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Carnivorous plants’ peculiar strategies for snagging live prey have long captured the public imagination. But even within this strange group,...

An investigation by the US Office of Research Integrity has found that exosome biologist Douglas Taylor engaged in research misconduct...

Disrupted sleep, lower life satisfaction and poor self-esteem are just a few of the negative mental health consequences that researchers...

Bats are highly unusual creatures. They’re the only mammals with the gift of powered flight; different species have adapted to...

Do people have a right to an unobstructed view of the heavens? For most of human history, such a question...

Imagine a bandage that could weave a wound back together near-instantaneously. Or a filter for cleaning toxic spills that could...

An ongoing Ebola outbreak has infected and killed dozens of people in Uganda. Health authorities in the country and] the...

It’s no wonder that rodents top the list of model organisms. They’re small and easy to care for, and yet...

Renewables are on track to generate more power than coal in the United States this year. But the question is...

     When the SARS-CoV-2 protein Nsp6 is made in a fruit fly heart (center), the heart has structural defects (arrows) compared...