The Mediterranean Sea is home to some of the ocean's largest animals. Among the nine species of cetaceans commonly found along its western shores are the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus, the world's ...

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Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced globally every year. New research shows how that waste can be turned ...

The genomes of phages—viruses that infect bacteria—are largely composed of "dark matter": genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem ...

Scientists unlock computational method to speed up search for materials capable of turning sunlight into fuel ...

Scientists have confirmed that synthetic chemicals, including persistent pollutants known as PFAS, now contaminate ocean waters thousands of miles from any factory or city. A series of recent studies, ...

This new scientific breakthrough hints at a future cryosleep. Andrey Popov – stock.adobe.com In the brain, those connections ...

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The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in Antonito, Colorado, is the kind of experience that makes you wonder if you ...

The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...