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The Accidental Arrival That Changed Everything The islands are volcanic in origin and were never attached to any continent.

In laboratory experiments, the researchers successfully engineered this change in barley and found that the mechanism worked ...

Bruker's Acquifer Imaging Machine (IM) is a fully automated widefield microscope with both brightfield and fluorescence ...

From influencing weight gain to supporting immune function, gut microbes do far more than digest food. They may even explain ...

Silicon Valley and other high tech billionaires are investing millions in start-ups dedicated to creating genetically ...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the earliest supernova on record, according to a statement released ...

In future, a more detailed understanding of the lung microbiome in pneumonia may enable improved diagnostics, prognosis, and therapeutics.

The code of life is now editable and the question humanity must answer in the 2020s is not whether we can rewrite it—but whether we should, and for whom.

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.