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Wastewater is a major reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes, but modified bacteria can chop up this DNA before the dangerous microbes reach people

New research gives insight into when the ancestor of all living things lived, and it's earlier than we thought.

Researchers have discovered a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enhances its ability to infect the central nervous system, potentially explaining neurological symptoms and "long COVID." The mutation was found...

Researchers have discovered that nondeceptive placebos--placebos given with the full knowledge that they are placebos--can effectively manage stress, even when administered remotely. In a two-week randomized controlled t...

A new study identifies two proteins that interact with a mutant FUS variant linked to familial ALS, offering a potential therapeutic target. Researchers found that inhibiting these proteins in motor neurons derived from ...

'Doomsday glacier' won't collapse the way we thought, new study suggests

The rapid transition to renewable energy is great news for the environment, but electrical grids are struggling to incorporate intermittent power sources like wind and solar. Startup Form Energy is about to demonstrate a...

A monument in southern Spain that dates to between 3600 and 3800 BC appears to have been built with an understanding of geology and physics

When the fever, pains and pus-filled lesions of an mpox infection strike, how dangerous is it and how can it be treated?

A multi-institutional team of scientists in the United States, led by physicist Peng Wei at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new superconductor material that could potentially be used in quantum c...

From worms with squid-like tentacles to fish with teeth on their tongues, here are some of the most alien-looking creatures in the deep ocean.

Computers made from DNA have previously only been able to store information or perform computations on it - now a new device can do both

An internal power source could enable the development of tiny robots for applications like drug delivery and remote sensing.

The Milky Way may be home to strange black holes from the first moments of the universe, and the best candidates are the three closest black holes to Earth

It's a cliché that "baseball is a game of inches," but for hitters and pitchers, it's more a game of millimeters. If the bat hits the ball a fraction of an inch too low or too high, the result is a popup or weak ground ...

Radio astronomers teamed up with SpaceX to find a promising solution for helping expensive telescopes avoid interference from thousands of Starlink satellites

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process

Astronomers have identified patterns within the motion of stars stretching across the Milky Way, hinting at the presence of a vast wave

An entirely new structure of light is helping to measure chirality in molecules more accurately and robustly than ever before, in a major potential step for the pharmaceutical industry.

The tree of life maps out the relationships between all living things, and it's in constant flux.

A study suggests that recalling past alcohol experiences before drinking can slow down consumption, indicating a potential strategy to reduce alcohol intake. In the study, women who remembered a previous drinking episode...

A superconductivity theory proposed by a Würzburg physics team has been validated in an international experiment that showed Cooper pairs display wave-like distribution in Kagome metals. The finding will enable new tech...