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A University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researcher’s team developed new chemical compounds that show promise as a potential anticancer…
Birds of a feather flock together. And so do bats and fishes and any little critter hoping that getting lost…
The agency’s lander felt the ground shake during the impact while cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the yawning…
Researchers Jennifer Dill, Jiahui Ma, Nathan McNeil, Joseph Broach and John MacArthur of Portland State University have published a new…
A form of matter called plasma, which contains charged particles, could help break up the Martian atmosphere into more useful…
Atrial fibrillation — a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia — leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000…
In the midst of an active hurricane season, Puerto Rico has suffered yet again. Thanks to Fiona, which crashed into…
If you can’t keep your second cousins and your first cousins twice removed straight, you are not alone. But there’s…
The so-called superbots formed a bridge between neurons in injured cells, leading to tissue growth across the injured site in…
Officials at NASA have announced a mid-November launch date for their new “Mega Moon rocket.” The vehicle is officially known as…
More than four months after devastating monsoon floods began in Pakistan, at least 1,500 people have died, and the waters that…
A brine pool is a rare and bizarre anomaly of nature: water so dense with salt that it won’t mix…
Rain forecast this week will not be enough to end Europe’s drought, which could be the worst the continent has…
Credit: The Conversation The world could still, theoretically, meet its goal of keeping global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, a…
NASA’s enormous Artemis “mega moon rocket,” the most powerful space rocket ever built, has been cleared for yet another attempt…
Could a system of eight-dimensional numbers help physicists find a single mathematical framework that describes the entire universe? Mathematics 16…
Studying quantum mechanics, which I’ve been doing for the last two-plus years, has served as an antidote to my tendency…
Active reconfiguration of LDs upon nutrient reincorporation.(A) Nutrient reincorporation of S-1 leads to LD lipolysis (false color bright spots), while…
Animal-based products constitute a large portion of the average American’s diet, as well as the resources necessary to get them…
The Withings Body smart scale is decent enough: the set up is quick and it’s really easy to use, but…
There is plenty of ice and watery minerals underground at the poles of Mars, but NASA’s InSight lander found almost…
In this undated photo provided by Tennessee Aquarium, an endangered barrens topminnow is seen at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga,…
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna waits to speak at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. France’s…
A scientist in Ukraine warns that the reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power station is designed to protect against some…
It was a moderate hurricane whose damage seemed tame compared to the destruction five years earlier from Hurricane Maria. But…
Greenland’s variegated snailfish produces antifreeze proteins that stop large ice crystal formation, keeping the animal’s blood like a slushie, instead…
One of the long-promised benefits of quantum computers is simulating molecules very quickly, but it turns out that these extra-fast…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Around the world, public attitudes toward international politics are coalescing into two opposing blocks: liberal democracies…
Overall cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial…