Ever bite into a supermarket tomato and wonder where all the flavor went? You're not imagining things. That watery, cardboard ...

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Katherine’s phone rang, and, because it was Adrian calling, everyone went quiet, trying to hear the famous actor’s voice.

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A closeup look at colibactin’s structure reveals chemical motifs that guide its mutation-wreaking “warheads” to specific stretches of DNA.

Life on our planet may have started via a process fueled by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor billions of years ago, and ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.

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