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According to a new study Candidatus Nanohaloarchaeum AntarcticusThe DPANN archaeon, which lives in a highly saline Antarctic lake called Deep Lake, behaves like a parasitic predator,…
I'm an only child. Saying this can sometimes feel like a confession, especially when people well-meaningly respond with, “Oh, you don't see it that way!” Now,…
This week’s picksWidening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary LandscapeWidely available, all episodes available nowVenus Williams, tennis champion, arts patron, and now podcaster, hosts this…
In a recent study, researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the University of Eastern Finland examined the antiviral properties of different types of wood, including…
Male Verreaux’s Sifaka Gabriel Bueno Dominant male lemurs grow more flexible testicles when other males are present, improving their position for successful mating. In many species,…
Crater made by laser in titanium metalScience Photo Library / Alamy Heating a metal can make it stronger, despite the common belief that higher temperatures only…
Dyson sphere can capture energy from stars dot zebra/alamy Two surveys of millions of stars in our galaxy have revealed mysterious spikes in infrared heat from…
Beautiful and surprisingly complex patterns created by “mathematical billiards”Albers et al. PRL 2024 In the mathematical version of billiards, particles that avoid following paths become trapped…
Huge mouth of a small nematode Sarah Wiggard and Ralf Sommer / Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen Tiny soil insects called nematodes usually feed on…
AI tools like DALL-E can generate sophisticated artwork based on text prompts Rocas Tennis/Shutterstock A study of more than 50,000 users’ posts on a popular art-sharing…
Indian people's genomes contain extensive Neanderthal DNADebajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images The largest genome study of South Asians in history has uncovered extensive Neanderthal DNA sequences…
Our Sun is within 300 parsecs (about 1,000 light-years) of a 2,700-parsec (about 9,000 light-years) long sinusoidal dense gas cloud known as the Radcliffe wave. The…
New research reveals that immune cells can independently navigate complex environments by actively shaping chemical cues, a discovery with significant implications for understanding immune responses and…
The peptide NQK-Q8 (light color), part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that the virus uses to enter cells, bound to the groove of HLA-B*15:01 (orange color).…