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A plot of the flux incident on an exoplanet (in units of the amount on Earth) versus the host star's temperature. The plot shows...

Brain cancer regions. Image Credit: Wikimedia After her brain cancer became resistant to chemotherapy and then to targeted treatments, 26-year-old Lisa Rosendahl's doctors gave her...

At Baylor College of Medicine, scientists have developed a method that allows them to accurately determine the genes expressed in single cells. Among other...

MRI coronal view of the amygdala.Credit: Amber Rieder, Jenna Traynor, Geoffrey B Hall How different are men and women's brains? The latest evidence to address this...

This is a 1.9-billion-year-old stromatolite -- or mound made by microbes that lived in shallow water -- called the Gunflint Formation in northern Minnesota....

A diagram showing cholesterol's (red) predominance in the outer layer of the cell membrane. Cholesterol transport proteins (blue) can alter its distribution between the...

This illustration depicts the device used to measure individual protein. The inset shows proteins (in red) flowing through a nanopore. Credit: University of Michigan In...

Prolonged exposure to work-related stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal, and stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Image Credit:...

A new study finds that whether we talk fast or slow we all communicate about the same amount of information in a given time....

An artist's representation of what the three unusual tails of the pulsar Geminga may look like close up. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving...

Credit: The Ohio State University Researchers here have made a discovery in materials science that sounds like something from the old Saturday morning cartoon Super...