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Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published in Nature ...

The world's top court will next week start unprecedented hearings aimed at finding a "legal blueprint" for how countries ...

Killer whales can feed on marine mammals, turtles, and fish. In the Gulf of California, a pod might have picked up new skills ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...

Oxford University researchers have made a significant step toward realizing a form of "biological electricity" that could be ...

Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays—they produce too many muons at the Earth's surface. Cascades of muons are ...

A team of bioarchaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Université de ...

Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called ...

Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and ...