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Researchers modeled the shapes of two odor-detecting proteins from the antennae of a moth whose mating chemistry nobody had studied, predicted the molecule those proteins pick up, and then confirmed…

Researchers at the University of Sydney coded 472 Instagram posts carrying the hashtag #womenshealth and found that 324 made an explicit health claim while 34 referred to scientific evidence. Brooke…

Physicists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln report that hafnia, the hafnium oxide already deposited as a thin insulating layer inside ordinary computer chips, is antiferroelectric when it is…

A plant's roots do their work in the dark, and almost everything known about how a plant notices being eaten was learned from the parts that do not. Bite a leaf, and the undamaged leaves hear about…

Archaeologists working at Göbeklitepe in southeastern Türkiye report in the journal PLOS ONE that they have excavated the first two undisturbed graves found at the site. The burials, they say, could…

Adding radiotherapy after the complete surgical removal of an atypical meningioma, a tumor of the brain's lining, cut how often the tumor came back, an international phase 3 trial reported on…

Writing in Science Advances on Sept. 25, a team led by Paul R. Renne of the Berkeley Geochronology Center dated the Vesuvius eruption that Pliny the Younger witnessed in 79 CE to 1,938 ± 13 years…

By the 14th day of pregnancy, the particles were almost impossible to find. Whatever the plastic had done to these mice, it had done before the pregnancy began, and something else was carrying the…

A Budapest research group has recorded brain activity in dogs and in people listening to the same speech and found that both species track the boundaries between words more closely when the cue is a…

Elemental sulfur is the yellow crust around a volcanic vent and the brimstone of old sermons. It is also one of the oldest ingredients in biology: microbes built their metabolism around it long…

Physicists in Paris drove a single vortex in a tank of water, resolved the helical ripples that travel along its thin core, and watched energy pass from long waves to short ones in resonant groups of…

Researchers have mapped the human face as it forms, cell by cell, across embryonic weeks 6 to 11, describing 56 distinct cell states. The atlas appeared on September 24 in Nature Genetics. The…