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The revelation of DNA’s chemical structure made it possible to understand how it might replicate and direct the growth of ...

NASA has postponed the first planned spacewalk of 2026 after a medical concern involving a crew member aboard the ...

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Researchers in Japan built a miniature human brain circuit using fused stem-cell–derived organoids, allowing them to watch ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

A pioneering study provides new evidence that gut microbes vary across primate species and can shape physiology in ways ...

Researchers compared a traditional Chinese medicine, Yueju Pill, with a standard antidepressant and found both reduced ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.

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