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Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Russia has reportedly been blocking the GNSS signals beamed down to Ukraine, cutting the...

After completing six long rounds of chemotherapy, 75-year-old Pedro R. L. received the news he and his family had been...

A genetic analysis suggests that petroleum-eating bacteria that live thousands of metres beneath the seafloor seep out into the ocean...

One hundred miles north of Philadelphia, the Billion Oyster Project has been restoring the bivalves in New York Harbor since...

The recipe for mammalian life is simple: take an egg, add sperm and wait. But two new papers demonstrate that...

Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories Life...

Gamma rays from this supernova remnant have been seen by telescopes since 2007, but exceptionally energetic light wasn’t detected until...

The numbers are stark when it comes to suicide: It is a leading cause of death in the United States,...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made the first clear detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant...

If astronauts need to grab some lunar ice on a future Artemis mission, that won’t be a problem from a...

On August 29th, NASA is planning to launch its biggest rocket ever, its 35-story-high Space Launch System.  NASA claims this...

Astyanax mexicanus cave fish have adapted to an incredibly tough environment: chilly, pitch-dark caves that flood about once a year,...

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, dolphins living in the area had changes in the activity of genes...

The discovery that polio has partially paralyzed a young man in a New York suburb feels wearying, yet shocking. Wearying,...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. After an exhausting day at the office, it’s hard...

Cow’s milk is an important source of phosphorus, magnesium, zinc and selenium, but tests show these nutrients are lacking in...