The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity's expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There's the engineering challenge of landing a spacecraft ...
Space Exploration
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The Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus, is a large insect native to Asia, characterized by the large horn of the male.
Plants & Animals
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New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, discovered that a parasitic worm suppresses neurons in the skin to evade detection. The researchers suggest that the worm likely evolved this mechanism to enhance its ...
Evolution
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In order to fulfill their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered tiny "folding factories" in cells that enable efficient and accurate protein ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2025
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People who meet their romantic partners online report lower levels of marital satisfaction and experience love less intensely than those who meet in person. That's according to an international team of researchers led by ...
Social Sciences
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3D printing is going to be a critical technology in space exploration, both for its ability to create almost any object, but also because it can utilize in-situ resources, at least in part. However, the more of those space ...
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2025
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Bird populations in the tropics have dropped by roughly a third (25–38%) since 1980 due to intensifying heat extremes, compared to a world without climate change, with some species having declined in abundance by over 50%, ...
Ecology
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Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks early Wednesday. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky—overlapping like a very bright star.
Space Exploration
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Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest. Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 11, 2025
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To study growth-defense trade-offs in the context of metabolism in crops, scientists from the Universities of Potsdam and Erlangen, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, and the National Institute of Biology, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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