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Who isn't familiar with the colorful coral reefs from movies like "Finding Nemo" or "The Little Mermaid"? Unfortunately, the ...

A vast sheet of volcanic rock in the Andes has preserved clues to a buried landscape that existed 22 million years ago, ...

When bacteria invade the urinary tract, the body has its own arsenal for fighting back. Among those weapons is an unlikely ...

Researchers from Aarhus University and the Danish Technological Institute have taken a new approach in the search for enzymes ...

Researchers from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMCAS) have characterized the structural ...

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For the first time, important features of the Antarctic coastal zone have been mapped at high resolution around the continent ...

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While chemical bonds usually determine the structure and properties of a material, bonds between neighboring metal atoms can ...