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A sperm enters an egg, an embryo develops and eventually a baby is born. But back up a second—how does the mother's half-genome actually...

A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply,...

Tuberculosis still represents the infectious disease with the highest fatality numbers. It is caused by mycobacteria, which mainly attack the lungs but can also...

Some 500 million years ago—when our continents were likely connected in a single land mass and most life existed underwater—hornworts were one of the...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover together with international colleagues have published their second Open...

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Translational Atomaterials have developed a highly efficient solar absorbing film that absorbs sunlight with minimal heat...

New University of Melbourne research has revealed that ice ages over the last million years ended when the tilt angle of the Earth's axis...

One of the basic building blocks of life is nitrogen. An international consortium was able to detect ammonium salt containing nitrogen on the cometary...

Genetically modified (GM) Bt cotton produces its own insecticide. The seeds were introduced in India in 2002 and today account for 90% of all...

A new imaging method combined with machine learning uncovers previously hidden information in micrographs of biological cells to reveal quantitative information of gene expression...

Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by 2100, assuming current greenhouse gas emissions,...