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From MIT If you’ve ever blown up a balloon or pulled at a pair of pantyhose, you may have noticed that the more the material stretches,...
From California Institute of Technology Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The...
From Livermore National Laboratory LIVERMORE, California — Lawrence Livermore scientists, working with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (link is external) and university colleagues, have found that...
From University of lowa Most animals, including humans, have two copies of their genome—the full set of instructions needed to make every cell, tissue, and organ in the...
From Salk Institute Salk scientists find tiny molecules drive gene silencing across grafted shoots LA JOLLA—Agricultural grafting dates back nearly 3,000 years. By trial and error,...
From North Western University Cancer cells are normal cells that go awry by making bad developmental decisions during their lives. In a study involving the fruit...
From NASA Earth’s 2015 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern record keeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic...
From Hopkins Medicine Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog in the distance, repetition of these weak or...
From vertpaleo(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) Prior to the rise of modern day mammalian carnivores (lions and tigers and bears, as well as weasels, raccoons, wolves and...
From elife Living longer usually means a longer dotage, but wouldn’t it be enticing to extend young adulthood instead? It’s such an appealing prospect that scientists...