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The spacecraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean after a parachute failure, ending a bold experiment in space biology and ...

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In what is now the desert of White Sands, New Mexico, a trail of human footprints crosses the hardened bed of an extinct lake. These lines in the mud are now pushing scientists to rethink the origin ...

Seasonal Body Image Dissatisfaction (SBID) was formally coined in a 2021 study, and the effect is remarkably pervasive.

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A team of researchers from China and Hong Kong are betting you would. They’ve developed a swarm of robots that can be ...

Menno Schilthuizen is a Dutch evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and permanent research scientist at Naturalis Biodiversity ...

Road ecology, the scientific study of how road networks impact ecosystems, presents a perfect opportunity for community ...