Rice can harbor the bacteria Bacillus cereus, which can grow and cause illness if the rice isn't stored properly.

Botanists and paleontologists, led by researchers from CU Boulder, have identified a fossil chili pepper that may rewrite the geography and evolutionary timeline of the tomato plant family.

Earth is a “pale blue dot,” thanks to oceans, lakes, and rivers that cover 71% of the planet’s surface. But where did this abundance of water come from?

Fused neurons suggest ctenophores’ nervous system evolved independently of that in other animals.

Fuzhong Zhang, at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, developed a method to create synthetic spider silk at high yields while retaining strength and toughness using mussel foot proteins.

The Ingenuity chopper on Mars just keeps on going and going -- it's flown 50 times, 45 more than expected. It's about to begin its 51st trip.

The genes of orb weaver spiders from different environments are very similar, but their glue proteins and glue properties differ greatly due to differential gene expression. Orb weaver spiders make the capture threads of their webs sticky with an aqueous glue…

A new article published in Science suggests fundamental differences of nerve net architecture that challenges our previous understanding on the evolution of nervous systems and how they transmit information.

A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here—but shouldn't there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen be better? Punctuation can be a nuisance; it is often simply neglected. Wrong! The most recent statistical analyses paint a different picture: punctuation s…

Though the mysterious object is a hypothetical mathematical construction, new simulations by Johns Hopkins researchers suggest there could be other celestial bodies in space hiding from even the best telescopes on Earth

Ahead of the unveiling of Apple's AR/VR product, there has been skepticism that the device will be well-received, both because of its rumored...

The artificial intelligence developer OpenAI promises to reshape the way people work and learn with its new chatbot called ChatGPT. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in fact, the large language model is already aiding materials engineers, who are harnes…

There is a lot more happening on the playground than you realized.

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As an important reserve energy source, 99.5% of the combustible ice are methane. It is inferred that the reserves of combustible ice in South China Sea amount to at least 80 billion tons of oil equivalent. Current mining method will lead to the gasif

Haumea spins so fast that its shape is more football-like than round.

Researchers are testing new ways to use micro-organisms called cyanobacteria to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Physicists from the University of Utrecht and the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have observed—for the first time experimentally—the Brazil nut effect in a mixture of charged colloidal particles.

Ultra-hot Jupiters continue to have the weirdest elements in their atmospheres.

New insight into proteins called "pioneer factors" helps to explain their unusual ability to open up the typically dense genetic material within our cells. This behavior makes the genetic material accessible for proteins involved in important cellular process…

In this study, Hu et al. identify a new mechanism through which sirtuin-4 fine-tunes urea cycle flux through decarbamylation of ornithine transcarbamylase to ensure proper ammonia detoxification upon increased amino acid catabolism.

A method for measuring oxygen abundances using optical and far-infrared emission lines provides absolute metallicities of the interstellar gas in Markarian 71 and could be applied across cosmic history.

The innovative therapies known as small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) can be utilized to treat a variety of diseases.