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Multitude of conspiracy theories people believe in all over the world is astonishing. They actually accompany each significant event: a...

A synthetic aftertaste might not be the only side effect of switching to diet soda, especially if you’re trying to...

An international researcher team of Louisiana Tech University, Gubkin University and Kazan Federal University reported the fabrication of nanoscale insecticidal...

In a recently started Horizon 2020-funded project, 14 European institutions from 10 countries, representing both the continent’s and global key...

Researchers have developed a methodology for quantifying landscape changes on barrier islands and, in doing so, have found the storms...

A high-fat diet increases the incidence of colorectal cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow Semir Beyaz and collaborators from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts...

Durham, NC – Scientists are reporting promising results in the early stages of a clinical trial designed to gauge the...

The trillions of bacteria living in our guts play a crucial role in our ability to digest food and fight...

Three new publications by Inclusive Futures have revealed how people with disabilities were not only disproportionately and ‘catastrophically’ excluded from...

Living or biological systems cannot be easily understood using the standard laws of physics, such as thermodynamics, as scientists would...

Tropical forests are some of the most threatened ecosystems on Earth, largely due to recent human activities. To better understand...

New research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators shows why some drugs in clinical trials for treating a form of acute...

The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Although female giraffes have closer “friends” than male giraffes, male giraffes have more “acquaintances” than females, according...

SAN ANTONIO (September 27, 2021) – A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow...

Grégoire Courtine doesn’t hesitate to use the word “revolutionary” when describing the emerging field of optogenetics – a technology that...

The missing link isn’t a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It’s a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by...

Dieter Oesterhelt from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Peter Hegemann from Humboldt University and the U.S. American Karl Deisseroth...

A 25-million-year-old eagle fossil found in South Australia adds to the long evolutionary history of raptors in Australia.  Credit: Trevor...

A tiger shark’s life history is one painted with broad brush strokes. These sharks are generalists of the boldest kind....