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Science writer Roxanne Khamsi examines the answers in her new book, Beyond Inheritance. Today on the show, she gets into how scientists examine these mutations, how they’ve shifted our understanding ...

July 4, 2026 NASA is marking the United States' 250th birthday with four striking red, white, and blue images of deep space from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The collection features an exploded star ...

A newly developed framework for understanding the photoproperties of both natural organic matter and eumelanin, a natural pigment responsible for dark colors in organisms, may inspire advanced ...

July 3, 2026 Scientists have discovered that a common type of stroke may have a very different cause than doctors once thought. Instead of fatty plaque clogging arteries, the strongest link was found ...

Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. This includes investigating stars and their interaction with each other and the ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can’t make all their necessary internal structures or divide for that many generations Earth Might Be Home to 20 Million Insect Species—More ...

Interfacial electrochemical reaction kinetics are crucial to fast charging and low-temperature operation of batteries. We now reveal that solvent exchange dynamics of solvated ions are intrinsically ...

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