Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

After a slight delay, Australia and Papua New Guinea formally signed a defense treaty this week committing the two nations to ...

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Stress granules are droplet-like protein hubs that temporarily shield fragile RNA from cellular stresses such as toxins. VCP ...

On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new ...

Nobel chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi was born to Palestinian refugees in Jordan, a quiet, studious child in a "large, rowdy ...

Microplastics are the crumbs of our plastic world, tiny pieces that come from bigger items breaking apart or from products ...

Tiny gold particles that act as carriers for lithium can be delivered directly to the brain in the form of a nasal spray.

Artificial intelligence technology has begun to transform higher education, raising a new set of profound questions about the ...

Delightful as they may be to their young owners, dolls have a long history of creeping people out due to something called the ...

Analysis of preserved feces and intestinal tissue has revealed specific types of bacteria that were present in the microbiome ...

For years we've been warned that technological advances and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to sweep people out of work.