More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which ...

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Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called ...

Coral adaptation to ocean warming and marine heat waves will likely be overwhelmed without rapid reductions of global ...

Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays—they produce too many muons at the Earth's surface. Cascades of muons are ...

A team of bioarchaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Université de ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source ...