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The sperm and the egg cell's nuclei compete for size directly after fertilization and this is necessary for proper embryonic ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford and ETH Zurich reveals that a key part of the climate system—the large-scale wind ...

Every cell in the human body squeezes over six feet of DNA into a minuscule speck invisible to the naked eye—like compressing ...

Stanford scholar and former SEC Commissioner Joseph Grundfest shares insights on prediction markets, which are gaining ...

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The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells—much less a brain—can behave ...

A new study by researchers at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska offers a ...

Theoretical physicists in the US have discovered a "speed limit" on the time taken for quantum information to spread through ...

Being out of work and education between the ages of 16 and 24 has long-term consequences for people's employment, finances, ...

Ferromagnets, such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, are materials with a strong, spontaneous, and permanent magnetic field. Over ...