A fungus found on litter floating in the North Pacific Ocean can break down the most abundant type of plastic that ends up in ...

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Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from snapping the moon in ...

People taking semaglutide, also called Ozempic and Wegovy, either for weight loss or type 2 diabetes, were less likely to ...

The first stars in the universe, huge behemoths thousands of times the mass of our sun, could have formed in the blink of an ...

Gibbons are long-armed primates that traverse forest canopies by swinging between branches, but when their habitats are ...

When bacteria were put in alternating environments, some became better at evolving to cope with the changes – evidence that ...

Elephants may be the only animals besides humans to come up with arbitrary names for each other, according to an analysis of ...

The same genetic tools being used to resurrect the woolly mammoth and dodo could help many other vulnerable species that have ...

Biological processes such as DNA replication or cellular structure formation may become more accurate when done as quickly as ...

The meaning of the word "bot" on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with ...