Someone at Brazil’s Butantan Institute was sorting through spiders in the collection when they spotted something that looked decorative.
On a spider only a few millimeters long, there was a neat string of pale beads clinging to its body, like a…

Someone at Brazil’s Butantan Institute was sorting through spiders in the collection when they spotted something that looked decorative.
On a spider only a few millimeters long, there was a neat string of pale beads clinging to its body, like a…

In Peru, the study was carried out along an elevational gradient from 245 masl to the tree line at 3,588 masl in the Andes of south-east Peru (Kosñipata valley), with continuous and mostly undisturbed wet rainforest/cloud forest….

Summary: Relapse isn’t a failure of willpower—it’s a biological “rewiring” of the brain. A new study reveals how chronic cocaine use hijacks the connection between the brain’s reward center and its memory hub (the…

To generate H7N9 FluPol with impaired endonuclease activity, the PA(E119D) mutation was introduced into the PA gene. A pFastBac Dual vector encoding the influenza polymerase heterotrimer subunits of…

No statistical methods were used to predetermine sample size and the sample size was based on a previous study16. All attempts at replication were successful, and all experiments were repeated more than once, as indicated in the…

PENSACOLA, Fla. — What was seen in the sky above Northwest Florida Wednesday morning?
The answer: a space jellyfish.
According to SpaceX, around 4:50 a.m. CT, Falcon 9 launched “29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex…

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Pioneering gene therapy may treat a deadly seizure disorder
New gene therapy results bring hope for treating Dravet syndrome, a rare and often fatal seizure condition

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Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of “The War of the Worlds” scenario that could help protect the Red Planet from contamination by terrestrial bugs.
Scientists led by Corien Bakermans, a…

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A Bill Gates–backed nuclear power plant just got cleared to start building
TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of…