Ancient events in plant evolution have left behind large, duplicated regions in their genomes. Salk Institute scientists ...

On a dark night in late May 1543, a group of men snuck through the Native American town of Guachoya and stopped at the gated ...

New Cornell research offers alternatives to a class of insecticides that has devastating ecological impacts, especially to ...

An international team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has tracked changes in more than 114,000 ...

Researchers have spent years taking apart one of the world's simplest microbes, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, piece by piece, and ...

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Aluminum oxide or alumina is the fruit fly of materials science: thoroughly researched and well-understood. This compound, ...

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With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard—along with federal law enforcement—into ...

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Spider silk has a long evolutionary history. Researchers believe that it first evolved around 400 million years ago. These ...

While conventional computers store information in the form of bits, fundamental pieces of logic that take a value of either 0 ...