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Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

In new experiments aboard the International Space Station (ISS), microbiologists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

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Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

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