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On Earth, people grip objects to ensure they don't fall. In space, this process changes: When astronauts hold an object without moving it and then let...
Scientists have uncovered a novel mechanism through which skin cells organize and control protein production during homeostasis and wound healing, acc...
Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those book...
A humpback whale's likely final days in the Baltic Sea have been livestreamed across the globe as multiple rescue efforts failed to coax it back into...
Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also known as biorecycling, which...
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have inspected two nearby galactic globular clusters, name...
An invasive algae already well-established in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is raising concern among researchers as it threatens to spread into th...
Madagascar is home to seven species of baobab trees, of which six are found nowhere else on the planet. Many of the trees have been alive for well ove...
Celebrated British zoologist Desmond Morris, who died Sunday aged 98, shook up the world in 1967 when his book "The Naked Ape" posited that humans are...
Oceanographers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa discovered that microbial communities—from the sunlit surface to extreme depths—in the North Pa...
Researchers have developed a thin plastic film that tears apart viruses on contact, offering a promising new way to keep high-touch surfaces such as s...
An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 off northern Japan on Monday prompted a short-lived tsunami alert and the advisory of a highe...
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