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The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many of us. It’s a poem that involves five little piggies, each corresponding to one of our fingers or toes. Kids love it, ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of eukaryotes, the domain of life defined by cells with a membrane-bound nucleus, which includes all animals, plants, fungi, and insects. If they unravel ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

Here’s all you need to know about the magic that happens inside your EV battery and how it impacts range, charging and ...

They make sure their routine makes the mornings much more bearable. Mornings are a battlefield for so many. Some people are able to wake up and immediately silence their alarm before jumping out of ...

Researchers studying the human brain shared a lot of fascinating research this year, like how to keep brains young and how to ...

A study in fruit flies suggests an internal genomic arms race may be driving rapid evolution in proteins that still perform an essential, unchanging job: protecting chromosome ends.

Four billion years ago, Earth was violent, hot, and unstable. Yet new research suggests that by then, life had already reached a surprising level of complexity. At that time lived the last universal ...

Stripe patterns are commonly seen in nature—for instance, birds and fish move in coordinated flocks and schools, fingerprints ...

Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time. “There were some cells in there that were very messed up,” says Joe Luquette, who studies bioinformatics at ...