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A research team has developed a new approach to detecting life beyond Earth that does not rely on identifying specific ...

A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.

Data from more than 15,000 ancient people reveal natural selection of hundreds of genes linked to immunity, skin tone, ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens ...

Thorns in different plant species have always been an interesting subject for botanists. Be it rose plants or cactus, they ...

Plankton are tiny, microscopic marine organisms that represent the very bottom of the food chain. Some are photosynthetic and ...

Few studies have investigated coastal marine plankton and aggregate abundance and diversity with high frequency over a long ...

A new study addresses this problem by using generative AI to systematically classify thousands of everyday social interactions. In a new study, researchers analyzed thousands of textual descriptions ...

Researchers are launching a new project to crack the mystery of aggressive breast cancer, where predicting disease ...

In recent years, the application of nanomaterials in life science has gradually become a research hotspot. With the continuous development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials have attracted much ...