanglement,” Michelle Frank’s article on physicist Chien-Shiung Wu’s early work on entanglement, was such…
A paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hints at the existence of several black…
Credit: Seth Moore Minnesota saw a 58% decline of the moose population in the northeastern part of the state between…
Earth just had its hottest summer in recorded history, data released Wednesday (Sept. 6) by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)…
Research veterinarian Ashley Reeves had a rough week in mid-August. She had hoped to artificially inseminate ocelots at three zoos…
CSIRO worked together with MMRI to train local partners in methods to help with coral reef recovery. Here the team…