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Vector illustration of antigen and antibody complex.

What Are Antigens and Antibodies?

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How the Immune System Detects Invaders

Big Grouper in an aquarium.

Algae: Protists That Power Ocean Life

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Plasmodium and Malaria: A Deadly Protist

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How Protists Move: Flagella, Cilia, and Pseudopodia

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Amoebas, Paramecia, and Euglena: Microscopic Marvels

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What Are Protists and Why Are They Hard to Classify?

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Dangerous Fungi: From Athlete’s Foot to Candida Infections

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What Are Yeasts and How Are They Used in Industry?

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The Role of Fungi in Decomposition and Ecosystems

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How Fungi Reproduce: Spores, Hyphae, and Mycelium

Schematic of an EGFR targeting ligand (left), linked to a dual targeting KRAS and MYC chimera molecule. Credit: Chad Pecot lab, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Martin Egli, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

Scientists Silenced Cancer’s Two Deadliest Genes with One Tiny Molecule

Now, scientists at the University of Bath have developed a system that can transport therapeutic proteins across the gut wall and into the bloodstream, enabling these medications to be taken as a pill. Credit: University of Bath

Scientists May Have Just Ended the Age of Injections Forever

Mechanism of pain relief by ADRIANA. Credit: KyotoU / Hagiwara lab

Scientists Discovered a New Way to Stop Pain Without Addiction

This image shows a human brain organoid. Neuroepithelial cells are in red. Individual cells are labeled green to highlight the morphological changes they undergo as they differentiate into radial glia cells. Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center

Why the Brain’s First 15 Days May Hold the Secret to Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Surgeons Are Saving Lives But Something Is Silently Killing Them

a, A complete specimen with antennae and limbs (USNM PAL 65510). b, Limbs of GSC 34695a showing various degrees of flexure and extension. Credit: Sarah R. Losso

Half a Billion Years Later We Finally Know How This Prehistoric Creature Walked

The Atapuerca Reindeer Fossil: an Upper Deciduous Third Molar from a Juvenile . Credit: Jan van der Made

300000 Years Ago Reindeer Walked With Humans in Spain and This Fossil Proves It

Single-atom catalyst for sustainable chemical synthesis applications, featuring intelligent and reconfigurable behavior. Credit: Politecnico di Milano

The Catalyst That Adapts Like Life Itself Is Here—and It’s Just One Atom

Structure of New 2.5-D MOFs: Cu3(TripH2)2 and Cu3(TripMe2)2, the physical properties were observed also on the third dimension. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c08703

Scientists Discover a New State of Matter That Exists Between Dimensions

High-resolution STM image of an isolated polymer showing sequence defects. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62221-y

Scientists Zoom Into Plastic and Uncover a Hidden Flaw Changing Electronics Forever

AI generated image of a young free floating planetary-mass object surrounded by a dusty disk. Credit: University of St Andrews

James Webb Found Planets Creating Worlds Without a Sun

Holotype of Shri rapax sp. nov. MPC-D 102/117 in 2010, before preparation at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. The arrow indicates the single femur reconstructed using elements from both femora (elements separated during preparation. Credit: Historical Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2025.2530148

Scientists Discover a Prehistoric Predator That Hunted With Power Not Speed

Four-photon FI. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr1794

Spooky Action at a Distance Is Real Even Without Entanglement

An artistic illustration of the mechanism proposed by Professor Stefano Profumo where quantum effects near the rapidly expanding cosmic horizon after the Big Bang gravitationally generate dark matter particles. Credit: Stefano Profumo

Dark Matter Might Come from a Mirror Universe We Can Never See

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The Secret in Whale Poop That Could Save the Planet

A JCU researcher has helped discover a new species of stick insect in the Atherton tablelands. Credit: James Cook University

Scientists Stunned by Massive Stick Insect Found in the Treetops

The long term Swift/BAT light curve of RX J0440.9+4431 in 15-50 keV covering the 2022-2023 giant outburst duration. The arrows in the insets of the figure represent the start of pointed observations of RX J0440.9+4431 performed with Insight-HXMT. The error-bars represent 1σ uncertainties. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.18676

This Spinning Star Is Beaming Secrets Across Space and We Finally Understand Them

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This New Compound Heals the Mind Without Hallucinations

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The Hormone That Reversed Diabetes Without Insulin