The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

The natural protein, known as CelOCE, was developed at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials and is ready ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

However, the USTC researchers have revealed that dark matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies also exhibit halo bias, which is ...

Researchers repurposed an experiment originally intended to detect gravity, which involved a floating magnet in a ...

Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious force in the universe, is ...

We can't see dark matter, but scientists have made the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe. Researchers used a dark energy camera and a large telescope to ...

May 29, 2025 — Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence ...

Methyl halides, detected in space, are key biosignatures in the search for extraterrestrial life, indicating potential ...

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