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Trillions of bacteria populate our intestines. While these communities vary between humans, a study published last year in the journal Nature indicated that they may…
Trillions of bacteria populate our intestines. While these communities vary between humans, a study published last year in the journal Nature indicated that they may…
A team of researchers have determined the structure of the kappa-opioid receptor, KOR, and give details about how salvinorin A and other drugs interact with…
These colorful photos of two species of Dendrobatidae, from the Reptile House at the London Zoo, feature these critically endangered amphibians in all of their…
Report of a new method for directly measuring the atomic structure of nanomaterials was published today in the journal Nature. By taking measurements at 69…
Newly published research shows that the growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust has decreased significantly over the last three billion years, leaving researchers to…
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed previously unknown geological features about the asteroid Vesta. While Vesta is one of the brightest objects in…
In search of better thermoelectric materials, a team of physicists turned to a material NASA engineers first used roughly 40 years ago for spacecraft design,…
There is more to Mercury than scientists previously thought. MESSENGER, the first ever probe to enter orbit around Mercury, has collected more than four million…
Residents of northern California won’t have to worry about prisoners escaping from the Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in the event of a major earthquake….
A new discovery of three unique non-repetitive microDNA sequences was made by a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina. Their research shows…
Scientists are proposing the building of a hyper-accurate nuclear clock that would lose only one-tenth of a second over 14 billion years, the current age…
This rare rectangular-shaped galaxy was located 70 million light-years away, 21 Mpc, in the Eridanus Group, in the constellation Eridanus. LEDA 074886 has been dubbed…
With infectious disease deaths on the rise, a new study gives reason for concern. Researchers found that agricultural soils contained more diverse populations of drug-resistant…
This new map was published last Monday by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and it showcases the hellish surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, the…
A new fossil of an extraordinarily large snake was discovered in the lowland tropics of northern Colombia, 60 miles (96 kilometers) from the Caribbean coast…
In a method that appears to be 50 times more efficient than using X-rays, computer simulations showed that high-gain nuclear fusion is possible in a…
It has long been known that noise affects animal behavior, just look at our personal reactions and behaviors when stuck in a noisy city. But…
While on IODP Expedition 340T, a team of scientists was able to measure the geophysical properties of gabbroic rocks directly in place for the first…