Taxonomy is the science of describing, classifying and naming organisms. It organizes the vast diversity of life on Earth.

Education should promote deep inquiry and individual autonomy, but often, it has been used as a vehicle for indoctrination.

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A tiny, four-fingered "hand" folded from a single piece of DNA can pick up the virus that causes COVID-19 for highly ...

When a star dies in a supernova, one possible outcome is for the remains to become a neutron star. Inside a neutron star, the ...

Newly developed halide perovskite nanocrystals (HPNCs) show potential as antimicrobial agents that are stable, effective and ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

Looking to inform the conservation of critically endangered bird species, University of Utah biologists have completed an ...

An international team of scientists from Australia and China has uncovered invaluable genetic and genomic information in the ...

For the first time, researchers have quantified the global emissions of a sulfur gas produced by marine life, revealing that ...

The average amount of plastic packaging waste generated by a single EU citizen per year is 36 kilograms. Longer-term ...

Off the coast of Blekinge, in southern Sweden, at a depth of around 50–60 meters, the bottom sediment has scars that are tens ...