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The Methuselah worm: The oldest university in the U.S. is home to the world's oldest ribbon worm

Artificial photosynthesis catalyst converts carbon dioxide into fuel using sunlight

First human DNA-cutting enzyme that senses physical tension discovered

Mini-vortices in nanopores accelerate ion transport for faster supercapacitor charging

Durable catalyst shields itself for affordable green hydrogen production

Museum staff are overwhelmingly in favor of behind-the-scenes tours

Viruses help drive carbon cycling in deep-sea ecosystems, study reveals

Student researcher leads discovery of fastest gamma-ray burst ever recorded

The U.S. Southwest's disappearing precipitation is also due to human-driven climate change, according to report

Male bonobos track females' reproductive cycle to maximize mating success

New report outlines science priorities for human Mars exploration

Decoding the chemistry of life: Maximum entropy reveals how mutations alter enzymes and drive drug resistance

Spain probes bird flu after hundreds of storks die near Madrid

How to watch one of the year's best meteor showers, the Geminids

Chemical traces of 2023 Canadian wildfires detected in Maryland months after smoke subsided

Simplified lab process produces potent nerve-blocking molecules found in shellfish

Adult female bark spiders produce superior and tougher silk than males do

How oxygen first reached Earth's oceans

US communities are getting older and more livable

Melatonin wakes up plants, stimulating growth and boosting stress tolerance

Lower-cost space missions like NASA's ESCAPADE are starting to deliver exciting science, but at a risk

You care about fairness at work, so why do you feel like a fake?

Outside the West, the Kundalini tradition presents a model of the 'divine feminine' beyond binary gender

Why you feel pressure to adhere to Christmas traditions, and how to reject the ones you don't like

Internationally experienced teachers: An overlooked resource to address teaching shortages

Energy-efficient hydrogen: Plant waste and chromium-coated copper catalyst improve electrolysis process

Surprising nanoscopic heat traps found in diamonds

Effort to save Asia's big cats from catastrophe

Mosquito vectors of malaria rapidly develop resistance against new generation insecticides, study finds

Observations link solar flare pulsations to repeated magnetic reconnection

How 'free money' helped low-income workers stay employed

Addressing antimicrobial resistance through advanced UTI models

'Monster Stars' from the cosmic dawn: Astronomers find first direct evidence

Laser draws made-to-order magnetic landscapes

Triturus newts reveal a genetic balancing act

Electron-phonon interactions in crystals found to be quantized by a fundamental constant

Astrophysicist helps decode one of the universe's strangest explosions

Sensational Viking Age grave newly uncovered

Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

Chaotic 3D currents form multiple microplastic 'attractors' beneath the ocean surface, study finds

Cooperative intermolecular interactions regulate supramolecular polymer assembly

Female Galápagos seabirds have flings—and males seem OK with it

Health monitoring patch offers gentle way to conserve frog populations

Elusive species face the greatest threat from human land use, global analysis finds

A new traveling-wave Josephson amplifier with built-in reverse isolation

Protecting orchids found nowhere else on Earth

UN Report: Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, fewer deaths, less poverty

The twisted nanotubes that tell a story: Geometry-based approach can transmit magnon-based data

Trust in science is low among minorities for a reason, research finds

Short-lived optical flare AT2022zod is an unusual tidal disruption event, astronomers find