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Plants begin responding to spaceflight almost immediately after leaving Earth, according to a new University of Florida study ...

Scientists have discovered a gene that determines whether Japanese snails develop shells that are left- or right-coiling—with ...

What happens when political violence is presented as a justified response to threat or injustice coming from an out-group? A ...

How do young stars reshape the clouds from which they are born? A new high-resolution 3D model developed by an international ...

Every time a tissue grows or renews itself, cells must divide inside an already crowded environment. That creates a ...

A German cockroach races across a kitchen floor. Someone grabs a bottle of essential oil spray, soaks the insect and watches ...

Researchers used the European XFEL to create X-ray flashes that were not only extremely short but also reached record ...

A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is ...

Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) more than ...

Since its introduction more than 150 years ago, the thought-provoking idea of Maxwell's demon has profoundly shaped our ...

The writer Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term "tipping points" to refer to the moment when a trend or social behavior ...