A new study by geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals…
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In ironic twist, CRISPR system used to befuddle bacteria
Researchers flip nature’s script by engineering a virus to carry a CRISPR system to change a…
Sea urchins keep on trucking while other marine life languishes in the Florida Keys
A litany of negative environmental pressures have had little to no effect on sand dollars and…
Rare 'fossil' clam discovered alive
Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed…
Early planetary migration can explain missing planets
Computer simulations by Rice University scientists and their collaborators are the first to integrate a model…
The secret to the skillful skydiving of wingless springtails
Using a combination of computational and robophysical modeling, as well as fluid dynamics experiments, the researchers…
New theory explains recovery delays in COVID-19 and cardiac patients
COVID-19 patients placed on ventilators can take a long time to regain consciousness. New research is…
New quasiparticle discovered in moiré patterns
A new species of exciton with novel characteristics has been discovered in moiré crystal superlattice. Scientists…
Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes…
Understanding rogue waves of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Researchers examined how rogue waves form and analyzed the likelihood that a ship would encounter them…