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Scientists studying Mars may have uncovered a brand-new mineral hidden in the planet's ancient sulfate deposits. By combining laboratory experiments with orbital data, researchers identified an unusual iron sulfate--ferric hydroxysulfate--forming in ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they're far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental quantum fields that fill all of space remain, ...

Colorblindness may be doing more than making traffic lights confusing -- it could also be hiding a life-threatening warning sign. Researchers analyzing millions of medical records found that people with bladder cancer who are also colorblind have a . ...

Scientists have uncovered how brewer's yeast developed its unusually tiny centromeres, the DNA regions that guide chromosome separation during cell division. By studying related yeast species, researchers found centromeres that appear to represent .. ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid's local orbit -- it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair around the Sun. The impact blasted debris into space, ...

Researchers have found hundreds of metabolic enzymes attached to human DNA inside the cell nucleus. Different tissues and cancers show unique patterns of these enzymes, forming a "nuclear metabolic fingerprint." Some of the enzymes gather around ...

Researchers have created a method called optovolution that uses light to guide the evolution of proteins with dynamic behaviors. By engineering yeast cells so their survival depended on proteins switching states at the right time, scientists could .. ...

Scientists have found a way to significantly boost "blue energy," which generates electricity from the mixing of saltwater and freshwater. By coating nanopores with lipid molecules that create a friction-reducing water layer, they enabled ions to ...

DNA is revealing that many animals once thought to be a single species may actually be several hidden ones. But research on Bornean fanged frogs shows the line between species can be blurry--an important challenge when deciding what wildlife needs .. ...

Plants constantly juggle oxygen inside their cells, but scientists have now discovered a surprising twist in how that balance works. Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that mitochondria--the cell's energy generators--can actively pull .. ...