For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

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The Missouri Southern State University Biology Department celebrated the opening of the Sam Gibson Memorial Herbarium, a ...

UC San Francisco Chancellor emeritus J. Michael Bishop, MD, a pioneering microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in ...

A new study has found that nearly half of the body traits identified across mollusks – a group that includes snails, clams, ...

The name might sound like a Nordic god, but it is actually the molecular machinery that allows many different species to eat ...

Chemical engineer Paula Hammond, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez, and physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, describe their ...

Forest, fields, ponds, and oceans. Habitats of all kinds have attracted humans throughout history. We’ve worked to conserve ...

Saint Mary’s held a renaming ceremony for the College’s Science Hall, which will now be known as Mathile Science Hall.

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Behind the stillness of desert landscapes, cacti appear to be changing in unexpected ways. The cactus on your windowsill may ...

How can we know what life on Earth looked like more than three billion years ago, when rocks from that era are so rare and ...