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Nearly a century ago, a single colony of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) helped launch the antibiotic age. In 1928, ...
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One-third of young scientists who had been planning careers in academic research changed their minds in the spring of 2025, ...
The waters of the remote Scottish island of Jura have long been famous for making whiskey. Now, the island's rivers have ...
Astronomers have detected extreme, never-before-seen behavior from a rare kind of pulsar and stumbled on a surprising link to ...
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The important role ships play in gathering scientific data in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean has been outlined at a ...
One big dream of ultrafast science has been to watch changes in nanoparticles or biomolecules on their natural timescale.