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The deep ocean is one of the least explored frontiers on Earth, yet it teems with extraordinary biodiversity. This hidden ...

In a paper published in MedComm, an international team of scientists combined principles of bioengineering, biocoupling, and micro–nanotechnology to introduce a subclassification system based on these ...

New England has thousands of miles of stone walls. A geoscientist explains why analyzing them scientifically is a solid step ...

With the recent news that redpolls are to be lumped into a single species, David Campbell reflects on these charming birds ...

Politics / According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans ...

The first thing the researchers noticed from their boat were red spots below the surface of the water during one of their ...

Artist Deb Mostert, with a career spanning more than 35 years, invites audiences on an immersive storytelling journey as she ...

They’ve been here 300 million years. They grow on rock, or in deserts, or underwater, or on dead animals—and they can survive ...

A typical workshop would address issues spanning species taxonomy, distribution ... have on average smaller geographic range sizes than other living organisms (Gaston,2003) is particularly worrying ...

A study on Lepraria lichens found they possess genes for sexual reproduction despite being thought entirely asexual. This ...