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Future devices will continue to probe the frontier of the very small, and at scales where functionality depends on mere atoms, even the tiniest flaw m...
A recent study by the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn and the University of Freiburg shows that the mitochondria appear to be able to...
Thanks to modern therapies, a cancer diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence. But many patients still suffer from unwanted side effects and...
The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. Genomic research by members...
The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum...
Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-yea...
Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestoc...
Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract dynamic systems with obser...
Wildlife trafficking is one of the world's most widespread illegal trades, contributing to biodiversity loss, organized crime, and public health risks...
Minor changes in moisture level can promote lipid molecules to reorganize themselves in biomaterial or biomembranes. This can affect how the skin, lun...
Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the lo...
Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many sim...
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