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All living cells harbor nuclei—key biological structures that play an important role in information storage, retrieval, and duplication of genetic...

LA JOLLA, CA—Genetic mutations kick start cancers. Some mutations shuffle the genetic code, others come from the deletion of key...

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer...

Oppressive, frightening, nerve-wracking: nightmares are particularly disturbing dreams. They are considered pathological when they occur frequently (>1 episode per week)...

Pick an object in front of you—a teacup, for example—and fix your gaze on it.  You may think that you’re...

Seismologists from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a new method to scan the deep interior of planets in...

Using a new stem-cell based model made from skin cells, scientists found the first direct evidence that Stargardt-related ABCA4 gene...

A group of animal biologists and chemists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) at Nagoya University in central Japan,...

Patient-derived parathyroid organoids (PTOs) could pave the way for future physiology studies and drug-screening applications, as shown in a study...

An unexpected river under the Antarctic ice sheet affects the flow and melting of ice, potentially accelerating ice loss as...

Bumble bees play, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London published in Animal Behaviour. It is...

Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at...

A research team led by Prof. YU Tao from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has...

We tend to eat, drink, and move less when we’re feeling under the weather. And we’re not alone—most animals reduce...

The University of Houston is leading a team of cancer researchers and experts in stem cell cloning to identify the...

The BirdNET mobile app, one of the most popular and successful apps for recognizing bird calls, was developed at Chemnitz...

Inside the leading edge of a crawling cell, intricate networks of rod-like actin filaments extend toward the cell membrane at...

A new type of material for one of the solar cells was proposed by specialists of the Ural Federal University...

Plankton are fundamental to the marine ecosystem and an indispensable means of modern marine ecological management. Since previous studies have...

Triboelectric energy is the scientific term for static electricity, or the energy that is created when two surfaces rub against...