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A common gum microbe has turned up where it should never be: embedded in hardened heart valves. Strange. Worrying. And p...

Imagine squeezing a highway into a single lane and still watching traffic glide without a hitch. That metaphor helps exp...

Imagine a small world 50 light-years away holding on to a whisper of its birth: a thin, helium-rich envelope clinging to...

Open a supermarket shelf and you face a quiet epidemic. Rows of brightly packaged meals, snacks and drinks have become t...

One injection can look the same as the next. The outcome, though, can be very different. For some older adults, the immu...

Picture someone cooking, glancing up to find a number, scanning a slideshow, all while answering a question from a frien...

Imagine a gray plume rising as a lander settles onto the lunar soil—dust spewing, optics blinded, and tiny rocks flung l...

Look closely at that mosaic of Enceladus and you can almost hear the solar system whispering its possibilities. The imag...

Imagine a microscopic parcel wearing a sugar disguise, slipping past the brain's guarded gates and delivering a life-cha...

Put simply: the same high-fat, low-carb diet that seemed to protect one part of the gut can spur tumor growth in another...

Imagine treating tender, bleeding gums with a snack. It sounds unlikely, but a new Japanese trial suggests that twice-da...

Imagine an egg suspended in a soft, protein-rich jelly. That gelatinous scaffold, the extracellular matrix, does more th...

The old image of your brain as a neat stack — ancient instincts down below, modern reasoning on top — is collapsing. It ...

Can the time on your plate matter as much as the calories on it? A team of Spanish researchers suggests the answer is ye...

Imagine a price tag for luxury: not on a handbag or a private jet, but on the environmental toll of how the wealthy live...

When a postdoc in Barcelona first looked through the microscope and saw bright, spherical clusters, no one expected they...

A whisper of motion inside a frigid cloud may decide whether a star ever sees the light. Deep within L1544, a dense pres...

A white square painted on stainless steel might tell engineers more about reusability than any lab test. Quiet gestures ...

A refrigerator-sized instrument floating above Earth has nudged atoms into behaving in a way we rarely observe on the gr...

A trailer and a dish have quietly changed a corner of modern warfare. On June 8, the US Space Force added a new tool to ...