The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it ...

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Government layoffs threaten to make it easier for the Trump administration to ditch draft heat safety regulations ...

The Haenyeo, an all-female group of divers on South Korea’s Jeju Island, spend much of their lives underwater without ...

Peter Cummings is a forensic pathologist and neuropathologist who explores what happens in the brain at the threshold between life and death. His research focuses on how the human mind and brain adapt ...

Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson ...

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Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed by the House of Representatives last week, would slow efforts to green the energy ...