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A fossilized dinosaur egg discovered in central India has turned out to be even stranger than it first appeared. Inside the ...

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Physicist, molecular biologist, neuroscientist: Francis Crick’s scientific career took many turns. And now, he is the subject of zoologist Matthew Cobb ’s new book, Crick: a Mind in Motion – from DNA ...

Encouraged by these results, Dudin, Dey, Guichard, and Hamel launched a close collaboration. Three years later, their work has produced near-encyclopedic insight into hundreds of protist species and ...

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In a strategic move that could protect its obesity pipeline from future patent litigation, Roche is paying $100 million to ...

From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic ...

Will Hurst and Fran Williams look at three full‑scale prototype buildings used as testbeds for low‑carbon materials, systems ...

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

When Vayigash ended, Yaakov’s spirit had come alive again. The news of Yosef —the son mourned as dead— reopened a future ...