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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — At 190 years old, Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise recently made news for being the “oldest ...

AUSTIN, Texas – Companies that conduct and publish research with universities can implement a “knowledge protection effect” strategy to guard ...

New research has uncovered how genetic changes that accumulate slowly in blood stem cells throughout life are likely to be ...

Tree hyraxes are medium-sized mammals living in the canopies of tropical forests. They are shy and only move at night, ...

Killer whale populations are invading the Arctic, causing significant disruptions to an ecosystem already deeply affected by climate change. A ...

LA JOLLA, CA—Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a set of methods for the closer study of one of the ...

Researchers using advanced recording technology have identified how individual songs in amphibian choruses may influence mating, according to a Dartmouth ...

AUSTIN — An international group of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used ...

A deposit of nearly pure argon left undisturbed since Earth’s formation is about to help physicists understand more about the ...

Scientists have long understood that plate tectonics, the drift of separate, rigid plates that make up the Earth’s crust, formed ...

Sounds made by humpback whales – including a previously unknown call – have given researchers a glimpse of their lives ...

When scientists announced the complete sequence of the human genome in 2003, they were fudging a bit. In fact, nearly ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity ...

The partially fossilized remains of a giant extinct crocodilian that could have been ritualistically beheaded explain how modern crocodilian species ...

How can Einstein's theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep ...

New research from the University of Exeter reports the largest ever whole-genome sequencing project for the potentially fatal yeast infection ...

Movement is ubiquitous across the natural world. All organisms move, actively or passively, regularly or during specific life stages, to ...

How life manages to persist in unpredictable and extreme environments is a major question in evolution. For aquatic animals, extreme ...

A research group at the Politecnico di Milano analysed the orientation of ancient Japanese tombs – the so-called Kofun. This ...

Independent teams from Texas Biomedical Research Institute and the Medical College of Wisconsin have published two papers in Science Translational ...