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The ongoing search for habitable exoplanets
A balmy Florida evening, and my family and I stood on Cocoa Beach, looking northward toward…
Lead poisoning reduced with safer mining practices
A pilot program to introduce safer mining practices in Nigerian gold mining communities has reduced blood…
New organelle discovered inside cells found to prevent cancer
Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered a strange new organelle inside…
Sharks choose who they hang with, researchers reveal
White sharks form communities, researchers have revealed. Click here for original story, Sharks choose…
Persistence pays off with first images of butterfly eggs
Kim Moss hunched over plants with her camera for hours in Grand Teton National Park this…
Biological material boosts solar cell performance
Next-generation solar cells that mimic photosynthesis with biological material may give new meaning to the term…
Pinpointing biomolecules with nanometer accuracy
It would be impossible to understand life without having a firm grasp on the microscopic interactions…
Magma crystallization makes volcanoes more explosive
A new paper from scientists at The University of Manchester has discovered why some volcanic eruptions…
Extreme biomimetics – the search for natural sources of materials engineering inspiration
Biologically inspired engineering to produce biomimetic materials and scaffolds typically occurs at the micro- or nanoscale.…