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The nascent polypeptide-associated complex (NAC) is a conserved ribosome-bound factor with essential yet incompletely understood roles in protein biogenesis¹. Here, we show that NAC is a multifaceted regulator that coordinates translation…

In a rainforest in Panama, a baby hummingbird scared off a wasp by behaving like a poisonous caterpillar. That tiny bird, a white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora), has given scientists the first clear record of caterpillar-style mimicry in a…

Until now, accurately dating fossils has been one of paleontology’s major challenges. Most dating methods rely on surrounding volcanic materials such as zircon-bearing ash, which are absent in many fossil-rich formations. When those aren’t…

Two dinosaur eggs, each about five inches (13 centimeters) across and almost perfectly round, have surprised scientists in eastern China. Instead of fragile shells packed with embryonic bone, the fossil eggs were hollow cavities stuffed with…

Physicists in the United States have built a small device that seems to pull electrical energy from Earth’s rotation itself. The tabletop experiment produced only tens of microvolts.

The team carried out the work in New Jersey with colleagues…

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains reveal that a huge marine reptile laid eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring, as scientists originally…

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years. A new study has found that our planet’s magnetic field could be what’s funnelling particles from Earth’s atmosphere…

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, scientists expected to find a dead zone where almost nothing could survive. Instead, they found life that found ways to adapt and survive. One key example was a common black fungus called Cladosporium…