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Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

As people grow older, visible changes like gray hair and weaker muscles are only part of the story. Aging also affects the immune system. One major ...

Inside a single-story brick building in Sorrento Mesa is a small lab sprinkled with beakers, test tubes and incubators that ...

A large-scale international study, led by researchers from the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv ...

During a tour of West Africa, where she was performing Shakespeare, a young Judi Dench was seized by a sudden premonition.

Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Researchers at the University of St Andrews have uncovered a long‑elusive molecular "reshuffle," a breakthrough that tackles ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...