Cosmologists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: that the cosmos might fold back on itself so that, on the ...

A fossil of Manipulonyx reshetovi, found in a Mongolian desert, shows how the dinosaur used its specialized claw to snatch ...

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The path forward looks very different depending on where a company starts from and what kind of problems its leaders are ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

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Researchers have unseated a previous theory for the mechanism underlying bacterial flagella movement, changing our ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

Texas A&M seems to have concluded that the safest way to handle the ideas contained in a classic text is to bury them. This ...

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