With hopes pinned on mass vaccination programs seeing an eventual end to the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens around the world are...
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Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that’s not been seen before. Excitingly, the...
When you’re as tiny as a European robin, crossing the continent for the winter is no small feat. We now...
Set aside every scrap of iron inside a human body and you might have enough to fashion a nail or...
Squinting through their telescopes at the twinkling heavens, few 19th century astronomers would have imagined the cosmic wonders awaiting discovery...
Type 1 diabetes is fundamentally a disease of the immune system. At some point, for some reason, the body’s defenses...
In the hands of a trained archeologist, a well-preserved grave can be read like an obituary, detailing the health, death,...
Life currently has a sample size of just one. Without an alien or two to expand the boundaries of biology,...
Over a quarter of a billion years ago, at the close of the Permian, life’s resilience was put to the...
They are the hot-headed tyrants that drive the evolution of the cosmos. Black holes so large, so powerful, the energy...
Coxcatlan Cave in Mexico’s Tehuacan Valley is a time capsule like no other. Its dusty floor is a history book,...
When it comes to dividing animals along sex lines, evolution is known for getting creative. The chromosomes that determine baby-making...