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Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in another plant, which could help people…
Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, who identified a novel mechanism for platelet activation in pathogenic blood clotting (thrombosis)…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the achievement of fusion ignition…
For 900 years, a corroded medieval pendant discovered in a trash heap in Germany has been hiding a religious treasure:…
A fragment of the Tissint meteorite, which crashed to Earth in 2011. (Image credit: Ludovic Ferriere/Natural History Museum Vienna) (opens…
New UC Davis research shows how an internal circadian clock controls the opening of individual florets in concentric rings in…
Fluorescent Flies: Fruit flies expressing red eye and green body fluorescent markers demonstrated the viability of a new system for…
Having drones on strings attached to a person could provide a more realistic simulation of interacting with physical objects in…
Observations of a huge test satellite that launched in September have fuelled concerns about the impact a planned fleet could…
Strong neighborhood connections reduced the negative impact of living alone on the death rates of older Chinese Americans, according to…
Credit: National Institute of Standards and Technology This standard reference material from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…
For the first time ever, scientists have used lasers to redirect lightning toward a safe target.The experiment, which took place…
Attacks on Ukraine’s power grid took all 15 of the nation’s nuclear reactors offline for the first time ever. Russia…
Oceans hit their warmest levels on record for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, according to a new report by…
Preparation and application of ligand-tethered lipidoid nanoparticles for targeted siRNA delivery to HSCs to treat liver fibrosis. a Formulation of…
Populations of native mussels in the river Thames have dropped massively between 1964 and 2020, possibly because of the effects…
When the rover Perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet’s surface. Scientists…
Scientists and manufacturers are charting a path toward material sustainabilityThe circular economy minimizes waste and maximizes reuse. Credit: Jan KallwejtAdvertisement…
The bones of 2-metre-long tetrapod Whatcheeria reveal that it had an early growth spurt – a trait that was thought…
The reason your three-pound brain doesn’t feel heavy is because it floats in a reservoir of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which…
Understanding how water droplets spread and coalesce is essential for scenarios in everyday life, such as raindrops falling off cars,…
As with weeds in a garden, it is a challenge to fully get rid of cancer cells (opens in new tab) in…
Every year more than 600,000 people die from mosquito-transmitted malaria, most of them children under age five. Some insects that…
An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them, according…
For the first time in nearly 40 years, the world’s largest active volcano is erupting in Hawaii, after weeks of…
It’s been seven years since journalists first revealed Exxon Mobil Corp.’s decadeslong efforts to undermine the scientific certainty around climate…
Archaeologists have unearthed the “world’s oldest runestone,” a squat block of sandstone with etchings scribbled across its flat surface.The ancient…
Imagine you are shopping online for a new pair of headphones. There is an array of colors, brands and features…
Moderna’s experimental respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine was about 84% effective at protecting older adults from lower respiratory tract disease…