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How does your body produce millions of antibodies from one genome? New research reveals how two closely related proteins help immune cells fold DNA, c...
Researchers have developed a chip-based metasurface biosensor that can detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomarkers at extremely low levels. With fu...
At first glance, bat sea stars, the nubbly, orange, many-footed creatures often found on the seafloor, seem about as far from humans as one can get. A...
Sight-threatening antibiotic-resistant eye infections are becoming a significant threat to vision in dogs, cats and horses, according to a new compreh...
Many bat species emit echolocation calls and use the returning echoes to find their way, detect the presence of fluttering insects, and locate and cat...
A University of Houston engineering professor is helping cities, utilities and transportation agencies prepare for and recover from natural disasters....
In 1938 and 1944, two major hurricanes struck Long Island, and after the initial winds subsided, the surges came back unexpectedly hours later, leadin...
The past five years have not been easy for the people of the Pacific. COVID restrictions disrupted tourism and upended supply chains, while global fue...
Bumblebees are only an inch long, but they help power the global food system. Roughly one-third of the food we grow depends on pollinators like bees—a...
Even in darkness, many animals retain a sense of orientation because their nervous system sustains a memory of heading encoded by the activity of head...
Multicellular life depends on remarkable acts of cooperation. Every cell in the human body must sense what is happening around it, interpret signals f...
In a primary school classroom, a 9-year-old reads aloud to the person next to them. When they stumble over a word, their partner encourages them to tr...
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