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The idea of people going to live and work in space, outside of the extremely unique case of the International Space Station, has long been the...
Duobrachium sparksae is a type of ctenophore, or comb jelly, but video identification without physical specimen ‘can be controversial’
Poor Caribbean coral reefs cannot catch a break. The fragile ecosystem already has to contend with bleaching, climate change, hurricanes and pollution. Now marin...
For five decades Arecibo was the largest single-aperture telescope in the world, used to study distant planets.
If you want to understand a part of Earth's galactic history—whether it passed near a supernova during its path around our galaxy, for example—you may be...
Researchers from SMART have developed a method to produce engineered lysins that can be used to selectively kill bacteria of interest while leaving others unharmed....
Curbing the coronavirus pandemic relies heavily on how quickly a potentially exposed individual can be tested and quarantined. However, the current diagnostic techniques...
White blood cells called cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) dig tunnels in tissues, potentially allowing other CTLs to quickly reach infected cells and tumor cells,...
It sounds like a "Just So Story"—"How the Insect Got its Wings"—but it's really a mystery that has puzzled biologists for over a century. Intriguing and...
It is common practice to rock babies to sleep. Children and grownups also get drowsy during long car rides. There is something about gentle mechanical stimuli...