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US scientists have gained a first-of-its-kind view inside advanced nuclear fuel by using neutron ...

The work provided a systematic understanding of how nightshade crops, including potatoes and tomatoes, adapt to stressful conditions at the level of entire gene networks, rather than individual genes, ...

Study shows hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae can acquire drug resistance in the gut, challenging traditional views on ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...

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Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

An MIT study suggests some early life forms may have evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of millions of years before ...