News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it, tend to be positive. We ...

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(via PBS Eons) We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth.

Scientists at the University of Stuttgart have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes ...

Five years on from the first news of COVID, recent reports of an obscure respiratory virus in China may understandably raise ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in ...

Fiber is well known to be an important part of a healthy diet, yet less than 10% of Americans eat the minimum recommended ...

As a caterpillar, a grass skipper butterfly is an architect. It builds its home by weaving silk, which the caterpillar uses ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

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Concussions and repetitive head trauma in sports like football and boxing, once accepted as an unpleasant consequence of ...

While male brains tended to be greater in volume than female brains, when adjusted for total brain volume, female infants on ...