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A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life.
At the end of last year, curators from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford came to Diamond to learn more about a 2,000-year-old prehistoric artifact.
Researchers have discovered a new species of brilliantly colored fish from a network of forest streams in the Brazilian Amazon and have already recommended it for listing as…
A type of transformation best known for hardening steel and enabling shape-memory alloys may also occur in a much softer class of materials, according to new research from Rice…
Reliably verifying the location of a device connected to the internet or other networks is important for various real-world applications.
When an abstract-looking ivory artifact emerged from the Hohle Fels cave in southern Germany in 2015, archaeologists didn't know quite what to make of it.
In their earliest years of development, computers used mechanical gears and levers to store information.
Swimming in the blood, sweat, cells and tears of every human are small proteins known as peptides.
The molecular culprit behind harmful algal blooms and some groundwater contamination is the same thing that has kept civilization fed for millennia: a stable form of nitrogen…
Understanding the origin, acceleration and propagation of high-energy cosmic rays has been a century-old mystery in astrophysics.
A synthetic biology technology has been developed that converts easily degraded messenger RNA (mRNA) into a ring-shaped form inside microbial cells, increasing protein production.
Gloeotrichia echinulata is a type of cyanobacterium that draws scrutiny because it tends to bloom in clear lakes, forming thick mats of visible green or white puffballs in…