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Canadians learned how plants make a rare natural substance—mitraphylline—with its potential for fighting cancer as a ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

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From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

A new protein sensor lets researchers see incoming brain signals, revealing how neurons process information tied to memory ...

Many common kitchen items contain hidden plastics or plastic-like materials, from coatings to linings to microplastic ...

Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. And apparently, on Venus, there's a lot of hair... everywhere. There can never be ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to ...