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Bacteria (stock image). Credit: © 7activestudio / Fotolia We have a symbiotic relationship with the trillions of bacteria that live in our bodies --...

The key steps in lung bioengineering using a functional vascularized lung scaffold. Credit: N. Valerio Dorrello and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University End-stage lung disease...

This is a Weddell seal swimming in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Credit: Daniel P. Costa When scientists at McMurdo Station in Antarctica have...

Diabetes concept (stock image). A new study found that despite harboring a powerful guardian gene, mice developed severe inflammation of the pancreas...

This cartoon shows how gas falling into distant starburst galaxies ends up in vast turbulent reservoirs of cool gas extending 30 000...

Layered volcanic rocks in Eastern Greenland that are up to 4 miles thick were formed during ancient volcanic eruptions that caused a...

This image shows the recovered nova of March 11, 1437 and its ejected shell. It was taken with the Carnegie SWOPE 1-meter...

Monkeys show reduced Parkinsonian symptoms following a donor-matched iPS cell-based therapy. Credit: Misaki Ouchida, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University One...

Older people are as good as young adults at knowing when someone is potentially aggressive, and being streetwise appears to be a...

This is methane gas leakage near a well. Credit: ROV KIEL6000, GEOMAR The pictures went around the world. In April 2010, huge amounts of...

Astronomers observed the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light-years away. The galaxy provides important insight into how magnetism in the...