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Learn how tardigrades are able to tolerate extreme radiation with a unique protein that unwinds their DNA.

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Two vibrant, spiny millipedes, unlike any seen before, have been formally described by researchers. Their dragon-like appearance and hidden habitat sparked immediate scientific curiosity. But beyond ...

A post-pandemic state and the 'new normal' only serve to hide the real pain and decay that encompasses humanity ...

In San Diego’s Mission Bay, scientists discovered a hybrid seagrass that thrives where others die. Combining genes from ...

Supercomputer models suggest that by 1,000,002,021, Earth’s surface will reach temperatures too extreme to sustain life.

A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

Earthworm exposure to a mixture of the weed killer glyphosate and urea, used in synthetic fertilizers, experience enhanced, ...