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Spacewalking astronauts add new pumps to cosmic detector
Spacewalking astronauts installed new pumps on a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on…
Family support reduces chance of school and workplace bullying
Having a supportive family environment makes school-age LGB children in the UK significantly less likely to…
Designing and repurposing cell receptors
EPFL scientists have developed a computational method modeling and designing protein allostery that allows the accurate…
Video: Will cryogenically freezing yourself and coming back to life ever be reality?
When you die, many things can be done with your body—embalming, cremation, donation to science and…
Scientists reveal the structure of viral rhodopsins
The structure of an Organic Lake Phycodnavirus rhodopsin II (OLPVRII), which is a unique protein found…
Discovery of an unusual protein
Nitrogen is an essential component of life. For example, it is required for the production of…
Red tide is back in Florida and rare egrets are at risk
A lethal Gulf Coast red tide that littered beaches with dead wildlife in 2018 is back…
California is famous for earthquakes and wildfires—but don't forget about its volcanoes
Margaret Mangan didn’t sleep well in the weeks following the Ridgecrest, Calif., earthquakes. The July shaking…
Scientists build a 'Hubble Space Telescope' to study multiple genome sequences
A new tool that simultaneously compares 1.4 million genetic sequences can classify how species are related…