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(via PBS Eons) We may have planet-shattering asteroids to thank for the origin of life on Earth.

Scientists at the University of Stuttgart have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes ...

The outer ear is unique to mammals, but its evolutionary origin has remained a mystery. According to a new study published in ...

Fiber is well known to be an important part of a healthy diet, yet less than 10% of Americans eat the minimum recommended ...

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String theory is one of the leading theories of everything, but it’s been criticized for being impossible to prove wrong – if it can’t be falsified, there&r ...

Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent ...