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Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of Missouri shows the damage m...
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emis...
Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most comple...
Scientists have identified a crucial mechanism that allows plants to shape their vascular systems, determining whether they grow soft edible storage o...
A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover a planetary system that...
Some genetic mutations that are expected to completely stop a gene from working surprisingly cause only mild or even no symptoms. Researchers in previ...
For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been devastated by an invasive fungal...
A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelli...
New analysis on 2017 Hubble images of the Jupiter-family comet, 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresak (41P/TGK), indicates that the comet underwent a spin rever...
An international team of scientists has discovered that a small, low-abundance protein plays a surprisingly big role in assembling carboxysomes—specia...
It is well documented that the Gulf Stream plays a pivotal role in the climate system through its transfer of heat, which ultimately supplies warmth t...
DNA, the blueprint of life, is best known for its fundamental role as genetic material—storing and transmitting biological information through the pre...
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