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In 1796, while scampering through fields behind his house in Ribchester,…

In vivo imaging of ER dynamics in adult C. elegans

Many ER proteins are enriched in specific structural and functional subdomains^20,28,36. To study ER dynamics during ageing, we developed transgenic C. elegans strains with…

When cave biologist Hazel Barton ventured into the pitch darkness, the last thing she expected to find were organisms harnessing energy from light. This new understanding of photosynthesis in the dark, she realised, means life elsewhere in the…

Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have been staring at them ever since. At first glance, they might seem ordinary. But analysis…

LOS ANGELES — NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as Feb. 6, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus, which may inspire future filmmakers to explore the possibilities of space…

An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%.

Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore, have introduced new

In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach that could be used again for selected…

IDAHO FALLS — From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed.

“Life Before Dinosaurs: Meet the Permian Monsters,” the…

Scientists are subject to scams, just as much as anyone else. Predatory journals take advantage of authors who submit papers and readers who access these papers; predatory conferences exploit speakers and attendees. But an…