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Credit: Courtesy of Mark Sabaj/Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. You've just discovered a unique, eyeless catfish from the murky bottoms of the Amazon...

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria living on and inside a...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - A graduate student's surprise observation in fundamental experiments with small binding molecules at work in protein folding has allowed...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Not all melanomas are created equal. While most melanomas appear on the skin as the result of sun exposure,...

Credit: Frederick S. Varn Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient's immune system to help fight cancer, has shown much promise as a potential cancer treatment. In a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that...

So they can't use smartphones or WiFi, but bacteria have evolved some seriously complex strategies to communicate with one another. And the resulting interactions are...

Credit: Richard Twitchett Biotic crises during the Triassic period may have delayed marine recovery after a mass extinction during the late Permian, according to a...

Credit: © ETH Zürich Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ocean. They can perceive cues that indicate turbulence, rapidly respond to regulate...

Coral researchers are remobilising to conduct aerial and underwater surveys along the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in Australia as coral bleaching reappears for the...

Credit: William Foster/The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's worst mass extinction was followed...

Loading video... Credit: University of British Columbia Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your...

Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger a tornado...

Credit: Laurens Howle, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea dives that not only estimates...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 15, 2017 -- Despite YouTube's attempts to safeguard user anonymity, intelligence agencies, hackers and online advertising companies can still determine which videos a...