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These cells, called hair cells, are strikingly similar to those buried deep inside the human ear. In people, hair cells in ...

For decades, scientists have dreamed of peering into the earliest days of human life, those fragile moments when a fertilized ...

A new study led by the University of Tartu has now pieced together this long history with unprecedented clarity by reading ...

Neutron stars are the extremely compact remnants left behind after the explosive demise of very large (massive) stars as ...

For many people, cannabis represents a way to relax. However, there are times when using cannabis may actually cause you to ...

Submarine caldera eruptions are difficult to study because their most important processes occur beneath the ocean.

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Compared with untreated controls, the urolithin A treatment significantly enhanced measures of cardiac function in animal ...

For decades, scientists have studied blazars, supermassive black holes in distant galaxies whose powerful jets are pointed directly at Earth. Now, for the first time, astronomers from ASTRON, JIVE, ...

An image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 is part of repeated observations to monitor for the ...

In a discovery that blurs the boundaries between human genetics and virology, scientists have identified a human gene ...