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Fish oil, a liquid gold for some, contains particularly hard-to-come-by omega-3 fatty acids that serve a variety of important ...

Unorthodox biologist Michael Levin says cognition lies on a spectrum and that what humans perceive as consciousness could ...

"Most carbon fixed in photosynthesis becomes either starch [to use later]—like putting money in your bank account—or sucrose ...

I am Genotype AS and have not been in any hospital for 30 years, or for as long as I can remember, to be treated for malaria fever. I am bitten my mosquitoes every day. If you put my resilience to not ...

Strong local opposition has again tabled final approval by New Jersey’s Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission to build a $180-million gas-fired power plant in Newark, N.J., as an emergency backup ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

India’s Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot the Axiom-4 mission to the ISS, involving around 60 scientific studies, ...

A new study shows a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods is linked to a higher likelihood of reaching age 70 free of ...

For example, "plants get their carbon from CO2 in the ... a professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College London, in a public presentation. The cell can then use this packaged ...