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Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

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One ocean-dwelling creature found in many tropic waters is known to be able to reserve its own life cycle, cheating death.

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Here’s a fun (and creepy) fact: The Earth is home to approximately 20 quadrillion ants. To put zeroes on it, that’s around 20,000,000,000,000,000 of the six-legged insects living all around us. How ...

For all of the political chaos that American science endured in 2025, aspects of this country’s research enterprise made it ...

Ferrets are beloved, curious creatures whose popularity as a family pet has steadily increased over the past decades. However ...

Powered by light, the robots carry computers and can move in complex patterns, say Penn Engineering and University of ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...