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Scientists discovered that disrupting the chemical messages bacteria use to communicate can push dental plaque toward a healthier microbial balance. The approach could lead to new treatments for gum disease that control ...

A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently fight or show mild agg...

New research suggests animals could have evolved as early as 800 to 700 million years ago, roughly 200 million years earlier than some previous estimates. If so, the first animals may have lived before or during Snowball...

Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades-but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him "miserable," he admits.

Astronomers may have discovered the first known microblazar, a long-theorized object firing a powerful beam of particles directly at Earth.

An experimental therapy kept the virus at bay for at least six months. The approach could target other stubborn viruses too. The post Epigenetic Editing Could Wipe Out Chronic Hepatitis B Infections appeared first on Sin...

A study of nearly 200 individuals buried in domestic contexts in ancient and Viking Age Scandinavia has revealed unusually high levels of violence.

Four decades after the 1986 nuclear disaster, researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) examined six tiny, highly radioactive fragments that were released from the des...

Rosalind Franklin knew about DNA's double-helix structure ahead of Watson and Crick, a new study of her photos and notes reveals.

The Roman telescope is NASAs newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble observations. Will it find the answers to our questions about dark matter and da...

Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of previous research into the evolution of walking

Timing of DBS surgery is critical to preserve cognitive function in Parkinson's patients with GBA1 mutations.

The world would look radically different without rulers and measuring tapes that fit into a pocket. Carpenters, fashion designers and engineers rely on these trusty tools to check the size of everything from a wooden boa...

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We've found the best deals on telescopes and binoculars in the Amazon Big Deal Days sale, helping you save money on stargazing gear ahead of winter.

A monsterEl Niñois brewing in the Pacific Ocean - but there may be ways we can stop the worst impacts from occurring

A research team led by the University of Osaka has directly observed, for the first time, an unusual heavy-fermion state forming at the boundary between a one-atom-thick material and a metal. Such states are closely link...

A 2016 astronaut photo mosaic highlights a "sunglint" phenomenon that transformed Lake Powell into a winding metallic "river." The artificial reservoir, which is the second-largest in the country, is home...

The 2026 Nobel prize in physics has been won by Francis Halzen for his work on neutrinos, which serve as 'ghost-like messengers from the cosmos'

Black holes, despite their extreme nature, are described by surprisingly few basic parameters: their mass, charge and spin. Two black holes may have formed for completely different reasons and passed through very differe...

The ozone hole above Antarctica is unusually large right now, and it might signal a shift in how the gap in Earth's protective layer behaves.

Mpox continues to circulate in many countries, including the United States. Here's what to know about the infection and the vaccines that protect against it.