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Inside the gut of a caterpillar lives a worm, and inside the worm lurks a bioluminescent bacterium named Photorhabdus asymbiotica, which makes the caterpillar glow

CLIMATEWIRE | States and communities that rebuild from a disaster will get extra federal money if they use low-carbon construction materials, the Federal Emergency Management Agency

In 1997, at the reported age of 122, Jeanne Calment passed away in the south of France, setting a benchmark for human survival. Though not

The Pacific hagfish is an eel-like creature Gina Kelly/Alamy Hagfish produce copious amounts of slime when attacked, which chokes predators’ gills in a gooey net.

Being run over by a car didn’t stop this battery working YICHEN YAN A flexible battery made from hydrogel can withstand being run over by

Women’s health care is still nowhere near equity: Biases, taboos, and sexism remain pervasive in medicine, with ripple effects across all aspects of a woman’s

Ver en español aqui. TRANSCRIPT Karen Lloyd: If you look at it one way, we’re the two worst people to work together, our disciplines are

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have confirmed that the planet TRAPPIST-1b probably has no atmosphere. Researchers have been excited to use the

On May 2, 2022 at 8:32 p.m., when Politico published a leaked draft of the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,

Over the past 150 years, American gun owners have gone from viewing their weapons largely as utilitarian farm tools to weapons that provide both a

Ultraviolet light, found in sunshine, then triggers that chemical breakdown in the concentrated pollutants. Without it, the compounds remain relatively inert, like the food in

A scanning electron micrograph of cancer cells in the intestine STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY When it comes to cancer research, we regularly hear good news

Lewis: Hi, and welcome to Your Health Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Fischman: On this show, we highlight the latest vital health news, discoveries

A Colorado checkered whiptail lizard having a snack Carina Kusaka Lizards exposed to loud noise from overflying helicopters and fighter jets engage in stress eating

Smoke rises from a fire in Dartford, UK, on 19 July 2022 amid a severe heatwave  WILLIAM EDWARDS/AFP via Getty Images Water and food shortages,

Some German cockroaches have changed their mating strategy mauritius images GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Some cockroaches have evolved a distaste for the glucose used

Astronomers have just found a cosmic cannonball. Around a star some 730 light-years away orbits an exoplanet the size of Jupiter, but with a density

Most of us have heard the one about if you cross your arms over your chest you’re feeling defensive or if you’re fiddling with your

All life on Earth depends on water, including us. Some of us consume water the old-fashioned way by drinking it with our mouths, others more

Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) both seem to impact the oldest parts of the brain in a curiously similar fashion. Using