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As traditional carbon-based sources of energy are dwindling, it's easy to cheer for solar and wind power to seize the moment and drag us out of the climate crisis bed we have made for ourselves. [...]

The rules of sexual inheritance are simple, right? Half the genes from parent one, the other half from parent two and bada-bing! New organism. What if we told you there is an exception to that [...]

The Milky Way is our "home" galaxy but how much do we really know about it? Thanks to a phenomenon known as "dust extinctions," space is pretty hard to observe even with our best telescopes. With [...]

What if we told you this lesson was about planets outside our solar system passing gas? But don't worry, it's *physics* gas! Students will learn a lot, we promise.

What happens when a planet forms near a black hole? That's what a bunch of researchers wanted to know. And it turns out that it's not too unlike a scene in the old movie Spaceballs where the [...]

Picture this -- you're a worm. Yep, a worm. And not just any worm, a microscopic worm! How do you know where to go, or which way is up? And more importantly, why do we care? You'll find out in [...]

Picture it: A giant (like, seriously giant) tray full of bacteria. Billions and billions of bacteria just growing and spreading. A germaphobe's worst nightmare? Nah. These bacteria (like most [...]

Using DNA analysis, researchers were able to effectively trace the evolution of HIV backwards in time to find the common ancestor of HIV samples circulating among humans today. Why is that [...]

Seen one solid, you've seen them all, right? Of course not. In fact, researchers recently developed a whole new type of solid that might be the key to future technologies, from clean energy to [...]

Researchers are making waves in an unlikely place: the human body. The reason? To detect and diagnose diseases.