A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

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Scientists are unraveling the role of senescent cells in a common form of epilepsy, and it could point to new treatments.

Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 ...

A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...

Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Our species, Homo sapiens, has been evolving for more than 300,000 years, but the story of human origins starts much earlier.

New photos show off NASA's newly constructed Roman Space Telescope, which will soon help researchers unravel the mysteries of ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...