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An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under a...
What types of photos make people reach for their wallets? New Stanford University-led research suggests that brain activity can help forecast which wi...
Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered a compact binary system consisting of two white dwarfs in the center of a nearby glo...
Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a previously unexplored energy-l...
Researchers have found more evidence that microplastics are impacting freshwater wildlife in different countries around the world. A new study, led by...
When light passes through materials, it typically changes direction and bends in predictable ways. This change in direction, known as refraction, is c...
Each year, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the reason that more than a million people die from infections that no longer respond to existing antibio...
Every living organism has its own genetic "blueprint": the source code for how it grows, functions and reproduces. This blueprint is known as a genome...
When you look out across a snowy winter landscape, it might seem like nature is fast asleep. Yet, under the surface, tiny organisms are hard at work,...
As sea level rise pushes saltwater farther into the Florida Keys, it is not only roads and neighborhoods that are at risk; it is also the record of th...
Look at the armpits—or, technically, the "wingpits. That's what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a...
Nucleotide synthesis—the production of the basic components of DNA and RNA—is essential for cell growth and division. In most animal cells, this proce...
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